Friday, May 31, 2019

Friday Links

GitHub: Configuring automated security fixes
https://help.github.com/en/articles/configuring-automated-security-fixes

Is High Quality Software Worth the Cost?
https://martinfowler.com/articles/is-quality-worth-cost.html

New Data Studio Developer Tools Make Building Connectors and Viz Easier
https://www.blog.google/products/marketingplatform/analytics/new-data-studio-developer-tools-make-building-connectors-and-viz-easier/

Not All Developing Nations Are Created Equal
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-05-28/not-all-developing-nations-are-created-equal

The 6 Lessons We’ve Learned About Product Marketing at a Startup
https://open.buffer.com/product-marketing/

Why Don’t They Trust Us?
https://hackernoon.com/why-dont-they-trust-us-9d942338d848

Wil Wheaton: “I’m full.”
http://wilwheaton.net/2019/05/im-full/

Failure KPIs
https://theagiledirector.com/article/2015/12/31/failure-kpis/

How to build a company culture that will last
https://www.atlassian.com/blog/teamwork/what-is-company-culture

Quick note: Friday wins and a case study in ritual design
https://kellanem.com/notes/friday-wins

Early Customer Feedback Fallacies
https://www.mikebz.com/2019/05/early-customer-feedback-fallacies.html

An Exercise Program for the Fat Web
https://blog.codinghorror.com/an-exercise-program-for-the-fat-web/

Understanding Fake Agile
https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2019/05/23/understanding-fake-agile/#3c9f53354bbe

JWZ: Hi, welcome to my TED talk
https://www.jwz.org/blog/2019/05/hi-welcome-to-my-ted-talk/

Overly Attached
https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3335594

A Full Life
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613349/a-full-life/

Friday, May 24, 2019

Frdiay Links

GitHub launches Sponsors, lets you pay your favorite open-source contributors
https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/23/github-launches-sponsors-lets-you-pay-your-favorite-open-source-contributors/amp/

Tag Manager: Introducing Custom Templates
https://www.blog.google/products/marketingplatform/analytics/tag-manager-introducing-custom-templates/

3 reasons you fail at communication in the workplace and how to improve
https://www.atlassian.com/blog/teamwork/how-to-improve-communication-in-the-workplace

Improving a session cookie
https://rjp.is/blogging/posts/session-cookies/

Structured data and Google
https://www.brucelawson.co.uk/2019/structured-data-and-google/

Let's talk about procrastination
https://wildbit.com/blog/2019/05/21/lets-talk-about-procrastination

Kent Beck: SB Changes
https://medium.com/@kentbeck_7670/bs-changes-e574bc396aaa

Fowler: TechnicalDebt
https://martinfowler.com/bliki/TechnicalDebt.html

4 reasons your marketing team needs a new approach
https://www.atlassian.com/blog/confluence/ultimate-guide-for-marketing-teams

Uber, Lyft drivers manipulate fares at Reagan National causing artificial price surges
https://wjla.com/news/local/uber-and-lyft-drivers-fares-at-reagan-national

5 Ways Your Company May Be Misusing OKRs
https://medium.com/@itamargilad/5-ways-your-company-may-be-misusing-okrs-3d5cdb22aa4e

Uber Data Reveals Motoring Slower Than Walking In Many Cities
https://www.forbes.com/sites/carltonreid/2019/05/22/uber-data-reveals-motoring-slower-than-walking-in-many-cities/#cdb094716fb2

Keyur Govande - Migrating a Monolith to the Cloud
https://youtu.be/6UlgP9RgJ-M

Podcasts

Masters a t Scale: Open or closed? The answer is both—w/Joi Ito, MIT Media Lab Director
https://pca.st/1p7f

Rands: The One About Flow and Anti-Flow
https://pca.st/7jy7

Rework: Know Your Team
https://pca.st/eStB


Friday, May 17, 2019

Friday Links

The Metrics of Backpacks
https://www.artpractical.com/column/the-metrics-of-backpacks/

Stop Playing Tetris (With Teams, Sprints, Projects, and Individuals)
https://medium.com/@johnpcutler/stop-playing-tetris-with-teams-sprints-projects-and-individuals-b1e4ed6d8bc0

Quit Planning Ahead and Keeping People Busy
https://medium.com/@johnpcutler/quit-planning-ahead-and-keeping-people-busy-937e74d5a1fb

The Empty Promise of Data Moats
https://a16z.com/2019/05/09/data-network-effects-moats/

Object Detection with 10 lines of code
https://towardsdatascience.com/object-detection-with-10-lines-of-code-d6cb4d86f606

How to Move Beyond a Monolithic Data Lake to a Distributed Data Mesh
https://martinfowler.com/articles/data-monolith-to-mesh.html


The Seven Areas Of Software Management
https://medium.com/@inowland/the-seven-areas-of-software-management-be89d213ea7


How To Grow as An Engineering Manager in 7 Steps
https://medium.com/@inowland/how-to-grow-as-an-engineering-manager-in-7-steps-a1bf4dcf5e78

The importance of teamwork (as proven by science)
https://www.atlassian.com/blog/teamwork/the-importance-of-teamwork

An MDS reading list
https://lwn.net/Articles/788522/
https://lwn.net/Articles/788381/
https://thenextweb.com/security/2019/05/14/bitdefender-researchers-discover-terrifying-security-vulnerability-in-intel-cpus/

