Friday Links

Self-made superheroes and street naps: Manila – a cartoon https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/apr/12/self-made-superheroes-and-street-naps-manila-a-cartoon-marius-black Technical Skills https://ronjeffries.com/articles/019-01ff/tech-skills/ Software Engineeringat Google https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1702/1702.01715.pdf Research: Why Managers Ignore Employees’ Ideas https://hbr.org/2019/04/research-why-managers-ignore-employees-ideas The Agile Crisis — a Primer https://medium.com/@wischweh/the-agile-crisis-2016-9fb1c2f52af5 The tax you are paying for using Scrum https://medium.com/@aevitas/the-tax-you-are-paying-for-using-scrum-50f12298b422 Google makes the power of BigQuery available in Sheets https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/10/google-makes-the-power-of-bigquery-available-in-sheets/ The 9 mistakes you don’t know you’re making as a new manager https://m.signalvnoise.com/the-9-mistakes-you-dont-know-youre-making-as-a-new-manager/ Infocom https://www.jwz.org/blog/2019/04/infocom/ Zork Text https://zork.glitch.me/ How To Grow as An Engineering Manager in 7 Steps https://medium.com/@inowland/how-to-grow-as-an-engineering-manager-in-7-steps-a1bf4dcf5e78 Rage Against the Codebase: Programmers and Negativity https://medium.com/@way/rage-against-the-codebase-programmers-and-negativity-d7d6b968e5f3 Overhead? Maybe not. https://ronjeffries.com/articles/019-01ff/overhead/ Meetings Are Not For You http://randsinrepose.com/archives/meetings-are-not-for-you/ How To Deliver Software Without Deadlines https://medium.com/@jproco/how-to-deliver-software-without-deadlines-872f8eb244b0

From bare-metal to Kubernetes http://highscalability.com/blog/2019/4/8/from-bare-metal-to-kubernetes.html Major Browsers to Prevent Disabling of Click Tracking Privacy Risk https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/major-browsers-to-prevent-disabling-of-click-tracking-privacy-risk/ To innovate, first deprecate. https://lethain.com/innovate-deprecate/ Magnitudes of exploration. https://lethain.com/magnitudes-of-exploration/ Why Setting Ambitious Goals Backfires https://wistia.com/learn/culture/why-setting-ambitious-goals-backfires Having it both ways: Larry Wall, Perl and the technology and culture of the early web https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/24701475.2018.1495810 trailblazer http://trailblazer.to/ The 70-20-10 Rule for Innovation https://www.innovationexcellence.com/blog/2018/09/20/the-70-20-10-rule-for-innovation/ The new and improved Jira Software Cloud and GitHub integration https://www.atlassian.com/blog/jira-software/github-for-jira Developers love Python and TypeScript, get paid for Clojure, and aren’t using blockchain https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/04/developers-love-python-and-typescript-get-paid-for-clojure-and-arent-using-blockchain/ StackOverflow: Developer Survey Results https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019 Gmail making email more secure with MTA-STS standard https://security.googleblog.com/2019/04/gmail-making-email-more-secure-with-mta.html Confluence Cloud reimagined: 15+ new features (and counting!) https://www.atlassian.com/blog/confluence/confluence-cloud-15-new-features Search Console reporting for your site’s Discover performance data https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2019/04/search-console-reporting-for-your-sites.html Malicious remote code execution backdoor discovered in the popular bootstrap-sass Ruby gem https://snyk.io/blog/malicious-remote-code-execution-backdoor-discovered-in-the-popular-bootstrap-sass-ruby-gem/ How Banksy Authenticates His Work https://reprage.com/post/how-banksy-authenticates-his-work Subscription Hostages https://m.signalvnoise.com/subscription-hostages/ Native image lazy-loading for the web! https://addyosmani.com/blog/lazy-loading/ ...

