Friday Links

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/ ...

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 ...

How to write Javascript in Rails 6 | Webpacker, Yarn and Sprockets https://blog.capsens.eu/how-to-write-javascript-in-rails-6-webpacker-yarn-and-sprockets-cdf990387463 Scaling Ruby Apps to 1000 Requests per Minute - A Beginner’s Guide https://www.speedshop.co/2015/07/29/scaling-ruby-apps-to-1000-rpm.html Great Teams Break the “Rules” All the Time https://cutle.fish/blog/breaking-the-rules Reviewing Pull Requests https://chelseatroy.com/2019/12/18/reviewing-pull-requests/ Programming Languages To Learn In 2020 https://dev.to/zaiste/programming-languages-to-learn-in-2020-to-boost-your-career-as-a-software-developer-56ll The Skip-level 1-1 https://jwongworks.com/blog/2019/4/16/the-skip-level-1-1 Organizational Charts https://bonkersworld.net/organizational-charts Podcasts / YouTube Remote Work with Philip Thomas https://pca.st/4zsvl5vw Basic Income with Floyd Marinescu https://pca.st/b3crnyxu Things https://pca.st/9jv9zw21 GitLab Engineering with Marin Jankovski https://pca.st/zw433gam Technical Debt https://pca.st/tcer09vd #139 – Pursuing a Mission While Bootstrapping to Millions with John O’Nolan of Ghost https://pca.st/mxapn3pc ...

RedoxOS: Real hardware breakthroughs, and focusing on rustc https://www.redox-os.org/news/focusing-on-rustc/ OOP Refactoring: from a god class to smaller objects https://blog.arkency.com/oop-refactoring-from-a-god-class-to-smaller-objects/ PHP 7.4.0 released https://lwn.net/Articles/805975/ A Distributed Meeting Primer https://randsinrepose.com/archives/a-distributed-meeting-primer/ The Evolution of Onboarding at Buffer: How We Welcome New Teammates https://open.buffer.com/onboarding/ Open-Sourcing Metaflow, a Human-Centric Framework for Data Science https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/open-sourcing-metaflow-a-human-centric-framework-for-data-science-fa72e04a5d9 Testing on the Toilet: Tests Too DRY? Make Them DAMP! https://testing.googleblog.com/2019/12/testing-on-toilet-tests-too-dry-make.html RSA-240 Factored https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/12/rsa-240_factore.html AWS has new tool for those leaky S3 buckets so, yeah, you might need to reconfigure a few things https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/12/03/aws_s3_buckets/ ...

Notes on Building Evolutionary Architectures. https://lethain.com/building-evolutionary-architectures/ 7 leadership lessons over 2.5 years https://m.signalvnoise.com/7-leadership-lessons-over-2-5-years/ Test Flakiness – Methods for identifying and dealing with flaky tests https://labs.spotify.com/2019/11/18/test-flakiness-methods-for-identifying-and-dealing-with-flaky-tests/ How we scaled our design system to unleash Skyscanner’s new brand https://medium.com/@SkyscannerEng/how-we-scaled-our-design-system-to-unleash-skyscanners-new-brand-845a1f501b0b Officevibe Just Got A Makeover – And It’s Making Room for Your Teams https://www.officevibe.com/blog/officevibe-makeover-teams How to Play Windows-only Games on Linux with Steam Play https://itsfoss.com/steam-play/ The Fallacy of needing a technical manager https://unwiredcouch.com/2019/11/19/technical-manager.html Hey Google, play me the news https://www.blog.google/products/news/your-news-update/ Blade Runner Day https://www.jwz.org/blog/2019/11/blade-runner-day/ ...