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Announcing Bundler 2.0 https://bundler.io/blog/2019/01/03/announcing-bundler-2.html Incremental Development https://ronjeffries.com/articles/019-01ff/incremental/ Supporting people with disabilities: Be My Eyes and phone support now available https://www.blog.google/outreach-initiatives/accessibility/supporting-people-disabilities-be-my-eyes-and-phone-support-now-available/ How cognitive biases influence software development https://www.atlassian.com/blog/add-ons/how-cognitive-biases-influence-software-development Judging Facebook’s Privacy Shift https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/03/judging_faceboo.html Barcelona From Above https://www.behance.net/gallery/74468471/BARCELONA-FROM-ABOVE Basecamp outage: When it rains, it pours https://m.signalvnoise.com/basecamp-outage-when-it-rains-it-pours/ How much would you pay for Apple News? https://medium.com/enrique-dans/how-much-would-you-pay-for-apple-news-ce8d46949527 String of British firms switch over to four-day working week https://theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/12/string-of-british-firms-switch-over-to-four-day-working-week Can you describe what I’d need to do to buy a $50 book? https://twitter.com/patio11/status/1103903715046486016 https://twitter.com/redman/status/1105479002808967169 New – Open Distro for Elasticsearch https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-open-distro-for-elasticsearch/ ...

How to evolve an engineering organization. https://lethain.com/how-to-evolve-eng-org/ How is software developed at Amazon? http://highscalability.com/blog/2019/3/4/how-is-software-developed-at-amazon.html What happened to OpenStack? https://aeva.online/2019/03/what-happened-to-openstack/ Google: Disclosing vulnerabilities to protect users across platforms https://security.googleblog.com/2019/03/disclosing-vulnerabilities-to-protect.html calc.exe is now open source; there’s surprising depth in its ancient code https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/03/calc-exe-is-now-open-source-theres-surprising-depth-in-its-ancient-code/ 2019 Database Trends – SQL vs. NoSQL, Top Databases, Single vs. Multiple Database Use http://highscalability.com/blog/2019/3/6/2019-database-trends-sql-vs-nosql-top-databases-single-vs-mu.html Introducing a new JavaScript SEO video series https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2019/03/introducing-new-javascript-seo-video.html Standalone AppSignal Agent installation https://docs.appsignal.com/standalone-agent/installation.html StatsD in Standalone AppSignal Agent https://docs.appsignal.com/standalone-agent/statsd.html prince.gif https://www.jwz.org/blog/2019/03/prince-gif/ Using Data GIF Maker to compare data and tell stories https://www.blog.google/outreach-initiatives/google-news-initiative/using-data-gif-maker-compare-data-and-tell-stories/ ...

What is Scrum? https://www.scrum.org/resources/what-is-scrum Monitoring MongoDB Replicaset Lag with AppSignal https://blog.appsignal.com/2019/02/12/replica-set-lag-monitoring-with-appsignal.html Hygiene Factors for Software Development http://www.davefarley.net/?p=272 Why limiting work-in-progress works. https://lethain.com/limiting-wip/ The future of software development is here https://www.atlassian.com/software-development/practices An Inside Look at the Backblaze Storage Pod Museum https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-storage-pod-museum/ On the Security of Password Managers https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/02/on_the_security_1.html Paying the predictability tax. https://lethain.com/predictability-tax/ Valuing already-solved problems. https://lethain.com/no-value/ Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For February 22nd, 2019 http://highscalability.com/blog/2019/2/22/stuff-the-internet-says-on-scalability-for-february-22nd-201.html Winning Systems & Security Practitioners 7. Attack Surface Reduction https://blog.eutopian.io/winning-systems--security-practitioners-7.-attack-surface-reduction/ Zeitwerk integration in Rails 6 (Beta 2) https://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2019/2/22/zeitwerk-integration-in-rails-6-beta-2/ ...

This year I managed for the first time to attend Fosdem in Brussels. Since I started to be involved in open source software I always wanted to go, but somehow something else always came up. This time I made an early effort to book my vacation days, hotel and flight. I stayed at the Bedford Hotel & Congress Center, which was the worst part of the whole trip. Just avoid it. ...

Keep your dependencies secure and up-to-date with GitHub and Dependabo https://github.blog/2019-01-31-keep-your-dependencies-secure-and-up-to-date-with-github-and-dependabot/ Retiring from ‘sad’ on twitter https://brokenco.de/2019/01/01/retiring-from-sadness.html The right amount of perfect https://m.signalvnoise.com/the-right-amount-of-perfect/ Avoiding the Unintended Consequences of Casual Feedback https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20140602024642-22330283-avoiding-the-unintended-consequences-of-casual-feedback/ Executing a Sunset https://codeascraft.com/2019/02/01/executing-a-sunset/ Snopes quits Facebook’s factchecking program amid questions over its impact https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/feb/01/snopes-facebook-factchecking-program-false-news It’s 2019, and a PNG file can pwn your Android smartphone or tablet: Patch me if you can https://www.theregister.co.uk/AMP/2019/02/07/android_january_patches/ Consolidating your website traffic on canonical URLs https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2019/02/consolidating-your-website-traffic-on.html Major Zcash Vulnerability Fixed https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/02/major_zcash_vul.html XING Kubernetes components published as Open Source https://tech.xing.com/xing-kubernetes-components-published-as-open-source-368829289c96 ...