Schneier: Chinese Supply Chain Hardware Attackhttps://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/10/chinese_supply_.html https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-04/the-big-hack-amazon-apple-supermicro-and-beijing-respond Computing comfortably at 30,000 feethttps://mgsloan.com/posts/comfortable-airplane-computing/ How Etsy Handles Peeking in A/B Testinghttps://codeascraft.com/2018/10/03/how-etsy-handles-peeking-in-a-b-testing/ Schneier: The Effects of GDPR’s 72-Hour Notification Rulehttps://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/10/the_effects_of_5.html Introducing Action Text for Rails 6 https://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2018/10/3/introducing-action-text-for-rails-6/ How to Hold a Hackathon (When No One’s in the Same Room)https://open.buffer.com/hackathon/ Why Reducing Nonprofit Employee Turnover Will Better Your Good Causehttps://getlighthouse.com/blog/nonprofit-employee-turnover-reducing/ Upgrading GitHub from Rails 3.2 to 5.2https://githubengineering.com/upgrading-github-from-rails-3-2-to-5-2/ Schneier: Conspiracy Theories Around the “Presidential Alert”https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/10/conspiracy_theo_2.html If you sometimes feel left out at work, you’re doing it righthttps://qz.com/work/1412529/fomo-is-not-a-useful-concept-at-work/

Saying no.https://lethain.com/saying-no/ #to_s or #to_str? Explicitly casting vs. implicitly coercing types in Rubyhttps://blog.appsignal.com/2018/09/25/explicitly-casting-vs-implicitly-coercing-types-in-ruby.html How Bosses Waste Their Employees’ Timehttps://www.wsj.com/articles/how-bosses-waste-their-employees-time-1534126140 Dali Clock Emularityhttps://www.jwz.org/blog/2018/09/dali-clock-emularity/ How Etsy Localizes Addresseshttps://codeascraft.com/2018/09/26/how-etsy-localizes-addresses/ The kernel’s code of conduct, one week later [LWN subscriber-only content]https://lwn.net/Articles/766699/ 10 things I learned from Jason Fried about Building Productshttps://uxplanet.org/10-things-i-learned-from-jason-fried-about-building-products-5b6694ff02aa Win at quarterly planning by avoiding these OKRs mistakeshttps://www.atlassian.com/blog/teamwork/how-to-avoid-common-okrs-mistakes A sysadmin’s guide to containershttps://opensource.com/article/18/8/sysadmins-guide-containers #noprojects - A Culture of Continuous Value https://www.infoq.com/minibooks/noprojects-value-culture GitHub: Stricter validation coming soon in the REST API https://developer.github.com/changes/2018-09-25-stricter-validation-coming-soon-in-the-rest-api/ ...

GitHub: Towards Natural Language Semantic Code Searchhttps://githubengineering.com/towards-natural-language-semantic-code-search/ Introducing Experiments, an ongoing research effort from GitHub https://blog.github.com/2018-09-18-introducing-experiments-an-ongoing-research-effort-from-github/ Spotify: Scalable User Privacyhttps://labs.spotify.com/2018/09/18/scalable-user-privacy/ Slack-off Fridays: What Happened When One Team Experienced a Day Without Slackhttps://open.buffer.com/turn-off-slack-experiment/ Resource control at Facebook [LWN subscriber-only content]https://lwn.net/Articles/764761/ JavaScript Equality Table Gamehttps://slikts.github.io/js-equality-game/ Guide: Set goals with OKRshttps://rework.withgoogle.com/guides/set-goals-with-okrs/steps/introduction/ Bing starts serving AMP pages as Google prepares to reduce its controlhttps://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/09/bing-starts-serving-amp-pages-as-google-prepares-to-reduce-its-control/ New – Parallel Query for Amazon Aurorahttps://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-parallel-query-for-amazon-aurora/

When I wrote the review of The Manager’s Path I started to think about other books I wish I had read earlier. Usually these triggered some kind of change in how I approach my work or life. This list is definitely incomplete and I will add more to the goodreads list at the bottom of this post. Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change by Kent Beck I still remember when and where I read this for the first time. It was on a plane from the US OSCON back to London where I had my start-up. ...

Time management: the leadership meta-problem.https://lethain.com/time-management/ Advice for a new executivehttps://larahogan.me/blog/advice-for-new-executive/ The Second Edition of “Refactoring”https://martinfowler.com/articles/refactoring-2nd-ed.html#most-people-will-be-disappointed-by-the-second-edition https://martinfowler.com/articles/refactoring-2nd-changes.html Use channels, not direct messages - 9 tipshttps://blog.arkency.com/use-channels-not-direct-messages/ Notes on “A Philosophy of Software Design.”https://lethain.com/notes-philosophy-software-design/ Removing jQuery from GitHub.com frontendhttps://githubengineering.com/removing-jquery-from-github-frontend/ Why We Prioritize Reading at Buffer and the 19 Most-Read Books From Our Teamhttps://open.buffer.com/prioritize-reading/ The 5 Whys Process We Use to Understand the Root of Any Problemhttps://open.buffer.com/5-whys-process/ CI and the Change Loghttp://www.davefarley.net/?p=263 PostgreSQL 11: something for everyone [LWN subscriber-only content]https://lwn.net/Articles/764515/ ...