Author: Tony Tam
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Working in distributed teams
We are learning to work differently No daily stand-ups, just unblocking meetings – so that people with different schedules can be flexible Do short demo videos (< 3 mins) instead of meeting face to share and do them frequently – high fidelity info 1 weekly demo – realtime meeting – where we sync up where…
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Things that make me happy: Dried Persimmons
Nuri Farmer in Korean makes these beautiful dried persimmons, http://nurifarmer.com/ But you might be able to get them here https://japanesetaste.com/products/hoshigaki-ichidagaki-japanese-dried-persimmons-premium-high-quality-kaki
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podcast: Fifth & Mission: Is San Francisco Really Over? (Again?)
5th and Mission Podcast defends our great city by the bay. https://chtbl.com/track/5A8B9F/traffic.megaphone.fm/SFO3142218045.mp3 [00:00:00]
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Link: It’s Time For Unions In Tech
For far too long, contractors, people of color, H1B visa holders are treated as second class workers with no way to speak out as a collective.
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2021 Goal – Getting to top 6 contributors to AntennaPod app
I’ve had 39 submissions to my favorite Podcast App – AntennaPod in 2020. Which makes me #7 on the contributor list. That was a good learning journey for me. For the next leveling up to be #6, 140 of my submissions would have to be accepted. That would take 2.5 years given my current rate…
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Distributed, with Matt Mullenweg: Episode 26: Jack Dorsey and Matt Mullenweg on Remote Collaboration, Finding Serendipity, and the Art of Deliberate Work
https://distributed.blog/2020/12/16/episode-26-jack-dorsey-and-remote-collaboration/ And I think I have three jobs, I think there are three reasons why the company hires me every day in my role. And the number one is to create a healthy team dynamic. That’s the interconnection between the members of the team. It’s the ‘how we work together’ it’s the purpose that aligns…
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When engineers cared about the content and product
20 years ago, while I was the lead engineer for Yahoo News, I was asked to build a very basic feature to allow users to send news articles via a simple email link. That feature was simple: let users click on a link to send the news article with the URL, title and a brief…
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If in k8s setup you are seeing ‘completion: function `__start_kubectl’ not found’
Then follow this instruction, which essentially as a new version of bash and enable it in /etc/shells and uses chsh to change the user’s shell
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Best Christmas Gift
When I get an original drawing tailor to my favorite Teen Titans character from my talented artist daughter.
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Creating Software Is *Not* About Planning
What portion of your team’s time is spent planning vs. designing and writing and testing software? Even when you did a great job in planning, how often is your plan exactly on target? When you hit the target of what you plan after 3 months, is that plan still the right thing to solve? My…