The Vault

This is a database of links to articles and other things I refer to often enough or find important enough that I want it saved somewhere.

Technical

• Cognitive Load – Keep things simple.
• Grug – Internal dialogue centered around keeping things simple.
• Locality of Behaviour – Structuring code to keep related code together. Separation of Concerns’ worst enemy.
• Inverse Triangle Inequality – Many small changes are less work than one big change.
• How to Test – Matklad – Reasonably good ways to test things.
• In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen
• The Rise of Whatever

Databases

• Just Use Postgres – Not to mention psql and Postgres’s wide datatype support.
• Async Tasks Under a Postgres Table – Do you need a task queue? Probably not.

Management

• Maker’s Schedule, Managr’s Schedule – Meetings are disruptive, and managers don’t understand that.
• Advantages of incompetent management – Not everyone always needs to be doing something.

Writing

• Thought Verbs – Don’t use them.