Friday Links

Announcing Bundler 2.0 https://bundler.io/blog/2019/01/03/announcing-bundler-2.html Incremental Development https://ronjeffries.com/articles/019-01ff/incremental/ Supporting people with disabilities: Be My Eyes and phone support now available https://www.blog.google/outreach-initiatives/accessibility/supporting-people-disabilities-be-my-eyes-and-phone-support-now-available/ How cognitive biases influence software development https://www.atlassian.com/blog/add-ons/how-cognitive-biases-influence-software-development Judging Facebook’s Privacy Shift https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/03/judging_faceboo.html Barcelona From Above https://www.behance.net/gallery/74468471/BARCELONA-FROM-ABOVE Basecamp outage: When it rains, it pours https://m.signalvnoise.com/basecamp-outage-when-it-rains-it-pours/ How much would you pay for Apple News? https://medium.com/enrique-dans/how-much-would-you-pay-for-apple-news-ce8d46949527 String of British firms switch over to four-day working week https://theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/12/string-of-british-firms-switch-over-to-four-day-working-week Can you describe what I’d need to do to buy a $50 book? https://twitter.com/patio11/status/1103903715046486016 https://twitter.com/redman/status/1105479002808967169 New – Open Distro for Elasticsearch https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-open-distro-for-elasticsearch/ Microsoft proves the critics right: We’re heading toward a Chrome-only Web https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/03/microsofts-new-skype-for-web-client-an-early-taste-of-the-browser-monoculture/ How I accepted I’m an introvert – and learned to refuse invitations without guilt https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/mar/11/how-i-accepted-im-an-introvert-and-learned-to-refuse-invitations-without-guilt Research-backed ways to be more productive at work https://www.atlassian.com/blog/productivity/simple-ways-to-be-productive-at-work What ITIL 4 means for you and your team https://www.atlassian.com/blog/technology/what-the-new-itil-4-means-for-you-and-your-team Towards Natural Language Semantic Code Search https://github.blog/2018-09-18-towards-natural-language-semantic-code-search/ Quotes from 1992 https://apenwarr.ca/log/20190207 DARPA Is Developing an Open-Source Voting System https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/03/darpa_is_develo.html The 3 most effective ways to build trust as a leader https://m.signalvnoise.com/the-3-most-effective-ways-to-build-trust-as-a-leader/ Is pure agile right for IT? https://www.atlassian.com/blog/technology/agile-it

How to evolve an engineering organization. https://lethain.com/how-to-evolve-eng-org/ How is software developed at Amazon? http://highscalability.com/blog/2019/3/4/how-is-software-developed-at-amazon.html What happened to OpenStack? https://aeva.online/2019/03/what-happened-to-openstack/ Google: Disclosing vulnerabilities to protect users across platforms https://security.googleblog.com/2019/03/disclosing-vulnerabilities-to-protect.html calc.exe is now open source; there’s surprising depth in its ancient code https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/03/calc-exe-is-now-open-source-theres-surprising-depth-in-its-ancient-code/ 2019 Database Trends – SQL vs. NoSQL, Top Databases, Single vs. Multiple Database Use http://highscalability.com/blog/2019/3/6/2019-database-trends-sql-vs-nosql-top-databases-single-vs-mu.html Introducing a new JavaScript SEO video series https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2019/03/introducing-new-javascript-seo-video.html Standalone AppSignal Agent installation https://docs.appsignal.com/standalone-agent/installation.html StatsD in Standalone AppSignal Agent https://docs.appsignal.com/standalone-agent/statsd.html prince.gif https://www.jwz.org/blog/2019/03/prince-gif/ Using Data GIF Maker to compare data and tell stories https://www.blog.google/outreach-initiatives/google-news-initiative/using-data-gif-maker-compare-data-and-tell-stories/ Ruby’s Hidden Gems, StringScanner https://blog.appsignal.com/2019/03/05/stringscanner.html

What is Scrum? https://www.scrum.org/resources/what-is-scrum Monitoring MongoDB Replicaset Lag with AppSignal https://blog.appsignal.com/2019/02/12/replica-set-lag-monitoring-with-appsignal.html Hygiene Factors for Software Development http://www.davefarley.net/?p=272 Why limiting work-in-progress works. https://lethain.com/limiting-wip/ The future of software development is here https://www.atlassian.com/software-development/practices An Inside Look at the Backblaze Storage Pod Museum https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-storage-pod-museum/ On the Security of Password Managers https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/02/on_the_security_1.html Paying the predictability tax. https://lethain.com/predictability-tax/ Valuing already-solved problems. https://lethain.com/no-value/ Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For February 22nd, 2019 http://highscalability.com/blog/2019/2/22/stuff-the-internet-says-on-scalability-for-february-22nd-201.html Winning Systems & Security Practitioners 7. Attack Surface Reduction https://blog.eutopian.io/winning-systems--security-practitioners-7.-attack-surface-reduction/ Zeitwerk integration in Rails 6 (Beta 2) https://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2019/2/22/zeitwerk-integration-in-rails-6-beta-2/ Fixing attribute completion in Emacs nxml-mode https://martinfowler.com/articles/emacs-nxml-completion.html Kellan Elliot-McCrea – Transforming Organizational Culture at Etsy – CfA Summit (2015) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a772VLZ4ot8&feature=youtu.be Bjorn Freeman-Benson: Three Challenges of Distributed Teams https://www.jamesshore.com/Blog/Three-Challenges-of-Distributed-Teams.html Give Meaning to 100 Billion Events a Day — The Shift to Redshift http://highscalability.com/blog/2019/2/27/give-meaning-to-100-billion-events-a-day-the-shift-to-redshi.html Conditions Are Power-Law Distributed: An Example https://medium.com/@kentbeck_7670/conditions-are-power-law-distributed-an-example-61fa4e0d3500 Announcing domain-wide data in Search Console https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2019/02/announcing-domain-wide-data-in-search.html Estimates - a Twitter Thread https://ronjeffries.com/articles/019-01ff/estim-twitter/ Gopher: a present for Redis http://antirez.com/news/127 trunkbaseddevelopment.com https://trunkbaseddevelopment.com/ Frink https://frinklang.org/ Should You Call Your Teammates “Family”? https://open.buffer.com/should-you-call-your-team-a-family/

