About Friday Links

Since Summer 2018 I have been posting Friday Links on my blog. There are now nearly a hundred posts of these and I thought I write a little bit about these. I picked this habit up at my job at Splendia. I can’t remember where it originated from. The idea is to collect interesting links to share with your team and post them all together on a Friday so people have some reading material for the weekend. Other team members would then add their own links in the same thread. ...

June 2, 2020 · 4 min · Christof Damian

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/ ...

May 29, 2020 · 2 min · Christof Damian

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/ ...

May 22, 2020 · 1 min · Christof Damian

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/ ...

May 15, 2020 · 1 min · Christof Damian

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/ ...

May 8, 2020 · 2 min · Christof Damian