CatOps Digest 2024-07-07
What was on CatOps in the last couple of weeks...
Charity
“The Second Frontier of Air Defense” is a standing fundraiser by “Come Back Alive” to support Ukrainian air defense.
Together with “UkrOps Digest” we raise money for UAV equipment for the Skelyar platoon of the Rubizh brigade. Right now, 1/3 of the total sum is there.
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Time Sensitive
“Learn to Program” books’ bundle by Pearson is still available for about a week on Humble Bundle.
Digest
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Systemd release 256 will have run0 - a replacement for `sudo`.
run0 Command: An Alternative to sudo - an explainer article about `run0`.
Ruby: a great language for shell scripts! - an article with examples of using Ruby for shell scripts. It’s a shame that Ruby doesn’t come in many Linux distributions by default - this would make writing automation scripts in it more approachable.
Never struggle to give feedback again (even to your manager) - a reasonable guide on actionable feedback. May be paywalled, but readable via Pocket and similar reading apps.
regreSSHion: Remote Unauthenticated Code Execution Vulnerability in OpenSSH server - critical security vulnerability in SSH: what we know so far.
Your Company's Problem is Hiding in Plain Sight - High Work-In-Progress (WIP) - how piling work-in-progress kills velocity of your company.
Little’s Law: A Powerful Metric for Process Analysis - some math behind the reason you may want to limit your WIP.
Meet Context Switching, the #1 Productivity Killer in the Workplace - and more on WIP and context switch as a result of it.
That’s all, folks! See you in two weeks!
