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Book Summary: Indistractable
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I’m starting to enjoy writing short summaries about books I read, so here’s a new one đ
Indistractable is a book by Nir Eyal, a behavioural engineer who worked and studied the psychology of our attention and applied it to digital product and advertisements. In fact, his first book (âHookedâ) is about the design of habit-forming products (such as games, ads, apps and so on).
Working Software Conference 2023
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Last Friday I attended the 2023 Working Software Conference in Milan. The Working Software Conference is an event organised by the Italian Agile Movement, focused on the second principle of the agile manifesto:
Working software over comprehensive documentation
Book Summary: A Philosophy of Software Design
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Today Iâll post a summary of a book I read at the beginning of 2023, titled âA Philosophy of Software Designâ, by John Ousterhout. John is a professor at Stanford, where he teaches âOperating System Principlesâ and âSoftware Design Studioâ.
In the book he distills a career worth of advice, taken from his personal experience and the issues and solutions emerged while teaching his software design course.
Book Summary: Atomic Habits
Hi đ and welcome to a new post! Today Iâm publishing the (raw) notes I took while reading âAtomic Habits: An Easy and proven way to build good habits and break bad onesâ, by James Clear. Even though I read this book two years ago, I stumbled across this notes and they were helpful in remembering its main ideas and concepts. I know there are many summaries and reviews of this book.
XPUGBg January meetup: âeXtreme Collaborative Codebaseâ
Hi đ welcome to a new post! Today Iâm going to post a little summary of my experience at the XPUGBg meetup I attended at the end of January. This time, the talk was âeXtreme Collaborative Codebaseâ by Alessio Coser. What is a collaborative codebase? Alessio started his talk with a question: what does it mean to collaborate in a codebase for you? What does it take to do it? What are the practices we can use to âwork wellâ?