Weeknotes: 17 February to 21 February 2025

What I have found gripping

• There are advantages to doing rather than outsourcing one’s skills to AI

• Getting out of one’s comfort zone leads to new learnings

• Asynchronous code reviews can facilitate progress

• Returning to a generative art project and considering what to add to it for the sake of it

What I have read

• How to conduct asynchronous code reviews across time zones, Sara Verdi

• Why I do not use instance variables in my Ruby classes anymore? Woman on Rails

• Quel est l'impact de la composition de notre cercle amical sur nous-mêmes et sur la société ? Clara Delétraz

• « L’envers des mots » : Algocratie, Adrien Tallent

• No trust? No learning. Emil Novák-Tót

• The Art of Making Websites, Jim Nielsen

• What is TAG? Lola Odelola from Lola’s Lab

• Where have the women of tech history gone? 2.0 (FOSDEM 2025), Laura Durieux

What I have watched

RubyConf 2022: Don't @ me! Faster Instance Variables with Object Shapes by Aaron Patterson

Featured quote

At times you have the luxury of incremental experimentation, and sometimes you're thrown in the deep end and it's sink or swim, baby. However, trust is relevant and crucial in every single learning scenario. — Emil Novák-Tót

Further reading and resources

In English

• in it for CHANGE, Emil Novák-Tót

• Where have the women of tech history gone? (description + outline), Laura Durieux

• Laura Durieux (official website)

In French

• Podcast : #119 Clara Delétraz - Remettre le collectif au cœur de notre société, Teambakery

• Ensembles, Clara Delétraz