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My writing elsewhere ▷ For software engineering managers it can be all too easy to not see team performance challenges until they create a very visible problem. You need to constantly monitor for performance, both good and bad. Here’s how I do it. Read The Engineer Assessment Daemon: Catching performance drift early Best of the blogs ▷ I cut my computing teeth on a bunch of different machines, but Apple hardware was prominent among them. Del Yocam (guesting on David Pogue’s blog) was in charge of manufacturing at Apple in those days and gives an insider account of what it was like working with Steve Jobs. Read Steve Jobs, Closed Macs, and Me: A Guest Post ▷ This one’s extra nerdy: if you have an old PC lying around, especially one with a small form factor, David Farquahr explains how you can turn it into a TV streaming box — one that escapes all of the corporate espionage that happens to you with commercial boxes. Read A Roku alternative streaming device Pentax ME, 55mm f/1.8 SMC…