The Agile Manager

MARCH 31, 2024

I enjoy doing this work for a lot of reasons, not least of which being I approach it every day not with an expectation of “what am I going to complete” but “what am I going to learn.” I hunt for stone, cut it, shape it, sand it, polish it, and turn it into artistic things. As a learning exercise, it is fantastic. But mistakes are expensive.

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Percona

JUNE 2, 2023

Because there was never a compelling enough reason to do the work. While not the first open source content management system (CMS), WordPress caught on like nothing before and helped spread open source to millions. It was simple, easy to deploy, and easy to use, and WordPress had the added benefit of being open source.

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The Agile Manager

JUNE 30, 2022

It is interesting how the nature of expected lasting economic change has itself changed in the last 2+ years. That was answered quickly, as the wild frenzy of adaptation made clear that supply in most parts of the economy would find a way to adapt, and demand wasn’t abating. Tech investments quickly became clear-cut winners.

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Tasktop

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

It’s why change is hard, even when backed up by solid reasoning and research, because it challenges norms that have been in place for decades. . My own behavior changed after watching a compelling video that used a UV light to visually simulate the impact and length that washing hands had on parasites.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 18, 2020

I’ve seen a lot of confusion online regarding Web development with Flutter and, often, it’s sadly for the wrong reasons. Carmine Zaccagnino. 2020-06-18T10:30:00+00:00. 2020-06-18T11:06:06+00:00. You need to know that because this implies that you need to take care of the many differences between these very diverse platforms.

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Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

Gentle reader, I made a terrible mistake. Yes, that's right: I read the comments on a MacRumors article. At my age, one knows better. As penance for this error, and for being short with Miguel , I must deconstruct the ways Apple has undermined browser engine diversity. Apple's Long-Standing Policies Are Anti-Diversity #. Instead, Fruit Co.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2021

You most likely think that the buttons might be too small or you need to change the color, font, or position. If you are designing an app or a website, you can test how easy and intuitive it is to complete a specific task, fill out a form, find certain information, or buy a product. Eye-Tracking Evolution.

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The Agile Manager

MAY 31, 2020

I also wrote that it is important to invest thoughtfully: fundamentals are changing, and without an appreciation for how those changes affect the economics of industries and value of assets, it is equally a prime opportunity to vaporize cash. That will change the terms of what it takes to compete.

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The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

The measure and mismeasure of fairness: a critical review of fair machine learning , Corbett-Davies & Goel, arXiv 2018. With many thanks to Ben Fried and the ACM Queue editorial board for the paper recommendation. To show that a machine learning model is fair, you need information from outside of the system. How small can we make a TIB?

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Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 4, 2018

The statement that echoed the strongest with me, however, was a slightly tangential point about the impact of high rates of change. I spent a lot less time this year on social media. Mostly this was a conscious decision—the firehose that social media provides wasn’t doing my brain (or mood) any favors. So I dialed it back.

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Alex Russell

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Pressure for change has built to an unsustainable level; somethings gotta give. In through eagle-eyed press coverage, regulatory reports, and legal discovery the shady dealings of Apple and Google's app stores are now comprehensively documented. But you'd never know it reading Wired or The Verge. Japan's JFTC (pdf) ). Japan's JFTC (pdf) ).

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

As we discussed in previous posts, good practice involves first setting and understanding the false positive rate, and then designing an experiment that is well powered so it is likely to detect true effects of reasonable and meaningful magnitudes. Need to catch up? Figure 1: Inspiration from Voltaire. Figure 1: Inspiration from Voltaire.

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Alex Russell

JUNE 13, 2018

It also described the ecosystem dynamics that make change difficult, even before considering the varying firm-level strategies of browser vendors. Spaces that allow ideas to spring to life and quietly pass into time, or radically change without undue drama, are essential to improving our outcomes. Essential Ingredients.

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Sutter's Mill

JULY 8, 2011

As developers continue to come back to C++, you will find yourself increasingly called upon to help them quickly learn what “modern C++” really means today, and how clear and compelling it can be. .” I’ve been asked to give the opening “Welcome, Everyone!” “How to Teach Today’s C++.”

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2020

“But we’re happy with AppMon and we don’t want to change anything” Most of our AppMon customers have already upgraded from AppMon to the Dynatrace platform. . Dynatrace news. As PSM will soon be discontinued, we’re pleased to announce the release of a starter-kit for Windchill!

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 20, 2019

“I’m happy—no need to change” Most of our AppMon customers are already in the process of upgrading from AppMon to the Dynatrace platform. The following Dynatrace platform capabilities are the excellent reasons that make the change from AppMon easy! You name it, and we have it! ” Just do it!

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

For these reasons and many more, organizations now use modern APM tools or APM Platforms to understand and resolve the myriad issues that can impact an application’s performance. Dynatrace news. This acronym can stand for application performance monitoring or application performance management — two distinct but related concepts.

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Percona

JULY 17, 2023

In this blog, we’ll examine the reasons why people would seek an alternative to MongoDB Enterprise, and we’ll identify some of the most popular NoSQL alternatives. Then, we’ll highlight some reasons why Percona Software for MongoDB might be the alternative you seek. But you can’t absorb the negatives, either.

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Tasktop

MAY 24, 2021

The event captured the mood of the industry perfectly; that with a bold and creative mindset and by pulling as one, profound change really is possible – and exciting. . That means reading the books , changing the perception of failure, and focusing on incremental improvements to the biggest problems they currently face. .

