Friday Links

Working from home, working remote, dealing with the pandemic-era, product management and random fun.

Ergodox Keyboard

https://ergodox-ez.com/

LinkedIn’s approach to automated accessibility (A11y) testing
https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog/2020/automated-accessibility-testing

Netflix to automatically cancel ‘hundreds of thousands’ of inactive accounts
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/netflix-account-cancel-delete-subscribe-renew-email-a9527626.html

Why Kotlin Multiplatform Is A Great Alternative To React Native
https://mobilejazz.com/blog/why-kotlin-multiplatform-is-a-great-alternative-to-react-native/

Why GitLab pays local rates
https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2019/02/28/why-we-pay-local-rates/

From Germany to Detroit and back: how Kraftwerk forged an industrial exchange
https://theguardian.com/music/2020/may/25/from-germany-to-detroit-and-back-how-kraftwerk-forged-an-industrial-exchange

Why Remote Work Is So Hard—and How It Can Be Fixed
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/can-remote-work-be-fixed/

A Guide to Threat Modelling for Developers
https://martinfowler.com/articles/agile-threat-modelling.html

Tesco begins selling white eggs for the first time in 40 years following increased demand during lockdown
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/eggs-white-shelled-tesco-40-years-uk-supermarkets-lockdown-a9531716.html

GT Bike V
https://www.gta5-mods.com/scripts/gt-bike-v

Adidas Face Cover Large 3-Pack
https://www.adidas.co.uk/face-cover-large-3-pack/H08836.html

Working from home and the office

https://blog.google/inside-google/working-google/working-from-home-and-office/

Attracting great people starts with how you position your company
https://wildbit.com/blog/2020/05/27/attracting-great-people

Websites Conducting Port Scans
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/05/websites_conduc.html

Snowmelt Meetings: Why I’m Meeting With My Team Even More Right Now
https://open.buffer.com/snowmelt-meetings/

Keeping Customers Streaming — The Centralized Site Reliability Practice at Netflix
https://netflixtechblog.com/keeping-customers-streaming-the-centralized-site-reliability-practice-at-netflix-205cc37aa9fb

A pandemic-era LWN update
https://lwn.net/Articles/821561/

OpenSSH 8.3 released (and ssh-rsa deprecation notice)
https://lwn.net/Articles/821544/

The Problem with Org Charts
https://itrevolution.com/the-problem-with-org-charts/

The big story behind a little Blue Dot
https://blog.google/inside-google/working-google/big-story-behind-little-blue-dot/

DevOps Enterprise Summit London – Virtual: What to Expect, And Why I’m So Excited About It
https://itrevolution.com/london-virtual-what-to-expect/

Videos / Podcasts

Reunited Apart Makes a SPLASH - with Tom Hanks, Daryl Hannah, and more!
https://youtu.be/MbFIgQoHSJM

(Dispatch from the Scenius) Dr. Mik Kersten’s 2018 DOES TALK, Project to Product: How to Survive and Thrive in the Age of Digital Disruption with the Flow Framework, with commentary from Gene
https://pca.st/30hwb7iu

Friday Links

Today free from "one thing or another", some software news, working from home, making product decisions and fun video from the past.

TBM 21/53: "Vision" and Prescriptive Roadmaps

https://cutlefish.substack.com/p/tbm-2153-vision-and-prescriptive

The Cave Essentials
https://randsinrepose.com/archives/the-cave-essentials/

Developer Dilemmas Are Now Online
https://blog.appsignal.com/2020/05/20/developer-dilemmas-are-now-online.html

Architecture Jams: a Collaborative Way of Designing Software
https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/software-architecture-jams/

The state of the AWK
https://lwn.net/Articles/820829/

Introducing Piranha: An Open Source Tool to Automatically Delete Stale Code
https://eng.uber.com/piranha/

Digital Transformation Is About Talent, Not Technology
https://hbr.org/amp/2020/05/digital-transformation-is-about-talent-not-technology

New controls for how you share albums in Google Photos
https://blog.google/products/photos/new-controls-how-you-share-albums-google-photos/

