BLOG.TXT ======== A place where I will store links I like and I want to get access fast (mostly Agile/Scrum-related and IT stuff). Using blog.txt because it's the fastest, lightest blogging platform ever (also, I only have 10MB available as storage on my website, and lazy to look for more advanced/powerful blogging solutions). This blog is mostly a public-visible-reminder for myself; if you arrived here and found useful information for you, great :D TODO ==== Next articles to write: - https://svpg.com/product-vs-feature-teams/ - Feedback on filen.io - Backup of every pages cited here - Rhizomatic mapping - https://chelseatroy.com/2021/07/30/the-oxymoron-of-data-driven-innovation/ - https://uxstudioteam.com/ux-blog/product-design-process-steps/ - https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ - https://github.com/adolfintel/Windows10-Privacy - https://www.rome2rio.com/ 2021-12-27 ========== "When you are dead, you do not know you are dead. It's only painful & difficult for others. The same applies when you are stupid." "SAFe is agile for flat-earthers" #QUOTE 2021-12-09 ========== "When you build a dam you sleep under it until it's finished. Unless you aren't good at your job." #QUOTE 2021-12-09 ========== "Conway's law is an adage stating that organizations design systems mirror their own communication structure." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway's_law 2021-11-22 ========== Books to read if you are/want to be a Product Owner: - "The Professional Scrum Team" - Kurt Bittner, Peter Goetz, Uwe M. Schirmer - 18 November 2020 https://www.amazon.fr/Professional-Scrum-Team-Peter-G%C3%B6tz/dp/0134862155 #SCRUM #BOOK 2021-11-21 ========== The rise and fall of the Dungeon Master: https://medium.com/@ziobrando/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-dungeon-master-c2d511eed12f #PRODUCT-MANAGEMENT Inbox Zero https://ploum.net/stay-on-top-of-your-inbox-in-2013/ https://ploum.net/why-you-are-not-at-inbox-0/ https://ploum.net/pourquoi-vous-devriez-viser-inbox-0/ #PRODUCTIVITY #BEST-PRACTICES 2021-11-15 ========== Journey to Product Teams (Infographic) https://amplitude.com/blog/journey-to-product-teams-infographic https://images.ctfassets.net/vrkkgjbn4fsk/43rSdEJDxHxvVtR8Ed6axO/879352c9e8436f6b9156967e98629f83/key_image.png #AGILE Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. (Benjamin Franklin) #QUOTE 2021-11-14 ========== Tool to check what is connected to your wifi: Wireless Network Watcher (from Nir Sofer, he seems to have done other tools in the same style) https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/wireless_network_watcher.html #WINDOWS Application to check/increase the level of privacy of Windows 10/11: W10Privacy (to run in administrator mode) https://www.w10privacy.de/english-home/ #WINDOWS #PRIVACY Application to clean your system and free disk space: BleachBit (free) https://www.bleachbit.org/ Equivalent for macOS: Sensei ($59) https://sensei.app/ #WINDOWS #MACOS Websites that list tools for privacy: - Privacytools.io https://www.privacytools.io/ - PrivacyGuides https://privacyguides.org/ "Why should I care? 'I have nothing to hide. Why should I care about my privacy?' Much like the right to interracial marriage, woman's suffrage, freedom of speech, and many others, we didn't always have the right to privacy. In several dictatorships, many still don't. Generations before ours fought for our right to privacy. Privacy is a human right inherent to all of us, that we are entitled to without discrimination. You shouldn't confuse privacy with secrecy. We know what happens in the bathroom, but you still close the door. That's because you want privacy, not secrecy. Everyone has something to hide, privacy is something that makes you human." #PRIVACY #QUOTE In bulk (and alphabetical order), a list of application I'm using on macOS (excluding other apps already cited previously): - Aseprite (https://www.aseprite.org/), $19.99 - pixel-art editor - Atom (https://atom.io/), free - text editor - Bear (https://bear.app/), $14.99 per year (subscription model) - for notes, synchronized between macOS and iOs - Craft (https://www.craft.do/), $44.99 per year (subscription model) - documents/notes manager; I mostly use it to keep information of books/mangas I read (I use 1% of the capacities) - DaisyDisk (https://daisydiskapp.com/), 10,99 € - to check the disk space - DirEqual (https://naarakstudio.com/direqual/), $18.95 - to compare folders - Downie (https://software.charliemonroe.net/downie/), 24,99 € with Permute - to download video on internet, mostly Youtube (can be done with youtube-dl, but it's nice to have a graphic interface to do it) - eCanCrusher (https://www.docdataflow.com/ecancrusher/), free - to compress/uncompress ePub files - Firefox (https://www.