2025-10-21
6 分钟What up nerds?
I'm Jared and this is ChangeLog News for the week of Monday, October 20th, 2025.
In light of the major ongoing AWS outage,
I do hope you're not having a terrible start to your work week.
But if down detector is anywhere near accurate, those hopes are all bedashed.
Every time AWS goes down like this, I'm reminded of the quip.
Turns out the cloud is just some building in Virginia.
Okay, let's get into this week's news.
The science behind developer flow states in an excellent piece designed to help engineering leaders and developers understand flow states and how to reclaim them.
Chabba O'Krona lays out exactly what flow is, quote.
Flow, as defined in the research,
is a psychological state of complete immersion and engagement in an activity.
For developers, it's that magical zone where code seems to write itself,
complex problems unravel naturally,
and hours pass in what feels like minutes." He then enumerates the three major blockers to flow.
One, insufficient cognitive challenge.
Two, situational barriers.
And three, internal factors.
And then he shows you how to engineer your way back to flow.
Most of us can't get this done entirely on our own.