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/