HTML, queues, and whiteboarding
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HTML
There were some conversations on Twitter this past weekend that HTML is not a programming language. I don’t care about semantics, but I DO care to recognize people that write HTML as developers.
My first full-time job I wrote code to solve problems even though I didn’t have “developer” in my title. I automated a job that used to take 3 weeks down to 3 hours with the code I wrote. It just so happened that my IDE was Excel.
Systems Architecture
I spent a lot of time this past week talking to people about applications they’ve built and run. It’s great to hear about design and trade-offs for things I’ve never worked on and failure modes I’ve never had to consider. I’ll be posting the conversations on YouTube in the coming weeks.
Links
I wrote down my setup for remote whiteboarding. I’m using an open source app which fit’s my needs for simplicity and a friendly pen interface. I address a lot of other options and when you might want to use them in the post.
Whiteboarding software and hardware
Options for personal and shared whiteboarding
I never read comics growing up, but lately I’ve been learning a lot about visual story telling. From Julia’s blog—link from last weeks email—I found Understanding Comics book and I’ve already read it and learned a ton!
https://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Comics-Invisible-Scott-McCloud/dp/006097625XIf you’ve ever wondered about message queues and how they work this article is for you. It explains the concepts of message delivery, types of usage, and software options.