Random interests and too many podcasts. How to practice backend engineering. https://lethain.com/how-to-practice-backend-engineering/ Rands: WFH https://randsinrepose.com/archives/wfh/ COVID-19 Risks of Flying https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/06/covid_risks_of_.html Making my doorbell work https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/55312.html Announcing Perl 7 https://www.perl.com/article/announcing-perl-7/ Open-source contact tracing, part 1 https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/823532/64d96b8676118dc9/ Are pets really good for us – or just hairy health hazards? https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/oct/13/are-pets-really-good-for-us-or-just-hairy-health-hazards Git is About Communication https://blog.appsignal.com/2020/06/24/git-is-about-communication.html ‘You can’t instagram tea’: is trouble brewing for the classic cuppa? https://www.theguardian.com/food/2020/jan/30/you-cant-instagram-tea-is-trouble-brewing-for-the-classic-cuppa Modern Software Over-Engineering Mistakes https://medium.com/@rdsubhas/10-modern-software-engineering-mistakes-bc67fbef4fc8 The Future of Virtual Events https://hopin.to/blog/the-future-of-virtual-events I’ve Accidentally Become A Strava Stalker https://www.elle.com/uk/life-and-culture/culture/amp32955987/strava-stalker/ ...

Some open source news, a bit about covid and some art. Corona-Warn-App Open Source Project https://www.coronawarn.app/en/ Introducing GitHub Super Linter: one linter to rule them all https://github.blog/2020-06-18-introducing-github-super-linter-one-linter-to-rule-them-all/ Tsunami: An extensible network scanning engine for detecting high severity vulnerabilities with high confidence https://opensource.googleblog.com/2020/06/tsunami-extensible-network-scanning.html Zoom Will Be End-to-End Encrypted for All Users https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/06/zoom_will_be_en.html Loaded terms in free software https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/823224/390948dc629c3dcd/ Buffer is Moving to a 4-day Workweek for the Rest of 2020 https://open.buffer.com/4-day-workweek-2020/ Xing: We are moving our asset delivery to the cloud — and here is why we do that https://tech.xing.com/we-are-moving-our-asset-delivery-to-the-cloud-and-here-is-why-we-do-that-e0977e5f4c43 ...

This week I am not even going to pretend that there is any theme to these. In Grudging Defense of Structure https://avdi.codes/in-grudging-defense-of-structure/ Why the developers who use Rust love it so much https://stackoverflow.blog/2020/06/05/why-the-developers-who-use-rust-love-it-so-much/ We love individual responsibility more than we would admit https://blog.odd-e.com/yilv/2020/06/we-love-individual-responsibility-more-than-we-would-admit.html As Diners Flock to Delivery Apps, Restaurants Fear for Their Future https://www.worldnewj.com/as-diners-flock-to-delivery-apps-restaurants-fear-for-their-future/ Rain Alarm https://www.rain-alarm.com/ Creating a Decision Journal: Template And Example Included https://fs.blog/2014/02/decision-journal/ Performance and N+1 Queries: Explained, Spotted, and Solved https://blog.appsignal.com/2020/06/09/n-plus-one-queries-explained.html The RuboCop Name Drama Redux https://metaredux.com/posts/2020/06/08/the-rubocop-name-drama-redux.html ...

Black Lives Matter. About Friday Links </2020/06/about-friday-links.html> Sawfish phishing campaign targets GitHub users https://github.blog/2020-04-14-sawfish-phishing-campaign-targets-github-users/ How the new normal will change company culture for good https://www.atlassian.com/blog/teamwork/lessons-of-pandemic-change-company-culture/ The Definitive Answer: Who Really Owns a 1 on 1 Meeting? https://getlighthouse.com/blog/who-owns-1-on-1-meeting/ Black Lives Matter. https://lethain.com/black-lives-matter/ Skip Level Meetings for Interns https://managingdev.com/skip-level-meetings-interns/ Political Songs | Dub journalism, a cultural weapon https://www.newframe.com/political-songs-dub-journalism-cultural-weapon/ Poet on the front line https://theguardian.com/books/2002/may/04/poetry.books List of cognitive biases https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases How to Make this Moment the Turning Point for Real Change https://medium.com/@BarackObama/how-to-make-this-moment-the-turning-point-for-real-change-9fa209806067 ...

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. ...