Friday Links

Metrics for the unmeasurable. https://lethain.com/metrics-for-the-unmeasurable/ How to Get Buy in at Work: a Step by Step Guide https://getlighthouse.com/blog/get-buy-in-at-work-how-to/ Putting on some wait https://m.signalvnoise.com/putting-on-some-wait/ Rails 6.0.0 beta1: Action Mailbox, Action Text, Multiple DBs, Parallel Testing, Webpacker by default https://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2019/1/18/Rails-6-0-Action-Mailbox-Action-Text-Multiple-DBs-Parallel-Testing/ Schneier: Evaluating the GCHQ Exceptional Access Proposal https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/01/evaluating_the_.html 10 Ways to Build More Value Into Your Product https://productcoalition.com/how-your-customers-think-of-product-value-51d80f78305f Work From Home – in Vermont! https://oduinn.com/2019/01/21/work-from-home-in-vermont/ Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2018 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-stats-for-2018/ Why are companies scared to hire “junior” people? https://uxplanet.org/why-are-companies-scared-to-hire-junior-people-676a3463e5b3 I miss LiveJournal. https://www.jwz.org/blog/2019/01/i-miss-livejournal/ On Sizing Your Engineering Organizations https://kellanem.com/notes/on-team-size DNS flag day https://dnsflagday.net/ Our Software Dependency Problem https://research.swtch.com/deps Turns out your standing desk isn’t solving your sitting problem https://www.wired.co.uk/article/standing-desk-benefits Research shows productive teams do these 3 things https://www.atlassian.com/blog/teamwork/team-productivity-tips-and-research Wow, fancy that. Web ad giant Google to block ad-blockers in Chrome. For safety, apparently https://www.theregister.co.uk/AMP/2019/01/22/google_chrome_browser_ad_content_block_change/ Google will start retiring Hangouts for G Suite users in Octobe https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/22/google-will-start-retiring-hangouts-for-g-suite-users-in-october/amp/ Co-Parenting the Baby: When the VP Engineering Joins a Startup https://medium.com/coaching-notes/co-parenting-the-baby-when-the-vp-engineering-joins-a-startup-eba3ce85120 The State of the Octoverse: Machine Learning https://github.blog/2019-01-24-the-state-of-the-octoverse-machine-learning/ AWS: New – TLS Termination for Network Load Balancers https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-tls-termination-for-network-load-balancers/ NES.css https://nostalgic-css.github.io/NES.css/

From Vision to Values: The Importance of Defining Your Core https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20121029044359-22330283-to-manage-hyper-growth-get-your-launch-trajectory-right/ WebMSX, or simply WMSX, is a new cross platform MSX emulator designed for the Web. https://webmsx.org/ Dawn of the Second Epoch https://www.jwz.org/blog/2019/01/dawn-of-the-second-epoch/ Approaching the kernel year-2038 end game https://lwn.net/Articles/776435/rss IKEA has an ingenious plan to dominate the smart home market https://www.wired.co.uk/article/why-ikeas-perfectly-positioned-to-own-the-smart-home The State of Meetings 2019 https://en.blog.doodle.com/state-of-meetings-2019/ Field notes: London, England https://devonzuegel.com/post/field-notes-london-england Jack Dorsey Has No Clue What He Wants https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jack-dorsey-twitter-interview_us_5c3e2601e4b01c93e00e2a00?guccounter=1 Google raises G Suite prices across the world https://www.itproportal.com/news/google-raises-g-suite-prices-across-the-world/ Ways to succeed in Google News https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2019/01/ways-to-succeed-in-google-news.html Largest collection ever of breached data found https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jan/17/breached-data-largest-collection-ever-seen-email-password-hacking AWS Backup – Automate and Centrally Manage Your Backups https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-backup-automate-and-centrally-manage-your-backups/

Timeline for the release of Rails 6.0 https://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2018/12/20/timeline-for-the-release-of-Rails-6-0/ To stop terror content online, tech companies need to work together https://www.blog.google/outreach-initiatives/public-policy/stop-terror-content-online-tech-companies-need-work-together/ Thank You For Smoking https://www.jwz.org/blog/2018/12/thank-you-for-smoking/ What Is Glitter? A strange journey to the glitter factory. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/21/style/glitter-factory.html How the Koch Brothers Are Killing Public Transit Projects Around the Country https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/19/climate/koch-brothers-public-transit.html The Firecracker virtual machine monitor https://lwn.net/Articles/775736 So, You Want to be an Engineering Manager https://zef.me/so-you-want-to-be-an-engineering-manager-bcddaf302938 365 IETF RFCs: a 50th anniversary dive https://write.as/365-rfcs/365-ietf-rfcs-a-50th-anniversary-dive Some delightful developer experiences in 2019. https://lethain.com/examples-delightful-developer-experiences/ 6 types of meetings that are actually worthwhile https://www.atlassian.com/blog/teamwork/types-of-meetings How I use GIST to plan my life https://productcoalition.com/how-i-use-gist-for-personal-planning-3988230bb3e1 Machine Learning to Detect Software Vulnerabilities https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/01/machine_learnin.html Unlimited private repositories now available to free GitHub users https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/01/free-github-accounts-now-offer-private-repos/ Remote Team Meetups: Here’s What Works For Us https://open.buffer.com/remote-team-meetups/ Why Diversity Is Important to Etsy https://codeascraft.com/2019/01/07/why-diversity-is-important-to-etsy/ Revitalize your retrospectives with these fresh techniques https://www.atlassian.com/blog/teamwork/revitalize-retrospectives-fresh-techniques Hound: ERB Lint http://help.houndci.com/configuration/erb-lint New – Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB Compatibility): Fast, Scalable, and Highly Available https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-documentdb-with-mongodb-compatibility-fast-scalable-and-highly-available/ A new free-software forge: sr.ht https://lwn.net/Articles/775963 The M-Word https://zef.me/the-m-word-61d374ac8947 Bash 5.0 released https://lwn.net/Articles/776223/rss

