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If you hand a good spec to three providers, you’ll get three variations back in return.

The way you know your spec is worthwhile is that you can live with the differences between them.

If it’s worth caring about, it’s worth writing down.

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This article was originally published on .cult by Louis Minvielle. .cult is a Berlin-based community platform for developers. We write about all things career-related, make original documentaries, and share heaps of other untold developer stories from around the world. If you remember our past investigations and analyses, you might remember a curious postulate we put forward: even though their talents are in high demand, it might still be hard for data scientists, developers, and data engineers to know their worth. It’s almost like a brain-teaser: jobs requiring their aptitudes are expected to grow exponentially in the next three years, and…

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Brittle systems are weak.

Short-term wins feel like a demonstration of will by those that seek to be strong.

But the only run is the long run.

When we embrace flexible, renewable and diverse approaches, we create actual progress.

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Welcome to Marketing Morsels, a menu of delightful (and in this case, tragic) news items from the past week. Enjoy the assortment! Morsel #1: RIP, Choco Taco Klondike and parent company Unilever announced this week that they are discontinuing the beloved Choco Taco following “an unprecedented spike in demand across our portfolio” that resulted in…Read More

Facebook’s parent company Meta is telling its U.S. publishing partners that the company no longer plans to pay for news content that aggregates on Facebook’s news tab. Top line Facebook’s News Tab and Bulletin newsletters will be put on the back burner as Meta moves forward with investing in an AI-based TikTok-like experience on Facebook…Read More

By default, Twitter will always show users advertisements based on their activity on the social networking platform. However, users have the option to personalize the ads they see even more by turning on the “personalized ads” option in Twitter’s Settings menu. The Twitter application says when a users turns on this option, “Twitter may further…Read More

The wind is great for producing electricity without generating greenhouse gas emissions. But there’s a dirty secret — what happens to turbines at the end of their life?  This week, a study by the University of South Australia’s Future Industries Institute revealed the huge waste legacy of discarded wind turbines. And the problem is only getting worse.  And as more countries transition from gas to wind energy, the problem will only intensify. For example, the German government aims to build between 1,000 and 1,500 new wind turbines annually. The lifecycle of a wind turbine is around 20-25 years. And it…

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World Wrestling Entertainment became just the seventh channel overall and the first sports brand to top 70 billion views on YouTube. The WWE channel is also on pace to surpass 90 million subscribers at some point during SummerSlam weekend, with the actual event set for Saturday (July 30) at Nissan Stadium in Nashville, Tenn. Also…Read More

On the season finale of the Most Powerful Women in Sports podcast, Adweek’s former chief content officer Lisa Granatstein sits down with Cathy Engelbert, commissioner of the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA). Engelbert joined the WNBA in 2019 as the league’s first commissioner, after spending much of her career at Deloitte where she was its…Read More

Twitter allows people to block other Twitter users to prevent those users from interacting with them. People can view the list of users they’ve blocked from within Twitter’s Settings menu. On this list, they have the option to unblock users they’ve previously blocked. Our guide will show you how to see the users you’ve blocked…Read More