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