A combination of holidays and everybody posting interesting stuff at the same time created a very long list. YouTube and podcast links are grouped at the bottom.
The usual disclaimer: links are included because I find them interesting, not necessarily because I fully agree with the content.
Topics are usually a mix of software engineering, management, security, urbanism and general nerd interest. Understanding Agile with Complete Rate
https://yiming.dev/clipping/2019/08/07/understanding-agile-with-complete-rate/
5 Ways Founders Wreck Their Company Culture (and How to Create a Great Company Culture Instead)
https://getlighthouse.com/blog/great-company-culture/
A Tale of Two Data Teams
https://amplitude.com/blog/a-tale-of-two-data-teams
Night owl or early bird? Take this quiz to discover how your chronotype affects your job
https://www.atlassian.com/blog/productivity/what-is-a-chronotype-quiz
In the Name of Love
https://slate.com/technology/2014/01/do-what-you-love-love-what-you-do-an-omnipresent-mantra-thats-bad-for-work-and-workers.html
Why everything breaks when you reach 25 employees
https://getlighthouse.com/blog/company-growth-everything-breaks-25-employees/
We Launched a Mastermind Partnership Program To Connect Teammates – Here’s How We Did it
https://open.buffer.com/masterminds/
Why Speed Kills Cities
https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2019/08/low-speed-limit-vehicle-safety-crash-data-traffic-congestion/588412/
When indexing goes wrong: how Google Search recovered from indexing issues & lessons learned since.
https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2019/08/when-indexing-goes-wrong-how-google.html
Are SOLID principles Cargo Cult? https://blog.ndepend.com/are-solid-principles-cargo-cult/
Exploiting GDPR to Get Private Information
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/08/exploiting_gdpr.html
Buffer’s Evolution and Expansion https://open.buffer.com/buffers-evolution-and-expansion/
Four Ways to Lead Your Software Team to Success
https://hackernoon.com/four-ways-to-lead-software-team-to-success-43fa156719b4
Detecting and Preventing Abuse on LinkedIn Using Isolation Forests https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog/2019/isolation-forest
How Does Utilization Impact Lead-time of Work? https://observablehq.com/@troymagennis/how-does-utilization-impact-lead-time-of-work
Data Hub: A Generalized Metadata Search & Discovery Tool
https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog/2019/data-hub
New Research: Lessons from Password Checkup in action https://security.googleblog.com/2019/08/new-research-lessons-from-password.html
Rails 6.0: Action Mailbox, Action Text, Multiple DBs, Parallel Testing, Webpacker by default, and Zeitwerk
https://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2019/8/15/Rails-6-0-final-release/
What does success look like?
https://zef.me/what-does-success-look-like-590f775b7b58
Describing fault domains.
https://lethain.com/fault-domains/
PHP and P++
https://lwn.net/Articles/796214/
Patch Workflow With Mutt - 2019
http://kroah.com/log/blog/2019/08/14/patch-workflow-with-mutt-2019/
Management Area 4: People — Managing to Motivations
https://medium.com/@inowland/management-area-4-people-subpart-2-managing-to-motivations-148244bbb0d9
SOLID Design: The Interface Segregation Principle (ISP)
https://blog.ndepend.com/solid-design-the-interface-segregation-principle-isp/
Cleaning Up Ruby Strings 13 Times Faster
https://blog.appsignal.com/2019/08/20/clean-up-strings.html
Evaluating Language Adoption At Scale
https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog/2019/language-adoption
Some Thoughts on Estimation
https://ronjeffries.com/articles/019-01ff/estimation-again/Index.html
Ishkur’s Guide to Electronic Music
https://www.jwz.org/blog/2019/08/ishkurs-guide-to-electronic-music/
Backdoor code found in 11 Ruby libraries
https://www.zdnet.com/article/backdoor-code-found-in-11-ruby-libraries/
The thud, thud, thud of techno music leaves no space for bad thoughts
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/aug/23/no-space-bad-thoughts-with-techno-playlist
License Plate “NULL”
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/08/license_plate_n.html
New Sample Page Graphs and Navigation
https://blog.appsignal.com/2019/08/27/new-sample-navigation.html
SOLID Design: The Dependency Inversion Principle (DIP)
https://blog.ndepend.com/solid-design-the-dependency-inversion-principle-dip/
Type Checking in Ruby — Check Yo Self Before You Wreck Yo Self
https://blog.appsignal.com/2019/08/27/ruby-magic-type-checking-in-ruby.html
The problem with tooltips and what to do instead
https://adamsilver.io/articles/the-problem-with-tooltips-and-what-to-do-instead/
Feature-less Roadmap: The Balance Between Delivering Concrete Features vs. Planning with High-level Themes
https://amplitude.com/blog/feature-less-roadmap
How should you structure your engineering team?
https://www.atlassian.com/blog/technology/engineering-team-structure
Don’t get locked up into avoiding lock-in
https://martinfowler.com/articles/oss-lockin.html
Is Perl 6 Being Renamed?
http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2019/08/is-perl-6-being-renamed.html
npm bans terminal ads
https://www.zdnet.com/google-amp/article/npm-bans-terminal-ads/
The strange fate of a person falling into a black hole
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150525-a-black-hole-would-clone-you
Our ‘Growth Mindset’ Fund Gives Every Teammate $800/Year – Here’s How and Why
https://open.buffer.com/growth-mindset-fund/
Don’t @#$% the Planet
https://www.atlassian.com/blog/announcements/climate-strike
The Inherited Hook Method in Ruby - and More Parenting Lessons
https://blog.appsignal.com/2019/09/03/inherited-hook-method-and-parenting.html
Continuous Compliance
http://www.davefarley.net/?p=285
Firefox Update Automatically Blocks Third-Party Tracking For All Users
https://www.unilad.co.uk/technology/firefox-update-automatically-blocks-third-party-tracking-for-all-users/
Today in “IP Over Avian Carriers” news
https://www.jwz.org/blog/2019/09/today-in-ip-over-avian-carriers-news/
The Doghouse: Crown Sterling
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/09/the_doghouse_cr_1.html
Four key metrics
https://www.thoughtworks.com/radar/techniques/four-key-metrics
Reaching new heights in the cloud
https://www.atlassian.com/blog/platform/cloud-premium
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