Nearly Friday Links

Article review: "The Hard Truth About Innovative Cultures"
https://paulmck.livejournal.com/52490.html
https://hbr.org/2019/01/the-hard-truth-about-innovative-cultures

Kickoffs!
https://m.signalvnoise.com/kickoffs/

Making Gmail on mobile better for you
https://www.blog.google/products/gmail/making-gmail-on-mobile-better-for-you/

Protect your work life balance – take a real sick day
https://www.atlassian.com/blog/productivity/take-real-sick-days-work-life-balance

Microsoft decides Internet Explorer 10 has had its fun: Termination set for January 2020
https://www.theregister.co.uk/AMP/2019/01/29/microsoft_internet_explorer_10/

On Being A Principal Engineer
https://blog.dbsmasher.com/2019/01/28/on-being-a-principal-engineer.html

Growing with your company's complexity.
https://lethain.com/growing-with-your-company/

An update on our work to prevent abuse ahead of the EU elections
https://www.blog.google/around-the-globe/google-europe/update-our-work-prevent-abuse-ahead-eu-elections/

An instrumental intro to GraphQL with Ruby
https://blog.appsignal.com/2019/01/29/graphql.html

Meeting people.
https://lethain.com/meeting-people/

GitLab Alumni Program (Gitlab Offboarding)
https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/offboarding/#gitlab-alumni-program

Focusing on the new Search Console
https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2019/01/focusing-on-new-search-console.html

Yesterday’s mass-login attack on Basecamp is another reminder to protect yourself
https://m.signalvnoise.com/yesterdays-mass-login-attack-on-basecamp-is-another-reminder-to-protect-yourself/

How to deal with a micromanaging boss
https://m.signalvnoise.com/how-to-deal-with-a-micromanaging-boss/

Richer interactivity in Data Studio
https://www.blog.google/products/marketingplatform/analytics/2019-richer-interactivity-data-studio/

Can Side Projects Boost Tech Developers' Performance? 12 Experts Weigh In
https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2019/01/15/can-side-projects-boost-tech-developers-performance-12-experts-weigh-in/#79a298f73c3c

Friday Links

Metrics for the unmeasurable.
https://lethain.com/metrics-for-the-unmeasurable/

How to Get Buy in at Work: a Step by Step Guide
https://getlighthouse.com/blog/get-buy-in-at-work-how-to/


Putting on some wait
https://m.signalvnoise.com/putting-on-some-wait/

Rails 6.0.0 beta1: Action Mailbox, Action Text, Multiple DBs, Parallel Testing, Webpacker by default
https://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2019/1/18/Rails-6-0-Action-Mailbox-Action-Text-Multiple-DBs-Parallel-Testing/

Schneier: Evaluating the GCHQ Exceptional Access Proposal
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/01/evaluating_the_.html

10 Ways to Build More Value Into Your Product
https://productcoalition.com/how-your-customers-think-of-product-value-51d80f78305f

Work From Home – in Vermont!
https://oduinn.com/2019/01/21/work-from-home-in-vermont/

Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2018
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-stats-for-2018/

Why are companies scared to hire “junior” people?
https://uxplanet.org/why-are-companies-scared-to-hire-junior-people-676a3463e5b3

I miss LiveJournal.
https://www.jwz.org/blog/2019/01/i-miss-livejournal/

On Sizing Your Engineering Organizations
https://kellanem.com/notes/on-team-size

DNS flag day
https://dnsflagday.net/

Our Software Dependency Problem
https://research.swtch.com/deps

Turns out your standing desk isn't solving your sitting problem
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/standing-desk-benefits

Research shows productive teams do these 3 things
https://www.atlassian.com/blog/teamwork/team-productivity-tips-and-research

Wow, fancy that. Web ad giant Google to block ad-blockers in Chrome. For safety, apparently
https://www.theregister.co.uk/AMP/2019/01/22/google_chrome_browser_ad_content_block_change/

Google will start retiring Hangouts for G Suite users in Octobe
https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/22/google-will-start-retiring-hangouts-for-g-suite-users-in-october/amp/

