Tech Manager Weekly by CTO Craft - Issue #133

This week's issue is curated by Hywel Carver, founder of Skiller Whale , the company that helps you get the most out of your tech team through targeted, immersive, bite-sized training.

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Reads of the Week

Some items from my "reliability list"

An informal list for reliability engineering that's been bouncing around inside my head for years.

Is High Quality Software Worth the Cost?

High quality software is actually cheaper to produce.

Culture & People

What is it like to be a dev in Iran | Shahin Sorkh’s Blog

It is going to cover censorship and sanctions.

Square’s Growth Framework for Engineers and Engineering Managers | Square Corner Blog

A system for leveling up at Square

Leadership & Self-management

He Built A $1 Billion Business Where All 700 Employees Work Remotely

Sid Sijbrandij knows a thing or two about building, scaling and even walking away from companies. His current venture is on its way to $500 million in revenue and is valued at over $1 billion.

Agile, Engineering & Product

Do-nothing scripting: the key to gradual automation – Dan Slimmon

Every ops team has some manual procedures that they haven't gotten around to automating yet. Toil can never be totally eliminated. Very often, the biggest toil center for a team at a growing company will be its procedure for modifying infrastructure or its procedure for provisioning user accounts. Partial instructions for the latter might look…

When a rewrite isn’t: rebuilding Slack on the desktop

A new version of Slack is rolling out for our desktop customers, built from the ground up to be faster, more efficient, and easier to work on. Conventional wisdom holds that you should never rewrite…

What Else?

Decades-Old Computer Science Conjecture Solved in Two Pages

The “sensitivity” conjecture stumped many top computer scientists, yet the new proof is so simple that one researcher summed it up in a single tweet.

Browser extensions are underrated: the promise of hackable software

In a world of closed platforms, browser extensions are the rare exception that let users modify the apps that we use.

Community Events

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