Friday, September 20, 2019

Friday Links

The big lie: What it’s like to ride illegally as a woman in Iran
https://cyclingtips.com/2019/09/the-big-lie-what-its-like-to-ride-illegally-as-a-woman-in-iran/

The grandmaster diet: How to lose weight while barely moving
https://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/27593253/why-grandmasters-magnus-carlsen-fabiano-caruana-lose-weight-playing-chess

Google Structured Data: Dataset
https://developers.google.com/search/docs/data-types/dataset

Richard Stallman resigns from the FSF
https://lwn.net/Articles/799375/

Raising Prices is Hard
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/raising-prices-is-hard/

Tetris challenge: emergency services worldwide go flat-out in viral meme
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/sep/18/tetris-challenge-emergency-services-world-wide-go-flat-out-in-viral-meme

Warhol Data Recovery
http://studioforcreativeinquiry.org/projects/warhol-data-recovery

Improving trust in the cloud with OpenStack and AMD SEV
https://blog.adamspiers.org/2019/09/13/improving-trust-in-the-cloud-with-openstack-and-amd-sev/

GraphQL: Overlapping Fields Can Be Merged Fast
https://tech.xing.com/graphql-overlapping-fields-can-be-merged-fast-ea6e92e0a01

70 Applications, 15 Teams, 9 Months: Lessons from the Guardian’s “All-In” Move to AW
https://www.cbronline.com/news/guardian-aws-migration/

Zen in the Art of Retrospectives
https://medium.com/letgo/zen-in-the-art-of-retrospectives-ff770f7eaaa9

Business Complexity vs. Implementation Complexity
https://blog.ndepend.com/business-complexity-vs-implementation-complexity/

Microsoft Acquires Semmle, GitHub Now a CVE Numbering Authority
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/microsoft-acquires-semmle-github-now-a-cve-numbering-authority/

Continuous Delivery for Machine Learning
https://martinfowler.com/articles/cd4ml.html

Podcasts


Open Source Policy with Bruce Perens
https://pca.st/9hs97wts

Interview with Tim O’Reilly, Founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media
https://pca.st/knxtry64

How to Make Meetings Less Terrible
https://pca.st/d3pxjr9b

Friday, September 13, 2019

Friday Links

Google Engineering Practices Documentation
https://google.github.io/eng-practices/

Want autonomous teams? Improve management!
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/want-autonomous-teams-improve-management-gregor-hohpe/

The (Mostly) Complete History of Grafana UX
https://grafana.com/blog/2019/09/03/the-mostly-complete-history-of-grafana-ux/

Rob's Friday Links
https://rjp.is/blogging/posts/2019/09/friday-links-06/

Enabling Developers and Organizations to Use Differential privacy
https://opensource.googleblog.com/2019/09/enabling-developers-and-organizations.html

AI Is Coming for Your Favorite Menial Tasks
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/09/artificial-intelligence-will-make-your-job-even-harder/597625/

Organizing team offsites.
https://lethain.com/offsites/

Saying goodbye to the old Search Console
https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2019/09/goodbye-old-search-console.html

Running GitHub on Rails 6.0
https://github.blog/2019-09-09-running-github-on-rails-6-0/

Answers to arguments against 100% coverage
https://blog.ndepend.com/answers-to-arguments-against-100-coverage/

Here They Are: The World's 10 Most Beautiful Offices of 2019
https://www.inc.com/graham-winfrey-kevin-j-ryan/worlds-coolest-offices-2019.html

Collaboration vs Increment?
https://ronjeffries.com/articles/019-01ff/mmm-collaboration/

Sparking joy with issue archiving
https://www.atlassian.com/blog/enterprise/issue-archiving

Evolving “nofollow” – new ways to identify the nature of links
https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2019/09/evolving-nofollow-new-ways-to-identify.html

The Lean Portfolio Manifesto: a conversation-starter
https://www.atlassian.com/blog/jira-align/lean-portfolio-manifesto

The Rise of the Electric Scooter
https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-rise-of-the-electric-scooter/

El mapa de la renta de los espaƱoles, calle a calle
https://elpais.com/economia/2019/09/11/actualidad/1568217626_928704.html

Managing Platform Teams: How to Structure and Run a Great Platform Team – Interview with Karen Cohen
https://codingsans.com/blog/managing-platform-teams