Co-Parenting the Baby: When the VP Engineering Joins a Startup
https://medium.com/coaching-notes/co-parenting-the-baby-when-the-vp-engineering-joins-a-startup-eba3ce85120

The State of the Octoverse: Machine Learning
https://github.blog/2019-01-24-the-state-of-the-octoverse-machine-learning/

AWS: New – TLS Termination for Network Load Balancers
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-tls-termination-for-network-load-balancers/

NES.css
https://nostalgic-css.github.io/NES.css/

Friday Links

From Vision to Values: The Importance of Defining Your Core https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20121029044359-22330283-to-manage-hyper-growth-get-your-launch-trajectory-right/

WebMSX, or simply WMSX, is a new cross platform MSX emulator designed for the Web.
https://webmsx.org/


Dawn of the Second Epoch
https://www.jwz.org/blog/2019/01/dawn-of-the-second-epoch/

Approaching the kernel year-2038 end game
https://lwn.net/Articles/776435/rss

IKEA has an ingenious plan to dominate the smart home market
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/why-ikeas-perfectly-positioned-to-own-the-smart-home

The State of Meetings 2019
https://en.blog.doodle.com/state-of-meetings-2019/

Field notes: London, England
https://devonzuegel.com/post/field-notes-london-england

Jack Dorsey Has No Clue What He Wants
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jack-dorsey-twitter-interview_us_5c3e2601e4b01c93e00e2a00?guccounter=1

Google raises G Suite prices across the world
https://www.itproportal.com/news/google-raises-g-suite-prices-across-the-world/

Ways to succeed in Google News
https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2019/01/ways-to-succeed-in-google-news.html

Largest collection ever of breached data found
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jan/17/breached-data-largest-collection-ever-seen-email-password-hacking

AWS Backup – Automate and Centrally Manage Your Backups
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-backup-automate-and-centrally-manage-your-backups/

Friday Links

Timeline for the release of Rails 6.0  
https://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2018/12/20/timeline-for-the-release-of-Rails-6-0/

To stop terror content online, tech companies need to work together
https://www.blog.google/outreach-initiatives/public-policy/stop-terror-content-online-tech-companies-need-work-together/

Thank You For Smoking
https://www.jwz.org/blog/2018/12/thank-you-for-smoking/


What Is Glitter? A strange journey to the glitter factory.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/21/style/glitter-factory.html

How the Koch Brothers Are Killing Public Transit Projects Around the Country
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/19/climate/koch-brothers-public-transit.html

The Firecracker virtual machine monitor
https://lwn.net/Articles/775736

So, You Want to be an Engineering Manager
https://zef.me/so-you-want-to-be-an-engineering-manager-bcddaf302938

365 IETF RFCs: a 50th anniversary dive
https://write.as/365-rfcs/365-ietf-rfcs-a-50th-anniversary-dive

Some delightful developer experiences in 2019.
https://lethain.com/examples-delightful-developer-experiences/

6 types of meetings that are actually worthwhile
https://www.atlassian.com/blog/teamwork/types-of-meetings

How I use GIST to plan my life
https://productcoalition.com/how-i-use-gist-for-personal-planning-3988230bb3e1

Machine Learning to Detect Software Vulnerabilities
 https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/01/machine_learnin.html

Unlimited private repositories now available to free GitHub users
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/01/free-github-accounts-now-offer-private-repos/

Remote Team Meetups: Here’s What Works For Us
https://open.buffer.com/remote-team-meetups/

Why Diversity Is Important to Etsy
https://codeascraft.com/2019/01/07/why-diversity-is-important-to-etsy/

Revitalize your retrospectives with these fresh techniques
https://www.atlassian.com/blog/teamwork/revitalize-retrospectives-fresh-techniques

Hound: ERB Lint
http://help.houndci.com/configuration/erb-lint

New – Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB Compatibility): Fast, Scalable, and Highly Available
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-documentdb-with-mongodb-compatibility-fast-scalable-and-highly-available/

A new free-software forge: sr.ht
https://lwn.net/Articles/775963

The M-Word
https://zef.me/the-m-word-61d374ac8947

Bash 5.0 released
https://lwn.net/Articles/776223/rss