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3 research-backed principles that help you scale your engineering org https://www.atlassian.com/blog/technology/3-research-backed-principles-scaling-engineering Paris mayor unveils ‘15-minute city’ plan in re-election campaign https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/07/paris-mayor-unveils-15-minute-city-plan-in-re-election-campaign UN poverty expert’s visit shines light on struggles of Spain’s poor https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/06/un-poverty-experts-visit-shines-light-on-struggles-of-spains-poor Street View’s 15 favorite Street Views https://www.blog.google/products/maps/street-views-15-favorite-street-views/ A new hash algorithm for Git https://lwn.net/Articles/811068/ Istio as an Example of When Not to Do Microservices https://blog.christianposta.com/microservices/istio-as-an-example-of-when-not-to-do-microservices/ Monoliths are the future https://changelog.com/posts/monoliths-are-the-future Browsers, web sites, and user tracking https://lwn.net/Articles/811532/ Austerity, gentrification and big tunes: why illegal raves are flourishing https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/feb/05/austerity-gentrification-and-big-tunes-why-illegal-raves-are-flourishing What we do and don’t know about the 2019-nCoV coronavirus https://80000hours.org/2020/02/experimental-episode-about-2019-ncov-coronavirus/ NYC Parks Are Using a Designer’s ‘Tree Font’ to Plant Secret Messages with Real Trees https://mymodernmet.com/nyc-trees-font-katie-holten/ AppSignal Ruby Gem 2.10: Better Diagnose (And More) https://blog.appsignal.com/2020/02/05/ruby-gem-2-10.html This Week in Programming: Forget Microservices, Monoliths Are the Way Forward https://thenewstack.io/this-week-in-programming-forget-microservices-monoliths-are-the-way-forward/ Retrium: Public Team Rooms https://blog.retrium.com/public-team-rooms thispersondoesnotexist https://www.thispersondoesnotexist.com/ The journey to fast production asset builds with Webpack https://codeascraft.com/2020/02/03/production-webpack-builds/ Facebook’s Platform Opportunity https://stratechery.com/2020/facebooks-platform-opportunity/ Letters To A New Developer: Develop empathy https://letterstoanewdeveloper.com/2020/02/03/develop-empathy/ Things I Believe About Software Engineering https://blog.wesleyac.com/posts/engineering-beliefs Google Maps Hacks http://www.simonweckert.com/googlemapshacks.html NSA Security Awareness Posters https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/01/nsa_security_aw.html Integrated systems for integrated programmers https://m.signalvnoise.com/integrated-systems-for-integrated-programmers/ The dark side of expertise https://lwn.net/Articles/809556/ ...

Zappos has quietly backed away from holacracy https://qz.com/work/1776841/zappos-has-quietly-backed-away-from-holacracy/ emacs-todoist https://github.com/abrochard/emacs-todoist Use Emacs to get social and track your todo list https://opensource.com/article/20/1/emacs-social-track-todo-list How we retired Python 2 and improved developer happiness https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog/2020/how-we-retired-python-2-and-improved-developer-happiness Why the Guardian will no longer accept fossil fuel advertising https://www.theguardian.com/help/insideguardian/2020/jan/29/why-the-guardian-will-no-longer-accept-fossil-fuel-advertising Ring Doorbell App Packed with Third-Party Trackers https://www.jwz.org/blog/2020/01/ring-doorbell-app-packed-with-third-party-trackers/ Terraform at Flexport https://flexport.engineering/terraform-at-flexport-c274a9d86d9f New Enterprise IT Controls for Data Studio https://www.blog.google/products/marketingplatform/analytics/new-enterprise-it-controls-data-studio/ Google Receives Geofence Warrants https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/01/google_receives.html How to Perform Concurrent HTTP Requests in Ruby and Rails https://pawelurbanek.com/ruby-concurrent-requests Introducing Buffer’s Family Support Fund https://open.buffer.com/family-support-fund/ Confessions of a Recovering Proprietary Programmer, Part XVII https://paulmck.livejournal.com/57332.html Do more with Data Studio Community Visualizations https://www.blog.google/products/marketingplatform/analytics/do-more-data-studio-community-visualizations/ Preserving open source software for future generations https://archiveprogram.github.com/ ...

How we built the good first issues feature https://github.blog/2020-01-22-how-we-built-good-first-issues/ Which of these 2020 Democrats agrees with you most? https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/policy-2020/quiz-which-candidate-agrees-with-me/ KubeInvaders - Gamified Chaos Engineering Tool for Kubernetes https://kubernetes.io/blog/2020/01/22/kubeinvaders-gamified-chaos-engineering-tool-for-kubernetes/ Rails is Fast: Optimize Your View Performance https://blog.appsignal.com/2020/01/22/rails-is-fast-optimize-your-view-performance.html PHP in 2020 https://stitcher.io/blog/php-in-2020 Linkedin: Global Talent Trends https://business.linkedin.com/content/dam/me/business/en-us/talent-solutions/resources/pdfs/global-talent-trends-2019-EMEA.pdf How I Master My Calendar on Buffer’s Distributed Team https://open.buffer.com/calendar/ Uber Has Been Quietly Assembling One of the Most Impressive Open Source Deep Learning Stacks in the Market https://towardsdatascience.com/uber-has-been-quietly-assembling-one-of-the-most-impressive-open-source-deep-learning-stacks-in-b645656ddddb We’re approaching the limits of computer power – we need new programmers now https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/11/we-are-approaching-the-limits-of-computer-power-we-need-new-programmers-n-ow snowflake - Your Cloud Data Platform https://www.snowflake.com/ Critical Windows Vulnerability Discovered by NSA https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/01/critical_window.html How to build your company's engineering brand. https://lethain.com/eng-brand/ Podcasts Vancouver, Tall Buildings and Brent Toderian - The Life-Sized City Urbanism Podcast https://pca.st/kclh98qi The People's Pyramid https://pca.st/aocfrfrd Webflow Engineering with Bryant Chou https://pca.st/4m4fu70k

