Short notes on tech 11/2021

Week 11 of 2021

Work life

Handbook for Remote employees
Read how Remote works as a company and take notes.

How to Deal with Difficult People on Software Projects

Your Thinking Rate Is Fixed
“You can’t force yourself to think faster. If you try, you’re likely to end up making much worse decisions. Here’s how to improve the actual quality of your decisions instead of chasing hacks to speed them up.” (from Hackernewsletter)

Generalists vs specialists – who has a greater chance of success?
(from Hackernewsletter)

Learning

The Front-End Developer Learning Roadmap

AWS Cloud Development Kit Workshop
Learn CDK.

Software development

Best practices for REST API design
“In this article, we’ll look at how to design REST APIs to be easy to understand for anyone consuming them, future-proof, and secure and fast since they serve data to clients that may be confidential.” (from Hackernewsletter)

You really should use dev containers
tl;dr; “use development containers, indicating the act of running and compiling code inside a container, not on the host machine OS.”

The case for and against Amazon Cognito

Information Security

How often should I rotate my ssh keys?
“More often than never! As often as you can. And make sure you retire old keys when you’re done with them.” (from Hackernewsletter)

Tools of the trade

Helppo
“Instant admin UI for your database” Supports PostgreSQL and MySQL.

TSDX
Zero-config CLI for TypeScript package development

Colorful VSCode titlebars for better productivity
tl;dr;
"workbench.colorCustomizations": {
"titleBar.activeBackground": "#553955" // change this color!
}


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