Keep your dependencies secure and up-to-date with GitHub and Dependabo https://github.blog/2019-01-31-keep-your-dependencies-secure-and-up-to-date-with-github-and-dependabot/ Retiring from ‘sad’ on twitter https://brokenco.de/2019/01/01/retiring-from-sadness.html The right amount of perfect https://m.signalvnoise.com/the-right-amount-of-perfect/ Avoiding the Unintended Consequences of Casual Feedback https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20140602024642-22330283-avoiding-the-unintended-consequences-of-casual-feedback/ Executing a Sunset https://codeascraft.com/2019/02/01/executing-a-sunset/ Snopes quits Facebook’s factchecking program amid questions over its impact https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/feb/01/snopes-facebook-factchecking-program-false-news It’s 2019, and a PNG file can pwn your Android smartphone or tablet: Patch me if you can https://www.theregister.co.uk/AMP/2019/02/07/android_january_patches/ Consolidating your website traffic on canonical URLs https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2019/02/consolidating-your-website-traffic-on.html Major Zcash Vulnerability Fixed https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/02/major_zcash_vul.html XING Kubernetes components published as Open Source https://tech.xing.com/xing-kubernetes-components-published-as-open-source-368829289c96 Firefox taking a hard line against noisy video, banning it from autoplaying https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/02/firefox-to-block-noisy-autoplaying-video-in-next-release/ Facebook’s New Privacy Hires https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/02/facebooks_new_p.html Cisco backs calls for US GDPR https://www.itproportal.com/news/cisco-backs-calls-for-us-gdpr/ The GIST Board — A New Way to Do Planning and Execution https://hackernoon.com/the-gist-board-a-new-way-to-do-planning-and-execution-47ad3c0dd5d5 Report: Developers want clear role requirements https://sdtimes.com/softwaredev/report-developers-want-clear-role-requirements/ Why we re-designed our engineering career paths at CircleCI https://circleci.com/blog/why-we-re-designed-our-engineering-career-paths-at-circleci/ How We Interview Engineers at CircleCI https://circleci.com/blog/how-we-interview-engineers-at-circleci/

Article review: “The Hard Truth About Innovative Cultures” https://paulmck.livejournal.com/52490.html https://hbr.org/2019/01/the-hard-truth-about-innovative-cultures Kickoffs! https://m.signalvnoise.com/kickoffs/ Making Gmail on mobile better for you https://www.blog.google/products/gmail/making-gmail-on-mobile-better-for-you/ Protect your work life balance – take a real sick day https://www.atlassian.com/blog/productivity/take-real-sick-days-work-life-balance Microsoft decides Internet Explorer 10 has had its fun: Termination set for January 2020 https://www.theregister.co.uk/AMP/2019/01/29/microsoft_internet_explorer_10/ On Being A Principal Engineer https://blog.dbsmasher.com/2019/01/28/on-being-a-principal-engineer.html Growing with your company’s complexity. https://lethain.com/growing-with-your-company/ An update on our work to prevent abuse ahead of the EU elections https://www.blog.google/around-the-globe/google-europe/update-our-work-prevent-abuse-ahead-eu-elections/ An instrumental intro to GraphQL with Ruby https://blog.appsignal.com/2019/01/29/graphql.html Meeting people. https://lethain.com/meeting-people/ GitLab Alumni Program (Gitlab Offboarding) https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/offboarding/#gitlab-alumni-program Focusing on the new Search Console https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2019/01/focusing-on-new-search-console.html Yesterday’s mass-login attack on Basecamp is another reminder to protect yourself https://m.signalvnoise.com/yesterdays-mass-login-attack-on-basecamp-is-another-reminder-to-protect-yourself/ How to deal with a micromanaging boss https://m.signalvnoise.com/how-to-deal-with-a-micromanaging-boss/ Richer interactivity in Data Studio https://www.blog.google/products/marketingplatform/analytics/2019-richer-interactivity-data-studio/ Can Side Projects Boost Tech Developers’ Performance? 12 Experts Weigh In https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2019/01/15/can-side-projects-boost-tech-developers-performance-12-experts-weigh-in/#79a298f73c3c