Essential Links in March 2023

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I travelled less this month. We saw the launch of GPT-4 and a lot of buzz around it. My Mastodon usage surpassed Twitter this month for the first time. I did small updates to my website in order to decrease the size of it and make it lightning fast to load.

A bowl of Ramen with vegetables on a wooden table

Other than that I put more efforts into curating my links. I spent more time on these articles and left comments here and there, because I love that we people simply can share our knowledge in an open environment. I hope you enjoy these, too.

Agile

CSS

Leadership

Organisation

On writing

Being human

Software Development

Pair programming and programming in groups is in my view one of the most underrated practices in software development. In highly complex environments where information is created quicker than you are able to share it, pair programming can do the trick of unobtrusively sharing knowledge and enable code ownership. Pairing work is not limited to programming, though. You can pair almost any work so you may want to give it a try.

Tools

  • If you have seen the great movie Don't Look Up you may have stumbled across the term First Principle Thinking. It's about dropping all the assumptions and starting out from known facts.
  • Miro introduces Miro AI. I dislike the term AI and I understand how much it has become a marketing gig. Just go with it. Test it out, it will help you create more sticky notes on your canvas, before you abandon just another board.
  • If you are looking for a portable laptop stand, here is one.
  • Trello has a template for a Team Focus Board that you can use if you are getting into OKR.
  • Elk is a web-based, generic mastodon client in the making. I love what I see so far.

User Experience

Inspiration

Thanks for reading so far. I hope you have a great month of April.