Links 2025-07-31

src/content/links.jsonc

@@ -408,6 +408,69 @@
 			"read": "2025-05-10",
 			"author": "Soatok",
 		},
+		{
+			"title": "First Rule of Usability? Don't Listen to Users",
+			"url": "https://www.nngroup.com/articles/first-rule-of-usability-dont-listen-to-users/",
+			"tags": ["article", "ux", "user testing"],
+			"description": "Users don't give reliable or useful statements about how they experience a user interface. To get the best UX you need to pay attention to what users do.",
+			"read": "2025-05-13",
+			"author": "Jakob Nielsen",
+		},
+		{
+			"title": "A Beg­inner’s Guide to Finding User Needs",
+			"url": "https://jdittrich.github.io/userNeedResearchBook/",
+			"tags": ["resource", "ux", "user testing"],
+			"description": "A guide on conducting user research for UX researchers, UX designers, and product mangers.",
+			"author": "Jan Dittrich",
+		},
+		{
+			"title": "Dropdowns: Design Guidelines",
+			"url": "https://www.nngroup.com/articles/drop-down-menus/",
+			"tags": ["article", "ux", "dropdown"],
+			"description": "Pitfalls, usability problems, and when to use dropdown menus",
+			"read": "2025-05-13",
+			"author": "Angie Li",
+		},
+		{
+			"title": "What good is partial understanding?",
+			"url": "https://sdr-podcast.com/episodes/partial-understanding/",
+			"tags": ["podcast", "serialisation", "self-describing formats", "schemas"],
+			"description": "Having formats that describe their own shape have benefits and costs. One of the points brought up is that self-describing format become key-value stores, and after parsing them you end up with a dataset that you have query in order to get the data you want out of the message. These queries can fails which adds another layer of complexity.",
+			"read": "2025-06-28",
+			"author": "SDRP Team",
+		},
+		{
+			"title": "Is Exactly-Once Delivery Possible with MQTT?",
+			"url": "https://www.eejournal.com/2015/05/28/is-exactly-once-delivery-possible-with-mqtt/",
+			"tags": ["article", "message queues", "mqtt", "reliable delivery"],
+			"description": "Why the exactly once deliverability guarantee of MQTT protocol might not be as useful as it first sounds. As Amelia argues, just because the message was delivered doesn't mean the receiving application successfully processed it.",
+			"read": "2025-06-19",
+			"author": "Amelia Dalton",
+		},
+		{
+			"title": "copyparty",
+			"url": "https://github.com/9001/copyparty",
+			"tags": ["software", "file sharing"],
+			"description": "Portable file server with an unreasonable amount of features all packed into a single python file.",
+			"author": "9001",
+		},
+		{
+			"title": "The Only Unbreakable Law",
+			"url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IUj1EZwpJY",
+			"tags": ["talk", "software architecture", "conway's law"],
+			"description": "An introspection into Melvin Conway's law that describes how the structure of organisations shape the structure of the things they design. And how this is compounded by the the temporal element of long living code bases that live past restructuring of the organisation. ",
+			"read": "2025-07-31",
+			"author": "Molly Rocket",
+		},
+		{
+			"title": "How do Committees Invent?",
+			"url": "https://www.melconway.com/Home/pdf/committees.pdf",
+			"altUrls": ["https://www.melconway.com/Home/Committees_Paper.html"],
+			"tags": ["article", "software architecture", "organisations"],
+			"description": "A thesis on how the design of systems ending up being a mirror of the organisational chart of the organisation that design the system, broadly by arguing that the kind of systems that are possible to design are constrained by the communication paths the designers of the system have available to them.",
+			"read": "2025-07-31",
+			"author": "Melvin Conway",
+		},
 		{
 			"title": "",
 			"url": "",
@@ -420,6 +483,14 @@
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 		"https://bitbashing.io/gc-for-systems-programmers.html",
 		"https://freetype.org/freetype2/docs/hinting/text-rendering-general.html",
+		"https://blog.sequinstream.com/postgres-sequences-can-commit-out-of-order/",
+		"https://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/",
+		"https://matthewstrom.com/writing/copying/",
+		"https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3442188.3445922",
+		"https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3442188.3445922",
+		"https://badlydrawnben.com/",
+		"https://www.rfleury.com/p/programmers-are-users-bad-performance",
+		"https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2024/01/what-we-got-right-what-we-got-wrong.html",
 	],
 	"authors": {
 		"Ray Thomas": {
@@ -515,6 +586,25 @@
 		"Soatok": {
 			"urls": ["https://soatok.blog/"],
 		},
+		"Jan Dittrich": {
+			"urls": ["https://github.com/jdittrich"],
+		},
+		"Angie Li": {
+			"urls": [],
+		},
+		"SDRP Team": {
+			"urls": ["https://sdr-podcast.com/about/"],
+		},
+		{
+		"Amelia Dalton": {
+			"urls": [],
+		},
+		"Molly Rocket": {
+			"urls": ["https://mollyrocket.com", "https://www.youtube.com/@MollyRocket"],
+		},
+		"Melvin Conway": {
+			"urls": ["https://www.melconway.com"],
+		},
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 			"urls": [""],
 		},