The Takeaways: Week 32 of 2021

This week's review of articles, newsletters, and podcasts that I found interesting, inspiring, or otherwise worth remembering. Podcasts Scott Hanselman (host), Hanselminutes. The Joy of making with LEGO Master and Cosplaying Engineer Amie DD...

The Takeaways: Week 31 of 2021

A periodic review of articles, newsletters, and podcasts that I found interesting, inspiring, or otherwise worth remembering. Closed Tab of the Week Megan Molteni, WIRED. The 60-Year-Old Scientific Screwup That Helped Covid Kill (May 13, 2021)...

The Takeaways: Week 30 of 2021

A periodic review of articles, newsletters, and podcasts that I found interesting, inspiring, or otherwise worth remembering. Closed Tab of the Week A new addition to this type of post. I always have many tabs open. A good number of them hang...

The Takeaways: Week 29 of 2021

A periodic review of articles, newsletters, and podcasts that I found interesting, inspiring, or otherwise worth remembering. Podcasts Python Bytes. Episode #243: Django unicorns and multi-region PostgreSQL (July 21, 2021) Unicorn: A magical...

The Takeaways: Week 28 of 2021

A periodic review of articles, newsletters, and podcasts that I found interesting, inspiring, or otherwise worth remembering. Podcasts The Secrets of Product Management Podcast. Episode 76: How Product Managers Can Build Psychological Safety In...

How to take a Full-Size Screenshot in Chrome

I wrote and published this on an internal wiki earlier this year. There are times when you need to show an entire page in a screenshot. Instead of capturing the page section by section and pasting each together, you can use a feature in the...

Books I Read in 2020

2020 was a good year for reading. Madeline Ashby, Company Town (2016) One of a number of books on this list that I found browsing through the ebooks available thanks to my local library system. A mystery that replaces a proper detective with a...

How to say No to a Client

Client ideas for change or improvement are almost always an indicator of their investment. It can be an investment in the product itself. It can also be an investment in some meaningful aspect of organizational culture or operations to which the...

The Takeaways: Weeks 13 through 17 of 2017

Busy season, but still reading and finding some of the good stuff. The Hairy Arm Unlike what I usually post here, this entry is something I re-discovered after having forgotten its exact name for several years. Over that time, I know I tried...