Friday Links

Feature toggle life time – best practiceshttps://www.unleash-hosted.com/articles/feature-toggle-life-time-best-practices

How to be an effective leader, according to Googlehttps://www.atlassian.com/blog/leadership/qualities-of-an-effective-leader

Slacking on securityhttps://www.jwz.org/blog/2019/07/slacking-on-security/

New information about Slack’s 2015 security incidenthttps://slackhq.com/new-information-2015-incident

Taming the ‘Fear of Missing Out’: How We Create a Retreat-From-Home Experience For Those Who Can’t Make Ithttps://open.buffer.com/retreat-from-home/

When a rewrite isn’t: rebuilding Slack on the desktop
https://slack.engineering/rebuilding-slack-on-the-desktop-308d6fe94ae4

10x Managers Supermanagers
https://www.fellow.app/blog/2019/10x-managers-supermanagers/

Spidey-Sense
https://randsinrepose.com/archives/spidey-sense/

Is Trump Still President (As A Service)
https://istrumpstillpresident.io/

Google for Nigeria: making our products more helpful to more people
https://www.blog.google/around-the-globe/google-africa/google-nigeria/

AWS launches a new tool to help you optimize your EC2 resources
https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/23/aws-launches-a-new-tool-to-help-you-optimize-your-ec2-resources/

Introducing Fedora CoreOS
https://fedoramagazine.org/introducing-fedora-coreos/

Test && Commit || Revert (TCR)
https://www.davidtanzer.net/david's%20blog/2019/03/06/test-commit-revert.html

Attorney General William Barr on Encryption Policy
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/07/attorney_genera_1.html

Asynchronous State Replication
https://tech.xing.com/asynchronous-state-replication-9e504aeac0de

Science and Software Development
http://www.davefarley.net/?p=278

Software Developers and Security
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/07/software_develo.html

AWS gets a chatbot
https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/25/aws-gets-a-chatbot/

Product Teams Need More Than Traditional Analytics
https://amplitude.com/blog/beyond-traditional-analytics

Feedback Timeliness
https://avivbenyosef.com/feedback-timeliness/

Podcasts

Hire When It Hurts
https://pca.st/T846

What Do Nancy Pelosi, Taylor Swift, and Serena Williams Have in Common?
https://pca.st/F7kY

Frederick Douglass (Summer Repeat)
https://pca.st/5Gs5

Shape Up with Ryan Singer
https://pca.st/i7sJ

Friday Links

5 Steps to Become More Comfortable Using Data
https://amplitude.com/blog/5-steps-to-become-more-comfortable-using-data

Managing technical debt
https://18f.gsa.gov/2015/10/05/managing-technical-debt/

What is technical debt?
https://18f.gsa.gov/2015/09/04/what-is-technical-debt/

It can’t be left to Europe’s cities to clean up noxious air
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jul/12/europe-toxic-air-madrid?CMP=share_btn_tw

Working Fast and Slow
https://hackernoon.com/working-fast-and-slow-efc3c48dae31

Am I micromanaging my team?
https://m.signalvnoise.com/am-i-micromanaging-my-team/

How we keep Search relevant and useful
https://www.blog.google/products/search/how-we-keep-google-search-relevant-and-useful/

JavaScript Iterators and Iterables
https://blog.appsignal.com/2019/07/16/javascript-iterators-and-iterables.html

Who's afraid of a big bad optimizing compiler?
https://lwn.net/Articles/793253/

What is Silverblue?
https://fedoramagazine.org/what-is-silverblue/

Two Years Ago, We Started Building a Product that Now Earns Over $500,000. Here’s How We Did it.
https://open.buffer.com/buffer-analyze-journey/

Zoom Vulnerability
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/07/zoom_vulnerabil.html

Google's Project Dragonfly 'terminated' in China
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-49015516

Code Review: Create The Culture, Learn The Best Practices
https://codingsans.com/blog/code-review

Protecting private browsing in Chrome
https://www.blog.google/outreach-initiatives/google-news-initiative/protecting-private-browsing-chrome/

What you should really measure in your annual performance reviews (and why)
https://www.atlassian.com/blog/hr-teams/our-performance-reviews-framework

Podcasts

Facebook Engineering Culture with Raylene Yung
https://pca.st/4j8C

An Elegant Puzzle, Part 1 with Will Larson
https://pca.st/1H4c

Facebook PHP with Keith Adams
https://pca.st/u36n

Germany’s climate change frontline
https://pca.st/4L79

Friday Links

It’s high time to rewrite the hiring script
https://m.signalvnoise.com/its-high-time-to-rewrite-the-hiring-script/

