Holiday Friday Links

500 Atlassians worked remotely for a week – here’s what we learned 
https://www.atlassian.com/bloginside-atlassian/working-from-home-tips

Ultimate Hacking Keyboard
http://xahlee.info/kbd/ultimate_hacking_keyboard.html

On a Scale of 1-10: Why Tracking Your Team’s Satisfaction Matters
https://open.buffer.com/measuring-employee-satisfaction/

The Silver Bullet Romantic
https://zef.me/the-silver-bullet-romantic-8b6278137f3d

Getting started with the AWS Cloud Development Kit for Amazon ECS
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/getting-started-with-the-aws-cloud-development-kit-for-amazon-ecs/

The practical value of semantic HTML
https://www.brucelawson.co.uk/2018/the-practical-value-of-semantic-html/

AppSignal: Ruby gem 2.8: Container memory & JRuby on Alpine Linux support
https://blog.appsignal.com/2018/12/20/ruby-gem-2-8.html

Introducing the Data Studio Community Visualizations Developer Preview
https://www.blog.google/products/marketingplatform/analytics/introducing-data-studio-community-visualizations-developer-preview/

A "First Step" towards criminal justice reform
https://www.blog.google/outreach-initiatives/public-policy/first-step-towards-criminal-justice-reform/

Friday Links

From zero to a million users: how to quickly grow a successful tech team
https://medium.com/@albertobeta/from-zero-to-a-million-users-how-to-quickly-grow-a-successful-tech-team-6ea8464437c2

Expediting changes to Google+
https://www.blog.google/technology/safety-security/expediting-changes-google-plus/

JWZ: Pete Shelley, screensaver and demoscene pioneer
https://www.jwz.org/blog/2018/12/pete-shelley-screensaver-and-demoscene-pioneer/

Reducing gender bias in Google Translate
https://www.blog.google/products/translate/reducing-gender-bias-google-translate/

Our learnings from adopting GraphQL
https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/our-learnings-from-adopting-graphql-f099de39ae5f

The latest on Messages, Allo, Duo and Hangouts
https://www.blog.google/products/messages/latest-messages-allo-duo-and-hangouts/

Make sure Google can see lazy-loaded content
https://developers.google.com/search/docs/guides/lazy-loading

How to Surface Open Source Copyright Notices and License Texts in a Phone App
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFjouycdkFI

Imagining new ways to learn Morse code’s dots and dashes
https://www.blog.google/outreach-initiatives/accessibility/imagining-new-ways-learn-morse-codes-dots-and-dashes/

Microsoft is building its own Chrome browser to replace Edge
https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2018/12/4/18125238/microsoft-chrome-browser-windows-10-edge-chromium

Bad Consumer Security Advice
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/12/bad_consumer_se.html

Jason Evanish: CEO & Founder of Lighthouse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ku9jvt_kugw

Designing Work for Introverts
https://nobl.io/leadership-resources/2017/introverts-at-work

Continuous Improvement vs. Big Launch Mentality: Which is Better for Product Marketing?
https://open.buffer.com/marketing-product-launches/

Coupling in Programming: What This Means and How Not to Get Burned
https://blog.ndepend.com/programming-coupling/

Big news: Know Your Company is now Know Your Team
https://knowyourteam.com/blog/2018/12/04/big-news-know-your-company-is-now-know-your-team/

Google Image best practices
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/114016

How ShiftLeft Uses PostgreSQL Extension TimescaleDB
http://highscalability.com/blog/2018/12/5/how-shiftleft-uses-postgresql-extension-timescaledb.html

I ran a ludicrously complex engineering project (and survived)
https://www.atlassian.com/blogtechnology/software-engineering-principles-massive-projects

194 years of downtime: looking back on incident data from 2018
https://www.atlassian.com/blogstatuspage/annual-downtime-report

Serverless Slack bot on Lambda with Ruby (and what’s the less pleasant part about it)
https://blog.arkency.com/our-slack-bot-now-on-lambda-with-ruby/

Introducing Action Mailbox for Rails 6 
https://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2018/12/13/introducing-action-mailbox-for-rails-6/

Migrations: the sole scalable fix to tech debt.
https://lethain.com/migrations/
https://lethain.com/qcon-sf-migrations-video/

Why Managers Should Reveal Their Failures
https://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/why-managers-should-publicize-their-failures

Babies, books, and more: Buffer’s 2018 in numbers
https://open.buffer.com/2018-in-numbers/

Find your next agile conference!
http://www.agileconferences.info/

New Australian Backdoor Law
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/12/new_australian_.html

Modernizing the Web Playback UI
https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/modernizing-the-web-playback-ui-1ad2f184a5a0