Friday Links

Some open source news, a bit about covid and some art. Corona-Warn-App Open Source Project https://www.coronawarn.app/en/ Introducing GitHub Super Linter: one linter to rule them all https://github.blog/2020-06-18-introducing-github-super-linter-one-linter-to-rule-them-all/ Tsunami: An extensible network scanning engine for detecting high severity vulnerabilities with high confidence https://opensource.googleblog.com/2020/06/tsunami-extensible-network-scanning.html Zoom Will Be End-to-End Encrypted for All Users https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/06/zoom_will_be_en.html Loaded terms in free software https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/823224/390948dc629c3dcd/ Buffer is Moving to a 4-day Workweek for the Rest of 2020 https://open.buffer.com/4-day-workweek-2020/ Xing: We are moving our asset delivery to the cloud — and here is why we do that https://tech.xing.com/we-are-moving-our-asset-delivery-to-the-cloud-and-here-is-why-we-do-that-e0977e5f4c43 ...

19 June 2020 · 2 min · Christof Damian

Friday Links

This week I am not even going to pretend that there is any theme to these. In Grudging Defense of Structure https://avdi.codes/in-grudging-defense-of-structure/ Why the developers who use Rust love it so much https://stackoverflow.blog/2020/06/05/why-the-developers-who-use-rust-love-it-so-much/ We love individual responsibility more than we would admit https://blog.odd-e.com/yilv/2020/06/we-love-individual-responsibility-more-than-we-would-admit.html As Diners Flock to Delivery Apps, Restaurants Fear for Their Future https://www.worldnewj.com/as-diners-flock-to-delivery-apps-restaurants-fear-for-their-future/ Rain Alarm https://www.rain-alarm.com/ Creating a Decision Journal: Template And Example Included https://fs.blog/2014/02/decision-journal/ Performance and N+1 Queries: Explained, Spotted, and Solved https://blog.appsignal.com/2020/06/09/n-plus-one-queries-explained.html The RuboCop Name Drama Redux https://metaredux.com/posts/2020/06/08/the-rubocop-name-drama-redux.html ...

12 June 2020 · 2 min · Christof Damian

Friday Links

Black Lives Matter. About Friday Links </2020/06/about-friday-links.html> Sawfish phishing campaign targets GitHub users https://github.blog/2020-04-14-sawfish-phishing-campaign-targets-github-users/ How the new normal will change company culture for good https://www.atlassian.com/blog/teamwork/lessons-of-pandemic-change-company-culture/ The Definitive Answer: Who Really Owns a 1 on 1 Meeting? https://getlighthouse.com/blog/who-owns-1-on-1-meeting/ Black Lives Matter. https://lethain.com/black-lives-matter/ Skip Level Meetings for Interns https://managingdev.com/skip-level-meetings-interns/ Political Songs | Dub journalism, a cultural weapon https://www.newframe.com/political-songs-dub-journalism-cultural-weapon/ Poet on the front line https://theguardian.com/books/2002/may/04/poetry.books List of cognitive biases https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases How to Make this Moment the Turning Point for Real Change https://medium.com/@BarackObama/how-to-make-this-moment-the-turning-point-for-real-change-9fa209806067 ...

5 June 2020 · 1 min · Christof Damian

About Friday Links

Since Summer 2018 I have been posting Friday Links on my blog. There are now nearly a hundred posts of these and I thought I write a little bit about these. I picked this habit up at my job at Splendia. I can’t remember where it originated from. The idea is to collect interesting links to share with your team and post them all together on a Friday so people have some reading material for the weekend. Other team members would then add their own links in the same thread. ...

2 June 2020 · 4 min · Christof Damian

Friday Links

Working from home, working remote, dealing with the pandemic-era, product management and random fun. Ergodox Keyboard https://ergodox-ez.com/ LinkedIn’s approach to automated accessibility (A11y) testing https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog/2020/automated-accessibility-testing Netflix to automatically cancel ‘hundreds of thousands’ of inactive accounts https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/netflix-account-cancel-delete-subscribe-renew-email-a9527626.html Why Kotlin Multiplatform Is A Great Alternative To React Native https://mobilejazz.com/blog/why-kotlin-multiplatform-is-a-great-alternative-to-react-native/ Why GitLab pays local rates https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2019/02/28/why-we-pay-local-rates/ From Germany to Detroit and back: how Kraftwerk forged an industrial exchange https://theguardian.com/music/2020/may/25/from-germany-to-detroit-and-back-how-kraftwerk-forged-an-industrial-exchange Why Remote Work Is So Hard—and How It Can Be Fixed https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/can-remote-work-be-fixed/ ...

29 May 2020 · 2 min · Christof Damian