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How to survive isolation with your roommates, your partner, your kids – and yourself https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/mar/17/self-isolation-survival-guide-relationships-coronavirus The Simplicity of Benjamin Franklin’s Daily Schedule https://thefocuscourse.com/franklin-schedule/ A Few Small Things You Can Do as a Leader https://randsinrepose.com/archives/a-few-small-things-you-can-do-as-a-leader/ Asynchronous Communication and Why It Matters For Remote Work https://open.buffer.com/asynchronous-communication/ Hotspotting developer productivity. https://lethain.com/hotspotting/ List of Free Software and Services During Coronavirus Outbreak https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/list-of-free-software-and-services-during-coronavirus-outbreak/ What the heck is Backstage anyway? https://labs.spotify.com/2020/03/17/what-the-heck-is-backstage-anyway/ Facade Pattern in Rails for Performance and Maintainability https://blog.appsignal.com/2020/03/18/facade-pattern-in-rails-for-performance-and-maintainability.html Atlassian finally unleashes free Jira tier – nearly six months late yet just in time for coronavirus crunch https://www.theregister.co.uk/AMP/2020/03/19/atlassian_free_jira/ ...

pocket-reader.el https://github.com/alphapapa/pocket-reader.el retronym - Word of the Day : March 12, 2020 https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day/retronym-2020-03-12 TBM 11/53: The Know-It-All CEO https://cutlefish.substack.com/p/tbm-1153-the-know-it-all-ceo Why cycling in Palestine is an intensely political act https://www.theguardian.com/environment/bike-blog/2020/mar/10/why-cycling-in-palestine-is-an-intensely-political-act How to Break Apart a Rails Monolith https://kellysutton.com/2020/03/12/how-to-break-apart-a-rails-monolith.html One-track minds: Using AI for music source separation https://tech.fb.com/one-track-minds-using-ai-for-music-source-separation/ Atlassian brings rules-based automation to Jira Cloud https://venturebeat.com/2020/03/12/atlassian-brings-rules-based-automation-to-jira-cloud/ Powerful, no-code automation now available to all Jira Cloud customers https://www.atlassian.com/blog/jira-software/introducing-automation-in-jira DBT: Your entire analytics engineering workflow https://www.getdbt.com/ Amazon teases Bottlerocket, its take on Linux specifically for running containers https://www.theregister.co.uk/AMP/2020/03/11/amazon_launches_bottlerocket_new_linux_distro_for_running_containers/ ...

The Ultimate 1-on-1 Meeting Questions Template https://www.peoplebox.ai/t/one-on-one-meeting-template-manager-questions-list One-on-one questions https://one-on-ones.app/ How a 2 person startup already uses 28 other tools https://acrossapp.com/blog/how-a-2-person-startup-already-uses-28-other-tools Project LightSpeed: Rewriting the Messenger codebase for a faster, smaller, and simpler messaging app https://engineering.fb.com/data-infrastructure/messenger/ Wi-Fi Chip Vulnerability https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/03/wi-fi_chip_vuln.html From one to two: how to start a successful distributed engineering office. https://lethain.com/how-to-start-distributed-engineering-office/ World Bank staff call for canceling Spring Meetings — permanently https://www.devex.com/news/world-bank-staff-call-for-canceling-spring-meetings-permanently-96683 How did software get so reliable without proof? https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2020/03/02/how-did-software-get-so-reliable-without-proof/ The WHO sent 25 international experts to China and here are their main findings after 9 days https://www.reddit.com/r/China_Flu/comments/fbt49e/the_who_sent_25_international_experts_to_china/ Production Oriented Development https://paulosman.me/2019/12/30/production-oriented-development.html ...

Cloud Computing Is Not the Energy Hog That Had Been Feared https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/27/technology/cloud-computing-energy-usage.html Preparing for Coronavirus to Strike the U.S. https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/preparing-for-coronavirus-to-strike-the-u-s/ Google programming language scorecard: How C, C++, Dart, Rust, Go rate for Fuchsia https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-programming-language-scorecard-how-c-c-dart-rust-go-rate-for-fuchsia/ Introducing Hanami::API http://hanamirb.org/blog/2020/02/26/introducing-hanami-api.html Love it or hate it, Marmite is having a massive foodie moment https://www.theguardian.com/food/2020/feb/26/love-it-or-hate-it-marmite-is-having-a-massive-foodie-moment What is a Tech Lead? The 4 worst things about this promotion https://www.getclockwise.com/blog/what-is-a-tech-lead-the-4-worst-things-about-this-promotion Some MVP and Experiment Tips https://cutle.fish/blog/mvp-and-experiment-tips Second Sock Syndrome – What It Is and How to Fight It https://sheepamongwolves.net/2018/09/second-sock-syndrome-what-it-is-and-how-to-fight-it/ ...

Debian discusses how to handle 2038 https://lwn.net/Articles/812767/ The Pyramid of Unit Testing Benefits https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/unit-testing-benefits-pyramid/ Internet of Things Candle https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/02/internet_of_thi.html A Blueprint for Internal Open Source https://medium.com/@SkyscannerEng/a-blueprint-for-internal-open-source-7169745018c2 Open sourcing DataHub: LinkedIn’s metadata search and discovery platform https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog/2020/open-sourcing-datahub--linkedins-metadata-search-and-discovery-p Titan Security Keys - now available in Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland, and the UK https://security.googleblog.com/2020/02/titan-security-keys-now-available-in.html When To Be Concerned About Concerns https://blog.codeship.com/when-to-be-concerned-about-concerns/ About Rails concerns https://medium.com/@carlescliment/about-rails-concerns-a6b2f1776d7d Tech Debt Developer Survey Results 2020 - Impact on Retention https://codeahoy.com/2020/02/17/technical-debt-survey/ Survey results: What makes a company People-first? https://wildbit.com/blog/2020/02/17/what-makes-a-people-first-company ...