developerjackHowdy weekly readers!
This weekend I’ve been mentoring at #hack4homelessness – some fantastic ideas are coming through and the time for pitching is fast approaching. The ‘Power of online experiments’ post below seems particularly relevant for a hackathon!
This week Pat and I also officially kicked off pride.codesand we’ve had some hugely exciting feedback from people adding rainbows to their sites! It would be smashing if you did too!
With out further ado…
The Realities of Being a FOSS Maintainer
Large scale open source is hard. Think about your private hobby, and then open it up for constant frequent analysis and critique. It’s an emotional rollercoaster. Matt’s open and heartfelt story of announcing licensing changes to CaddyServer is a eye opening insight to the experience of an open source project lead and maintainer.
Read the post.The Power of Online Experiments
This ones a longer read but its totally worthwhile. Not only am I fascinated by data and insights from experiments but it also leads to a cultural change to focus on test-and-learn approaches.
Read the post.Is there any value in people who cannot write JavaScript?
I’ll admit I rolled my eyes when I first this headline but I’m so glad I read it start to finish. This post is a wonderful defence of deeper specialisation within broader cross-functional teams; or rather the freedom for an engineer to specialise in just CSS without having to be a ‘full stack’ engineer.
Read the post.The only safe email is text only email
Yay, security! Surely you knew I’d get a security link in here eventually. For all its shiny rounded buttons and marketing promotions, HTML email arguably does more harm than good when it comes to security.
Read the post.Upcoming events
Don’t forget next week is AlterConf in Melbourne! Hope to see you there.
Until next week!
@developerjack