500 Atlassians worked remotely for a week – here’s what we learned https://www.atlassian.com/bloginside-atlassian/working-from-home-tips Ultimate Hacking Keyboard http://xahlee.info/kbd/ultimate_hacking_keyboard.html On a Scale of 1-10: Why Tracking Your Team’s Satisfaction Matters https://open.buffer.com/measuring-employee-satisfaction/ The Silver Bullet Romantic https://zef.me/the-silver-bullet-romantic-8b6278137f3d Getting started with the AWS Cloud Development Kit for Amazon ECS https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/getting-started-with-the-aws-cloud-development-kit-for-amazon-ecs/ The practical value of semantic HTML https://www.brucelawson.co.uk/2018/the-practical-value-of-semantic-html/ AppSignal: Ruby gem 2.8: Container memory & JRuby on Alpine Linux support https://blog.appsignal.com/2018/12/20/ruby-gem-2-8.html Introducing the Data Studio Community Visualizations Developer Preview https://www.blog.google/products/marketingplatform/analytics/introducing-data-studio-community-visualizations-developer-preview/ A “First Step” towards criminal justice reform https://www.blog.google/outreach-initiatives/public-policy/first-step-towards-criminal-justice-reform/

From zero to a million users: how to quickly grow a successful tech team https://medium.com/@albertobeta/from-zero-to-a-million-users-how-to-quickly-grow-a-successful-tech-team-6ea8464437c2 Expediting changes to Google+ https://www.blog.google/technology/safety-security/expediting-changes-google-plus/ JWZ: Pete Shelley, screensaver and demoscene pioneer https://www.jwz.org/blog/2018/12/pete-shelley-screensaver-and-demoscene-pioneer/ Reducing gender bias in Google Translate https://www.blog.google/products/translate/reducing-gender-bias-google-translate/ Our learnings from adopting GraphQL https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/our-learnings-from-adopting-graphql-f099de39ae5f The latest on Messages, Allo, Duo and Hangouts https://www.blog.google/products/messages/latest-messages-allo-duo-and-hangouts/ Make sure Google can see lazy-loaded content https://developers.google.com/search/docs/guides/lazy-loading How to Surface Open Source Copyright Notices and License Texts in a Phone App https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFjouycdkFI Imagining new ways to learn Morse code’s dots and dashes https://www.blog.google/outreach-initiatives/accessibility/imagining-new-ways-learn-morse-codes-dots-and-dashes/ Microsoft is building its own Chrome browser to replace Edge https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2018/12/4/18125238/microsoft-chrome-browser-windows-10-edge-chromium Bad Consumer Security Advice https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/12/bad_consumer_se.html Jason Evanish: CEO & Founder of Lighthouse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ku9jvt_kugw Designing Work for Introverts https://nobl.io/leadership-resources/2017/introverts-at-work Continuous Improvement vs. Big Launch Mentality: Which is Better for Product Marketing? https://open.buffer.com/marketing-product-launches/ Coupling in Programming: What This Means and How Not to Get Burned https://blog.ndepend.com/programming-coupling/ Big news: Know Your Company is now Know Your Team https://knowyourteam.com/blog/2018/12/04/big-news-know-your-company-is-now-know-your-team/ Google Image best practices https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/114016 How ShiftLeft Uses PostgreSQL Extension TimescaleDB http://highscalability.com/blog/2018/12/5/how-shiftleft-uses-postgresql-extension-timescaledb.html I ran a ludicrously complex engineering project (and survived) https://www.atlassian.com/blogtechnology/software-engineering-principles-massive-projects 194 years of downtime: looking back on incident data from 2018 https://www.atlassian.com/blogstatuspage/annual-downtime-report Serverless Slack bot on Lambda with Ruby (and what’s the less pleasant part about it) https://blog.arkency.com/our-slack-bot-now-on-lambda-with-ruby/ Introducing Action Mailbox for Rails 6 https://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2018/12/13/introducing-action-mailbox-for-rails-6/ Migrations: the sole scalable fix to tech debt. https://lethain.com/migrations/ https://lethain.com/qcon-sf-migrations-video/ Why Managers Should Reveal Their Failures https://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/why-managers-should-publicize-their-failures Babies, books, and more: Buffer’s 2018 in numbers https://open.buffer.com/2018-in-numbers/ Find your next agile conference! http://www.agileconferences.info/ New Australian Backdoor Law https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/12/new_australian_.html Modernizing the Web Playback UI https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/modernizing-the-web-playback-ui-1ad2f184a5a0