Learning in the form of reading and bookmarking - JIC
I have been attempting to keep up with a monthly reading and writing habit, but obviously I’ve lagged behind for the last 4 months since Jul.
So here is my attempt to make up for that gap.
Interestingly, as I chance upon insightful sites, instead of going deep in my own exploration of them, I usually bookmark them for reference in future, just in case (JIC).
I’m not sure if you too have a similar problem (habit), of keeping things around just in case of any conjured-up scenario where these websites will ever be useful. For example, I have a World Train Map, JUST IN CASE I happen to sit on one of these trains next time and I can see where I am on the map and which route I will take - and obviously the probability of me even remembering this by the time I actually take that train will be close to zero.
Enough said, below is a list of websites I found interesting back in the month of Jul, and I hope they will be insightful for you too!
General
Learning how to go slow and question often.
How to build your habits to work alongside AI, using AI to question your AI-generated summaries.
Form the habit of perceiving AI as a junior analyst.
Fixit and making bug fixing pleasant
No bugs more than 2 days old
Fixit
Tracking it
Getting the number of bugs to a crossover threshold with a burndown chart
News from 40 years ago
Interesting how we could go about it
https://www.a11yproject.com - Making our application accessible to all
It’s important if we know that what we do is valuable to the community.
Putting our QA standards to that standard is significant not just for the company’s value proposition but more so to affirm our commitment to adding value for everyone.
Force Multiplier - scaling teams, not themselves
Long COVID affecting teenagers’ lungs in the long haul
Finding events and people around you
The concept of bringing people offline and together. Given the internet era, authentic human interactions are ever more valuable and rare. Time could easily be the most valuable commodity that we could give to our loved ones.
Mapping out where we have been
I’ve always been interested in where I’ve been during my travels, and the % of the world I have explored.
If one of my objectives in life is to see the world + “what measures gets done” = let’s start measuring how much of the world I have explored.
Edge cases: does this include the flight paths? Haha I would say no. Don’t lose sight of the objective while chasing the stats. The objective is to measure how much of the world I have seen. Unless I’m the pilot and the endless plain old sky is what I want to see, I should be focused on what I’m experiencing as a person.
The world rewards insanity
Not sure if I can agree with everything mentioned in the article.
But one thing stood out for me: focus on your learning goals, not your performance goals.
If you brand yourself based on your ability to learn, the more new things you learn, the more successful you are. You are in a position to maximise your learning and also keep your ego in check. You are measured by your acknowledged mistakes and lessons, not by how ‘perfect’ you are.
Not sure how this point links to insanity, but I guess it is catchy - it caught my attention.
Check for primes with mental calculation
2 to the power of p - 1
p = prime number
Technical
nexus.js
The aesthetic-usability effect