Friday Links

How Slack is Silently Killing Your Productivity
https://www.userlike.com/en/amp/blog/slack-productivity

Goofonts
https://goofonts.com/

Enroll in the new Advanced Protection Program in an instant
https://www.blog.google/technology/safety-security/new-advanced-protection-program-account-security-instant/

Portfolio for Jira 3.0 and beyond
https://www.atlassian.com/blog/portfolio-for-jira/portfolio-for-jira-3-and-beyond

“Up and to the right” with Data Studio
https://www.blog.google/products/marketingplatform/analytics/up-and-to-the-right-with-data-studio/

Pros and Cons of Using structure.sql in Your Ruby on Rails Application
https://blog.appsignal.com/2020/01/15/the-pros-and-cons-of-using-structure-sql-in-your-ruby-on-rails-application.html

My polyglot Advent of Code
https://m.signalvnoise.com/my-polyglot-advent-of-code/

Engineering management: An Interview with Michael Lopp
https://www.welcometothejungle.com/en/articles/btc-michael-lopp-interview-management

Why Cassettes Are The New 45s
https://blog.discogs.com/en/cassettes-are-the-new-45s/

Floppy Sleeves
https://www.flickr.com/photos/textfiles/albums/72157682181421785

Google to phase out user-agent strings in Chrome
https://www.zdnet.com/google-amp/article/google-to-phase-out-user-agent-strings-in-chrome/

Accelerating netfilter with hardware offload, part 1
https://lwn.net/Articles/809333/

Radical Candor: Software Edition
https://medium.com/@rinaarts/radical-candor-software-edition-d4b5ad401be3

Goodbye, Clean Code
https://overreacted.io/goodbye-clean-code/

Google’s Hash Code competition is back
https://www.blog.google/technology/developers/googles-hash-code-2020/

More great memos.
https://lethain.com/more-great-memos/

Git v2.25.0
https://lwn.net/Articles/809361/

Facebook releases improved Displacement Maps for crisis response
https://research.fb.com/blog/2020/01/facebook-releases-improved-displacement-maps-crisis-response/

5 Work Culture Trends We’re Looking Out For in 2020
https://open.buffer.com/work-trends-2020/

Work Is Work
https://codahale.com//work-is-work/

Your first 90 days as CTO or VP Engineering.
https://lethain.com/first-ninety-days-cto-vpe/

I went to see a movie, and instead I saw the future
https://m.signalvnoise.com/i-went-to-see-a-movie-and-instead-i-saw-the-future/

The End of Indie Web Browsers: You Can (Not) Compete
https://blog.samuelmaddock.com/posts/the-end-of-indie-web-browsers/

AWS S3: You’re out of order.
https://m.signalvnoise.com/aws-s3-youre-out-of-order/

PostgreSQL Connection Pooling: Part 2 – PgBouncer
http://highscalability.com/blog/2020/1/8/postgresql-connection-pooling-part-2-pgbouncer.html

The last tracker was just removed from Basecamp.com
https://m.signalvnoise.com/the-last-tracker-was-just-removed-from-basecamp-com/

What I learned going from prison to Python
https://opensource.com/article/20/1/prison-to-python

It's 2020, and browsers can do amazing stuff.
https://github.com/luruke/browser-2020

Podcasts

Slack Data Platform with Josh Wills
https://pca.st/c1etmhkr