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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/ ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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/ ...