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2021

For this reason, it’s really up to each of us; it’s up to each and every practitioner to set standards to which ourselves, our teams, and our company should be held accountable. How To Build An Ethical User Research Practice At Any Organization. How To Build An Ethical User Research Practice At Any Organization. Devin Harold.

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Speed Curve

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

That said, it's not uncommon to spend precious time peeling back the layers of the onion, only to find false positives or uncertainty in all that data. Some of the many reasons you might want to do this include: Improve Core Web Vitals by identifying the tradeoffs between pages that have different layout and construction.

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Keep reading to find out how we set up these benchmarks, and how you can mine our test data – even if you're not a SpeedCurve user – for your own performance research. Find out more about why it's so important to test at slow speeds. Find out more about why it's so important to test at slow speeds.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

What is Terraform?‍Before ‍Before we dive into what Terraform is, let's begin with a real-world example of how Terraform code looks and works:‍# Challenge requests coming from known Tor exit nodes.‍‍In ‍In the example above, we're using Terraform to set up an access rule on Cloudflare. So, What Exactly is Terraform?

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Alex Russell

AUGUST 30, 2021

If yes, please describe any restrictions that Apple imposes and all the reasons for doing so. Recent posts here covering the slow pace of WebKit development and ways the mobile browser market has evolved to disrespect user choice have sparked conversations with friends and colleagues. How does Apple justify such a policy ?

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Written by Jose Fernandez , Arthur Gonigberg , Julia Knecht , and Patrick Thomas In 2017, Netflix Studios was hitting an inflection point from a period of merely rapid growth to the sort of explosive growth that throws “how do we scale?” into every conversation. You’ll hear from two teams here: first Application Security, and then Cloud Gateway.

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O'Reilly

MARCH 23, 2023

ChatGPT, or something built on ChatGPT, or something that’s like ChatGPT, has been in the news almost constantly since ChatGPT was opened to the public in November 2022. What is it, how does it work, what can it do, and what are the risks of using it? A quick scan of the web will show you lots of things that ChatGPT can do.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

What is Terraform?‍Before Before we dive into what Terraform is, let's begin with a real-world example of how Terraform code looks and works:‍# Challenge requests coming from known Tor exit nodes.‍‍In the example above, we're using Terraform to set up an access rule on Cloudflare. This rule challenges requests coming from known Tor exit nodes.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 23, 2020

I replaced them with books on art direction, editorial, and graphic design. Recently, I was browsing a new addition to my library and was captivated by one magazine spread. I loved the way its designer has playfully combined images and typography to create a design which was full of energy and movement. I hope I can do that too. Large preview ).

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Edge Perspectives

JULY 10, 2019

In a world that is changing at an accelerating pace, existing knowledge rapidly becomes obsolete and the most valuable form of learning is creating new knowledge. If we’re smart about it, we have the potential to unleash the potential of exponential learning. For me, a story is self-contained – it has a beginning, middle and an end.

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Enprowess

MARCH 10, 2022

Reasons to use React in the web application. Reasons for Choosing Angular. Both are their topmost priority, but most can still not decide which one would suit their project. JavaScript developers will agree that the proper framework saves weeks of production time. So, Angular or React? Let’s check it out, which option is the best?

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Tim Kadlec

DECEMBER 30, 2016

As always, I enjoyed every book on this list at least a little—I don’t have the patience or desire to get through books that I’m not finding interesting in some way. Ah, the end of the year. For non-fiction, they would be The Road of Lost Innocence , Console Wars , and Evicted. That’s not the case with Dan.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

In this episode, we’re asking if changes to best practises over the last year have negatively impacted the web. Drew McLellan talks to expert Chris Ferdinandi to find out. So I wanted to ask, has anything changed? So I wanted to ask, has anything changed? Chris: Yeah, quite a bit has changed quite a bit has not.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 8, 2019

Working in Australia meant finding creative ways to sell the company’s products and services, as well as exploring new approaches to the design of the products themselves. I was curious about whether graphic design and visual storytelling could make a digital product more compelling.

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Randon ASCII

APRIL 14, 2020

This seems to have triggered a flurry of CPU activity and window focus changes. Window in Focus changed from UIforETW to Idle, to csrss, back to Idle, to LogonUI, and then back to Idle. In this case all I was doing was opening my laptop lid and trying to log on. It didn’t take long. The bottom graph shows CPU usage.

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Alex Russell

JUNE 20, 2020

For different reasons, they are both working to cast the web in amber. And if it should, which ones? The web is a meta-platform. Like other meta-platforms the web thrives or declines to the extent it can accomplish the lion's share of the things we expect most computers to do. We will all have lost a future worth wanting should they succeed.

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Speed Curve

JANUARY 31, 2018

One of the best parts of my job is getting to talk to so many people from so many different companies about web performance. Every company is different, and I learn a ton from talking to each one. It's basic human psychology, and it might seem obvious when you see it in a super-simple graphic. Identify what people care about. conversions.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 13, 2019

The reasons why I’d enjoyed working on the web no longer seemed relevant. I read all the books about influential art directors I could find and started collecting magazines from the places I visited around the world. Andrew Clarke. 2019-06-13T12:30:16+02:00. 2019-06-13T12:06:21+00:00. Looking at the web didn’t improve my motivation.

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