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RedoxOS: Real hardware breakthroughs, and focusing on rustc https://www.redox-os.org/news/focusing-on-rustc/ OOP Refactoring: from a god class to smaller objects https://blog.arkency.com/oop-refactoring-from-a-god-class-to-smaller-objects/ PHP 7.4.0 released https://lwn.net/Articles/805975/ A Distributed Meeting Primer https://randsinrepose.com/archives/a-distributed-meeting-primer/ The Evolution of Onboarding at Buffer: How We Welcome New Teammates https://open.buffer.com/onboarding/ Open-Sourcing Metaflow, a Human-Centric Framework for Data Science https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/open-sourcing-metaflow-a-human-centric-framework-for-data-science-fa72e04a5d9 Testing on the Toilet: Tests Too DRY? Make Them DAMP! https://testing.googleblog.com/2019/12/testing-on-toilet-tests-too-dry-make.html RSA-240 Factored https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/12/rsa-240_factore.html AWS has new tool for those leaky S3 buckets so, yeah, you might need to reconfigure a few things https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/12/03/aws_s3_buckets/ Introducing the new Search Console messages https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2019/12/search-console-messages.html Introducing The North Star Playbook https://amplitude.com/blog/introducing-north-star-playbook Fedora Desktops – Memory Footprints https://fedoramagazine.org/fedora-desktops-memory-footprints/ The most copied StackOverflow snippet of all time is flawed! https://programming.guide/worlds-most-copied-so-snippet.html Finding the Time to Refactor https://thoughtbot.com/blog/finding-the-time-to-refactor Rails 1.0 turns 14 https://dev.to/schwad/rails-1-0-turns-14-1698 Russian Police Raided NGINX Moscow Office, Detained Co-Founders https://thehackernews.com/2019/12/nginx-copyright-rumbler.html ...

Notes on Building Evolutionary Architectures. https://lethain.com/building-evolutionary-architectures/ 7 leadership lessons over 2.5 years https://m.signalvnoise.com/7-leadership-lessons-over-2-5-years/ Test Flakiness – Methods for identifying and dealing with flaky tests https://labs.spotify.com/2019/11/18/test-flakiness-methods-for-identifying-and-dealing-with-flaky-tests/ How we scaled our design system to unleash Skyscanner’s new brand https://medium.com/@SkyscannerEng/how-we-scaled-our-design-system-to-unleash-skyscanners-new-brand-845a1f501b0b Officevibe Just Got A Makeover – And It’s Making Room for Your Teams https://www.officevibe.com/blog/officevibe-makeover-teams How to Play Windows-only Games on Linux with Steam Play https://itsfoss.com/steam-play/ The Fallacy of needing a technical manager https://unwiredcouch.com/2019/11/19/technical-manager.html Hey Google, play me the news https://www.blog.google/products/news/your-news-update/ Blade Runner Day https://www.jwz.org/blog/2019/11/blade-runner-day/ JavaScript Errors: An Exceptional History - Part II https://blog.appsignal.com/2019/11/20/javascript-errors-an-exceptional-history-part-ii.html Isolating Rails Engines with RuboCop https://flexport.engineering/isolating-rails-engines-with-rubocop-210feaba3164 12 Key Andy Grove Quotes on Leadership from High Output Management https://getlighthouse.com/blog/andy-grove-quotes-leadership-high-output-management/ Technical Debt https://ronjeffries.com/articles/019-01ff/tech-debt-from-twitter/ The Modular Monolith: Rails Architecture https://medium.com/@dan_manges/the-modular-monolith-rails-architecture-fb1023826fc4 An Engineering Team where Everyone is a Leader https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/a-team-where-everyone-is-a-leader/ Do engineering managers need to be technical? https://increment.com/teams/do-engineering-managers-need-to-be-technical/ Bad Binder: Android In-The-Wild Exploit https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2019/11/bad-binder-android-in-wild-exploit.html The Blue Tape List https://randsinrepose.com/archives/the-blue-tape-list/ Breaking The Walls Between Business and Agile Teams https://productcoalition.com/breaking-the-walls-between-business-and-agile-teams-5fe944c70565 A detailed comment on the practice of estimation in Software Development – a #NoEstimates post http://softwaredevelopmenttoday.com/2019/11/a-detailed-comment-on-the-practice-of-estimation-in-software-development-a-noestimates-post/ Configurable Ruby Modules: The Module Builder Pattern https://blog.appsignal.com/2019/11/29/configurable-ruby-modules-the-module-builder-pattern.html Inefficient Efficiency https://medium.com/@kentbeck_7670/inefficient-efficiency-5b3ab5294791 The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups | Daniel Coyle | RSA Replay https://youtu.be/5T9tRvkXtns

