Friday Links

GNOME and KDE to co-host the Linux App Summit in November https://lwn.net/Articles/795116/ What webmasters should know about Google’s “core updates” https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2019/08/core-updates.html Disasterpiece Theater: Slack’s process for approachable Chaos Engineering https://slack.engineering/disasterpiece-theater-slacks-process-for-approachable-chaos-engineering-3434422afb54 Facebook Plans on Backdooring WhatsApp https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/08/facebook_plans_.html Inspection without adaptation is pointless in Scrum https://medium.com/@ullizee/inspection-without-adaptation-is-pointless-in-scrum-492679711bf6 The Ethics of Web Performance https://timkadlec.com/remembers/2019-01-09-the-ethics-of-performance/ Square’s Growth Framework for Engineers and Engineering Managers https://developer.squareup.com/blog/squares-growth-framework-for-engineers-and-engineering-managers/ The Management Bit https://avivbenyosef.com/the-management-bit/ A new way to unify app and website measurement in Google Analytics https://www.blog.google/products/marketingplatform/analytics/new-way-unify-app-and-website-measurement-google-analytics/ Work/life/Skyscanner: Stephen Hailey, full stack engineer https://medium.com/@SkyscannerEng/work-life-skyscanner-stephen-hailey-full-stack-engineer-21d292c5e013 An Introduction to Structured Data at Etsy https://codeascraft.com/2019/07/31/an-introduction-to-structured-data-at-etsy/ Fast and flexible observability with canonical log lines https://stripe.com/fr/blog/canonical-log-lines SOLID Design: The Open-Close Principle (OCP) https://blog.ndepend.com/solid-design-the-open-close-principle-ocp/ For Startups, Giving Up Control Is Key to Creating Value https://www.strategy-business.com/blog/For-Startups-Giving-Up-Control-Is-Key-to-Creating-Value?gko=5ad79 https://www.marshall.usc.edu/sites/default/files/nwasserm/intellcont/Wasserman-2017-Strategic_Management_Journal-1.pdf What Happened When Our Team Switched to Only Asynchronous Meetings https://open.buffer.com/asynchronous-meetings/ How a Basic Income Program Saved a Namibian Village https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/a-new-approach-to-aid-how-a-basic-income-program-saved-a-namibian-village-a-642310.html GitHub starts blocking developers in countries facing US trade sanctions (ZDNet) https://lwn.net/Articles/794752/rss We gamified our bug-tracking process, and now our backlog is zero https://www.atlassian.com/blog/statuspage/how-to-gamify-bug-tracking Podcasts The Big Pivot w/Slack’s Stewart Butterfield https://pca.st/18rY

Feature toggle life time – best practiceshttps://www.unleash-hosted.com/articles/feature-toggle-life-time-best-practices How to be an effective leader, according to Googlehttps://www.atlassian.com/blog/leadership/qualities-of-an-effective-leader Slacking on securityhttps://www.jwz.org/blog/2019/07/slacking-on-security/ New information about Slack’s 2015 security incidenthttps://slackhq.com/new-information-2015-incident Taming the ‘Fear of Missing Out’: How We Create a Retreat-From-Home Experience For Those Who Can’t Make Ithttps://open.buffer.com/retreat-from-home/ When a rewrite isn’t: rebuilding Slack on the desktop https://slack.engineering/rebuilding-slack-on-the-desktop-308d6fe94ae4 10x Managers Supermanagers https://www.fellow.app/blog/2019/10x-managers-supermanagers/ Spidey-Sense https://randsinrepose.com/archives/spidey-sense/ Is Trump Still President (As A Service) https://istrumpstillpresident.io/ Google for Nigeria: making our products more helpful to more people https://www.blog.google/around-the-globe/google-africa/google-nigeria/ AWS launches a new tool to help you optimize your EC2 resources https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/23/aws-launches-a-new-tool-to-help-you-optimize-your-ec2-resources/ Introducing Fedora CoreOS https://fedoramagazine.org/introducing-fedora-coreos/ Test && Commit || Revert (TCR) https://www.davidtanzer.net/david’s%20blog/2019/03/06/test-commit-revert.html Attorney General William Barr on Encryption Policy https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/07/attorney_genera_1.html Asynchronous State Replication https://tech.xing.com/asynchronous-state-replication-9e504aeac0de Science and Software Development http://www.davefarley.net/?p=278 Software Developers and Security https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/07/software_develo.html AWS gets a chatbot https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/25/aws-gets-a-chatbot/ Product Teams Need More Than Traditional Analytics https://amplitude.com/blog/beyond-traditional-analytics Feedback Timeliness https://avivbenyosef.com/feedback-timeliness/ ...

