Friday Links

A new app to map and monitor the world's freshwater supply
https://www.blog.google/products/earth/new-app-map-and-monitor-worlds-freshwater-supply/

How to create the work schedule of your dreams
https://www.atlassian.com/blog/productivity/compressed-work-week-how-to

Building Spotify’s New Web Player
https://labs.spotify.com/2019/03/25/building-spotifys-new-web-player/

Mobile Jazz: Creativity Without Borders - A New Vision For Mobile Working
https://mobilejazz.com/company-handbook

New data tools from the Google News Initiative, built for publishers
https://www.blog.google/outreach-initiatives/google-news-initiative/new-data-tools-google-news-initiative-built-publishers/

Introducing Magic Dashboards
https://blog.appsignal.com/2019/03/27/magic-dashboards.html

Programmers Who Don't Understand Security Are Poor at Security
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/03/programmers_who.html

Take action and stay up-to-date with dynamic email in Gmail
https://www.blog.google/products/gmail/take-action-and-stay-up-to-date-with-dynamic-email-in-gmail/

Highlights from Slack’s March Growth Meetup
https://slack.engineering/highlights-from-slacks-march-growth-meetup-5686936ddc09

“Three-C's Revisited”
https://ronjeffries.com/articles/019-01ff/3cs-revisited/

Apple News+ Guide: Everything You Need to Know
https://www.macrumors.com/guide/apple-news-plus/

Simplicity, Please - A Manifesto for Software Development
https://www.infoq.com/articles/simplicity-manifesto-development

Friday Links

Let’s try dwm — dynamic window manger
https://fedoramagazine.org/lets-try-dwm-dynamic-window-manger/

MySpace lost all music uploaded from 2003 to 2015
https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/b2381s/myspace_lost_all_music_uploaded_from_2003_to_2015/

Year 1 of GDPR: Over 200,000 cases reported, firms fined €56 meeelli... Oh, that's mostly Google
https://www.theregister.co.uk/AMP/2019/03/14/more_than_200000_gdpr_cases_in_the_first_year_55m_in_fines/

AppSignal: Revamped dashboards!
https://blog.appsignal.com/2019/03/21/revamped-dashboards.html

The next chapter for GDPR compliance
https://www.atlassian.com/blog/platform/the-next-chapter-for-gdpr-compliance

International Docking Standard dot com
https://www.jwz.org/blog/2019/03/international-docking-standard-dot-com/

A scary side of ActiveRecord's find
https://blog.arkency.com/a-scary-side-of-activerecords-find/

Great minds don’t always think alike. Or, how to build a culture of respectful dissent
https://www.atlassian.com/blog/leadership/respectful-dissent

Friday Links

Announcing Bundler 2.0
https://bundler.io/blog/2019/01/03/announcing-bundler-2.html

Incremental Development
https://ronjeffries.com/articles/019-01ff/incremental/

Supporting people with disabilities: Be My Eyes and phone support now available 
https://www.blog.google/outreach-initiatives/accessibility/supporting-people-disabilities-be-my-eyes-and-phone-support-now-available/

How cognitive biases influence software development
https://www.atlassian.com/blog/add-ons/how-cognitive-biases-influence-software-development

Judging Facebook's Privacy Shift
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/03/judging_faceboo.html

Barcelona From Above
https://www.behance.net/gallery/74468471/BARCELONA-FROM-ABOVE

Basecamp outage: When it rains, it pours
https://m.signalvnoise.com/basecamp-outage-when-it-rains-it-pours/

How much would you pay for Apple News?
https://medium.com/enrique-dans/how-much-would-you-pay-for-apple-news-ce8d46949527

String of British firms switch over to four-day working week
https://theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/12/string-of-british-firms-switch-over-to-four-day-working-week

Can you describe what I'd need to do to buy a $50 book?
https://twitter.com/patio11/status/1103903715046486016
https://twitter.com/redman/status/1105479002808967169

New – Open Distro for Elasticsearch
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-open-distro-for-elasticsearch/

Microsoft proves the critics right: We’re heading toward a Chrome-only Web
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/03/microsofts-new-skype-for-web-client-an-early-taste-of-the-browser-monoculture/

How I accepted I'm an introvert – and learned to refuse invitations without guilt
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/mar/11/how-i-accepted-im-an-introvert-and-learned-to-refuse-invitations-without-guilt

Research-backed ways to be more productive at work
https://www.atlassian.com/blog/productivity/simple-ways-to-be-productive-at-work

What ITIL 4 means for you and your team
https://www.atlassian.com/blog/technology/what-the-new-itil-4-means-for-you-and-your-team

