Kickstarter Engineering Ladderhttps://gist.github.com/jamtur01/aef437a79fee5a9cefdc The Software Engineering Job Ladderhttps://blog.usejournal.com/the-software-engineering-job-ladder-4bf70b4c24f3 Sizing engineering teams.https://lethain.com/sizing-engineering-teams/ Imaginary problems, the root of bad softwarehttps://medium.com/@george3d6/imaginary-problems-d4f2921bd1b8 An Introduction to Elasticsearch SQL with Practical Examples - Part 1https://www.elastic.co/blog/an-introduction-to-elasticsearch-sql-with-practical-examples-part-1 Generating Random Numbers in Rubyhttps://blog.appsignal.com/2018/07/31/generating-random-numbers-in-ruby.html PNG anticshttps://www.jwz.org/blog/2018/07/png-antics/ Remote Spectre exploits demonstratedhttps://lwn.net/Articles/761100/rss What Are Machine Learning Models Hiding?https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2018/07/26/what-are-machine-learning-models-hiding/ Pretty big side-effect https://pavelmachek.livejournal.com/142883.html No bosses, no managers: the truth behind the ‘flat hierarchy’ facade https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jul/30/no-bosses-managers-flat-hierachy-workplace-tech-hollywood My First Line of Code: Linus Torvaldshttps://youtu.be/S5S9LIT-hdc

Coaching & Facilitation Formats I Use http://www.plays-in-business.com/facilitation-formats-i-use/ Scrum Checklist https://www.crisp.se/gratis-material-och-guider/scrum-checklist Marketing Can Be Agile Too https://www.dmnews.com/customer-experience/article/13034674/marketing-can-be-agile-too 5 tips for getting started with feature flags https://www.atlassian.com/blog/jira-software/tips-for-feature-flagging A pre-history of weeknotes, plus why I write them and perhaps why you should too (Week 16) https://medium.com/job-garden/a-pre-history-of-weeknotes-plus-why-i-write-them-and-perhaps-why-you-should-too-week-16-31a4a5cbf7b0 CSS Tricks: Aspect Ratio Boxes https://css-tricks.com/aspect-ratio-boxes/ A Guide to Mindful Communication in Code Reviews https://kickstarter.engineering/a-guide-to-mindful-communication-in-code-reviews-48aab5282e5e Atlassian: Announcing our new partnership with Slack https://www.atlassian.com/blog/announcements/new-atlassian-slack-partnership 5 project prioritization lessons from the pros https://www.atlassian.com/blog/teamwork/project-prioritization-mistakes-and-cures ‘The discourse is unhinged’: how the media gets AI alarmingly wrong https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/25/ai-artificial-intelligence-social-media-bots-wrong

What 30 years of Stanford research tells us about company culturehttps://www.stride.com/blog/what-30-years-of-stanford-research-tells-us-about-company-culture Operationalizing Node.js for Server Side Renderinghttps://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/operationalizing-node-js-for-server-side-rendering-c5ba718acfc9 Planning A Company Retreat: Things We Did Differently for Buffer’s 9th Retreathttps://open.buffer.com/9th-retreat/ Our week off from Slackhttps://wildbit.com/blog/2018/07/17/our-week-off-from-slack Time Flies: Levitating Nixie Clockhttps://www.jwz.org/blog/2018/07/time-flies-levitating-nixie-clock-2/ Just gonna leave this regexp herehttps://www.jwz.org/blog/2018/07/just-gonna-leave-this-regexp-here/ mathr performs with Clive https://media.ccc.de/v/lac2018-22-mathr_performs_with_clive Sir, Your Most Brutal Web Site, Please.https://www.jwz.org/blog/2018/07/sir-your-most-brutal-web-site-please/ 5 Red Flags Signaling Your Rebuild Will Fail https://www.pkc.io/blog/five-red-flags-signaling-your-rebuild-will-fail/ Evolution of Application Data Caching : From RAM to SSDhttps://medium.com/netflix-techblog/evolution-of-application-data-caching-from-ram-to-ssd-a33d6fa7a690

I am going to give this another try. I post links I find interesting every Friday at work. There was some interest to make these public. As I don’t have any other place to put them I am just going to post them here. Important disclaimer: inclusion of a link doesn’t mean I agree with the content, it just means that I find it interesting. I do include a lot of links of Buffer and Basecamp, but I often disagree completely with their position. So here it goes … What’s Your Cultural Profile? https://www.erinmeyer.com/self-assessment-questionnaire/ AppSignal Dashboard: Live updating insights https://blog.appsignal.com/2018/07/05/appsignal-dashboard-live-updating-insights.html My Lessons from Interviewing 400+ Engineers Over Three Startups http://firstround.com/review/my-lessons-from-interviewing-400-engineers-over-three-startups/ Rands: Anti-Flow http://randsinrepose.com/archives/anti-flow/ Webpacker Assets Demo https://github.com/testdouble/webpacker-assets-demo#webpacker-assets-demo Google weeps as its home state of California passes its own GDPR https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/06/29/california_data_privacy_law/ Data For Good Barcelona Meetup https://www.meetup.com/Data-For-Good-Barcelona/ How We Set Goals in Tech at King https://techblog.king.com/how-we-set-goals-in-tech-at-king/ Changing the change rules at Google https://rework.withgoogle.com/blog/changing-the-change-rules-at-google/ Guido van Rossum resigns as Python leader https://lwn.net/Articles/759654/rss Fewer meetings courtesy of automated check-ins https://wildbit.com/blog/2018/07/12/fewer-meetings-courtesy-of-automated-check-ins Modeling User Journeys via Semantic Embeddings https://codeascraft.com/2018/07/12/modeling-user-journey-via-semantic-embeddings/ The open-plan office is a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad idea https://m.signalvnoise.com/the-open-plan-office-is-a-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-idea-42bd9cd294e3 How We Do Team Benefits As a Remote and International Company https://open.buffer.com/benefits-remote-company/ Evolution of Application Data Caching : From RAM to SSD https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/evolution-of-application-data-caching-from-ram-to-ssd-a33d6fa7a690 New – Lifecycle Management for Amazon EBS Snapshots https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-lifecycle-management-for-amazon-ebs-snapshots/

I am a relatively long user of the Kindle. I got my first Kindle Keyboard in November 2010 and had to replace it twice, once for theft and once because a broken display. I liked it so much that I was never tempted to switch to one of the newer versions. Most of them come with better displays, back-light, are smaller and lighter, but at the same time remove one feature that I especially like: the page turning buttons. Last year’s Oasis changed that, but the weird charging case turned me off. ...