Friday Links

Coaching & Facilitation Formats I Use
 http://www.plays-in-business.com/facilitation-formats-i-use/

Scrum Checklist
https://www.crisp.se/gratis-material-och-guider/scrum-checklist

Marketing Can Be Agile Too
https://www.dmnews.com/customer-experience/article/13034674/marketing-can-be-agile-too

5 tips for getting started with feature flags
https://www.atlassian.com/blog/jira-software/tips-for-feature-flagging

A pre-history of weeknotes, plus why I write them and perhaps why you should too (Week 16)
https://medium.com/job-garden/a-pre-history-of-weeknotes-plus-why-i-write-them-and-perhaps-why-you-should-too-week-16-31a4a5cbf7b0

CSS Tricks: Aspect Ratio Boxes
https://css-tricks.com/aspect-ratio-boxes/

A Guide to Mindful Communication in Code Reviews
https://kickstarter.engineering/a-guide-to-mindful-communication-in-code-reviews-48aab5282e5e

Atlassian: Announcing our new partnership with Slack
https://www.atlassian.com/blog/announcements/new-atlassian-slack-partnership

5 project prioritization lessons from the pros
https://www.atlassian.com/blog/teamwork/project-prioritization-mistakes-and-cures

'The discourse is unhinged': how the media gets AI alarmingly wrong
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/25/ai-artificial-intelligence-social-media-bots-wrong

Friday Links

What 30 years of Stanford research tells us about company culturehttps://www.stride.com/blog/what-30-years-of-stanford-research-tells-us-about-company-culture

Operationalizing Node.js for Server Side Renderinghttps://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/operationalizing-node-js-for-server-side-rendering-c5ba718acfc9

Planning A Company Retreat: Things We Did Differently for Buffer’s 9th Retreathttps://open.buffer.com/9th-retreat/

Our week off from Slackhttps://wildbit.com/blog/2018/07/17/our-week-off-from-slack 

Time Flies: Levitating Nixie Clockhttps://www.jwz.org/blog/2018/07/time-flies-levitating-nixie-clock-2/

Just gonna leave this regexp herehttps://www.jwz.org/blog/2018/07/just-gonna-leave-this-regexp-here/

mathr performs with Clive https://media.ccc.de/v/lac2018-22-mathr_performs_with_clive

Sir, Your Most Brutal Web Site, Please.https://www.jwz.org/blog/2018/07/sir-your-most-brutal-web-site-please/

5 Red Flags Signaling Your Rebuild Will Fail https://www.pkc.io/blog/five-red-flags-signaling-your-rebuild-will-fail/

Evolution of Application Data Caching : From RAM to SSDhttps://medium.com/netflix-techblog/evolution-of-application-data-caching-from-ram-to-ssd-a33d6fa7a690

Friday Links

I am going to give this another try. I post links I find interesting every Friday at work. There was some interest to make these public. As I don't have any other place to put them I am just going to post them here.

Important disclaimer: inclusion of a link doesn't mean I agree with the content, it just means that I find it interesting. I do include a lot of links of Buffer and Basecamp, but I often disagree completely with their position.

So here it goes ...

What's Your Cultural Profile?
https://www.erinmeyer.com/self-assessment-questionnaire/

AppSignal Dashboard: Live updating insights
https://blog.appsignal.com/2018/07/05/appsignal-dashboard-live-updating-insights.html

My Lessons from Interviewing 400+ Engineers Over Three Startups
http://firstround.com/review/my-lessons-from-interviewing-400-engineers-over-three-startups/

Rands: Anti-Flow
http://randsinrepose.com/archives/anti-flow/

Webpacker Assets Demo
https://github.com/testdouble/webpacker-assets-demo#webpacker-assets-demo

Google weeps as its home state of California passes its own GDPR
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/06/29/california_data_privacy_law/

Data For Good Barcelona Meetup
https://www.meetup.com/Data-For-Good-Barcelona/

How We Set Goals in Tech at King
https://techblog.king.com/how-we-set-goals-in-tech-at-king/

Changing the change rules at Google
https://rework.withgoogle.com/blog/changing-the-change-rules-at-google/

Guido van Rossum resigns as Python leader
https://lwn.net/Articles/759654/rss

Fewer meetings courtesy of automated check-ins
https://wildbit.com/blog/2018/07/12/fewer-meetings-courtesy-of-automated-check-ins

Modeling User Journeys via Semantic Embeddings
https://codeascraft.com/2018/07/12/modeling-user-journey-via-semantic-embeddings/

The open-plan office is a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad idea
https://m.signalvnoise.com/the-open-plan-office-is-a-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-idea-42bd9cd294e3

How We Do Team Benefits As a Remote and International Company
https://open.buffer.com/benefits-remote-company/

Evolution of Application Data Caching : From RAM to SSD
https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/evolution-of-application-data-caching-from-ram-to-ssd-a33d6fa7a690

New – Lifecycle Management for Amazon EBS Snapshots
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-lifecycle-management-for-amazon-ebs-snapshots/