Friday Links

Schneier: West Virginia Using Internet Voting https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/10/west_virginia_u.html Facebook: Open-sourcing StateService: Automating recovery of third-party services after a major outage https://code.fb.com/open-source/stateservice/ How to counteract 3 types of bias and run inclusive meetings https://www.atlassian.com/blog/teamwork/how-to-run-inclusive-meetings Welcome to WebPerl! https://webperl.zero-g.net/ Fowler: The State of Agile Software in 2018 https://martinfowler.com/articles/agile-aus-2018.html Dark Scrum https://ronjeffries.com/articles/016-09ff/defense/ Devex: Using the ’lean startup’ methodology to optimize for impact https://www.devex.com/news/using-the-lean-startup-methodology-to-optimize-for-impact-93702 GDPR: Good for privacy, even better for Google’s dominance https://boingboing.net/2018/10/18/briar-patches-r-us.html Capacity planning for Etsy’s web and API clusters https://codeascraft.com/2018/10/23/capacity-planning-for-etsys-web-and-api-tiers/ Discontinuing support for Android Nearby Notifications https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2018/10/discontinuing-support-for-android.html

Project Strobe: Protecting your data, improving our third-party APIs, and sunsetting consumer Google+ https://www.blog.google/technology/safety-security/project-strobe/ The new and improved Jira Software Cloud and GitHub integration https://www.atlassian.com/blog/jira-software/github-for-jira Why don’t we add a element to HTML? https://www.brucelawson.co.uk/2018/why-so-hard-to-add-new-html-elements/ Control Flow Integrity in the Android kernel https://security.googleblog.com/2018/10/posted-by-sami-tolvanen-staff-software.html Git Submodule Vulnerability Announced https://blog.github.com/2018-10-05-git-submodule-vulnerability/ AppSignal: Improved Navigation https://blog.appsignal.com/2018/10/08/improved-navigation.html LWN: What’s a CPU to do when it has nothing to do? https://lwn.net/Articles/767630/ Peeling back the curtain: How the Economist is opening the data behind our reporting https://medium.economist.com/peeling-back-the-curtain-487bd3be0c47 Capturing resources. https://lethain.com/capturing-resources/ Svelte The magical disappearing UI framework https://svelte.technology/ What’s New in JavaScript Frameworks — March 2018 https://javascriptreport.com/whats-new-in-javascript-frameworks-march-2018/ Rands: The Org Chart Test http://randsinrepose.com/archives/the-org-chart-test/ Google: Complying with the EC’s Android decision https://www.blog.google/around-the-globe/google-europe/complying-ecs-android-decision/ Hot Code Reloading in Elixir (with Erlang: The Movie) https://blog.appsignal.com/2018/10/16/elixir-alchemy-hot-code-reloading-in-elixir.html Dream Big, Go Small, and the Path to a Minimum Lovable Producthttps://open.buffer.com/product-scope/ How DNA Databases Violate Everyone’s Privacy https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/10/how_dna_databas.html The Classic Adventurerhttp://classicadventurer.co.uk/ Africa’s Big Philanthropy: Agriculture and Food Security https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06ny78q The new Jira begins now https://www.atlassian.com/blog/jira-software/the-new-jira-begins-now PostgreSQL 11 releasedhttps://lwn.net/Articles/768822/ Behind the scenes of GitHub Token Scanning https://blog.github.com/2018-10-17-behind-the-scenes-of-github-token-scanning/ What Voice and Tone Sounds Like in Practice: Inside the Buffer Content Style Guide https://open.buffer.com/style-guide/

Schneier: Chinese Supply Chain Hardware Attackhttps://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/10/chinese_supply_.html https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-04/the-big-hack-amazon-apple-supermicro-and-beijing-respond Computing comfortably at 30,000 feethttps://mgsloan.com/posts/comfortable-airplane-computing/ How Etsy Handles Peeking in A/B Testinghttps://codeascraft.com/2018/10/03/how-etsy-handles-peeking-in-a-b-testing/ Schneier: The Effects of GDPR’s 72-Hour Notification Rulehttps://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/10/the_effects_of_5.html Introducing Action Text for Rails 6 https://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2018/10/3/introducing-action-text-for-rails-6/ How to Hold a Hackathon (When No One’s in the Same Room)https://open.buffer.com/hackathon/ Why Reducing Nonprofit Employee Turnover Will Better Your Good Causehttps://getlighthouse.com/blog/nonprofit-employee-turnover-reducing/ Upgrading GitHub from Rails 3.2 to 5.2https://githubengineering.com/upgrading-github-from-rails-3-2-to-5-2/ Schneier: Conspiracy Theories Around the “Presidential Alert”https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/10/conspiracy_theo_2.html If you sometimes feel left out at work, you’re doing it righthttps://qz.com/work/1412529/fomo-is-not-a-useful-concept-at-work/

Saying no.https://lethain.com/saying-no/ #to_s or #to_str? Explicitly casting vs. implicitly coercing types in Rubyhttps://blog.appsignal.com/2018/09/25/explicitly-casting-vs-implicitly-coercing-types-in-ruby.html How Bosses Waste Their Employees’ Timehttps://www.wsj.com/articles/how-bosses-waste-their-employees-time-1534126140 Dali Clock Emularityhttps://www.jwz.org/blog/2018/09/dali-clock-emularity/ How Etsy Localizes Addresseshttps://codeascraft.com/2018/09/26/how-etsy-localizes-addresses/ The kernel’s code of conduct, one week later [LWN subscriber-only content]https://lwn.net/Articles/766699/ 10 things I learned from Jason Fried about Building Productshttps://uxplanet.org/10-things-i-learned-from-jason-fried-about-building-products-5b6694ff02aa Win at quarterly planning by avoiding these OKRs mistakeshttps://www.atlassian.com/blog/teamwork/how-to-avoid-common-okrs-mistakes A sysadmin’s guide to containershttps://opensource.com/article/18/8/sysadmins-guide-containers #noprojects - A Culture of Continuous Value https://www.infoq.com/minibooks/noprojects-value-culture GitHub: Stricter validation coming soon in the REST API https://developer.github.com/changes/2018-09-25-stricter-validation-coming-soon-in-the-rest-api/ Inside Google’s original garage, 1998-stylehttps://www.blog.google/products/maps/inside-googles-original-garage-1998-style/ 5 cool tiling window managershttps://fedoramagazine.org/5-cool-tiling-window-managers/ How a Google.org grantee is testing new approaches to global aidhttps://www.blog.google/outreach-initiatives/google-org/givedirectly-research-update/ T-shaped knowledge is hokum https://tinnedfruit.com/list/20180925 Linus Torvalds: ‘I’ll never be cuddly but I can be more polite’https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-45664640