5 Steps to Become More Comfortable Using Data https://amplitude.com/blog/5-steps-to-become-more-comfortable-using-data Managing technical debt https://18f.gsa.gov/2015/10/05/managing-technical-debt/ What is technical debt? https://18f.gsa.gov/2015/09/04/what-is-technical-debt/ It can’t be left to Europe’s cities to clean up noxious air https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jul/12/europe-toxic-air-madrid?CMP=share_btn_tw Working Fast and Slow https://hackernoon.com/working-fast-and-slow-efc3c48dae31 Am I micromanaging my team? https://m.signalvnoise.com/am-i-micromanaging-my-team/ How we keep Search relevant and useful https://www.blog.google/products/search/how-we-keep-google-search-relevant-and-useful/ JavaScript Iterators and Iterables https://blog.appsignal.com/2019/07/16/javascript-iterators-and-iterables.html Who’s afraid of a big bad optimizing compiler? https://lwn.net/Articles/793253/ What is Silverblue? https://fedoramagazine.org/what-is-silverblue/ Two Years Ago, We Started Building a Product that Now Earns Over $500,000. Here’s How We Did it. https://open.buffer.com/buffer-analyze-journey/ Zoom Vulnerability https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/07/zoom_vulnerabil.html Google’s Project Dragonfly ’terminated’ in China https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-49015516 Code Review: Create The Culture, Learn The Best Practices https://codingsans.com/blog/code-review Protecting private browsing in Chrome https://www.blog.google/outreach-initiatives/google-news-initiative/protecting-private-browsing-chrome/ What you should really measure in your annual performance reviews (and why) https://www.atlassian.com/blog/hr-teams/our-performance-reviews-framework ...

It’s high time to rewrite the hiring script https://m.signalvnoise.com/its-high-time-to-rewrite-the-hiring-script/ Drowning in a Fountain of Knowledge https://avivbenyosef.com/drowning-in-a-fountain-of-knowledge/ PM “Responsibilities” ? https://medium.com/@johnpcutler/pm-responsibilities-75c4ac9dbb95 Applied Cryptography is Banned in Oregon Prisons https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/07/applied_cryptog_2.html The hardest leadership advice to follow https://m.signalvnoise.com/the-hardest-leadership-advice-to-follow/ Expediting Data Fixes and Data Migrations https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog/2019/expediting-data-fixes-migrations Bug bounties and NDAs are an option, not the standard https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/52432.html RFC-115 Some Network Information Center Policies on Handling Documents https://write.as/365-rfcs/rfc-115 Announcing Docsy: A Website Theme for Technical Documentation https://opensource.googleblog.com/2019/07/announcing-docsy-website-theme-for.html Announcing “Shape Up”, a deep dive into how we work https://m.signalvnoise.com/announcing-shape-up-a-deep-dive-into-how-we-work/ Leverage? No thank you. https://m.signalvnoise.com/leverage-no-thank-you/ Infinite work is less work http://blogs.perl.org/users/damian_conway/2019/07/infinite-work-is-less-work.html Skyscanner and AWS: cloudy, with a chance of lessons learnt https://medium.com/@SkyscannerEng/skyscanner-and-aws-cloudy-with-a-chance-of-lessons-learnt-e5b8b70b0d2e ...

GOTCHA: Taking phishing to a whole new level https://medium.com/intigriti/gotcha-taking-phishing-to-a-whole-new-level-72eda9e30bef Which smart bulbs should you buy (from a security perspective) https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/51910.html FreeDOS turns 25 years old: An origin story https://opensource.com/article/19/6/freedos-anniversary How to speak Silicon Valley: 53 essential tech-bro terms explaine https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/26/how-to-speak-silicon-valley-decoding-tech-bros-from-microdosing-to-privacy Creating a career ladder for engineers - Marco Rogers https://youtu.be/jA1Q94d2z10 Formalizing the Robots Exclusion Protocol Specification https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2019/07/rep-id.html Google’s robots.txt parser is now open source https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2019/07/repp-oss.html A note on unsupported rules in robots.txt https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2019/07/a-note-on-unsupported-rules-in-robotstxt.html Get to insights quicker with Data Studio’s new home page https://www.blog.google/products/marketingplatform/analytics/get-insights-quicker-data-studios-new-home-page/ Google tweaked algorithm after rise in US shootings https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jul/02/google-tweaked-algorithm-after-rise-in-us-shootings Brewing our own Template Lexer in Ruby https://blog.appsignal.com/2019/07/02/ruby-magic-brewing-our-own-template-lexer-in-ruby.html Els Mossos i l’Institut Cartogràfic presenten un visor amb dades delinqüencials de Catalunya https://govern.cat/salapremsa/notes-premsa/367724/mossos-institut-cartografic-presenten-visor-dades-delinquencials-catalunya https://visors.icgc.cat/mapa-delinquencial/#7.55/41.602/1.239 https://github.com/gencat/ICGC-mapa-delinquencial C# or Java? TypeScript or JavaScript? Machine learning based classification of programming languages https://github.blog/2019-07-02-c-or-java-typescript-or-javascript-machine-learning-based-classification-of-programming-languages/ “Testing” Structure Changes https://medium.com/@kentbeck_7670/testing-structure-changes-d8d01f65b64e Curiosity as a Service — Literally https://medium.com/@kentbeck_7670/curiosity-as-a-service-literally-1f4f6309fae5 US Journalist Detained When Returning to US https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/07/us_journalist_d.html ...