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Meet Yabeda: A Ruby instrumentation framework https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/meet-yabeda-modular-framework-for-instrumenting-ruby-applications Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q2 2019 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-stats-q2-2019/ Code as Craft: Understand the role of Style in e-commerce shopping https://codeascraft.com/2019/08/02/code-as-craft-understand-the-role-of-style-at-e-commerce-shopping/ How We Think About Time Off As a Global Team https://open.buffer.com/time-off-global-team/ Big Ball of Mud http://www.laputan.org/mud/ On Paper; Or: how not to look like a dick in meetings https://zef.me/on-paper-782b4c0f1078 California farmers are planting solar panels as water supplies dry up https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-agriculture-farmlands-solar-power-20190703-story.html Building a First Team Mindset https://www.attack-gecko.net/2018/06/25/building-a-first-team-mindset/ Hosting a Paper Reading Group https://lethain.com/hosting-paper-reading-group/ ...

GNOME and KDE to co-host the Linux App Summit in November https://lwn.net/Articles/795116/ What webmasters should know about Google’s “core updates” https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2019/08/core-updates.html Disasterpiece Theater: Slack’s process for approachable Chaos Engineering https://slack.engineering/disasterpiece-theater-slacks-process-for-approachable-chaos-engineering-3434422afb54 Facebook Plans on Backdooring WhatsApp https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/08/facebook_plans_.html Inspection without adaptation is pointless in Scrum https://medium.com/@ullizee/inspection-without-adaptation-is-pointless-in-scrum-492679711bf6 The Ethics of Web Performance https://timkadlec.com/remembers/2019-01-09-the-ethics-of-performance/ Square’s Growth Framework for Engineers and Engineering Managers https://developer.squareup.com/blog/squares-growth-framework-for-engineers-and-engineering-managers/ The Management Bit https://avivbenyosef.com/the-management-bit/ A new way to unify app and website measurement in Google Analytics https://www.blog.google/products/marketingplatform/analytics/new-way-unify-app-and-website-measurement-google-analytics/ Work/life/Skyscanner: Stephen Hailey, full stack engineer https://medium.com/@SkyscannerEng/work-life-skyscanner-stephen-hailey-full-stack-engineer-21d292c5e013 ...

Feature toggle life time – best practiceshttps://www.unleash-hosted.com/articles/feature-toggle-life-time-best-practices How to be an effective leader, according to Googlehttps://www.atlassian.com/blog/leadership/qualities-of-an-effective-leader Slacking on securityhttps://www.jwz.org/blog/2019/07/slacking-on-security/ New information about Slack’s 2015 security incidenthttps://slackhq.com/new-information-2015-incident Taming the ‘Fear of Missing Out’: How We Create a Retreat-From-Home Experience For Those Who Can’t Make Ithttps://open.buffer.com/retreat-from-home/ When a rewrite isn’t: rebuilding Slack on the desktop https://slack.engineering/rebuilding-slack-on-the-desktop-308d6fe94ae4 10x Managers Supermanagers https://www.fellow.app/blog/2019/10x-managers-supermanagers/ Spidey-Sense https://randsinrepose.com/archives/spidey-sense/ Is Trump Still President (As A Service) https://istrumpstillpresident.io/ Google for Nigeria: making our products more helpful to more people https://www.blog.google/around-the-globe/google-africa/google-nigeria/ ...

5 Steps to Become More Comfortable Using Data https://amplitude.com/blog/5-steps-to-become-more-comfortable-using-data Managing technical debt https://18f.gsa.gov/2015/10/05/managing-technical-debt/ What is technical debt? https://18f.gsa.gov/2015/09/04/what-is-technical-debt/ It can’t be left to Europe’s cities to clean up noxious air https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jul/12/europe-toxic-air-madrid?CMP=share_btn_tw Working Fast and Slow https://hackernoon.com/working-fast-and-slow-efc3c48dae31 Am I micromanaging my team? https://m.signalvnoise.com/am-i-micromanaging-my-team/ How we keep Search relevant and useful https://www.blog.google/products/search/how-we-keep-google-search-relevant-and-useful/ JavaScript Iterators and Iterables https://blog.appsignal.com/2019/07/16/javascript-iterators-and-iterables.html Who’s afraid of a big bad optimizing compiler? https://lwn.net/Articles/793253/ What is Silverblue? https://fedoramagazine.org/what-is-silverblue/ Two Years Ago, We Started Building a Product that Now Earns Over $500,000. Here’s How We Did it. https://open.buffer.com/buffer-analyze-journey/ ...

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