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/new/), free - best compromise between privacy and features for a browser - iceDrive (https://icedrive.net/), 21.99 € per year (subscription model) - cloud storage, for some back-ups - ImageOptim (https://imageoptim.com/fr), free - images compressor - Jdownloader (https://jdownloader.org/), free - to download files in bulk on the internet - Keka (https://www.keka.io/en/), free - best file archiver - Little Snitch (https://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html), 45 € - Firewall - Mindnode (https://www.mindnode.com/), $19.99 per year (subscription model) - for mindmapping - PDF Expert (https://pdfexpert.com/), $79.99 - PDF editor - PDF Squeezer (https://www.witt-software.com/pdfsqueezer/), 10,99 € - to compress PDF Files - Permute (https://software.charliemonroe.net/permute/) - Media Converter, 24,99 € with Downie - I use it most of the time to convert files between format - Radio Silence (https://radiosilenceapp.com/), $9 - Network monitor - Reeder (https://reederapp.com/), $9.99 - RSS feed reader - Renamer (https://renamer.com/), 19.99 € - Batch file renamer for Mac - Best investment ever, I already saved more than 530h by using it instead of renaming files manually! - The Unarchiver (https://theunarchiver.com/), free - Things (https://culturedcode.com/things/), $19.99 - task management app - Transmission (https://transmissionbt.com/download/), free - best BitTorrent client - Transmit (https://panic.com/transmit/), $45 - servers manager - VLC (https://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.fr.html), free - Webp Converter for Mac (https://apple.co/3c4wFQb), free - to convert Webp files into JPG - XnConvert (https://www.xnview.com/fr/xnconvert/), free - images converter #MACOS To reset the Launchpad layout on a Mac, you have to launch the terminal and write: defaults write com.apple.dock ResetLaunchPad -bool true; killall Dock #MACOS #SCRIPT Also in bulk (and alphabetical order), iOs apps I'm using (iPhone/iPad): - Adblock Plus for Safari (ABP) (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/adblock-plus-for-safari-abp/id1028871868), free - ads-blocker - Bear (https://bear.app/), $14.99 per year (subscription model) - for notes, synchronized between macOS and iOs - Craft (https://www.craft.do/), $44.99 per year (subscription model) - same as on macOS, documents/notes manager - Gamer - Manage Your Games (https://apps.apple.com/lu/app/gamer-manage-your-games/id683636311?l=fr), free - to track games you own and future releases - iComics (https://icomics.co/), $0.99 - best comics reader on iOs - Infuse (https://firecore.com/infuse), $9.99 per year (subscription model) - good video player - Mangacollec (https://www.mangacollec.com/), to keep track of manga collection and future releases - MoneyCoach (https://moneycoach.ai/), $59.99 per year (subscription model) - money manager, OK-ish but after trying almost all of them, none seems to fit my needs - Moodstory (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/moodistory-mood-tracker-diary/id1335347860), $4.99 - mood tracker - Reeder (https://reederapp.com/), $4.99 - Same as on macOS, RSS feed reader - Signal (https://signal.org/), free - Only messenger app I trust (with Olvid, but much harder to get contact on it) - StopTheMadness (https://underpassapp.com/StopTheMadness/), $7.99 - ads-blocker and much more! Necessary - Subs (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/subs-subscriptions-tracker/id1499253615), free - subscriptions tracker #IOS Firefox extensions to use: - ClearURLs - Cookie AutoDelete - Decentraleyes - Disconnect - Don't track me Google - Facebook Container - Forget me not - Ghostery - HTTPS partout - I don't care about cookies - Privacy