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These Aren’t Your Ordinary Data Centers https://www.backblaze.com/blog/these-arent-your-ordinary-data-centers/ France Bans Judge Analytics, 5 Years In Prison For Rule Breakers https://www.artificiallawyer.com/2019/06/04/france-bans-judge-analytics-5-years-in-prison-for-rule-breakers/ Building Culture: Naming, Symbols, Rituals, Stories https://medium.com/@joedunnSFCoach/building-culture-naming-symbols-rituals-stories-471f2398a3b7?sk=37b280820632d1f2419dfa3f91c74980 Taking Jira Software Cloud to Mac https://www.atlassian.com/blog/jira-software/jira-cloud-app-for-mac The programmer as decision maker https://blog.ploeh.dk/2019/03/18/the-programmer-as-decision-maker/ My First 2 Months of Practicing the Buffer Values https://open.buffer.com/first-months-reflection/ Friday Deploy Freezes Are Exactly Like Murdering Puppies https://charity.wtf/2019/05/01/friday-deploy-freezes-are-exactly-like-murdering-puppies/ Engineering Management: The Pendulum Or The Ladder https://charity.wtf/2019/01/04/engineering-management-the-pendulum-or-the-ladder/ Tokyo Mechanical Keyboard Meetup Vol. 6 https://www.jwz.org/blog/2019/06/tokyo-mechanical-keyboard-meetup-vol-6/ Software Community Growth Through “first-timers-only” Issues https://opensource.googleblog.com/2019/06/software-community-growth-through-first.html ...

GitHub: Configuring automated security fixes https://help.github.com/en/articles/configuring-automated-security-fixes Is High Quality Software Worth the Cost? https://martinfowler.com/articles/is-quality-worth-cost.html New Data Studio Developer Tools Make Building Connectors and Viz Easier https://www.blog.google/products/marketingplatform/analytics/new-data-studio-developer-tools-make-building-connectors-and-viz-easier/ Not All Developing Nations Are Created Equal https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-05-28/not-all-developing-nations-are-created-equal The 6 Lessons We’ve Learned About Product Marketing at a Startup https://open.buffer.com/product-marketing/ Why Don’t They Trust Us? https://hackernoon.com/why-dont-they-trust-us-9d942338d848 Wil Wheaton: “I’m full.” http://wilwheaton.net/2019/05/im-full/ Failure KPIs https://theagiledirector.com/article/2015/12/31/failure-kpis/ How to build a company culture that will last https://www.atlassian.com/blog/teamwork/what-is-company-culture Quick note: Friday wins and a case study in ritual design https://kellanem.com/notes/friday-wins ...

The Metrics of Backpacks https://www.artpractical.com/column/the-metrics-of-backpacks/ Stop Playing Tetris (With Teams, Sprints, Projects, and Individuals) https://medium.com/@johnpcutler/stop-playing-tetris-with-teams-sprints-projects-and-individuals-b1e4ed6d8bc0 Quit Planning Ahead and Keeping People Busy https://medium.com/@johnpcutler/quit-planning-ahead-and-keeping-people-busy-937e74d5a1fb The Empty Promise of Data Moats https://a16z.com/2019/05/09/data-network-effects-moats/ Object Detection with 10 lines of code https://towardsdatascience.com/object-detection-with-10-lines-of-code-d6cb4d86f606 How to Move Beyond a Monolithic Data Lake to a Distributed Data Mesh https://martinfowler.com/articles/data-monolith-to-mesh.html The Seven Areas Of Software Management https://medium.com/@inowland/the-seven-areas-of-software-management-be89d213ea7 How To Grow as An Engineering Manager in 7 Steps https://medium.com/@inowland/how-to-grow-as-an-engineering-manager-in-7-steps-a1bf4dcf5e78 The importance of teamwork (as proven by science) https://www.atlassian.com/blog/teamwork/the-importance-of-teamwork ...

The agile guide to winning at team development https://www.atlassian.com/blog/teamwork/navigate-tuckman-stages-of-team-development Inside the Team at Facebook That Dealt with the Christchurch Shooting https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/inside-the-team-at-facebook-that-dealt-with-the-christchurch-shooting A Conspiracy To Kill IE6 http://blog.chriszacharias.com/a-conspiracy-to-kill-ie6 Guardian breaks even helped by success of supporter strategy https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/may/01/guardian-breaks-even-helped-by-success-of-supporter-strategy Stripe’s fifth engineering hub is Remote https://stripe.com/fr/blog/remote-hub Cocktail Robotics Grand Challenge with Jim Sweeney 7/15/2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZ4qKkav0ns Windows 10 will soon ship with a full, open source, GPLed Linux kernel https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/05/windows-10-will-soon-ship-with-a-full-open-source-gpled-linux-kernel/ The Atlas of Inequality https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/the-atlas-of-inequality/overview/ The Power of the Pause: Introducing Sabbaticals at Buffer https://open.buffer.com/sabbaticals/ ...

Why Did a YouTube Bot Make an Unwatched Video of Our Blog Post? https://hmmdaily.com/2019/04/25/why-did-a-youtube-bot-make-an-unwatched-video-of-our-blog-post/ Facebook’s highly-accurate Africa population maps are available for free download https://geoawesomeness.com/facebooks-highly-accurate-africa-population-maps-are-available-for-free-download/ Ruby’s Hidden Gems: Delegator and Forwardable https://blog.appsignal.com/2019/04/30/ruby-magic-hidden-gems-delegator-forwardable.html Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q1 2019 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-hard-drive-stats-q1-2019/ Engineering a Studio Quality Experience With High-Quality Audio at Netflix https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/engineering-a-studio-quality-experience-with-high-quality-audio-at-netflix-eaa0b6145f32 Introducing auto-delete controls for your Location History and activity data https://www.blog.google/technology/safety-security/automatically-delete-data/ How the Best Tech Companies Run Growth Experiments https://labs.openviewpartners.com/how-the-best-tech-companies-run-growth-experiments/#.XMoTfXzRaf0 The 5 Whys of Organizational Design. https://kellanem.com/notes/whys-of-organizational-design Co-Responsibility Is No Responsibility https://avivbenyosef.com/co-responsibility-is-no-responsibility/ ...