👹 Writing Software for an Among Us League
Hey!
This month I was bitten by the Among Us bug. I ended up sinking many many hours into the game with my friends. I built a league website with an Elo rating system and other performance statistics.
Some of my friends hate me for making it so competitive (sorry everyone!). Read more in my recent post, Writing Software for an Among Us League.
Another thing I'm excited about this month is a tech podcast called Signals and Threads. Specifically the Clock Synchronization episode — the problem they're trying to solve is at the cross-roads of a lot of cool science.
I also found a collection of very high quality essays on programming put together by Ben Kuhn in Essays on programming I think about a lot.
I'm trying hard not to buy a Raspberry Pi PC but who knows if I'll be able to resist for the rest of the festive period.
Work
We're building a frontend microservice at work (more Vue.js things). My team continues to be lovely and empathetic and awesome. I'm honored to be their interim squad lead. This current project has been a great opportunity to learn more DevOps-y things as we setup the CI/CD pipelines.
I watched Terraform Explained and found it to be a fantastic example of technical communication. Terraform as a technology also seems pretty neat!
Tips and miscellanea
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You should probably be using git diff --color-moved (this blew my mind).
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A Twitter thread called What exactly does a Principal Engineer do at AWS?.
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The reason why why XMLHttpRequest has such a strange capitalization.
Take care, and please send me all the cool projects you've been working on (or not working on, because coding isn't everything!)
Warmest,
Andrew