The Weekly Accountability 13

Life

Articles

• Are You Playing to Play, or Playing to Win? Source. This was a riveting read. I was hooked on to the premise of the article immediately. I fear I would not able to do justice to this by trying to abridge it or giving an opinion. It is one of those thought provoking reads which will make you take a hard, long look at yourself.

Tools

• awesome-piracy: A curated list of awesome warez and piracy links While the ethics of pirating content is a huge debate, I consider pirating an essential skill for everyone.

Business

Articles

• A textual presentation on the communication in distributed teams Source. Worth a read
• A playbook for negotiating salary. Source.

Engineering

Write Ups

• An article about how and why Nubank killed it’s end-to-end testing suite and implemented a contract and acceptance testing strategy Source. While our infrastructure and development patterns have adapted to the microservices architecture, testing hasn’t been given a lot of thought to. I see this as the next step in the evolution of microservices.
• An explanation of structural pattern matching in Python 3.10. Source.

Tools

• PySimpleGUI: Create complex windows simply.
• The Open Book Project: A open hardware e-reader
• Below: A time traveling resource monitor for modern Linux systems

Technology

News

• Blackbird.AI has closed $10 million series A funding to help brands combat misinformation. Source. It’s worth your while to check out what these guys do and how they do it. Their blog has some interesting statistics and case studies on misinformation propagation.
• China has banned cryptocurrencies. Source. Again.

Tools

• untab: A productivity tool to boost your browser workflow! I didn’t find it particularly useful because I usually know why and what tabs are open in my browser but it could be useful for a lot of people.

Security

News

• This article talks what a security.txt file is and some benefits and disadvantages of it. Source. One of the main reasons for including the article was, the Wikipedia entry for security.txt was written by Amal Murali, a former colleague
• Apple will remove support for the older, more insecure, TLS 1.0 and 1.1 in future macOS and iOS release. Source. Finally