Reading List

The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.

Git gud at communication

Another blam on the Thunk blog:

Product Managers, Agile, and other product development processes solve communication problems. If everyone had telepathic powers, those problems would shrink or disappear. The next best thing to telepathy is a team who excels at communication. If your team communicates to bridge these knowledge gaps, your need for PMs and Agile will shrink.

thunk.dev

iA on AI

A nuanced take on AI by the makers of iA Writer.

ia.net

How I deploy a Laravel project to a Kubernetes Cluster

An overview of how I set up Kubernetes, and my projects to deploy to it.

Backing up Docker volume data to Digital Ocean spaces with encryption

Automating backups of Docker volumes from a Linux server to Digital Ocean spaces.

Rocks, pebbles, sand

A product management mindset from Jason Cohen.

If you do little things first, there’s no time for big things.
If do big things first, then you can fill in the smaller things.

And:

It’s not important that every sprint is perfectly balanced between all types of work. It is important that we’re balanced over a period several months, otherwise something important is getting starved. Indeed, it’s often wise to build imbalanced sprints intentionally, because that means greater focus, less context-switching, and therefore getting more quality work done.

longform.asmartbear.com