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Google Engineering Practices Documentation https://google.github.io/eng-practices/ Want autonomous teams? Improve management! https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/want-autonomous-teams-improve-management-gregor-hohpe/ The (Mostly) Complete History of Grafana UX https://grafana.com/blog/2019/09/03/the-mostly-complete-history-of-grafana-ux/ Rob’s Friday Links https://rjp.is/blogging/posts/2019/09/friday-links-06/ Enabling Developers and Organizations to Use Differential privacy https://opensource.googleblog.com/2019/09/enabling-developers-and-organizations.html AI Is Coming for Your Favorite Menial Tasks https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/09/artificial-intelligence-will-make-your-job-even-harder/597625/ Organizing team offsites. https://lethain.com/offsites/ Saying goodbye to the old Search Console https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2019/09/goodbye-old-search-console.html Running GitHub on Rails 6.0 https://github.blog/2019-09-09-running-github-on-rails-6-0/ Answers to arguments against 100% coverage https://blog.ndepend.com/answers-to-arguments-against-100-coverage/ Here They Are: The World’s 10 Most Beautiful Offices of 2019 https://www.inc.com/graham-winfrey-kevin-j-ryan/worlds-coolest-offices-2019.html Collaboration vs Increment? https://ronjeffries.com/articles/019-01ff/mmm-collaboration/ ...

A combination of holidays and everybody posting interesting stuff at the same time created a very long list. YouTube and podcast links are grouped at the bottom. The usual disclaimer: links are included because I find them interesting, not necessarily because I fully agree with the content. Topics are usually a mix of software engineering, management, security, urbanism and general nerd interest. Understanding Agile with Complete Rate https://yiming.dev/clipping/2019/08/07/understanding-agile-with-complete-rate/ 5 Ways Founders Wreck Their Company Culture (and How to Create a Great Company Culture Instead) https://getlighthouse.com/blog/great-company-culture/ ...

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/ ...