Friday Links

Moore’s Law graphed vs real CPUs & GPUs 1965 - 2019 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uvUiq_jTLM Fresher data in your site’s Search Performance report https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2019/09/search-performance-fresh-data.html 12 Signs You’re Working in a Feature Factory — 3 Years Later https://amplitude.com/blog/12-signs-youre-working-in-a-feature-factory-3-years-later Atlassian commits to the fight against global climate change https://www.atlassian.com/blog/announcements/atlassian-commits-to-the-fight-against-global-climate-change After Dark has been ported to Twitter https://www.jwz.org/blog/2019/09/after-dark-has-been-ported-to-twitter/ https://twitter.com/dot_scr/ Coder deletes open source add-on for Chef in protest over ICE contract https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/09/coder-deletes-open-source-add-on-for-chef-in-protest-over-ice-contract/ Release for CentOS Linux 8 and CentOS Streams https://lwn.net/Articles/800455/

27 September 2019 · 1 min · Christof Damian

Friday Links

The big lie: What it’s like to ride illegally as a woman in Iran https://cyclingtips.com/2019/09/the-big-lie-what-its-like-to-ride-illegally-as-a-woman-in-iran/ The grandmaster diet: How to lose weight while barely moving https://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/27593253/why-grandmasters-magnus-carlsen-fabiano-caruana-lose-weight-playing-chess Google Structured Data: Dataset https://developers.google.com/search/docs/data-types/dataset Richard Stallman resigns from the FSF https://lwn.net/Articles/799375/ Raising Prices is Hard https://www.backblaze.com/blog/raising-prices-is-hard/ Tetris challenge: emergency services worldwide go flat-out in viral meme https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/sep/18/tetris-challenge-emergency-services-world-wide-go-flat-out-in-viral-meme Warhol Data Recovery http://studioforcreativeinquiry.org/projects/warhol-data-recovery Improving trust in the cloud with OpenStack and AMD SEV https://blog.adamspiers.org/2019/09/13/improving-trust-in-the-cloud-with-openstack-and-amd-sev/ GraphQL: Overlapping Fields Can Be Merged Fast https://tech.xing.com/graphql-overlapping-fields-can-be-merged-fast-ea6e92e0a01 70 Applications, 15 Teams, 9 Months: Lessons from the Guardian’s “All-In” Move to AW https://www.cbronline.com/news/guardian-aws-migration/ ...

20 September 2019 · 1 min · Christof Damian

Friday Links

Google Engineering Practices Documentation https://google.github.io/eng-practices/ Want autonomous teams? Improve management! https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/want-autonomous-teams-improve-management-gregor-hohpe/ The (Mostly) Complete History of Grafana UX https://grafana.com/blog/2019/09/03/the-mostly-complete-history-of-grafana-ux/ Rob’s Friday Links https://rjp.is/blogging/posts/2019/09/friday-links-06/ Enabling Developers and Organizations to Use Differential privacy https://opensource.googleblog.com/2019/09/enabling-developers-and-organizations.html AI Is Coming for Your Favorite Menial Tasks https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/09/artificial-intelligence-will-make-your-job-even-harder/597625/ Organizing team offsites. https://lethain.com/offsites/ Saying goodbye to the old Search Console https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2019/09/goodbye-old-search-console.html Running GitHub on Rails 6.0 https://github.blog/2019-09-09-running-github-on-rails-6-0/ Answers to arguments against 100% coverage https://blog.ndepend.com/answers-to-arguments-against-100-coverage/ Here They Are: The World’s 10 Most Beautiful Offices of 2019 https://www.inc.com/graham-winfrey-kevin-j-ryan/worlds-coolest-offices-2019.html Collaboration vs Increment? https://ronjeffries.com/articles/019-01ff/mmm-collaboration/ ...

13 September 2019 · 2 min · Christof Damian

Friday Links Overload

A combination of holidays and everybody posting interesting stuff at the same time created a very long list. YouTube and podcast links are grouped at the bottom. The usual disclaimer: links are included because I find them interesting, not necessarily because I fully agree with the content. Topics are usually a mix of software engineering, management, security, urbanism and general nerd interest. Understanding Agile with Complete Rate https://yiming.dev/clipping/2019/08/07/understanding-agile-with-complete-rate/ 5 Ways Founders Wreck Their Company Culture (and How to Create a Great Company Culture Instead) https://getlighthouse.com/blog/great-company-culture/ ...

6 September 2019 · 3 min · Christof Damian

Friday Links

Meet Yabeda: A Ruby instrumentation framework https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/meet-yabeda-modular-framework-for-instrumenting-ruby-applications Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q2 2019 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-stats-q2-2019/ Code as Craft: Understand the role of Style in e-commerce shopping https://codeascraft.com/2019/08/02/code-as-craft-understand-the-role-of-style-at-e-commerce-shopping/ How We Think About Time Off As a Global Team https://open.buffer.com/time-off-global-team/ Big Ball of Mud http://www.laputan.org/mud/ On Paper; Or: how not to look like a dick in meetings https://zef.me/on-paper-782b4c0f1078 California farmers are planting solar panels as water supplies dry up https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-agriculture-farmlands-solar-power-20190703-story.html Building a First Team Mindset https://www.attack-gecko.net/2018/06/25/building-a-first-team-mindset/ Hosting a Paper Reading Group https://lethain.com/hosting-paper-reading-group/ ...

9 August 2019 · 1 min · Christof Damian