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Alphabet’s Q1 2020 earnings call https://blog.google/inside-google/alphabet/alphabets-q1-2020-earnings-call/ Google Meet premium video meetings—free for everyone https://blog.google/products/meet/bringing-google-meet-to-more-people/ Case Study : Complex UI Testing https://blog.ndepend.com/case-study-complex-ui-testing/ Hiring programmers with a take-home test https://m.signalvnoise.com/hiring-programmers-with-a-take-home-test/ How to do Map Stuff: A Live Community Sharing Event https://somethingaboutmaps.wordpress.com/2020/03/19/how-to-do-map-stuff/ Fedora Workstation : Swamp draining for 6 years https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2020/04/28/fedora-workstation-swamp-draining-for-6-years/ Development Environments at Slack https://slack.engineering/development-environments-at-slack-f3c1339c2445 Fedora 32 is officially here! https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-32/ Icebreaker https://icebreaker.range.co/ Most controversial rules in Arkency https://blog.arkency.com/most-controversial-rules-in-arkency/ The science of why remote meetings don’t feel the same https://blog.google/inside-google/working-google/science-why-remote-meetings-dont-feel-same/amp/ “It never gets easier, you just go faster.” https://letterstoanewdeveloper.com/2020/04/27/it-never-gets-easier-you-just-go-faster/amp/ ...

Long-Term Planning https://medium.com/redbubble/long-term-planning-9c80dc2c1d8b Rands: Technicality https://randsinrepose.com/archives/technicality/ Our data centers now work harder when the sun shines and wind blows https://blog.google/inside-google/infrastructure/data-centers-work-harder-sun-shines-wind-blows/ Case Study: 2 Simple Principles to achieve High Code Maintainability https://blog.ndepend.com/case-study-2-simple-principles-to-achieve-high-code-maintainability/ How we reduced latency and cost-to-serve by merging two systems https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog/2020/reducing-latency-and-cost-for-identity-services Is Remote Work Greener? We Calculated Buffer’s Carbon Footprint to Find Out https://open.buffer.com/carbon-footprint/ Clean Code: The Manager’s Guide to Building Quality Software https://codingsans.com/blog/clean-code Failed #SquadGoals https://www.jeremiahlee.com/posts/failed-squad-goals/ Valve’s Proton project has brought 6,500 Windows games to Linux so far https://www.techspot.com/amp/news/84909-valve-proton-has-brought-6500-windows-games-linux.html ...

10 Things I Hate About Remote Work- Part One https://www.learntoscale.us/thought-bubbles/10-things-i-hate-about-remote-work-part-one From 48k lines of code to 10—the story of GitHub’s JavaScript SDK https://github.blog/2020-04-09-from-48k-lines-of-code-to-10-the-story-of-githubs-javascript-sdk/ Ride Down Into JavaScript Dependency Hell https://blog.appsignal.com/2020/04/09/ride-down-the-javascript-dependency-hell.html Kubernetes Security https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/04/kubernetes_secu.html Business as Abnormal: Every Message We’ve Shared With Our Team (So Far) During COVID-19 https://open.buffer.com/covid19/ Lessons from 6 software rewrite stories https://medium.com/@herbcaudill/lessons-from-6-software-rewrite-stories-635e4c8f7c22 How often does Rust change? https://words.steveklabnik.com/how-often-does-rust-change Contact Tracing COVID-19 Infections via Smartphone Apps https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/04/contact_tracing.html Hacklang at Slack: A Better PHP https://slack.engineering/hacklang-at-slack-a-better-php-65f239cbc9e9 When should I write an Architecture Decision Record? https://labs.spotify.com/2020/04/14/when-should-i-write-an-architecture-decision-record/ ...

Swift: Google’s bet on differentiable programming https://tryolabs.com/blog/2020/04/02/swift-googles-bet-on-differentiable-programming/ Register now for the DevOps Online Summit 2020! https://www.devopsonlinesummit.com/2020 getlon.lat — Help! I need a geocoder. https://getlon.lat/ A Day in the Life of a Backend Product Engineer at Slack* https://slack.engineering/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-backend-product-engineer-at-slack-e786a8a08fc4 Build versus buy. https://lethain.com/build-vs-buy/ 3 steps for leaders to take in emergencies https://larahogan.me/blog/3-steps-for-leaders-in-emergencies/ Paper debugging https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/paper-debugging/ 10 Things I Hate About PostgreSQL https://medium.com/@rbranson/10-things-i-hate-about-postgresql-20dbab8c2791 Knative https://knative.dev/ Apple, Amazon, and Common Enemies https://stratechery.com/2020/apple-amazon-and-common-enemies/ All Microsoft events will be held online until July 2021 https://www.siliconrepublic.com/companies/microsoft-events-held-online-july-2021 Announcing the Compose Specification https://www.docker.com/blog/announcing-the-compose-specification/ ...

Goto: A Dozen New Masterclasses Are Now LIVE! https://blog.gotocon.com/2020/04/02/a-dozen-new-masterclasses-are-now-live/ Changing the Approach to Debugging in Ruby with TracePoint https://blog.appsignal.com/2020/04/01/changing-the-approach-to-debugging-in-ruby-with-tracepoint.html AppSignal Now Supports Node.js: Roadmap for the Coming Weeks https://blog.appsignal.com/2020/04/01/appsignal-now-supports-node-roadmap-for-the-coming-weeks.html Code Search for Google open source projects https://opensource.googleblog.com/2020/04/code-search-for-google-open-source.html Why You Should Ignore All That Coronavirus-Inspired Productivity Pressure https://www.chronicle.com/article/Why-You-Should-Ignore-All-That/248366/ See Everyone with the Google Meet Grid View Extension https://www.controlaltachieve.com/2020/03/meet-grid-view.html Optimizing Ruby Lazy Initialization in TruffleRuby with Deoptimization https://engineering.shopify.com/blogs/engineering/optimizing-ruby-lazy-initialization-in-truffleruby-with-deoptimization Eclipse Theia Offers a ‘True Open Source Alternative to Visual Studio Code’ https://thenewstack.io/eclipse-theia-offers-a-true-open-source-alternative-to-visual-studio-code/ ...