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New data tools for relief organizations: network coverage, power, and displacementhttps://research.fb.com/new-data-tools-for-relief-organizations-network-coverage-power-and-displacement/ Chaff Bugs: Deterring Attackers by Making Software Buggierhttps://arxiv.org/pdf/1808.00659.pdf Everything Goes in a Context Buckethttp://randsinrepose.com/archives/everything-goes-in-a-context-bucket/ Repeat yourself, do more than one thing, and rewrite everythinghttps://programmingisterrible.com/post/176657481103/repeat-yourself-do-more-than-one-thing-and Is group chat making you sweat?https://m.signalvnoise.com/is-group-chat-making-you-sweat-744659addf7d Data Studio’s new features help you tell more compelling storieshttps://www.blog.google/products/marketingplatform/360/data-studio-new-features-help-tell-compelling-stories/ Double Shippinghttps://zachholman.com/posts/double-shipping You don’t need standuphttps://medium.com/@jsonpify/you-dont-need-standup-9a74782517c1 GLB: GitHub’s open source load balancerhttps://githubengineering.com/glb-director-open-source-load-balancer/

Kickstarter Engineering Ladderhttps://gist.github.com/jamtur01/aef437a79fee5a9cefdc The Software Engineering Job Ladderhttps://blog.usejournal.com/the-software-engineering-job-ladder-4bf70b4c24f3 Sizing engineering teams.https://lethain.com/sizing-engineering-teams/ Imaginary problems, the root of bad softwarehttps://medium.com/@george3d6/imaginary-problems-d4f2921bd1b8 An Introduction to Elasticsearch SQL with Practical Examples - Part 1https://www.elastic.co/blog/an-introduction-to-elasticsearch-sql-with-practical-examples-part-1 Generating Random Numbers in Rubyhttps://blog.appsignal.com/2018/07/31/generating-random-numbers-in-ruby.html PNG anticshttps://www.jwz.org/blog/2018/07/png-antics/ Remote Spectre exploits demonstratedhttps://lwn.net/Articles/761100/rss What Are Machine Learning Models Hiding?https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2018/07/26/what-are-machine-learning-models-hiding/ Pretty big side-effect https://pavelmachek.livejournal.com/142883.html No bosses, no managers: the truth behind the ‘flat hierarchy’ facade https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jul/30/no-bosses-managers-flat-hierachy-workplace-tech-hollywood My First Line of Code: Linus Torvaldshttps://youtu.be/S5S9LIT-hdc

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. ...