Friday Links

Goto: A Dozen New Masterclasses Are Now LIVE! https://blog.gotocon.com/2020/04/02/a-dozen-new-masterclasses-are-now-live/ Changing the Approach to Debugging in Ruby with TracePoint https://blog.appsignal.com/2020/04/01/changing-the-approach-to-debugging-in-ruby-with-tracepoint.html AppSignal Now Supports Node.js: Roadmap for the Coming Weeks https://blog.appsignal.com/2020/04/01/appsignal-now-supports-node-roadmap-for-the-coming-weeks.html Code Search for Google open source projects https://opensource.googleblog.com/2020/04/code-search-for-google-open-source.html Why You Should Ignore All That Coronavirus-Inspired Productivity Pressure https://www.chronicle.com/article/Why-You-Should-Ignore-All-That/248366/ See Everyone with the Google Meet Grid View Extension https://www.controlaltachieve.com/2020/03/meet-grid-view.html Optimizing Ruby Lazy Initialization in TruffleRuby with Deoptimization https://engineering.shopify.com/blogs/engineering/optimizing-ruby-lazy-initialization-in-truffleruby-with-deoptimization Eclipse Theia Offers a ‘True Open Source Alternative to Visual Studio Code’ https://thenewstack.io/eclipse-theia-offers-a-true-open-source-alternative-to-visual-studio-code/ ...

April 3, 2020 · 1 min · Christof Damian
Letting your CEO deploy to production

Letting your CEO deploy to production

Recently our CEO Raj Kumar spent a week in our Barcelona office where the majority of our engineering department is located. I was working on some ideas for him to meet the team and get some insights into our daily work. While most of the company is aware of UI/UX and front-end changes we are doing to our site, some of the back-end and infrastructure work can seem like black magic. I think it is important to take every opportunity to bring this output closer to the rest of the company and especially the leadership. ...

March 27, 2020 · 3 min · Christof Damian

Friday Links

My Pandemic Zoom Setup https://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2020/3/26/my-pandemic-zoom-setup Two Years With Rust http://brooker.co.za/blog/2020/03/22/rust.html Helping FOSS conferences in the face of a pandemic https://lwn.net/Articles/815913/ O’Reilly shutting down its conference group https://lwn.net/Articles/815966/ https://www.oreilly.com/conferences/from-laura-baldwin.html How to Run a Successful Online Conference https://ianlandsman.com/run-an-online-conference/ Video conferencing with Jitsi https://lwn.net/Articles/815751/ Remote Working: The home office desks of Basecamp https://m.signalvnoise.com/remote-working-the-home-office-desks-of-basecamp/ The Housekeeping of the Intangible https://randsinrepose.com/archives/the-housekeeping-of-the-intangible/ Podcasts / YouTube Setting Objectives and Key Results in your team | Whitney O’Banner | #LeadDevLondon https://youtu.be/Us6jaZoXgdU Goal-Setting Workshops for Managers - Melinda Seckington | #LeadDevLondon 2018 https://youtu.be/np1rZvM9GD4 ...

March 27, 2020 · 1 min · Christof Damian

Friday Links

How to survive isolation with your roommates, your partner, your kids – and yourself https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/mar/17/self-isolation-survival-guide-relationships-coronavirus The Simplicity of Benjamin Franklin’s Daily Schedule https://thefocuscourse.com/franklin-schedule/ A Few Small Things You Can Do as a Leader https://randsinrepose.com/archives/a-few-small-things-you-can-do-as-a-leader/ Asynchronous Communication and Why It Matters For Remote Work https://open.buffer.com/asynchronous-communication/ Hotspotting developer productivity. https://lethain.com/hotspotting/ List of Free Software and Services During Coronavirus Outbreak https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/list-of-free-software-and-services-during-coronavirus-outbreak/ What the heck is Backstage anyway? https://labs.spotify.com/2020/03/17/what-the-heck-is-backstage-anyway/ Facade Pattern in Rails for Performance and Maintainability https://blog.appsignal.com/2020/03/18/facade-pattern-in-rails-for-performance-and-maintainability.html Atlassian finally unleashes free Jira tier – nearly six months late yet just in time for coronavirus crunch https://www.theregister.co.uk/AMP/2020/03/19/atlassian_free_jira/ ...

March 20, 2020 · 1 min · Christof Damian

Friday Links

pocket-reader.el https://github.com/alphapapa/pocket-reader.el retronym - Word of the Day : March 12, 2020 https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day/retronym-2020-03-12 TBM 11/53: The Know-It-All CEO https://cutlefish.substack.com/p/tbm-1153-the-know-it-all-ceo Why cycling in Palestine is an intensely political act https://www.theguardian.com/environment/bike-blog/2020/mar/10/why-cycling-in-palestine-is-an-intensely-political-act How to Break Apart a Rails Monolith https://kellysutton.com/2020/03/12/how-to-break-apart-a-rails-monolith.html One-track minds: Using AI for music source separation https://tech.fb.com/one-track-minds-using-ai-for-music-source-separation/ Atlassian brings rules-based automation to Jira Cloud https://venturebeat.com/2020/03/12/atlassian-brings-rules-based-automation-to-jira-cloud/ Powerful, no-code automation now available to all Jira Cloud customers https://www.atlassian.com/blog/jira-software/introducing-automation-in-jira DBT: Your entire analytics engineering workflow https://www.getdbt.com/ Amazon teases Bottlerocket, its take on Linux specifically for running containers https://www.theregister.co.uk/AMP/2020/03/11/amazon_launches_bottlerocket_new_linux_distro_for_running_containers/ ...

March 13, 2020 · 2 min · Christof Damian