Advisory: Security Issue with Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) Titan Security Keys
https://security.googleblog.com/2019/05/titan-keys-update.html

How to Use Learning Milestones
https://medium.com/@itamargilad/how-to-use-learning-milestones-deb9c96c30d

PHP in 2019
https://stitcher.io/blog/php-in-2019

The future of Docker containers
https://lwn.net/Articles/788282/

The International Spy Museum has reopened in Washington, DC.
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/05/international_s.html

El Govern declara formalment l’emergència climĂ tica
http://web.gencat.cat/ca/actualitat/reportatges/acords-de-govern/

Don’t Visit Your Doctor in the Afternoon
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/14/opinion/dont-visit-your-doctor-in-the-afternoon.html

The safest way to disagree with your boss on behalf of your team (or yourself)
https://patrickfigures.com/the-safest-way-to-disagree-with-your-boss-on-behalf-of-your-team-or-yourself/

Friday, May 10, 2019

Friday Links

The agile guide to winning at team development
https://www.atlassian.com/blog/teamwork/navigate-tuckman-stages-of-team-development

Inside the Team at Facebook That Dealt with the Christchurch Shooting
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/inside-the-team-at-facebook-that-dealt-with-the-christchurch-shooting

A Conspiracy To Kill IE6
http://blog.chriszacharias.com/a-conspiracy-to-kill-ie6

Guardian breaks even helped by success of supporter strategy
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/may/01/guardian-breaks-even-helped-by-success-of-supporter-strategy

Stripe’s fifth engineering hub is Remote
https://stripe.com/fr/blog/remote-hub

Cocktail Robotics Grand Challenge with Jim Sweeney 7/15/2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZ4qKkav0ns

Windows 10 will soon ship with a full, open source, GPLed Linux kernel
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/05/windows-10-will-soon-ship-with-a-full-open-source-gpled-linux-kernel/

The Atlas of Inequality
https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/the-atlas-of-inequality/overview/

The Power of the Pause: Introducing Sabbaticals at Buffer
https://open.buffer.com/sabbaticals/

Beautiful Interactive Map of Barcelona Digs Into Rich Architectural History
https://www.wired.com/2014/04/interactive-map-barcelona-history/

The making of Amazon Prime, the internet’s most successful and devastating membership program
https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/5/3/18511544/amazon-prime-oral-history-jeff-bezos-one-day-shipping

How Well Can You Hear Audio Quality?
https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2015/06/02/411473508/how-well-can-you-hear-audio-quality?t=1557004995912&t=1557222073102

Memory management for 400Gb/s interfaces
https://lwn.net/Articles/787754/

Inheritance versus composition
https://lwn.net/Articles/787800/

New in structured data: FAQ and How-to
https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2019/05/new-in-structured-data-faq-and-how-to.html

This software developer is using AI to imagine a more natural, car-free world
https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/7/18534538/ai-neural-net-car-free-biophilia-chris-harris

What’s next for Google Maps Platform
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/maps-platform/whats-next-for-google-maps-platform

The new evergreen Googlebot
https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2019/05/the-new-evergreen-googlebot.html

The Update, The Vent, and The Disaster
http://randsinrepose.com/archives/the-update-the-vent-and-the-disaster/

The Health Check Survey
https://buildingvts.com/the-health-check-survey-20ef1052f40a

The Certainty Trap
https://amplitude.com/blog/the-certainty-trap-product-development

In their own words: How open is too open?
https://www.atlassian.com/blog/teamwork/balancing-internal-transparency

Count ‘em up: 100 things we announced at I/O ‘19
https://www.blog.google/technology/developers/100-things-we-announced-io-19/

Books that Changed Everything: “Thank You for Arguing”
https://zef.me/books-that-changed-everything-thank-you-for-arguing-3da02f88fec7


OPP (Other People’s Problems)
https://medium.com/@skamille/opp-other-peoples-problems-d7eb174724ee


Friday, May 03, 2019

Friday Links

Why Did a YouTube Bot Make an Unwatched Video of Our Blog Post?
https://hmmdaily.com/2019/04/25/why-did-a-youtube-bot-make-an-unwatched-video-of-our-blog-post/

Facebook’s highly-accurate Africa population maps are available for free download
https://geoawesomeness.com/facebooks-highly-accurate-africa-population-maps-are-available-for-free-download/

Ruby's Hidden Gems: Delegator and Forwardable
https://blog.appsignal.com/2019/04/30/ruby-magic-hidden-gems-delegator-forwardable.html

Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q1 2019
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-hard-drive-stats-q1-2019/

Engineering a Studio Quality Experience With High-Quality Audio at Netflix
https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/engineering-a-studio-quality-experience-with-high-quality-audio-at-netflix-eaa0b6145f32

Introducing auto-delete controls for your Location History and activity data
https://www.blog.google/technology/safety-security/automatically-delete-data/

How the Best Tech Companies Run Growth Experiments
https://labs.openviewpartners.com/how-the-best-tech-companies-run-growth-experiments/#.XMoTfXzRaf0

The 5 Whys of Organizational Design.
https://kellanem.com/notes/whys-of-organizational-design

Co-Responsibility Is No Responsibility
https://avivbenyosef.com/co-responsibility-is-no-responsibility/

Monitoring structured data with Search Console
https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2019/05/monitoring-structured-data-with-search-console.html