Friday Links

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/ ...

Using Machine Learning to Create Fake Fingerprints https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/11/using_machine_l.html Rails 4.2.11, 5.0.7.1, 5.1.6.1 and 5.2.1.1 have been released! https://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2018/11/27/Rails-4-2-5-0-5-1-5-2-have-been-released/ Tidal 1.0.0 refactor https://slab.org/tidal-1-0-0-refactor/ decidim/decidim https://youtu.be/f6JMgJAQ2tc https://github.com/decidim/decidim Perceived Barriers to Trunk Based Development http://www.davefarley.net/?p=269 Stack Overflow: How We Do Monitoring - 2018 Edition https://nickcraver.com/blog/2018/11/29/stack-overflow-how-we-do-monitoring/ Go 2, here we come! https://blog.golang.org/go2-here-we-come Fully Automated Continuous Deployment on Android with Bitrise https://overflow.buffer.com/2018/11/29/fully-automated-continuous-deployment-on-android-with-bitrise/ event-stream, npm, and trust https://lwn.net/Articles/773121/ AWS AWS Launches, Previews, and Pre-Announcements at re:Invent 2018 – Andy Jassy Keynote https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-previews-and-pre-announcements-at-reinvent-2018-andy-jassy-keynote/ New – Amazon DynamoDB Transactions https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-dynamodb-transactions/ ...

Stripe’s Will Larson on Designing a Performance Management System from Scratch https://blog.gitprime.com/designing-performance-management-systems/ Have tech perks gone too far? https://www.atlassian.com/blog/teamwork/employee-retention-is-about-more-than-perks New – Train Custom Document Classifiers with Amazon Comprehend https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-train-custom-document-classifiers-with-amazon-comprehend/ Headcount dilemmas. https://lethain.com/headcount-dilemmas/ Configuration as code https://twitter.com/springrod/status/1063412788670926849 JWZ: Weird Machines https://www.jwz.org/blog/2018/11/weird-machines/ Google News may shut over EU plans to charge tax for links https://amp.theguardian.com/technology/2018/nov/18/google-news-may-shut-over-eu-plans-to-charge-tax-for-links Worst-Case Thinking Breeds Fear and Irrationality https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/11/worst-case_thin_1.html How your office building is tricking you into going green https://www.atlassian.com/blog/teamwork/sustainable-workspaces-and-practices From Maker to Manager: How to Take the Leap https://open.buffer.com/maker-to-manager/ ...

We have hackdays this week, so this is a bit early. Schneier: The Pentagon Is Publishing Foreign Nation-State Malware https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/11/the_pentagon_is.html Android: a 10-year visual history https://www.theverge.com/2011/12/7/2585779/android-10th-anniversary-google-history-pie-oreo-nougat-cupcake Kellan: What I’m up to: tech leadership http://laughingmeme.org/2018/11/12/what-im-up-to-tech-leadership/ The next version of HTTP won’t be using TCP https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/11/the-next-version-of-http-wont-be-using-tcp/ New – Redis 5.0 Compatibility for Amazon ElastiCache https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-redis-5-0-compatibility-for-amazon-elasticache/ PageSpeed Insights, now powered by Lighthouse https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2018/11/pagespeed-insights-now-powered-by.html Basecamp: Postmortem on the read-only outage of Basecamp on November 9th, 2018 https://m.signalvnoise.com/postmortem-on-the-read-only-outage-of-basecamp-on-november-9th-2018-9165c315ee7f Answer these 10 questions to understand if you’re a good manager https://qz.com/work/1447711/how-to-tell-if-youre-a-good-manager/ ...