Friday Links

Saying no.https://lethain.com/saying-no/

#to_s or #to_str? Explicitly casting vs. implicitly coercing types in Rubyhttps://blog.appsignal.com/2018/09/25/explicitly-casting-vs-implicitly-coercing-types-in-ruby.html

How Bosses Waste Their Employees’ Timehttps://www.wsj.com/articles/how-bosses-waste-their-employees-time-1534126140

Dali Clock Emularityhttps://www.jwz.org/blog/2018/09/dali-clock-emularity/

How Etsy Localizes Addresseshttps://codeascraft.com/2018/09/26/how-etsy-localizes-addresses/

The kernel's code of conduct, one week later [LWN subscriber-only content]https://lwn.net/Articles/766699/

10 things I learned from Jason Fried about Building Productshttps://uxplanet.org/10-things-i-learned-from-jason-fried-about-building-products-5b6694ff02aa

Win at quarterly planning by avoiding these OKRs mistakeshttps://www.atlassian.com/blog/teamwork/how-to-avoid-common-okrs-mistakes

A sysadmin's guide to containershttps://opensource.com/article/18/8/sysadmins-guide-containers

#noprojects - A Culture of Continuous Value https://www.infoq.com/minibooks/noprojects-value-culture

GitHub: Stricter validation coming soon in the REST API https://developer.github.com/changes/2018-09-25-stricter-validation-coming-soon-in-the-rest-api/

Inside Google’s original garage, 1998-stylehttps://www.blog.google/products/maps/inside-googles-original-garage-1998-style/

5 cool tiling window managershttps://fedoramagazine.org/5-cool-tiling-window-managers/

How a Google.org grantee is testing new approaches to global aidhttps://www.blog.google/outreach-initiatives/google-org/givedirectly-research-update/

T-shaped knowledge is hokum https://tinnedfruit.com/list/20180925

Linus Torvalds: 'I'll never be cuddly but I can be more polite'https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-45664640