Time for another round of links. It's been checks notes 8 months, 6 days since my last round of links, and I've finally collected enough for another round!

Technology

• How deep do you have to go for an entirely trustable stack? In most places at somepoint you have to trust the thing underneath you. But what if you can't? Finding the Bottom Turtle
• C++ has been around A Long Time™, and has had many fits & starts as it tries to modernize itself. Bjarne Stroustrup takes a – long – look back on it's history + future. Thriving in a crowded world: C++ 2006 – 2020
• Challenges & Tools needed to get googles fork of the Linux kernel back on to the 'mainline' branch, and remove a significant amount of overhead to follow the official branch. Moving Google toward the mainline
• How should one think about the frontend? Why do people get hung up on frameworks? What are the challenges of building frontends? Having been doing UI for 20+ years, this article really resonated. Frontends are hard; it's not just about pushing pixels. Practical frontend philosophy

Leadership / Management

• People have talked about "Software Factories" for decades, and seek to create a production line like ethos around it. People have resisted, but in certain markets it's becoming a reality. China's tech workers pushed to limits by surveillance software
• Context is everything. Context about how your org really works is possibly the ultimate context. No matter what you do, how good you are, and what you believe is right, you can't make forward progress without knowing how your org works. know how your org works
• Strategy isn't what you say & write. It's what people hear. The Way I Heard It Was
• Experience helps us see a bigger picture. But sometimes, through that experience, one comes into into conflict with the conventional wisdom. This is one persons discussion with themselves if they're at a local maximum with their understanding. Am I stuck in a local maximum?
• As someone who recently joined the Pro Leisure Circuit because of what felt like would become burnout, this one resonated. Burning out and quitting
• Regular performance reviews are important. Shopify shared how they run their engineering calibration – worth a read. Always on Calibration with a Quarterly Summary
• Julia Evans talks about writing a brag document to capture your successes. But sometimes you need to capture more often, and deeper than just your successes. Brag now, remember later: Document your accomplishments

Random

• A story about a father & daughter. Shot on an iPhone. If this doesn't make you think, you're heartless. Float
• The pandemic supply shortage might not be about supply, but that it pulled forward significant demand. It's Mostly a Demand Shock, Not a Supply Shock, and It's everywhere
• All the moving parts of what the metaverse means to business, tech, and how it might come together. Metaverse Primer
• I've finally gotten a reasonable note capture system. But theres this nagging feeling it's just an excuse to purge from my brain. But maybe thats ok? Note apps are where ideas go to die. And that's good