Drowning in a Fountain of Knowledge
https://avivbenyosef.com/drowning-in-a-fountain-of-knowledge/

PM “Responsibilities” ?
https://medium.com/@johnpcutler/pm-responsibilities-75c4ac9dbb95

Applied Cryptography is Banned in Oregon Prisons
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/07/applied_cryptog_2.html

The hardest leadership advice to follow
https://m.signalvnoise.com/the-hardest-leadership-advice-to-follow/

Expediting Data Fixes and Data Migrations
https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog/2019/expediting-data-fixes-migrations

Bug bounties and NDAs are an option, not the standard
https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/52432.html

RFC-115 Some Network Information Center Policies on Handling Documents
https://write.as/365-rfcs/rfc-115

Announcing Docsy: A Website Theme for Technical Documentation
https://opensource.googleblog.com/2019/07/announcing-docsy-website-theme-for.html

Announcing “Shape Up”, a deep dive into how we work
https://m.signalvnoise.com/announcing-shape-up-a-deep-dive-into-how-we-work/

Leverage? No thank you.
https://m.signalvnoise.com/leverage-no-thank-you/

Infinite work is less work
http://blogs.perl.org/users/damian_conway/2019/07/infinite-work-is-less-work.html

Skyscanner and AWS: cloudy, with a chance of lessons learnt
https://medium.com/@SkyscannerEng/skyscanner-and-aws-cloudy-with-a-chance-of-lessons-learnt-e5b8b70b0d2e

Podcasts

The Open Office
https://pca.st/3FkS

Batteries - are they ethical, recyclable and sustainable?
https://pca.st/HL84

The One About Management (Pt. 1)
https://pca.st/lYN6

The sea captain facing jail after saving the lives of refugees
https://pca.st/a69L

Abortion and Crime, Revisited
https://pca.st/29o9

Friday Links

GOTCHA: Taking phishing to a whole new level
https://medium.com/intigriti/gotcha-taking-phishing-to-a-whole-new-level-72eda9e30bef

Which smart bulbs should you buy (from a security perspective)
https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/51910.html

FreeDOS turns 25 years old: An origin story
https://opensource.com/article/19/6/freedos-anniversary

How to speak Silicon Valley: 53 essential tech-bro terms explaine
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/26/how-to-speak-silicon-valley-decoding-tech-bros-from-microdosing-to-privacy

Creating a career ladder for engineers - Marco Rogers
https://youtu.be/jA1Q94d2z10

Formalizing the Robots Exclusion Protocol Specification
https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2019/07/rep-id.html

Google's robots.txt parser is now open source
https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2019/07/repp-oss.html

A note on unsupported rules in robots.txt
https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2019/07/a-note-on-unsupported-rules-in-robotstxt.html

Get to insights quicker with Data Studio's new home page
https://www.blog.google/products/marketingplatform/analytics/get-insights-quicker-data-studios-new-home-page/

Google tweaked algorithm after rise in US shootings
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jul/02/google-tweaked-algorithm-after-rise-in-us-shootings

Brewing our own Template Lexer in Ruby
https://blog.appsignal.com/2019/07/02/ruby-magic-brewing-our-own-template-lexer-in-ruby.html

Els Mossos i l'Institut Cartogràfic presenten un visor amb dades delinqüencials de Catalunya
https://govern.cat/salapremsa/notes-premsa/367724/mossos-institut-cartografic-presenten-visor-dades-delinquencials-catalunya
https://visors.icgc.cat/mapa-delinquencial/#7.55/41.602/1.239
https://github.com/gencat/ICGC-mapa-delinquencial

C# or Java? TypeScript or JavaScript? Machine learning based classification of programming languages
https://github.blog/2019-07-02-c-or-java-typescript-or-javascript-machine-learning-based-classification-of-programming-languages/

“Testing” Structure Changes
https://medium.com/@kentbeck_7670/testing-structure-changes-d8d01f65b64e

Curiosity as a Service — Literally
https://medium.com/@kentbeck_7670/curiosity-as-a-service-literally-1f4f6309fae5

US Journalist Detained When Returning to US
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/07/us_journalist_d.html

Podcasts

How to Change Your Mind
https://pca.st/BT9d

Interview with Camille Fournier, Managing Director of Two Sigma, and Author of The Manager's Path
https://pca.st/1k5T

What oil companies knew: the great climate cover-up
https://pca.st/24Cc

Reply All #144 Dark Pattern
https://pca.st/u73B

A History of Music and Technology
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w27vq4h7