Prototyping at Slack
https://slack.engineering/prototyping-at-slack-b1ec3a298226

Some tips and tricks for a remote-friendly communication
https://tech.xing.com/some-tips-and-tricks-for-a-remote-friendly-communication-ae6af600cd26

King shares the Defold game engine source code and invites collaborators and partners
https://defold.com/2020/05/19/Defold-is-now-open-source/

Doordash and Pizza Arbitrage
https://themargins.substack.com/p/doordash-and-pizza-arbitrage

What Thomas Edison actually invented in 1880
https://www.atlassian.com/blog/teamwork/what-thomas-edison-actually-invented-in-1880/amp

On Making Decisions
https://medium.com/@cgroom/on-making-decisions-579354de3166

The Great CoffeeScript to Typescript Migration of 2017
https://dropbox.tech/frontend/the-great-coffeescript-to-typescript-migration-of-2017

Spotify vs. Fitbit
https://svpg.com/spotify-vs-fitbit/

Five Years of Rust
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2020/05/15/five-years-of-rust.html

A Message from Co-Founder and CEO Brian Chesky
https://news.airbnb.com/a-message-from-co-founder-and-ceo-brian-chesky/

Videos / Podcasts

Microsoft demo of automatic code generation by language models
https://www.pscp.tv/Microsoft/1OyKAYWPRrWKb?t=28m15s

Plato AMA: Learn with live AMAs with senior engineering leaders
https://www.platohq.com/webinars

It's Time to go BACK TO THE FUTURE! | Reunited Apart with Josh Gad
https://youtu.be/crdYIUdUOhc

Developing Leaders on a Team with Jill Wetzler
https://pca.st/nj5tje2q

Friday Links

This time with remote working, Ruby, management and random fun.

What can we learn from the COVID-19 pandemic about how people experience working from home and commuting?
https://urbanstudies.uva.nl/content/blog-series/covid-19-pandemic-working-from-home-and-commuting.html

Universal basic income seems to improve employment and well-being
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2242937-universal-basic-income-seems-to-improve-employment-and-well-being/

Building a Ruby CLI with Thor
https://marsbased.com/blog/2020/04/27/building-ruby-cli-thor/

“Sorry, I have a walk scheduled then”
https://blog.dropbox.com/topics/work-culture/-sorry--i-have-a-walk-scheduled-then-

Introducing portability of Google Authenticator 2SV codes across Android devices
https://security.googleblog.com/2020/05/introducing-portability-of-google.html

rjp: Friday roundup for 2020-05-08
https://rjp.is/blogging/posts/2020/05/08_friday/

20 questions to ask instead of “How are you doing right now?”
https://qz.com/work/1836105/20-great-questions-to-ask-instead-of-how-are-you-doing-right-now/

recruiter spam
https://twitter.com/djbaskin/status/1259979381289545729

Upgrading a trivial Rails app from Ruby 2.3.1 to 2.7 and from Rails 4.2.6 to 6.0.3
https://blog.arkency.com/upgrading-a-trivial-rails-app-from-ruby-2-dot-3-dot-1-to-2-dot-7-and-from-rails-4-dot-2-dot-6-to-6-dot-0-dot-3/

Can hypothesis-driven rituals boost your team’s performance?
https://www.atlassian.com/blog/teamwork/hypothesis-driven-agile-team-rituals/

Why we at $FAMOUS_COMPANY Switched to $HYPED_TECHNOLOGY
https://saagarjha.com/blog/2020/05/10/why-we-at-famous-company-switched-to-hyped-technology/

Developer Dilemmas are Coming Online Soon
https://blog.appsignal.com/2020/05/13/developer-dilemmas-are-coming-online-soon.html

We Are Sunsetting Reply, Here’s Everything You Need to Know
https://open.buffer.com/sunsetting-reply/

A successful Git branching model (revised)
https://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/

JavaScript Growing Pains: From 0 to 13,000 Dependencies
https://blog.appsignal.com/2020/05/14/javascript-growing-pains-from-0-to-13000-dependencies.html

YouTube / Podcasts

Keynote: Real Software Engineering
https://youtu.be/NNGaXxMueiw

Announcing my new podcast, The Idealcast with Gene Kim
https://itrevolution.com/announcing-the-idealcast/

Dispatch 5: Don't Stop Believin'
https://pca.st/k6l9516s

The Art of Servant Leadership with David Cancel, CEO of Drift
https://pca.st/fgg2ugci

Building a Culture of Trust and Transparency with Michele Romanow, President of Clearbanc
https://pca.st/l7ru6nd6

Friday Links

Today about management, mapping, programming languages, and insights into companies.


