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. ...
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/ ...
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/ ...
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/ ...
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/ ...