Some cool insights into the engineering of GitHub and Slack and the sudo vulnerability. Short one this week.
Management
Meetup Apps Team’s Virtual Onsite (and why your team should have one too) - some nice ideas for your virtual onsites or offsites
Fertile Mid-Stations - I like to work with people for a long time, but I also realise that all companies are just one station in the working life of most people The surprising root of resilience [Podcast] - spoiler: teams bound by experiences
Engineering
Deployment reliability at GitHub - I really love the recent blog posts about building GitHub, they are not very technical, but give a high level view of their efforts
Making GitHub’s new homepage fast and performant - more from GitHub on their fancy globe that probably nobody sees
Slack’s Outage on January 4th 2021 - scaling issues with AWS and monitoring closely linked to production systems
Buffer overflow in command line unescaping - I always found sudo a bit weird, turns out it also has been insecure for a while
10-year-old Sudo bug lets Linux users gain root-level access - more on sudo local security issue
Urbanism
Tesla Pays Employees To Bike To Work After Slew Of Parking Problems - electric cars are also cars, they won’t solve the problems of cities
Bat boxes, ‘greened’ streets and bug hotels: Barcelona embraces its wild side - a bit of green-washing, but still nice to see
Random Väth
Sven Väth (Alemania) @ BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix 30.01.2021 [YouTube] - nice, this is my first studio Väth set in ages!
The Relentless Jeff Bezos - fanboy view of Jeff, Amazon and AWS.
The Bit Short: Inside Crypto’s Doomsday Machine - it is amazing that this is still going on, but some people obviously are making a lot of money of other people and the environment
JENKEM - Discussing Skateboarding with Filmmaker Werner Herzog [YouTube] - spoiler: he doesn’t skate
Rapid Response: Aggressive sustainability, w/Lynn Jurich, CEO of Sunrun [Podcast] - cool insights into the solar business in the USA
Other Links
- Tim Bray - good stuff at usual. I stole “The Bit Short” from him
- Bruce Lawson Reading List 270