Better passwords in Ruby applications with the Pwned Passwords API
https://www.twilio.com/blog/2018/03/better-passwords-in-ruby-applications-pwned-passwords-api.html

Urbanists of Twitter
https://medium.com/opportunity-in-excess-capacity/urbanists-of-twitter-cec4615ff45f

How Our VP of Engineering Used Data to Support Our Engineering Team on a Human Level
https://codeclimate.com/blog/how-our-vp-of-engineering-used-data-to-support-our-engineering-team-on-a-human-level/

How LinkedIn handles merging code in high-velocity repositories
https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog/2020/continuous-integration

JavaScript Error Tracking with AppSignal v1.3.0 is Here
https://blog.appsignal.com/2020/04/30/javascript-error-tracking-version-1-3-0.html

We’re Trying a 4-Day Workweek for the Month of May
https://open.buffer.com/4-day-workweek/

rjp: Friday roundup for 2020-05-01
https://rjp.is/blogging/posts/2020/05/friday-01/

What I Do At Gusto: An Incentives Explanation
https://medium.com/@kentbeck_7670/what-i-do-at-gusto-an-incentives-explanation-c7b4f79483ae

Surprising Things About Working at Well-Known Tech Unicorns
https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/surprising-things-about-working-at-tech-unicorns/amp/

The Startup Founder’s Guide to Analytics
https://thinkgrowth.org/the-startup-founders-guide-to-analytics-1d2176f20ac1

Looking Back on Four Years at The Times
https://medium.com/swlh/looking-back-on-four-years-at-the-times-e158ec3a5936

PHP showing its maturity in release 7.4
https://lwn.net/Articles/818973/

OpenOrienteeringMap and MapRunF
https://blog.oomap.co.uk/2020/05/openorienteeringmap-and-maprunf/

Route in a 1km Radius
https://www.unkm.fr/

GitHub blasts code-scanning tool into all open-source projects
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/05/06/github_releases_codescanning_tool/

We Re-Launched The New York Times Paywall and No One Noticed
https://open.nytimes.com/we-re-launched-the-new-york-times-paywall-and-no-one-noticed-5cd1f795f76b

Warburtons crumpet recipe revealed after 30 years as UK asks for baking tips during lockdown
https://inews.co.uk/news/consumer/warburtons-crumpets-recipe-how-to-make-uk-baking-lockdown-2845563

The Great Decision Purge
https://zef.me/2020/05/04/the-great-decision-purge/

Lockdown and Bikeshare
https://oobrien.com/2020/05/lockdown-and-bikeshare/

Making Emacs popular again
https://lwn.net/Articles/819452/

Helping journalists understand the power of machine learning
https://www.blog.google/outreach-initiatives/google-news-initiative/helping-journalists-understand-power-machine-learning/

Podcasts / YouTube

Remote-First Team Interactions with Team Topologies (55m talk + 27m Q&A)
https://youtu.be/-yp2AOuCPSA

Using Science to Make Your Meetings Matter
https://pca.st/7bor19zf

Becoming A Resilient Manager with Lara Hogan
https://pca.st/ig0i0ul1

Clean Code for Managers: Robert C. Martin, a.k.a. Uncle Bob
https://pca.st/zcwu35gx

Leading With Kindness & Clarity During a Crisis
https://pca.st/c0jggaii

Leading vs Managing: András Fincza (VP of Engineering at Emarsys)
https://pca.st/tk5b1s7w

One-on-Ones with Jason Evanish
https://pca.st/yhx0uk8o