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Do This Now: 8 Ways to Focus your Product Team on Impact, Not Features https://amplitude.com/blog/focus-product-team-on-impact To sell your car faster, take a side picture first! https://medium.com/letgo/if-you-want-to-sell-your-car-you-should-take-a-side-picture-first-1cfa80c0e45e Journey to Product Teams (Infographic) https://amplitude.com/blog/journey-to-product-teams-infographic Management in ten tweets https://medium.com/@marcprecipice/management-in-ten-tweets-5157dc4bdcad Git v2.24.0 https://github.blog/2019-11-03-highlights-from-git-2-24/ Forecasting synthetic metrics. https://lethain.com/forecasting-synthetic-metrics/ How to Read Performance Metrics in AppSignal https://blog.appsignal.com/2019/11/05/how-to-read-appsignal-performance-metrics.html Identifying buggy patches with machine learning https://lwn.net/Articles/803695/ Wil Wheaton: The Purge. http://wilwheaton.net/2019/11/the-purge/ Pack Your Bags – Systemd Is Taking You To A New Home https://hackaday.com/2019/10/16/pack-your-bags-systemd-is-taking-you-to-a-new-home/ Microsoft Japan tested a four-day work week and productivity jumped by 40% https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/nov/04/microsoft-japan-four-day-work-week-productivity ...

Dark Web Site Taken Down without Breaking Encryption https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/10/dark_web_site_t.html Cycling through all the streets in central London http://davis.vilums.me/all-the-streets/ How the Internet Archive is Digitizing LPs to Preserve Generations of Audio https://www.jwz.org/blog/2019/10/how-the-internet-archive-is-digitizing-lps-to-preserve-generations-of-audio/ Organic Software Architecture https://dev.to/kmruiz/organic-software-architecture-3548 We Tried ‘Half-Day Fridays.’ Here’s How It Went. https://open.buffer.com/half-day-fridays/ Vint Cerf’s top moments from 50 years of the Internet https://www.blog.google/inside-google/googlers/vint-cerf-top-moments-50-years-internet/ Linus Torvalds: ‘I’m not a programmer anymore’ https://www.zdnet.com/article/linus-torvalds-im-not-a-programmer-anymore/ Is Google’s new BERT technology another nail in traditional SEO’s coffin? https://econsultancy.com/googles-bert-algorithm-seo-dead/ Carbon Offsetting: What Is It, and Does It Even Work? https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/pa78d7/carbon-offsetting-what-is-it-and-does-it-even-work ...

Announcing our acquisition of Code Barrel, makers of Automation for Jira https://www.atlassian.com/blog/announcements/welcome-code-barrel-automation-for-jira Seniority for Software Engineers: a Tech Talk https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/seniority-tech-talk/ Letting Birds scooters fly free https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/53258.html Client Consistency at Slack: Beyond Libslack https://slack.engineering/client-consistency-at-slack-beyond-libslack-c9cfbe778fb7 PostgreSQL Connection Pooling: Part 1 – Pros & Cons http://highscalability.com/blog/2019/10/18/postgresql-connection-pooling-part-1-pros-cons.html Learnings from the journey to continuous deployment https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog/2019/learnings-from-the-journey-to-continuous-deployment Do Software Developers Normally Code on Weekends? Work-life Balance and Overtime in the Tech Industry https://codeahoy.com/2019/10/19/do-software-developers-work-weekends-work-life-tech/ Towards a Culture of Teams https://agileoutloud.wordpress.com/2019/10/17/towards-a-culture-of-teams/ Skip level meetings: What they are, and exactly how to run them https://m.signalvnoise.com/skip-level-meetings-what-they-are-and-exactly-how-to-run-them/ ...

Vulcain https://github.com/dunglas/vulcain Software Architecture is Overrated, Clear and Simple Design is Underrated https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/software-architecture-is-overrated/ How We Run Hack Week on a Remote Team https://open.buffer.com/hack-week-remote/ The 5 mistakes you’re likely making in your one-on-one meetings with direct reports https://m.signalvnoise.com/the-5-mistakes-youre-likely-making-in-your-one-on-one-meetings-with-direct-reports/ Debugging hidden memory leaks in Ruby https://samsaffron.com/archive/2019/10/08/debugging-unmanaged-and-hidden-memory-leaks-in-ruby Nobody cares about quality. https://lethain.com/nobody-cares-about-quality/ How to start blogging https://letterstoanewdeveloper.com/2019/10/14/how-to-start-blogging/ Perl 6 renamed to Raku https://lwn.net/Articles/802329/ Cracking the Passwords of Early Internet Pioneers https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/10/cracking_the_pa.html The lines of code that changed everything https://www.jwz.org/blog/2019/10/the-lines-of-code-that-changed-everything/ Basecamp no longer requires Google for two-factor authentication https://m.signalvnoise.com/basecamp-no-longer-requires-google-for-two-factor-authentication/ Launching JavaScript Error Tracking v1.0. https://blog.appsignal.com/2019/10/16/javascript-error-tracking-launch.html JavaScript Errors: An Exceptional History https://blog.appsignal.com/2019/10/17/javascript-errors-an-exceptional-history.html ...

Understanding Scheduling Behavior with SchedViz (Google Open Source Blog) https://lwn.net/Articles/802022 BPF at Facebook (and beyond) https://lwn.net/Articles/801871 A forty year career. https://lethain.com/forty-year-career/ Announcing The Buffer Overflow Podcast https://overflow.buffer.com/2019/10/07/announcing-the-buffer-overflow-podcast/ The guide to workplace communication channels you didn’t know you needed https://www.atlassian.com/blog/teamwork/choosing-communication-channels-workplace Questions to Ask a CEO to Ensure a Healthy Company Culture https://getlighthouse.com/blog/questions-to-ask-a-ceo-healthy-culture/ Timely: Google Posts H1 Tag Video After H1 SEO Controversy https://www.seroundtable.com/amp/google-posts-h1-tag-video-after-h1-seo-controversy-28325.html Investigating the security of Lime scooters https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/53024.html No More Mixed Messages About HTTPS https://security.googleblog.com/2019/10/no-more-mixed-messages-about-https_3.html Podcasts & YouTube The Toolbox Fallacy https://youtu.be/sz4YqwH_6D0 ...