Weeknotes: 25 September to 29 September 2023

What I have found gripping

• Polyglot programming is about writing code in several languages. According to TechTarget, it is “to capture additional functionality and efficiency not available in a single language”

• Testing case statements with RSpec meant working through error messages before getting tests to pass

• Building a small server using Node.js before launching it with the command node index.js took less time than expected

What I have read

• The importance of career laddering, Sarah Drasner

• Newsletter WoR #50: c'est la rentrée vive la productivité, rester motivée, on se met au tofu, GPT est parmi nous... (Substack), Women on Rails

Featured quote

Have you ever been to a (tech-) event where you didn’t know anyone, but everyone else seemed to stand in groups and chat like old friends? (…) Now imagine you want to contribute to an open source project, but you don’t see why or how this is happening. — @janl, “Sustainable Open Source”

What I have watched

CodeWord Conf 2023: 7 Best Practices for Writing Documentation (For Those Who Would Rather Do Anything Else), Lauren Schaefer

Further reading and resources

In English

• Heroines of JavaScript (card set)

• CodeWord Conf 2023

• The History of RSpec, Steven R. Baker

• Choose a license

• Building Welcoming Communities, GitHub

In French

• Semaine de 4 jours : soutien ou frein à l’égalité hommes-femmes ? Laetitia Vitaud (autrice et conférencière sur le futur du travail)

Thanks for reading Sandra’s Weeknotes!