Awesome List Updates on Oct 23, 2020

Responsibility vs. accountability - The biggest difference between manager (accountable) and engineers (responsible): “'Bad things' happen for the person accountable, whereas the person responsible can move on to the next project.”

On Being A Senior Engineer - “I expect a 'senior' engineer to be a mature engineer.”

3 tricks to start working despite not feeling like it - “'Screw it, let's do it'; Start sloppy; Start small”.

Hanlon's razor - “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.” My favorite flavor of Occam's Razor, and a crucial mantra to defuse rampant paranoia in a highly political setting.

There Are No Bugs, Just TODOs - Issue trackers needs to materialize ownership, queue position, state, task breakdown and aggressive closing. Priority, ticket type, software version, severity and long-life tickets are anti-patterns.

Bias-free communication - Microsoft's guide on how to improve writing to be more inclusive and diverse.

Huge success in business is largely based on luck - “Management research and education should focus on prescriptive theories that can help business practitioners move from 'incompetent to OK', rather than focusing on those that address how to move from 'good to great'.”

“Good business mafias form when there's a group of people who all have to quit their job for reasons that are exogenous to their performance. In the case of Paypal, it was an acquisition; at Tiger Management, a few years of underperformance; at Drexel Burnham Lambert, an indictment. In Reliance's case, the core group of early employees fled the port of Aden due to unrest and the withdrawal of the British.” (source) - And why mass exodus might be an opportunity for great new ventures.

12. Awesome Meteor

antwaremx:meteorman (⭐48) - Meteorman: A DDP Client with GUI to test Meteor methods and publications (like Postman).

wasm-bindgen-action (⭐9) - Github action to install wasm-bindgen by downloading the executable to speed up CI/CD.

Weights & Biases - Machine learning experiment tracking, dataset versioning, hyperparameter search, visualization, and collaboration

Ghidra - A software reverse engineering (SRE) suite of tools developed by NSA's Research Directorate in support of the Cybersecurity mission