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/