YouTube

TILING - a short film about Veloviewer Explorer
https://youtu.be/7SRGArEvP1Y

What makes Homeworld so great? | Unabbreviated Reviews
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKrWkjsCvZQ

Podcasts

Why Woodstock still matters
https://pca.st/JASy50

Facebook Parse Acquisition (Part 2) with Ilya Sukhar
https://pca.st/jQiDy7

#384: David Allen — The Art of Getting Things Done (GTD)
https://pca.st/Sfox3N

#63 - Vitalik Buterin on better ways to fund public goods, blockchain's failures, & effective giving
https://pca.st/Fk4nWO

Some CEOs try to be ethical. Most of them can't or won't, says "The Enlightened Capitalists" author James O'Toole.
https://pca.st/bUBBEW

Friday, September 06, 2019

Friday Links Overload

A combination of holidays and everybody posting interesting stuff at the same time created a very long list. YouTube and podcast links are grouped at the bottom.

The usual disclaimer: links are included because I find them interesting, not necessarily because I fully agree with the content.

Topics are usually a mix of software engineering, management, security, urbanism and general nerd interest. 

Understanding Agile with Complete Rate
https://yiming.dev/clipping/2019/08/07/understanding-agile-with-complete-rate/

5 Ways Founders Wreck Their Company Culture (and How to Create a Great Company Culture Instead)
https://getlighthouse.com/blog/great-company-culture/

A Tale of Two Data Teams
https://amplitude.com/blog/a-tale-of-two-data-teams

Night owl or early bird? Take this quiz to discover how your chronotype affects your job
https://www.atlassian.com/blog/productivity/what-is-a-chronotype-quiz

In the Name of Love
https://slate.com/technology/2014/01/do-what-you-love-love-what-you-do-an-omnipresent-mantra-thats-bad-for-work-and-workers.html

Why everything breaks when you reach 25 employees
https://getlighthouse.com/blog/company-growth-everything-breaks-25-employees/

We Launched a Mastermind Partnership Program To Connect Teammates – Here’s How We Did it
https://open.buffer.com/masterminds/

Why Speed Kills Cities
https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2019/08/low-speed-limit-vehicle-safety-crash-data-traffic-congestion/588412/

When indexing goes wrong: how Google Search recovered from indexing issues & lessons learned since.
https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2019/08/when-indexing-goes-wrong-how-google.html

Are SOLID principles Cargo Cult?
https://blog.ndepend.com/are-solid-principles-cargo-cult/

Exploiting GDPR to Get Private Information
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/08/exploiting_gdpr.html

Buffer’s Evolution and Expansion
https://open.buffer.com/buffers-evolution-and-expansion/

Four Ways to Lead Your Software Team to Success
https://hackernoon.com/four-ways-to-lead-software-team-to-success-43fa156719b4

Detecting and Preventing Abuse on LinkedIn Using Isolation Forests
https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog/2019/isolation-forest

How Does Utilization Impact Lead-time of Work?
https://observablehq.com/@troymagennis/how-does-utilization-impact-lead-time-of-work

Data Hub: A Generalized Metadata Search & Discovery Tool
https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog/2019/data-hub

New Research: Lessons from Password Checkup in action
https://security.googleblog.com/2019/08/new-research-lessons-from-password.html

Rails 6.0: Action Mailbox, Action Text, Multiple DBs, Parallel Testing, Webpacker by default, and Zeitwerk
https://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2019/8/15/Rails-6-0-final-release/

What does success look like?
https://zef.me/what-does-success-look-like-590f775b7b58

Describing fault domains.
https://lethain.com/fault-domains/

PHP and P++
https://lwn.net/Articles/796214/

Patch Workflow With Mutt - 2019
http://kroah.com/log/blog/2019/08/14/patch-workflow-with-mutt-2019/

Management Area 4: People — Managing to Motivations
https://medium.com/@inowland/management-area-4-people-subpart-2-managing-to-motivations-148244bbb0d9

SOLID Design: The Interface Segregation Principle (ISP)
https://blog.ndepend.com/solid-design-the-interface-segregation-principle-isp/

Cleaning Up Ruby Strings 13 Times Faster
https://blog.appsignal.com/2019/08/20/clean-up-strings.html

Evaluating Language Adoption At Scale
https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog/2019/language-adoption

