Friday Links

Integrating UX Design into a Continuous-Delivery Environment https://www.uxmatters.com/mt/archives/2019/06/integrating-ux-design-into-a-continuous-delivery-environment.php How 5 minutes of preparation can finally make standup meetings productive https://codeclimate.com/blog/productive-standup-meeting/ Open-sourcing Sorbet: a fast, powerful type checker for Ruby https://sorbet.org/blog/2019/06/20/open-sourcing-sorbet Here’s one great way to use your tech skills https://www.gatesnotes.com/Development/William-Wu-changed-his-career-to-help-the-poor The Quantified Value of 1:1 Meetings and How to Make the Most of Them https://getlighthouse.com/blog/11-meetings-value-make-most/ Fake News and Pandemics https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/06/fake_news_and_p.html World Population Growth https://ourworldindata.org/world-population-growth What does negative harmony sound like? Here’s the answer! https://blog.adamspiers.org/2019/06/23/negative-harmony-app-shimanator/ Some career advice. https://lethain.com/career-advice/ Our Curated Angular Reference Guide https://marsbased.com/blog/2019/06/24/angular-resources-documentation-tutorials ...

28 June 2019 · 1 min · Christof Damian

Friday Links

Technical Debt: Poor System Understanding While Time Constrained https://medium.com/dm03514-tech-blog/technical-debt-poor-system-understanding-while-time-constrained-66385d110498 Migrations: the sole scalable fix to tech debt. https://lethain.com/migrations/ Comparing the Same Project in Rust, Haskell, C++, Python, Scala and OCaml http://thume.ca/2019/04/29/comparing-compilers-in-rust-haskell-c-and-python/ The only good use for Smart Quotes, ever https://www.jwz.org/blog/2019/06/the-only-good-use-for-smart-quotes-ever/ In praise of SWARMing https://dannorth.net/2018/01/26/in-praise-of-swarming/ GitHub acquires Pull Panda—a better way to collaborate on code reviews https://github.blog/2019-06-17-github-acquires-pull-panda/ Delusions in Tech https://medium.com/@bdcroteau/delusions-in-tech-87f6571ced89 Comparing the Three Angular View Encapsulation Methods https://marsbased.com/blog/2019/06/17/angular-view-encapsulation/ Continual improvement at scale https://medium.com/sagefuturemakers/second-article-4ff562dd32af The ideal DevOps team structure https://about.gitlab.com/2019/06/12/devops-team-structure/ ...

21 June 2019 · 1 min · Christof Damian

Friday Links

Straight to Prod https://medium.com/better-programming/straight-to-prod-ca12205841fc?sk=3a39b24b0977532926e79d00c3306042 iOS Shortcut for Recording the Police https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/06/ios_shortcut_fo.html Introducing TensorNetwork, an Open Source Library for Efficient Tensor Calculations https://opensource.googleblog.com/2019/06/introducing-tensornetwork-open-source.html Number of backlogs and multi-learning: 1) see the backlogs https://blog.odd-e.com/yilv/2019/06/number-of-backlogs-and-multi-learning-1-see-the-backlogs.html Number of backlogs and multi-learning: 2) functional team and component team https://blog.odd-e.com/yilv/2019/06/number-of-backlogs-and-multi-learning-2-functional-team-and-component-team.html Why black metal is great music for programming (but doom metal isn’t) https://www.atlassian.com/blog/technology/metal-music-for-programming The Myth of the Top Management Team https://hbr.org/1997/11/the-myth-of-the-top-management-team Should We Have Two Leadership Teams? http://www.onhumanenterprise.com/two-leadership-teams Introducing Matrix 1.0 and the Matrix.org Foundation https://lwn.net/Articles/790910 ...

14 June 2019 · 1 min · Christof Damian

Friday Links

These Aren’t Your Ordinary Data Centers https://www.backblaze.com/blog/these-arent-your-ordinary-data-centers/ France Bans Judge Analytics, 5 Years In Prison For Rule Breakers https://www.artificiallawyer.com/2019/06/04/france-bans-judge-analytics-5-years-in-prison-for-rule-breakers/ Building Culture: Naming, Symbols, Rituals, Stories https://medium.com/@joedunnSFCoach/building-culture-naming-symbols-rituals-stories-471f2398a3b7?sk=37b280820632d1f2419dfa3f91c74980 Taking Jira Software Cloud to Mac https://www.atlassian.com/blog/jira-software/jira-cloud-app-for-mac The programmer as decision maker https://blog.ploeh.dk/2019/03/18/the-programmer-as-decision-maker/ My First 2 Months of Practicing the Buffer Values https://open.buffer.com/first-months-reflection/ Friday Deploy Freezes Are Exactly Like Murdering Puppies https://charity.wtf/2019/05/01/friday-deploy-freezes-are-exactly-like-murdering-puppies/ Engineering Management: The Pendulum Or The Ladder https://charity.wtf/2019/01/04/engineering-management-the-pendulum-or-the-ladder/ Tokyo Mechanical Keyboard Meetup Vol. 6 https://www.jwz.org/blog/2019/06/tokyo-mechanical-keyboard-meetup-vol-6/ Software Community Growth Through “first-timers-only” Issues https://opensource.googleblog.com/2019/06/software-community-growth-through-first.html ...

7 June 2019 · 1 min · Christof Damian

Friday Links

GitHub: Configuring automated security fixes https://help.github.com/en/articles/configuring-automated-security-fixes Is High Quality Software Worth the Cost? https://martinfowler.com/articles/is-quality-worth-cost.html New Data Studio Developer Tools Make Building Connectors and Viz Easier https://www.blog.google/products/marketingplatform/analytics/new-data-studio-developer-tools-make-building-connectors-and-viz-easier/ Not All Developing Nations Are Created Equal https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-05-28/not-all-developing-nations-are-created-equal The 6 Lessons We’ve Learned About Product Marketing at a Startup https://open.buffer.com/product-marketing/ Why Don’t They Trust Us? https://hackernoon.com/why-dont-they-trust-us-9d942338d848 Wil Wheaton: “I’m full.” http://wilwheaton.net/2019/05/im-full/ Failure KPIs https://theagiledirector.com/article/2015/12/31/failure-kpis/ How to build a company culture that will last https://www.atlassian.com/blog/teamwork/what-is-company-culture Quick note: Friday wins and a case study in ritual design https://kellanem.com/notes/friday-wins ...

31 May 2019 · 1 min · Christof Damian