How Slack is Silently Killing Your Productivity https://www.userlike.com/en/amp/blog/slack-productivity Goofonts https://goofonts.com/ Enroll in the new Advanced Protection Program in an instant https://www.blog.google/technology/safety-security/new-advanced-protection-program-account-security-instant/ Portfolio for Jira 3.0 and beyond https://www.atlassian.com/blog/portfolio-for-jira/portfolio-for-jira-3-and-beyond “Up and to the right” with Data Studio https://www.blog.google/products/marketingplatform/analytics/up-and-to-the-right-with-data-studio/ Pros and Cons of Using structure.sql in Your Ruby on Rails Application https://blog.appsignal.com/2020/01/15/the-pros-and-cons-of-using-structure-sql-in-your-ruby-on-rails-application.html My polyglot Advent of Code https://m.signalvnoise.com/my-polyglot-advent-of-code/ Engineering management: An Interview with Michael Lopp https://www.welcometothejungle.com/en/articles/btc-michael-lopp-interview-management Why Cassettes Are The New 45s https://blog.discogs.com/en/cassettes-are-the-new-45s/ Floppy Sleeves https://www.flickr.com/photos/textfiles/albums/72157682181421785 Google to phase out user-agent strings in Chrome https://www.zdnet.com/google-amp/article/google-to-phase-out-user-agent-strings-in-chrome/ Accelerating netfilter with hardware offload, part 1 https://lwn.net/Articles/809333/ Radical Candor: Software Edition https://medium.com/@rinaarts/radical-candor-software-edition-d4b5ad401be3 Goodbye, Clean Code https://overreacted.io/goodbye-clean-code/ Google’s Hash Code competition is back https://www.blog.google/technology/developers/googles-hash-code-2020/ More great memos. https://lethain.com/more-great-memos/ Git v2.25.0 https://lwn.net/Articles/809361/ Facebook releases improved Displacement Maps for crisis response https://research.fb.com/blog/2020/01/facebook-releases-improved-displacement-maps-crisis-response/ 5 Work Culture Trends We’re Looking Out For in 2020 https://open.buffer.com/work-trends-2020/ Work Is Work https://codahale.com//work-is-work/ Your first 90 days as CTO or VP Engineering. https://lethain.com/first-ninety-days-cto-vpe/ I went to see a movie, and instead I saw the future https://m.signalvnoise.com/i-went-to-see-a-movie-and-instead-i-saw-the-future/ The End of Indie Web Browsers: You Can (Not) Compete https://blog.samuelmaddock.com/posts/the-end-of-indie-web-browsers/ AWS S3: You’re out of order. https://m.signalvnoise.com/aws-s3-youre-out-of-order/ PostgreSQL Connection Pooling: Part 2 – PgBouncer http://highscalability.com/blog/2020/1/8/postgresql-connection-pooling-part-2-pgbouncer.html The last tracker was just removed from Basecamp.com https://m.signalvnoise.com/the-last-tracker-was-just-removed-from-basecamp-com/ What I learned going from prison to Python https://opensource.com/article/20/1/prison-to-python It’s 2020, and browsers can do amazing stuff. https://github.com/luruke/browser-2020 ...

BeOS: The Alternate Universe’s Mac OS X https://hackaday.com/2020/01/09/beos-the-alternate-universes-mac-os-x/ Outcome Over Output: Also Impact and Effort https://medium.com/@kentbeck_7670/outcome-over-output-also-impact-and-effort-8f9eb0ce0dbb DoD Enterprise DevSecOps Initiative(Software Factory) https://software.af.mil/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/DoD-Enterprise-DevSecOps-Initiative-Keynote-v1.7.pdf Why I’m putting Bra Theory on an indefinite hiatus http://bratheory.com/hiatus/ Twitter is probably not the right medium for explaining the intricacies of analyzing and refactoring crusty old FORTRAN. https://twitter.com/arclight/status/1208054147397894145 The C64 review – a captivatingly precise replica of the joys of 80s gaming https://www.theguardian.com/games/2019/dec/19/the-c64-review-precise-replica-80s-gaming Making instagram.com faster: Code size and execution optimizations (Part 4) https://instagram-engineering.com/making-instagram-com-faster-code-size-and-execution-optimizations-part-4-57668be796a8 ...