Friday Links

It’s high time to rewrite the hiring script https://m.signalvnoise.com/its-high-time-to-rewrite-the-hiring-script/ Drowning in a Fountain of Knowledge https://avivbenyosef.com/drowning-in-a-fountain-of-knowledge/ PM “Responsibilities” ? https://medium.com/@johnpcutler/pm-responsibilities-75c4ac9dbb95 Applied Cryptography is Banned in Oregon Prisons https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/07/applied_cryptog_2.html The hardest leadership advice to follow https://m.signalvnoise.com/the-hardest-leadership-advice-to-follow/ Expediting Data Fixes and Data Migrations https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog/2019/expediting-data-fixes-migrations Bug bounties and NDAs are an option, not the standard https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/52432.html RFC-115 Some Network Information Center Policies on Handling Documents https://write.as/365-rfcs/rfc-115 Announcing Docsy: A Website Theme for Technical Documentation https://opensource.googleblog.com/2019/07/announcing-docsy-website-theme-for.html Announcing “Shape Up”, a deep dive into how we work https://m.signalvnoise.com/announcing-shape-up-a-deep-dive-into-how-we-work/ ...

July 12, 2019 · 1 min · Christof Damian

Friday Links

GOTCHA: Taking phishing to a whole new level https://medium.com/intigriti/gotcha-taking-phishing-to-a-whole-new-level-72eda9e30bef Which smart bulbs should you buy (from a security perspective) https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/51910.html FreeDOS turns 25 years old: An origin story https://opensource.com/article/19/6/freedos-anniversary How to speak Silicon Valley: 53 essential tech-bro terms explaine https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/26/how-to-speak-silicon-valley-decoding-tech-bros-from-microdosing-to-privacy Creating a career ladder for engineers - Marco Rogers https://youtu.be/jA1Q94d2z10 Formalizing the Robots Exclusion Protocol Specification https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2019/07/rep-id.html Google’s robots.txt parser is now open source https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2019/07/repp-oss.html A note on unsupported rules in robots.txt https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2019/07/a-note-on-unsupported-rules-in-robotstxt.html Get to insights quicker with Data Studio’s new home page https://www.blog.google/products/marketingplatform/analytics/get-insights-quicker-data-studios-new-home-page/ ...

July 5, 2019 · 1 min · Christof Damian

Friday Links

Integrating UX Design into a Continuous-Delivery Environment https://www.uxmatters.com/mt/archives/2019/06/integrating-ux-design-into-a-continuous-delivery-environment.php How 5 minutes of preparation can finally make standup meetings productive https://codeclimate.com/blog/productive-standup-meeting/ Open-sourcing Sorbet: a fast, powerful type checker for Ruby https://sorbet.org/blog/2019/06/20/open-sourcing-sorbet Here’s one great way to use your tech skills https://www.gatesnotes.com/Development/William-Wu-changed-his-career-to-help-the-poor The Quantified Value of 1:1 Meetings and How to Make the Most of Them https://getlighthouse.com/blog/11-meetings-value-make-most/ Fake News and Pandemics https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/06/fake_news_and_p.html World Population Growth https://ourworldindata.org/world-population-growth What does negative harmony sound like? Here’s the answer! https://blog.adamspiers.org/2019/06/23/negative-harmony-app-shimanator/ Some career advice. https://lethain.com/career-advice/ Our Curated Angular Reference Guide https://marsbased.com/blog/2019/06/24/angular-resources-documentation-tutorials ...

June 28, 2019 · 1 min · Christof Damian

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Technical Debt: Poor System Understanding While Time Constrained https://medium.com/dm03514-tech-blog/technical-debt-poor-system-understanding-while-time-constrained-66385d110498 Migrations: the sole scalable fix to tech debt. https://lethain.com/migrations/ Comparing the Same Project in Rust, Haskell, C++, Python, Scala and OCaml http://thume.ca/2019/04/29/comparing-compilers-in-rust-haskell-c-and-python/ The only good use for Smart Quotes, ever https://www.jwz.org/blog/2019/06/the-only-good-use-for-smart-quotes-ever/ In praise of SWARMing https://dannorth.net/2018/01/26/in-praise-of-swarming/ GitHub acquires Pull Panda—a better way to collaborate on code reviews https://github.blog/2019-06-17-github-acquires-pull-panda/ Delusions in Tech https://medium.com/@bdcroteau/delusions-in-tech-87f6571ced89 Comparing the Three Angular View Encapsulation Methods https://marsbased.com/blog/2019/06/17/angular-view-encapsulation/ Continual improvement at scale https://medium.com/sagefuturemakers/second-article-4ff562dd32af The ideal DevOps team structure https://about.gitlab.com/2019/06/12/devops-team-structure/ ...

June 21, 2019 · 1 min · Christof Damian

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Straight to Prod https://medium.com/better-programming/straight-to-prod-ca12205841fc?sk=3a39b24b0977532926e79d00c3306042 iOS Shortcut for Recording the Police https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/06/ios_shortcut_fo.html Introducing TensorNetwork, an Open Source Library for Efficient Tensor Calculations https://opensource.googleblog.com/2019/06/introducing-tensornetwork-open-source.html Number of backlogs and multi-learning: 1) see the backlogs https://blog.odd-e.com/yilv/2019/06/number-of-backlogs-and-multi-learning-1-see-the-backlogs.html Number of backlogs and multi-learning: 2) functional team and component team https://blog.odd-e.com/yilv/2019/06/number-of-backlogs-and-multi-learning-2-functional-team-and-component-team.html Why black metal is great music for programming (but doom metal isn’t) https://www.atlassian.com/blog/technology/metal-music-for-programming The Myth of the Top Management Team https://hbr.org/1997/11/the-myth-of-the-top-management-team Should We Have Two Leadership Teams? http://www.onhumanenterprise.com/two-leadership-teams Introducing Matrix 1.0 and the Matrix.org Foundation https://lwn.net/Articles/790910 ...

June 14, 2019 · 1 min · Christof Damian