The Programming Language Conundrum http://evrl.com/programming/2019/03/28/the-language-conundrum.html Compile-time Dependency Injection With Go Cloud’s Wire https://blog.golang.org/wire Software Roles and Titles https://medium.com/javascript-scene/software-roles-and-titles-e3f0b69c410c Ruby Object Mapper is an open-source persistence and mapping toolkit for Ruby built for speed and simplicity. https://rom-rb.org/ dry-rb is a collection of next-generation Ruby libraries https://dry-rb.org/ Why I stuck with Windows for 6 years while developing Discourse https://samsaffron.com/archive/2019/03/31/why-i-stuck-with-windows-for-6-years-while-developing-discourse Technical Debt? Probably not. https://ronjeffries.com/articles/019-01ff/tech-debt/ Our Latest Pay Analysis: Examining Buffer’s Gender Pay Gap in 2019 https://open.buffer.com/gender-pay-gap-2019/ AppSignal: Memory Magic Dashboard https://blog.appsignal.com/2019/03/29/memory-magic-dashboard.html Elastic Barcelona Spring Meetup https://www.meetup.com/Barcelona-Elastic-Fantastics/events/260088377/ Former Mozilla CTO Harassed at the US Border https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/04/former_mozilla_.html Working together when we’re not together https://www.blog.google/inside-google/working-google/working-together-when-were-not-together/ 2019 PostgreSQL Trends Report: Private vs. Public Cloud, Migrations, Database Combinations & Top Reasons Used http://highscalability.com/blog/2019/4/3/2019-postgresql-trends-report-private-vs-public-cloud-migrat.html Refactoring Backend Engineering Hiring at Slack https://slack.engineering/refactoring-backend-engineering-hiring-at-slack-b53b1e0e7a3c YAGNI, yes. Skimping, no. Technical Debt? Not even. https://ronjeffries.com/articles/019-01ff/iter-yagni-skimp/ New versions of Rails, optimizer hints, ROFL, and more https://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2019/4/2/this-week-in-rails-new-versions-of-rails-optimizer-hints-rofl-and-more/ Building a self-served ETL pipeline for third-party data ingestion https://medium.com/@SkyscannerEng/building-a-self-served-etl-pipeline-for-third-party-data-ingestion-3959eab6840b Hacking Instagram to Get Free Meals in Exchange for Positive Reviews https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/04/hacking_instagr.html Learning by building, a Background Processing System in Ruby https://blog.appsignal.com/2019/04/02/background-processing-system-in-ruby.html Reflectly — From React Native to Flutter https://medium.com/reflectly-engineering/reflectly-from-react-native-to-flutter-2e3dffced2ea Dependency Injection Containers vs Hard-coded Constants https://www.rubypigeon.com/posts/dependency_injection_containers_vs_hardcoded_constants/ RODA: A Modular, Scalable Ruby Framework http://roda.jeremyevans.net/

A new app to map and monitor the world’s freshwater supply https://www.blog.google/products/earth/new-app-map-and-monitor-worlds-freshwater-supply/ How to create the work schedule of your dreams https://www.atlassian.com/blog/productivity/compressed-work-week-how-to Building Spotify’s New Web Player https://labs.spotify.com/2019/03/25/building-spotifys-new-web-player/ Mobile Jazz: Creativity Without Borders - A New Vision For Mobile Working https://mobilejazz.com/company-handbook New data tools from the Google News Initiative, built for publishers https://www.blog.google/outreach-initiatives/google-news-initiative/new-data-tools-google-news-initiative-built-publishers/ Introducing Magic Dashboards https://blog.appsignal.com/2019/03/27/magic-dashboards.html Programmers Who Don’t Understand Security Are Poor at Security https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/03/programmers_who.html Take action and stay up-to-date with dynamic email in Gmail https://www.blog.google/products/gmail/take-action-and-stay-up-to-date-with-dynamic-email-in-gmail/ Highlights from Slack’s March Growth Meetup https://slack.engineering/highlights-from-slacks-march-growth-meetup-5686936ddc09 “Three-C’s Revisited” https://ronjeffries.com/articles/019-01ff/3cs-revisited/ Apple News+ Guide: Everything You Need to Know https://www.macrumors.com/guide/apple-news-plus/ Simplicity, Please - A Manifesto for Software Development https://www.infoq.com/articles/simplicity-manifesto-development

Let’s try dwm — dynamic window manger https://fedoramagazine.org/lets-try-dwm-dynamic-window-manger/ MySpace lost all music uploaded from 2003 to 2015 https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/b2381s/myspace_lost_all_music_uploaded_from_2003_to_2015/ Year 1 of GDPR: Over 200,000 cases reported, firms fined €56 meeelli… Oh, that’s mostly Google https://www.theregister.co.uk/AMP/2019/03/14/more_than_200000_gdpr_cases_in_the_first_year_55m_in_fines/ AppSignal: Revamped dashboards! https://blog.appsignal.com/2019/03/21/revamped-dashboards.html The next chapter for GDPR compliance https://www.atlassian.com/blog/platform/the-next-chapter-for-gdpr-compliance International Docking Standard dot com https://www.jwz.org/blog/2019/03/international-docking-standard-dot-com/ A scary side of ActiveRecord’s find https://blog.arkency.com/a-scary-side-of-activerecords-find/ Great minds don’t always think alike. Or, how to build a culture of respectful dissent https://www.atlassian.com/blog/leadership/respectful-dissent