Weekly newsletter about leadership, technology, books and anything else we felt compelled to share with others
Year 3 - Edition 1
A Fistful of Links is a weekly newsletter about leadership, technology, books, and anything else we felt compelled to share with others, brought to you by Og Maciel and Mirek Długosz.
“When I was in college, a particularly earnest philosophy grad student once told me that he never cared what grade he got in a class, only what he learned in it. This stuck in my mind because it was the only time I ever heard anyone say such a thing.”
““Here, I've summarized key takeaways from the top eight DevOps articles Opensource.com published this year so you can increase your knowledge even if you don't have time to read all of them. Since DevOps is about people, processes, and tools, I've categorized the top eight articles around those themes.”
“I'm Neal Agarwal and I spend most of my time working on neal.fun. It's a site where each page is a different creative exploration. Popular pages on the site include one that lets you spend Bill Gates' money and another one that gives an interactive view into the universe. I also post weird web experiments on Twitter and run a site called Just For Fun that features creative projects on the web.”
“Monolithic, consolidated applications are not bad. These are your Rails apps, your Django apps, etc. — the ones where your server sends back HTML and assets. You’ve faithfully followed the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern as best you can and your concerns are “separated.” This design principle is not passé. It just so happens that for a long time, it was your only option. For some time now, there has been an alternative. An alternative. Keep calm and don’t trash your Django app just yet.”
“The couch beckons, and the brain yearns for that perfect book: the lyrical, binge-able tome that also dispenses heaps of knowledge. The writers of these top titles from 2019 have produced just that. They've made it easy to set aside the remote, bow out of the attention economy, and season the soul with perfect prose. Grab a copy of one of these page-turners and start living the life of the erudite sofa spud.”