Some Thoughts on Estimation
https://ronjeffries.com/articles/019-01ff/estimation-again/Index.html

Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music
https://www.jwz.org/blog/2019/08/ishkurs-guide-to-electronic-music/

Backdoor code found in 11 Ruby libraries
https://www.zdnet.com/article/backdoor-code-found-in-11-ruby-libraries/

The thud, thud, thud of techno music leaves no space for bad thoughts
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/aug/23/no-space-bad-thoughts-with-techno-playlist

License Plate "NULL"
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/08/license_plate_n.html

New Sample Page Graphs and Navigation
https://blog.appsignal.com/2019/08/27/new-sample-navigation.html

SOLID Design: The Dependency Inversion Principle (DIP)
https://blog.ndepend.com/solid-design-the-dependency-inversion-principle-dip/

Type Checking in Ruby — Check Yo Self Before You Wreck Yo Self
https://blog.appsignal.com/2019/08/27/ruby-magic-type-checking-in-ruby.html

The problem with tooltips and what to do instead
https://adamsilver.io/articles/the-problem-with-tooltips-and-what-to-do-instead/

Feature-less Roadmap: The Balance Between Delivering Concrete Features vs. Planning with High-level Themes
https://amplitude.com/blog/feature-less-roadmap

How should you structure your engineering team?
https://www.atlassian.com/blog/technology/engineering-team-structure

Don't get locked up into avoiding lock-in
https://martinfowler.com/articles/oss-lockin.html

Is Perl 6 Being Renamed?
http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2019/08/is-perl-6-being-renamed.html

npm bans terminal ads
https://www.zdnet.com/google-amp/article/npm-bans-terminal-ads/

The strange fate of a person falling into a black hole
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150525-a-black-hole-would-clone-you

Our ‘Growth Mindset’ Fund Gives Every Teammate $800/Year – Here’s How and Why
https://open.buffer.com/growth-mindset-fund/

Don’t @#$% the Planet
https://www.atlassian.com/blog/announcements/climate-strike

The Inherited Hook Method in Ruby - and More Parenting Lessons
https://blog.appsignal.com/2019/09/03/inherited-hook-method-and-parenting.html

Continuous Compliance
http://www.davefarley.net/?p=285

Firefox Update Automatically Blocks Third-Party Tracking For All Users
https://www.unilad.co.uk/technology/firefox-update-automatically-blocks-third-party-tracking-for-all-users/

Today in "IP Over Avian Carriers" news
https://www.jwz.org/blog/2019/09/today-in-ip-over-avian-carriers-news/

The Doghouse: Crown Sterling
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/09/the_doghouse_cr_1.html

Four key metrics
https://www.thoughtworks.com/radar/techniques/four-key-metrics

Reaching new heights in the cloud
https://www.atlassian.com/blog/platform/cloud-premium

YouTube

A Brief History of Graphics
https://youtu.be/QyjyWUrHsFc

Music Albums on Game Cartridges (C64 & Megadrive)
https://youtu.be/N1cWXamGZmM

Podcasts

How the Canadian Public Service is Creating a Talent Cloud of Free Agents
https://pca.st/4I12

An Elegant Puzzle Virtual Book Club
https://pca.st/5H40

Using Checklists For Onboarding Success, with Radoslav Stankov
https://pca.st/9309

TWOC Bonus: Barcelona’s Superblocks with David Roberts of Vox.
https://pca.st/CmN0Is

Are All Women Engineers Like You?, with Rukmini Reddy
https://pca.st/jcmp7u

Interview with Will Larson, Head of Foundation Engineering at Stripe, and Author of An Elegant Puzzle
https://pca.st/lNk9pH

Technical Onboarding with Kristen Gallagher
https://pca.st/HnsvPl

Das Four Tendencies Framework (mit Amy Dallas) (Interview in English)
https://pca.st/JW1E1x

Als Introvertierter in der IT (mit Renato Pelizzari da Silva) (Interview in English)
https://pca.st/l59rMy

Facebook Scaling with Pedram Keyani
https://pca.st/OGBDwc

Facebook Release Engineering with Chuck Rossi
https://pca.st/9gCIm8

Facebook Engineering Process with Kent Beck
https://pca.st/YcjWQ0

Facebook Parse Acquisition (Part 1) with Charity Majors
https://pca.st/VXWB7x