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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/

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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/

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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/