Friday Links

Friday Links

This week Garmin exploded, the UK decided that cycling isn’t so bad after all, remote working is still a thing Management When We Need to Move Quickly We Work in Task Forces. Here’s How We Set Them Up - Kind of common sense, but as usual it is interesting how Buffer approaches it. Zef’s Razor - I am going to spoil it: “People have good intentions” - this applies to live in general I guess ...

31 July 2020 · 4 min · Christof Damian
Friday Links

Friday Links

rjp inspired me with his random roundups to put a bit more work in my Friday Links. This might have been a big mistake, as it takes me quite a bit more time to put this together and it might be even harder to read. I also merged the podcasts and videos into the other sections to provide more context. If you make it through this, please tell me if they are better or worse. ...

3 July 2020 · 6 min · Christof Damian

Friday Links

Black Lives Matter. About Friday Links </2020/06/about-friday-links.html> Sawfish phishing campaign targets GitHub users https://github.blog/2020-04-14-sawfish-phishing-campaign-targets-github-users/ How the new normal will change company culture for good https://www.atlassian.com/blog/teamwork/lessons-of-pandemic-change-company-culture/ The Definitive Answer: Who Really Owns a 1 on 1 Meeting? https://getlighthouse.com/blog/who-owns-1-on-1-meeting/ Black Lives Matter. https://lethain.com/black-lives-matter/ Skip Level Meetings for Interns https://managingdev.com/skip-level-meetings-interns/ Political Songs | Dub journalism, a cultural weapon https://www.newframe.com/political-songs-dub-journalism-cultural-weapon/ Poet on the front line https://theguardian.com/books/2002/may/04/poetry.books List of cognitive biases https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases How to Make this Moment the Turning Point for Real Change https://medium.com/@BarackObama/how-to-make-this-moment-the-turning-point-for-real-change-9fa209806067 ...

5 June 2020 · 1 min · Christof Damian

About Friday Links

Since Summer 2018 I have been posting Friday Links on my blog. There are now nearly a hundred posts of these and I thought I write a little bit about these. I picked this habit up at my job at Splendia. I can’t remember where it originated from. The idea is to collect interesting links to share with your team and post them all together on a Friday so people have some reading material for the weekend. Other team members would then add their own links in the same thread. ...

2 June 2020 · 4 min · Christof Damian

Friday Links

Working from home, working remote, dealing with the pandemic-era, product management and random fun. Ergodox Keyboard https://ergodox-ez.com/ LinkedIn’s approach to automated accessibility (A11y) testing https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog/2020/automated-accessibility-testing Netflix to automatically cancel ‘hundreds of thousands’ of inactive accounts https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/netflix-account-cancel-delete-subscribe-renew-email-a9527626.html Why Kotlin Multiplatform Is A Great Alternative To React Native https://mobilejazz.com/blog/why-kotlin-multiplatform-is-a-great-alternative-to-react-native/ Why GitLab pays local rates https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2019/02/28/why-we-pay-local-rates/ From Germany to Detroit and back: how Kraftwerk forged an industrial exchange https://theguardian.com/music/2020/may/25/from-germany-to-detroit-and-back-how-kraftwerk-forged-an-industrial-exchange Why Remote Work Is So Hard—and How It Can Be Fixed https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/can-remote-work-be-fixed/ ...

29 May 2020 · 2 min · Christof Damian