Friday Links

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 ...

25 January 2019 · 1 min · Christof Damian

Friday Links

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/ ...

18 January 2019 · 1 min · Christof Damian

Holiday Friday Links

500 Atlassians worked remotely for a week – here’s what we learned https://www.atlassian.com/bloginside-atlassian/working-from-home-tips Ultimate Hacking Keyboard http://xahlee.info/kbd/ultimate_hacking_keyboard.html On a Scale of 1-10: Why Tracking Your Team’s Satisfaction Matters https://open.buffer.com/measuring-employee-satisfaction/ The Silver Bullet Romantic https://zef.me/the-silver-bullet-romantic-8b6278137f3d Getting started with the AWS Cloud Development Kit for Amazon ECS https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/getting-started-with-the-aws-cloud-development-kit-for-amazon-ecs/ The practical value of semantic HTML https://www.brucelawson.co.uk/2018/the-practical-value-of-semantic-html/ AppSignal: Ruby gem 2.8: Container memory & JRuby on Alpine Linux support https://blog.appsignal.com/2018/12/20/ruby-gem-2-8.html Introducing the Data Studio Community Visualizations Developer Preview https://www.blog.google/products/marketingplatform/analytics/introducing-data-studio-community-visualizations-developer-preview/ A “First Step” towards criminal justice reform https://www.blog.google/outreach-initiatives/public-policy/first-step-towards-criminal-justice-reform/

21 December 2018 · 1 min · Christof Damian

Friday Links

From zero to a million users: how to quickly grow a successful tech team https://medium.com/@albertobeta/from-zero-to-a-million-users-how-to-quickly-grow-a-successful-tech-team-6ea8464437c2 Expediting changes to Google+ https://www.blog.google/technology/safety-security/expediting-changes-google-plus/ JWZ: Pete Shelley, screensaver and demoscene pioneer https://www.jwz.org/blog/2018/12/pete-shelley-screensaver-and-demoscene-pioneer/ Reducing gender bias in Google Translate https://www.blog.google/products/translate/reducing-gender-bias-google-translate/ Our learnings from adopting GraphQL https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/our-learnings-from-adopting-graphql-f099de39ae5f The latest on Messages, Allo, Duo and Hangouts https://www.blog.google/products/messages/latest-messages-allo-duo-and-hangouts/ Make sure Google can see lazy-loaded content https://developers.google.com/search/docs/guides/lazy-loading How to Surface Open Source Copyright Notices and License Texts in a Phone App https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFjouycdkFI Imagining new ways to learn Morse code’s dots and dashes https://www.blog.google/outreach-initiatives/accessibility/imagining-new-ways-learn-morse-codes-dots-and-dashes/ ...

14 December 2018 · 2 min · Christof Damian

Friday Links (AWS Edition)

Using Machine Learning to Create Fake Fingerprints https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/11/using_machine_l.html Rails 4.2.11, 5.0.7.1, 5.1.6.1 and 5.2.1.1 have been released! https://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2018/11/27/Rails-4-2-5-0-5-1-5-2-have-been-released/ Tidal 1.0.0 refactor https://slab.org/tidal-1-0-0-refactor/ decidim/decidim https://youtu.be/f6JMgJAQ2tc https://github.com/decidim/decidim Perceived Barriers to Trunk Based Development http://www.davefarley.net/?p=269 Stack Overflow: How We Do Monitoring - 2018 Edition https://nickcraver.com/blog/2018/11/29/stack-overflow-how-we-do-monitoring/ Go 2, here we come! https://blog.golang.org/go2-here-we-come Fully Automated Continuous Deployment on Android with Bitrise https://overflow.buffer.com/2018/11/29/fully-automated-continuous-deployment-on-android-with-bitrise/ event-stream, npm, and trust https://lwn.net/Articles/773121/ AWS AWS Launches, Previews, and Pre-Announcements at re:Invent 2018 – Andy Jassy Keynote https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-previews-and-pre-announcements-at-reinvent-2018-andy-jassy-keynote/ New – Amazon DynamoDB Transactions https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-dynamodb-transactions/ ...

30 November 2018 · 1 min · Christof Damian