Friday Links

Meet Yabeda: A Ruby instrumentation framework
https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/meet-yabeda-modular-framework-for-instrumenting-ruby-applications

Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q2 2019
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-stats-q2-2019/

Code as Craft: Understand the role of Style in e-commerce shopping
https://codeascraft.com/2019/08/02/code-as-craft-understand-the-role-of-style-at-e-commerce-shopping/

How We Think About Time Off As a Global Team
https://open.buffer.com/time-off-global-team/

Big Ball of Mud
http://www.laputan.org/mud/

On Paper; Or: how not to look like a dick in meetings
https://zef.me/on-paper-782b4c0f1078

California farmers are planting solar panels as water supplies dry up
https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-agriculture-farmlands-solar-power-20190703-story.html

Building a First Team Mindset
https://www.attack-gecko.net/2018/06/25/building-a-first-team-mindset/

Hosting a Paper Reading Group
https://lethain.com/hosting-paper-reading-group/

More on Backdooring (or Not) WhatsApp
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/08/more_on_backdoo.html

Reclaim unreasonable software.
https://lethain.com/reclaim-unreasonable-software/

A lesson in agile: How one team ended dependency delays
https://techbeacon.com/app-dev-testing/lesson-agile-how-one-team-ended-dependency-delays

Management Area 4: People, Part 1 — Understanding Motivations
https://medium.com/@inowland/management-area-4-people-part-1-understanding-motivations-35beea0a8a52

SOLID Design: The Single Responsibility Principle (SRP)
https://blog.ndepend.com/solid-design-the-single-responsibility-principle-srp/

Linux Journal ceases publication
https://lwn.net/Articles/795686/

How We Keep Learning
https://blog.dbsmasher.com/2019/08/08/how-we-keep-learning.html

Gesture Navigation: A Backstory
https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2019/08/gesture-navigation-backstory.html

GitHub Actions now supports CI/CD, free for public repositories
https://github.blog/2019-08-08-github-actions-now-supports-ci-cd/

Friday Links

GNOME and KDE to co-host the Linux App Summit in November
https://lwn.net/Articles/795116/

What webmasters should know about Google’s “core updates”
https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2019/08/core-updates.html

Disasterpiece Theater: Slack’s process for approachable Chaos Engineering
https://slack.engineering/disasterpiece-theater-slacks-process-for-approachable-chaos-engineering-3434422afb54

Facebook Plans on Backdooring WhatsApp
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/08/facebook_plans_.html

Inspection without adaptation is pointless in Scrum
https://medium.com/@ullizee/inspection-without-adaptation-is-pointless-in-scrum-492679711bf6

The Ethics of Web Performance
https://timkadlec.com/remembers/2019-01-09-the-ethics-of-performance/

Square’s Growth Framework for Engineers and Engineering Managers
https://developer.squareup.com/blog/squares-growth-framework-for-engineers-and-engineering-managers/

The Management Bit
https://avivbenyosef.com/the-management-bit/

A new way to unify app and website measurement in Google Analytics
https://www.blog.google/products/marketingplatform/analytics/new-way-unify-app-and-website-measurement-google-analytics/

Work/life/Skyscanner: Stephen Hailey, full stack engineer
https://medium.com/@SkyscannerEng/work-life-skyscanner-stephen-hailey-full-stack-engineer-21d292c5e013

An Introduction to Structured Data at Etsy
https://codeascraft.com/2019/07/31/an-introduction-to-structured-data-at-etsy/

Fast and flexible observability with canonical log lines
https://stripe.com/fr/blog/canonical-log-lines

SOLID Design: The Open-Close Principle (OCP)
https://blog.ndepend.com/solid-design-the-open-close-principle-ocp/

For Startups, Giving Up Control Is Key to Creating Value
https://www.strategy-business.com/blog/For-Startups-Giving-Up-Control-Is-Key-to-Creating-Value?gko=5ad79
https://www.marshall.usc.edu/sites/default/files/nwasserm/intellcont/Wasserman-2017-Strategic_Management_Journal-1.pdf

What Happened When Our Team Switched to Only Asynchronous Meetings
https://open.buffer.com/asynchronous-meetings/

How a Basic Income Program Saved a Namibian Village
https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/a-new-approach-to-aid-how-a-basic-income-program-saved-a-namibian-village-a-642310.html

GitHub starts blocking developers in countries facing US trade sanctions (ZDNet)
https://lwn.net/Articles/794752/rss

We gamified our bug-tracking process, and now our backlog is zero
https://www.atlassian.com/blog/statuspage/how-to-gamify-bug-tracking

Podcasts
The Big Pivot w/Slack's Stewart Butterfield
https://pca.st/18rY