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Coaching & Facilitation Formats I Use http://www.plays-in-business.com/facilitation-formats-i-use/ Scrum Checklist https://www.crisp.se/gratis-material-och-guider/scrum-checklist Marketing Can Be Agile Too https://www.dmnews.com/customer-experience/article/13034674/marketing-can-be-agile-too 5 tips for getting started with feature flags https://www.atlassian.com/blog/jira-software/tips-for-feature-flagging A pre-history of weeknotes, plus why I write them and perhaps why you should too (Week 16) https://medium.com/job-garden/a-pre-history-of-weeknotes-plus-why-i-write-them-and-perhaps-why-you-should-too-week-16-31a4a5cbf7b0 CSS Tricks: Aspect Ratio Boxes https://css-tricks.com/aspect-ratio-boxes/ A Guide to Mindful Communication in Code Reviews https://kickstarter.engineering/a-guide-to-mindful-communication-in-code-reviews-48aab5282e5e Atlassian: Announcing our new partnership with Slack https://www.atlassian.com/blog/announcements/new-atlassian-slack-partnership 5 project prioritization lessons from the pros https://www.atlassian.com/blog/teamwork/project-prioritization-mistakes-and-cures ‘The discourse is unhinged’: how the media gets AI alarmingly wrong https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/25/ai-artificial-intelligence-social-media-bots-wrong

What 30 years of Stanford research tells us about company culturehttps://www.stride.com/blog/what-30-years-of-stanford-research-tells-us-about-company-culture Operationalizing Node.js for Server Side Renderinghttps://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/operationalizing-node-js-for-server-side-rendering-c5ba718acfc9 Planning A Company Retreat: Things We Did Differently for Buffer’s 9th Retreathttps://open.buffer.com/9th-retreat/ Our week off from Slackhttps://wildbit.com/blog/2018/07/17/our-week-off-from-slack Time Flies: Levitating Nixie Clockhttps://www.jwz.org/blog/2018/07/time-flies-levitating-nixie-clock-2/ Just gonna leave this regexp herehttps://www.jwz.org/blog/2018/07/just-gonna-leave-this-regexp-here/ mathr performs with Clive https://media.ccc.de/v/lac2018-22-mathr_performs_with_clive Sir, Your Most Brutal Web Site, Please.https://www.jwz.org/blog/2018/07/sir-your-most-brutal-web-site-please/ 5 Red Flags Signaling Your Rebuild Will Fail https://www.pkc.io/blog/five-red-flags-signaling-your-rebuild-will-fail/ Evolution of Application Data Caching : From RAM to SSDhttps://medium.com/netflix-techblog/evolution-of-application-data-caching-from-ram-to-ssd-a33d6fa7a690

I am going to give this another try. I post links I find interesting every Friday at work. There was some interest to make these public. As I don’t have any other place to put them I am just going to post them here. Important disclaimer: inclusion of a link doesn’t mean I agree with the content, it just means that I find it interesting. I do include a lot of links of Buffer and Basecamp, but I often disagree completely with their position. So here it goes … What’s Your Cultural Profile? https://www.erinmeyer.com/self-assessment-questionnaire/ AppSignal Dashboard: Live updating insights https://blog.appsignal.com/2018/07/05/appsignal-dashboard-live-updating-insights.html My Lessons from Interviewing 400+ Engineers Over Three Startups http://firstround.com/review/my-lessons-from-interviewing-400-engineers-over-three-startups/ Rands: Anti-Flow http://randsinrepose.com/archives/anti-flow/ Webpacker Assets Demo https://github.com/testdouble/webpacker-assets-demo#webpacker-assets-demo Google weeps as its home state of California passes its own GDPR https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/06/29/california_data_privacy_law/ Data For Good Barcelona Meetup https://www.meetup.com/Data-For-Good-Barcelona/ How We Set Goals in Tech at King https://techblog.king.com/how-we-set-goals-in-tech-at-king/ Changing the change rules at Google https://rework.withgoogle.com/blog/changing-the-change-rules-at-google/ Guido van Rossum resigns as Python leader https://lwn.net/Articles/759654/rss Fewer meetings courtesy of automated check-ins https://wildbit.com/blog/2018/07/12/fewer-meetings-courtesy-of-automated-check-ins Modeling User Journeys via Semantic Embeddings https://codeascraft.com/2018/07/12/modeling-user-journey-via-semantic-embeddings/ The open-plan office is a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad idea https://m.signalvnoise.com/the-open-plan-office-is-a-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-idea-42bd9cd294e3 How We Do Team Benefits As a Remote and International Company https://open.buffer.com/benefits-remote-company/ Evolution of Application Data Caching : From RAM to SSD https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/evolution-of-application-data-caching-from-ram-to-ssd-a33d6fa7a690 New – Lifecycle Management for Amazon EBS Snapshots https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-lifecycle-management-for-amazon-ebs-snapshots/

I am a relatively long user of the Kindle. I got my first Kindle Keyboard in November 2010 and had to replace it twice, once for theft and once because a broken display. I liked it so much that I was never tempted to switch to one of the newer versions. Most of them come with better displays, back-light, are smaller and lighter, but at the same time remove one feature that I especially like: the page turning buttons. Last year’s Oasis changed that, but the weird charging case turned me off. ...

Last week I went on my first supported cycling trip. Supported means that there are cars carrying your luggage from one hotel to the next one. They provide you with food on the tour, space for spare clothes and help out when needed. They also take pictures and sort out random stuff that comes up. It was quite a spontaneous decision on my side and I had fixed dates for the holiday, so the choice of providers of these trips was limited. My first idea for a destination were the Dolomites, but this would have required flights and more organization on my side. In the end I went with Canigou Cycling, who conveniently provide a Barcelona Airport pick up service - or for me a pick up from home. The tour started in Sort, stayed a bit on the Spanish side of the Pyrenees west of Andorra. There was a rest day after three days and then we continued on the French side until returning to Spain on the last day. We hit some famous climbs: Col d'Aubisque, Col du Tourmalet, Col d'Aspin and Col de Peyresourde. You can see the Strava activities below. The group consisted of ten riders and three support staff with two cars. We were mostly Germans plus two Americans. Amazingly I was nearly the youngest rider, not so amazingly I was not the fastest. In fact I took it quite easy over the days and enjoyed the scenery. We were quite lucky with the weather, having only one rainy day and the temperature was also perfect. The hotel selection was pretty good. Because I was traveling alone I always had a single room, which did cost a bit more. Dirk from Canigou Cycling did a good job and was always really friendly and helpful. The only thing I would improve would be the communication. If you spend this kind of money upfront, you really want to be more informed and see something happening on their facebook page and fast response to emails. I would do it again, though the next time I really would like to see the Dolomites and maybe go with Velodrom Bike Tours, who are based in Barcelona and I know already from their shop. I probably forgot something, just ask in the comment section. Route Sort - Taüll Taüll - Aínsa Aínsa - Sabiñánigo Sabiñánigo - Argelès-Gazost Argelès-Gazost - Arreau Arreau - Vielha Gallery