Towards Natural Language Semantic Code Search
https://github.blog/2018-09-18-towards-natural-language-semantic-code-search/

Quotes from 1992
https://apenwarr.ca/log/20190207

DARPA Is Developing an Open-Source Voting System
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/03/darpa_is_develo.html

The 3 most effective ways to build trust as a leader
https://m.signalvnoise.com/the-3-most-effective-ways-to-build-trust-as-a-leader/

Is pure agile right for IT?
https://www.atlassian.com/blog/technology/agile-it

Friday Links

How to evolve an engineering organization.
https://lethain.com/how-to-evolve-eng-org/

How is software developed at Amazon?
http://highscalability.com/blog/2019/3/4/how-is-software-developed-at-amazon.html

What happened to OpenStack?
https://aeva.online/2019/03/what-happened-to-openstack/

Google: Disclosing vulnerabilities to protect users across platforms
https://security.googleblog.com/2019/03/disclosing-vulnerabilities-to-protect.html

calc.exe is now open source; there’s surprising depth in its ancient code
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/03/calc-exe-is-now-open-source-theres-surprising-depth-in-its-ancient-code/

2019 Database Trends – SQL vs. NoSQL, Top Databases, Single vs. Multiple Database Use
http://highscalability.com/blog/2019/3/6/2019-database-trends-sql-vs-nosql-top-databases-single-vs-mu.html

Introducing a new JavaScript SEO video series
https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2019/03/introducing-new-javascript-seo-video.html

Standalone AppSignal Agent installation
https://docs.appsignal.com/standalone-agent/installation.html

StatsD in Standalone AppSignal Agent
https://docs.appsignal.com/standalone-agent/statsd.html

prince.gif
https://www.jwz.org/blog/2019/03/prince-gif/

Using Data GIF Maker to compare data and tell stories
https://www.blog.google/outreach-initiatives/google-news-initiative/using-data-gif-maker-compare-data-and-tell-stories/

Ruby's Hidden Gems, StringScanner
https://blog.appsignal.com/2019/03/05/stringscanner.html

Friday Links

What is Scrum?
https://www.scrum.org/resources/what-is-scrum

Monitoring MongoDB Replicaset Lag with AppSignal
https://blog.appsignal.com/2019/02/12/replica-set-lag-monitoring-with-appsignal.html

Hygiene Factors for Software Development
http://www.davefarley.net/?p=272

Why limiting work-in-progress works.
https://lethain.com/limiting-wip/

The future of software development is here
https://www.atlassian.com/software-development/practices

An Inside Look at the Backblaze Storage Pod Museum
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-storage-pod-museum/

On the Security of Password Managers
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/02/on_the_security_1.html

Paying the predictability tax.
https://lethain.com/predictability-tax/

Valuing already-solved problems.
 https://lethain.com/no-value/

Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For February 22nd, 2019 
http://highscalability.com/blog/2019/2/22/stuff-the-internet-says-on-scalability-for-february-22nd-201.html

Winning Systems & Security Practitioners 7. Attack Surface Reduction
https://blog.eutopian.io/winning-systems--security-practitioners-7.-attack-surface-reduction/

Zeitwerk integration in Rails 6 (Beta 2)
https://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2019/2/22/zeitwerk-integration-in-rails-6-beta-2/

Fixing attribute completion in Emacs nxml-mode
https://martinfowler.com/articles/emacs-nxml-completion.html

Kellan Elliot-McCrea – Transforming Organizational Culture at Etsy – CfA Summit (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a772VLZ4ot8&feature=youtu.be

Bjorn Freeman-Benson: Three Challenges of Distributed Teams
https://www.jamesshore.com/Blog/Three-Challenges-of-Distributed-Teams.html

Give Meaning to 100 Billion Events a Day — The Shift to Redshift 
http://highscalability.com/blog/2019/2/27/give-meaning-to-100-billion-events-a-day-the-shift-to-redshi.html

Conditions Are Power-Law Distributed: An Example
https://medium.com/@kentbeck_7670/conditions-are-power-law-distributed-an-example-61fa4e0d3500

Announcing domain-wide data in Search Console
https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2019/02/announcing-domain-wide-data-in-search.html

Estimates - a Twitter Thread
https://ronjeffries.com/articles/019-01ff/estim-twitter/

Gopher: a present for Redis
http://antirez.com/news/127

trunkbaseddevelopment.com
https://trunkbaseddevelopment.com/

Frink
https://frinklang.org/

Should You Call Your Teammates “Family”?
https://open.buffer.com/should-you-call-your-team-a-family/