Managing packages with GitHub Packages https://help.github.com/en/github/managing-packages-with-github-packages Hey! Ho! Ten Years of Go!https://opensource.googleblog.com/2019/11/hey-ho-ten-years-of-go.html Announcing the Bytecode Alliance https://lwn.net/Articles/804648 How to Write Fast Code in Ruby on Rails https://engineering.shopify.com/blogs/engineering/write-fast-code-ruby-rails Launch: Basecamp Gets Personal https://m.signalvnoise.com/launch-basecamp-gets-personal/ Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q3 2019 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-hard-drive-stats-q3-2019/ Static Typing in Ruby with a Side of Sorbet https://blog.heroku.com/static-typing-ruby-with-sorbet Addressing Technical Debt https://thoughtbot.com/blog/addressing-technical-debt Slack app in Python series https://lethain.com/creating-slack-app-python/ Scaling in the presence of errors—don’t ignore them https://programmingisterrible.com/post/188942142748/scaling-in-the-presence-of-errorsdont-ignore Downsizing the office. Upsizing remote-first. https://wildbit.com/blog/2019/11/08/downsizing-the-office-upsizing-remote-first AWS Begins Sunsetting RIs; Replaces Them With Something Much, Much Better https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/aws-begins-sunsetting-ris-replaces-them-with-something-much-much-better/ Hello Netflix! (Manager Readme) https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/15bRazh2UeWsqOZJLRO-zSEipM0xf6zbI97gyKzLLi30/edit#slide=id.p1 Podcasts Edward Snowden on surveillance capitalism, the threats facing democracy, and why he doesn’t want you to trust him https://pca.st/ewow9dl9 The Three Questions To Ask Every New Manager, Part Two With Doug Gaff https://pca.st/sz535ftd Bill Gates — How to accelerate history https://pca.st/h7xkk4dl

Do This Now: 8 Ways to Focus your Product Team on Impact, Not Features https://amplitude.com/blog/focus-product-team-on-impact To sell your car faster, take a side picture first! https://medium.com/letgo/if-you-want-to-sell-your-car-you-should-take-a-side-picture-first-1cfa80c0e45e Journey to Product Teams (Infographic) https://amplitude.com/blog/journey-to-product-teams-infographic Management in ten tweets https://medium.com/@marcprecipice/management-in-ten-tweets-5157dc4bdcad Git v2.24.0 https://github.blog/2019-11-03-highlights-from-git-2-24/ Forecasting synthetic metrics. https://lethain.com/forecasting-synthetic-metrics/ How to Read Performance Metrics in AppSignal https://blog.appsignal.com/2019/11/05/how-to-read-appsignal-performance-metrics.html Identifying buggy patches with machine learning https://lwn.net/Articles/803695/ Wil Wheaton: The Purge. http://wilwheaton.net/2019/11/the-purge/ Pack Your Bags – Systemd Is Taking You To A New Home https://hackaday.com/2019/10/16/pack-your-bags-systemd-is-taking-you-to-a-new-home/ Microsoft Japan tested a four-day work week and productivity jumped by 40% https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/nov/04/microsoft-japan-four-day-work-week-productivity Get faster with the new Speed report in Search Console https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2019/11/search-console-speed-report.html Firefox will hide push notification requests by default https://www.ghacks.net/2019/11/04/firefox-will-hide-push-notification-requests-by-default/ Sending weekly 5-15 updates. https://lethain.com/weekly-updates/ Jira Cloud for Google Sheets: Automatically Refresh Your Data! https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-articles/Jira-Cloud-for-Google-Sheets-Automatically-Refresh-Your-Data/ba-p/1200264 6 remarkable features of the new United Nations open source initiative https://opensource.com/article/19/11/united-nations-goes-open-source Not enough hours in the day? Well, finding more may not help https://theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/nov/01/not-enough-hours-in-the-day-well-finding-more-may-not-help ¡Hola España! An AWS Region is coming to Spain! https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2019/10/aws-region-europe-spain.html A Broken Random Number Generator in AMD Microcode https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/10/a_broken_random.html The current adoption status of cgroup v2 in containers https://medium.com/nttlabs/cgroup-v2-596d035be4d7 Creating a Slack App in Python on GCP. https://lethain.com/creating-slack-app-python/ ...

Dark Web Site Taken Down without Breaking Encryption https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/10/dark_web_site_t.html Cycling through all the streets in central London http://davis.vilums.me/all-the-streets/ How the Internet Archive is Digitizing LPs to Preserve Generations of Audio https://www.jwz.org/blog/2019/10/how-the-internet-archive-is-digitizing-lps-to-preserve-generations-of-audio/ Organic Software Architecture https://dev.to/kmruiz/organic-software-architecture-3548 We Tried ‘Half-Day Fridays.’ Here’s How It Went. https://open.buffer.com/half-day-fridays/ Vint Cerf’s top moments from 50 years of the Internet https://www.blog.google/inside-google/googlers/vint-cerf-top-moments-50-years-internet/ Linus Torvalds: ‘I’m not a programmer anymore’ https://www.zdnet.com/article/linus-torvalds-im-not-a-programmer-anymore/ Is Google’s new BERT technology another nail in traditional SEO’s coffin? https://econsultancy.com/googles-bert-algorithm-seo-dead/ Carbon Offsetting: What Is It, and Does It Even Work? https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/pa78d7/carbon-offsetting-what-is-it-and-does-it-even-work Sidekiq Optimization and Monitoring https://blog.appsignal.com/2019/10/29/sidekiq-optimization-and-monitoring.html ...