Badger - Privacy Possum - Startpage.com - recherche privé - uBlock Origin #FIREFOX #EXTENSIONS Services I'm using - Deepl (https://www.deepl.com/en/translator), free (for basic usage) - really good translator, better than Google Translate - Feedly (https://feedly.com/), free (for basic usage) - to manage my RSS feeds (including YouTube channels I'm following) - Grammarly (https://www.grammarly.com/), free (for basic usage) - spell checking/writing assitant, to help me to improve in English - Protonmail, free (for basic usage) - secure encrypted email provider, based in Switzerland #SERVICES "If we have data, let's look at data. If all we have are opinions, let's go with mine." Quote from American entrepreneur James Love Barksdale (1943 - ) former president and CEO of Netscape Communications. "That is not engineering. That's just lazy programming. Engineering is understanding performance, structure, limits of what you build, deeply. Combining poorly written stuff with more poorly written stuff goes strictly against that. To progress, we need to understand what and why are we doing." from https://tonsky.me/blog/disenchantment/ (to read) You may come up against the "intelligence frontier". This boundary is present in almost all human beings and takes the form of one of three responses: - "It's always been that way!" (argument from seniority) - "Everyone does it this way!" (argumentum ad populum) - "I am intimately convinced of this fact!" (argument from faith) from https://ploum.net/tout-peut-etre-compris/ (in French) #QUOTE 2021-11-13 ========== To get back purgeable space space on a Mac, you have to launch the terminal and write: dd if=/dev/zero of=~/filetemp.tmp bs=2m and when it's done, delete the file "filetemp.tmp" at the root of your user folder. (from https://blog.gete.net/2020/07/) #MACOS #SCRIPT 2021-11-07 ========== Debloat Windows 10 (11?) "How to REALLY make Windows 10 Super Light for Gaming" - LowSpecGamer https://youtu.be/IU5F01oOzQQ With links: https://github.com/W4RH4WK/Debloat-Windows-10 Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted ls -Recurse *.psl | Unblock-File ls -Recurse *.psml | Unblock-File https://gist.githubusercontent.com/matthewjberger/2f4295887d6cb5738fa34e597f457b7f/raw/b23fa065febed8a2d7c2f030fba6da381f640997/Remove-Windows10-Bloat.bat #WINDOWS #PRIVACY 2021-11-06 ========== Links from scrum.org I don't want to loose: - "Product Owner Interview Guide: PO Anti-Patterns" - Stefan Wolpers https://www.scrum.org/resources/blog/product-owner-interview-guide-po-anti-patterns - "My Top Ten Worst Scrum Anti-Patterns" - Stefan Wolpers https://www.scrum.org/resources/blog/my-top-ten-worst-scrum-anti-patterns - "4 Ways to Effectively Reteam your Scrum Teams in Scaled Scrum" - Simon Flossmann https://www.scrum.org/resources/blog/4-ways-effectively-reteam-your-scrum-teams-scaled-scrum #SCRUM Books to read if you are/want to be a Product Owner: - "The Professional Product Owner: Leveraging Scrum as a Competitive Advantage" - Don McGreal, Ralph Jocham - 4 june 2018 https://www.amazon.fr/Professional-Product-Owner-Leveraging-Competitive/dp/0134686470 https://theprofessionalproductowner.org/ And the corrections: https://theprofessionalproductowner.org/corrections-in-the-book/ With the related video from Ralph Jocham, one of the authors: - "AgileByExample 2020: Ralph Joham - Product Owner Demystified" - 16 nov. 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no3zzEpcI-Y #SCRUM #BOOK "Why is everything so hard in a large organization?"" https://graphthinking.blogspot.com/2021/09/why-is-everything-so-hard-in-large.html?m=1 #WORK "50 Ideas That Changed My Life" https://perell.com/essay/50-ideas-that-changed-my-life/ #INSPIRATION A font used to display a graph superimposed on the text: http://www.datalegreya.com/ 4px wide font (check the forks too): https://github.com/romeovs/creep #FONT Online hacker simulator https://hacker-simulator.com/ #FUN I'm currently trying filen.io to store some files online, they claim to be a zero knowledge end-to-end encrypted cloud storage (found on https://www.privacytools.io/). #APP #PRIVACY 2021-11-06 - Hello, World ========================= Creation of this blog, inspired by https://www.curiositry.com/blog.txt ------------------ Made by hand by me