Friday Links

Why Did a YouTube Bot Make an Unwatched Video of Our Blog Post? https://hmmdaily.com/2019/04/25/why-did-a-youtube-bot-make-an-unwatched-video-of-our-blog-post/ Facebook’s highly-accurate Africa population maps are available for free download https://geoawesomeness.com/facebooks-highly-accurate-africa-population-maps-are-available-for-free-download/ Ruby’s Hidden Gems: Delegator and Forwardable https://blog.appsignal.com/2019/04/30/ruby-magic-hidden-gems-delegator-forwardable.html Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q1 2019 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-hard-drive-stats-q1-2019/ Engineering a Studio Quality Experience With High-Quality Audio at Netflix https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/engineering-a-studio-quality-experience-with-high-quality-audio-at-netflix-eaa0b6145f32 Introducing auto-delete controls for your Location History and activity data https://www.blog.google/technology/safety-security/automatically-delete-data/ How the Best Tech Companies Run Growth Experiments https://labs.openviewpartners.com/how-the-best-tech-companies-run-growth-experiments/#.XMoTfXzRaf0 The 5 Whys of Organizational Design. https://kellanem.com/notes/whys-of-organizational-design Co-Responsibility Is No Responsibility https://avivbenyosef.com/co-responsibility-is-no-responsibility/ ...

May 3, 2019 · 1 min · Christof Damian

Friday Links

Google: Better protection against Man in the Middle phishing attacks https://security.googleblog.com/2019/04/better-protection-against-man-in-middle.html Welcome to the world’s simplest agile maturity model https://www.equalexperts.com/blog/our-thinking/welcome-to-the-worlds-simplest-agile-maturity-model/ Making the Most of Retrium with David Horowitz https://blog.retrium.com/making-the-most-of-retrium-webinar A year with Spectre: a V8 perspective https://v8.dev/blog/spectre Kafka and Ruby, a Sidekiq lovestory https://blog.appsignal.com/2019/04/23/kafka-sidekiq-ruby.html Farmer vs. sand: Spain’s fight against desertification https://www.politico.eu/article/farmer-sand-spain-fight-against-desertification-soil-degradation/ Google: Steps toward a more sustainable future https://www.blog.google/outreach-initiatives/sustainability/steps-toward-more-sustainable-future/ The simplest prioritization tip money can buy https://www.atlassian.com/blog/productivity/simple-prioritization-technique Iranian Cyberespionage Tools Leaked Online https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/04/iranian_cyber-e.html Core Memory https://www.jwz.org/blog/2019/04/core-memory/ Anti-Management? No, Different Management https://ronjeffries.com/articles/019-01ff/management/ ...

April 26, 2019 · 1 min · Christof Damian

Friday Links

Self-made superheroes and street naps: Manila – a cartoon https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/apr/12/self-made-superheroes-and-street-naps-manila-a-cartoon-marius-black Technical Skills https://ronjeffries.com/articles/019-01ff/tech-skills/ Software Engineeringat Google https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1702/1702.01715.pdf Research: Why Managers Ignore Employees’ Ideas https://hbr.org/2019/04/research-why-managers-ignore-employees-ideas The Agile Crisis — a Primer https://medium.com/@wischweh/the-agile-crisis-2016-9fb1c2f52af5 The tax you are paying for using Scrum https://medium.com/@aevitas/the-tax-you-are-paying-for-using-scrum-50f12298b422 Google makes the power of BigQuery available in Sheets https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/10/google-makes-the-power-of-bigquery-available-in-sheets/ The 9 mistakes you don’t know you’re making as a new manager https://m.signalvnoise.com/the-9-mistakes-you-dont-know-youre-making-as-a-new-manager/ Infocom https://www.jwz.org/blog/2019/04/infocom/ Zork Text https://zork.glitch.me/ How To Grow as An Engineering Manager in 7 Steps https://medium.com/@inowland/how-to-grow-as-an-engineering-manager-in-7-steps-a1bf4dcf5e78 Rage Against the Codebase: Programmers and Negativity https://medium.com/@way/rage-against-the-codebase-programmers-and-negativity-d7d6b968e5f3 ...

April 18, 2019 · 1 min · Christof Damian

Friday Links

From bare-metal to Kubernetes http://highscalability.com/blog/2019/4/8/from-bare-metal-to-kubernetes.html Major Browsers to Prevent Disabling of Click Tracking Privacy Risk https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/major-browsers-to-prevent-disabling-of-click-tracking-privacy-risk/ To innovate, first deprecate. https://lethain.com/innovate-deprecate/ Magnitudes of exploration. https://lethain.com/magnitudes-of-exploration/ Why Setting Ambitious Goals Backfires https://wistia.com/learn/culture/why-setting-ambitious-goals-backfires Having it both ways: Larry Wall, Perl and the technology and culture of the early web https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/24701475.2018.1495810 trailblazer http://trailblazer.to/ The 70-20-10 Rule for Innovation https://www.innovationexcellence.com/blog/2018/09/20/the-70-20-10-rule-for-innovation/ The new and improved Jira Software Cloud and GitHub integration https://www.atlassian.com/blog/jira-software/github-for-jira Developers love Python and TypeScript, get paid for Clojure, and aren’t using blockchain https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/04/developers-love-python-and-typescript-get-paid-for-clojure-and-arent-using-blockchain/ ...

April 12, 2019 · 1 min · Christof Damian

Friday Links

The Programming Language Conundrum http://evrl.com/programming/2019/03/28/the-language-conundrum.html Compile-time Dependency Injection With Go Cloud’s Wire https://blog.golang.org/wire Software Roles and Titles https://medium.com/javascript-scene/software-roles-and-titles-e3f0b69c410c Ruby Object Mapper is an open-source persistence and mapping toolkit for Ruby built for speed and simplicity. https://rom-rb.org/ dry-rb is a collection of next-generation Ruby libraries https://dry-rb.org/ Why I stuck with Windows for 6 years while developing Discourse https://samsaffron.com/archive/2019/03/31/why-i-stuck-with-windows-for-6-years-while-developing-discourse Technical Debt? Probably not. https://ronjeffries.com/articles/019-01ff/tech-debt/ Our Latest Pay Analysis: Examining Buffer’s Gender Pay Gap in 2019 https://open.buffer.com/gender-pay-gap-2019/ AppSignal: Memory Magic Dashboard https://blog.appsignal.com/2019/03/29/memory-magic-dashboard.html ...

April 5, 2019 · 1 min · Christof Damian