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3) The Gen Z focus group participants don't want to read to find information.

They will if they HAVE to. But if they can get a quick video with the answer, that’s what they prefer.

— Adrienne | Social Media Strategist (@AdriSheares) August 12, 2022

Whether you write or code you often might find yourself repeating the same text over and over. A command you often use, or some boilerplate response. If you type it enough you will eventually remember it, but it can take a while to get there. Sometimes you have infrequently used commands or text that you want to save for reference as well. In both these cases using a snippets tool can save you searching and typing.

• Congratulations to Cori Zarek who returns to the US Digital Service as its Deputy Executive Director.
• Connecticut’s Office of Health Strategy contracted with UConn to build its health information system “in-house”. It did not go well. The article leaves us with some possibilities but no clear conclusion as to why. It does sound like they struggled to develop their custom system.
• Shrink projects to match leadership turnover rates is some insightful advice from Sean Boots.
• For the love of God, hire a Designer and a Product Manager is a long explanation by Paul Craig of why these roles are so important for software teams.
• Washington Post built a fake metropolis to show how heat can wreck cities. Lots of these issues are painfully familiar to us in Boston over the past few weeks.
• Why Does the IRS Need $80 Million? is a good visual explanation of the current way the IRS handles paper tax returns.
• If you ever wondered how software in automobiles works, How I Hacked My Car is a geeky breakdown of the process of hacking a car’s operating system and adding an app to it. Not sure why they went with Qt for the user interface when Tesla seems to use Ruby on Rails just fine.
• Melrose, MA added cool retractable pole mounted EV chargers.

Noah Gibbs writing for the Shopify Engineering Blog:

A JIT, aka a Just-In-Time compiler, is a partial compiler. A JIT waits until you run the program and then translates the most-used parts of your program into fast native machine code. This happens every time you run your program. It doesn’t write the code to a file—okay, except MJIT and a few others. But JIT compilation is primarily a way to speed up an interpreter—you keep the source code on your computer, and the interpreter has a JIT built into it. And then long-running programs go faster.

From The Verge:

Disney has announced that it’s raising the price of Disney Plus to $10.99 / month, up from its current price of $7.99 / month, starting December 8th in the US. The move comes as the company is looking to restructure its pricing options, which will soon include a $7.99 / month ad-supported tier.