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