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