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The Metrics of Backpacks https://www.artpractical.com/column/the-metrics-of-backpacks/ Stop Playing Tetris (With Teams, Sprints, Projects, and Individuals) https://medium.com/@johnpcutler/stop-playing-tetris-with-teams-sprints-projects-and-individuals-b1e4ed6d8bc0 Quit Planning Ahead and Keeping People Busy https://medium.com/@johnpcutler/quit-planning-ahead-and-keeping-people-busy-937e74d5a1fb The Empty Promise of Data Moats https://a16z.com/2019/05/09/data-network-effects-moats/ Object Detection with 10 lines of code https://towardsdatascience.com/object-detection-with-10-lines-of-code-d6cb4d86f606 How to Move Beyond a Monolithic Data Lake to a Distributed Data Mesh https://martinfowler.com/articles/data-monolith-to-mesh.html The Seven Areas Of Software Management https://medium.com/@inowland/the-seven-areas-of-software-management-be89d213ea7 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 The importance of teamwork (as proven by science) https://www.atlassian.com/blog/teamwork/the-importance-of-teamwork An MDS reading list https://lwn.net/Articles/788522/ https://lwn.net/Articles/788381/ https://thenextweb.com/security/2019/05/14/bitdefender-researchers-discover-terrifying-security-vulnerability-in-intel-cpus/ Advisory: Security Issue with Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) Titan Security Keys https://security.googleblog.com/2019/05/titan-keys-update.html How to Use Learning Milestones https://medium.com/@itamargilad/how-to-use-learning-milestones-deb9c96c30d PHP in 2019 https://stitcher.io/blog/php-in-2019 The future of Docker containers https://lwn.net/Articles/788282/ The International Spy Museum has reopened in Washington, DC. https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/05/international_s.html El Govern declara formalment l’emergència climàtica http://web.gencat.cat/ca/actualitat/reportatges/acords-de-govern/ Don’t Visit Your Doctor in the Afternoon https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/14/opinion/dont-visit-your-doctor-in-the-afternoon.html The safest way to disagree with your boss on behalf of your team (or yourself) https://patrickfigures.com/the-safest-way-to-disagree-with-your-boss-on-behalf-of-your-team-or-yourself/

The agile guide to winning at team development https://www.atlassian.com/blog/teamwork/navigate-tuckman-stages-of-team-development Inside the Team at Facebook That Dealt with the Christchurch Shooting https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/inside-the-team-at-facebook-that-dealt-with-the-christchurch-shooting A Conspiracy To Kill IE6 http://blog.chriszacharias.com/a-conspiracy-to-kill-ie6 Guardian breaks even helped by success of supporter strategy https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/may/01/guardian-breaks-even-helped-by-success-of-supporter-strategy Stripe’s fifth engineering hub is Remote https://stripe.com/fr/blog/remote-hub Cocktail Robotics Grand Challenge with Jim Sweeney 7/15/2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZ4qKkav0ns Windows 10 will soon ship with a full, open source, GPLed Linux kernel https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/05/windows-10-will-soon-ship-with-a-full-open-source-gpled-linux-kernel/ The Atlas of Inequality https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/the-atlas-of-inequality/overview/ The Power of the Pause: Introducing Sabbaticals at Buffer https://open.buffer.com/sabbaticals/ Beautiful Interactive Map of Barcelona Digs Into Rich Architectural History https://www.wired.com/2014/04/interactive-map-barcelona-history/ The making of Amazon Prime, the internet’s most successful and devastating membership program https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/5/3/18511544/amazon-prime-oral-history-jeff-bezos-one-day-shipping How Well Can You Hear Audio Quality? https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2015/06/02/411473508/how-well-can-you-hear-audio-quality?t=1557004995912&t=1557222073102 Memory management for 400Gb/s interfaces https://lwn.net/Articles/787754/ Inheritance versus composition https://lwn.net/Articles/787800/ New in structured data: FAQ and How-to https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2019/05/new-in-structured-data-faq-and-how-to.html This software developer is using AI to imagine a more natural, car-free world https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/7/18534538/ai-neural-net-car-free-biophilia-chris-harris What’s next for Google Maps Platform https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/maps-platform/whats-next-for-google-maps-platform The new evergreen Googlebot https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2019/05/the-new-evergreen-googlebot.html The Update, The Vent, and The Disaster http://randsinrepose.com/archives/the-update-the-vent-and-the-disaster/ The Health Check Survey https://buildingvts.com/the-health-check-survey-20ef1052f40a The Certainty Trap https://amplitude.com/blog/the-certainty-trap-product-development In their own words: How open is too open? https://www.atlassian.com/blog/teamwork/balancing-internal-transparency Count ‘em up: 100 things we announced at I/O ‘19 https://www.blog.google/technology/developers/100-things-we-announced-io-19/ Books that Changed Everything: “Thank You for Arguing” https://zef.me/books-that-changed-everything-thank-you-for-arguing-3da02f88fec7 OPP (Other People’s Problems) https://medium.com/@skamille/opp-other-peoples-problems-d7eb174724ee

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/ Monitoring structured data with Search Console https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2019/05/monitoring-structured-data-with-search-console.html

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/ Goodbye Joe https://ferd.ca/goodbye-joe.html From food waste to tasty treats in Google’s kitchens https://www.blog.google/outreach-initiatives/sustainability/google-kitchens-preventing-food-waste/ Floating Point Precision https://www.jwz.org/blog/2019/04/floating-point-precision/ dry-types and dry-struct 1.0.0 released https://dry-rb.org/news/2019/04/23/dry-types-and-dry-struct-1-0-0-released/ Whose cloud is it anyway? Apple sinks $30m a month into rival Amazon’s AWS – report https://www.theregister.co.uk/AMP/2019/04/23/apple_huge_aws_customer/ Google: Enriching Search Results Through Structured Data https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2019/04/enriching-search-results-structured-data.html Do I truly want to become a manager? https://m.signalvnoise.com/do-i-truly-want-to-become-a-manager/ How healthy is the internet? https://internethealthreport.org/2019/ Here’s a video of a Chimpanzee using Instagram. It’s eye-opening. https://twitter.com/_DanielSinclair/status/1121252893586276352 Get lost in the new Earth Timelapse, now on mobile https://www.blog.google/products/earth/get-lost-new-earth-timelapse-now-mobile/ Devuan, April Fools, and self-destruction https://lwn.net/Articles/786593 The Place of UX https://m.signalvnoise.com/the-place-of-ux/ 2013-11-21 My favorite Erlang Program https://joearms.github.io/#2013-11-21%20My%20favorite%20Erlang%20Program

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 Overhead? Maybe not. https://ronjeffries.com/articles/019-01ff/overhead/ Meetings Are Not For You http://randsinrepose.com/archives/meetings-are-not-for-you/ How To Deliver Software Without Deadlines https://medium.com/@jproco/how-to-deliver-software-without-deadlines-872f8eb244b0