{{< bookmark-card image="1055997608.webp" title="Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single Repository | July 2" link="https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2016/7/204032-why-google-stores-billions-of-lines-of-code-in-a-single-repository/fulltext" domain="cacm.acm.org" date="2019-08-26" tags="google, history, tech" excerpt="" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997807.jpg" title="'Plastic recycling is a myth': what really happens to your rubbish?" link="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/aug/17/plastic-recycling-myth-what-really-happens-your-rubbish" domain="theguardian.com" date="2019-08-20" tags="politics, science" excerpt="You sort your recycling, leave it to be collected – and then what? From councils burning the lot to foreign landfill sites overflowing with British rubbish, Oliver Franklin-Wallis reports on a global waste crisis" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997801.jpg" title="You Can’t Fix Unethical Design by Yourself - Modus" link="https://modus.medium.com/you-cant-fix-unethical-design-by-yourself-c4ce4b6520a" domain="modus.medium.com" date="2019-08-16" tags="psychology, tech" excerpt="Like the climate emergency, unethical design won’t be solved with individual action alone. We need a radical shift in how the industry operates and educates, and regulatory bodies with power." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997671.jpg" title="How to Test Node.js Apps using Mocha, Chai, and SinonJS" link="https://scotch.io/tutorials/how-to-test-nodejs-apps-using-mocha-chai-and-sinonjs" domain="scotch.io" date="2019-08-16" tags="code, javascript, programming, tech, testing" excerpt="Learn how to test Node.js applications with Mocha, Chai, and SinonJS." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997804.jpg" title="Growth modeling for developers | ThoughtWorks" link="https://www.thoughtworks.com/insights/blog/growth-modeling-developers" domain="thoughtworks.com" date="2019-08-14" tags="career, tech" excerpt="For anybody beginning a career as a software developer, we often make assumptions about how to succeed — assumptions that often turn out to be hopelessly wrong. As I've discovered over the last year, growth opportunities present themselves in all sorts of surprising ways, and I w" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997803.jpg" title="How to Have a Happy Marriage - 20 Tips for a Happy Marriage" link="https://www.thecut.com/article/how-to-have-a-happy-marriage.html" domain="thecut.com" date="2019-08-12" tags="psychology" excerpt="Remember that you chose to love this person." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997734.png" title="A Year Of Running Kubernetes at MYOB, And The Importance Of Empathy." link="https://medium.com/@jpcontad/a-year-of-running-kubernetes-as-a-product-7eed1204eecd" domain="medium.com" date="2019-08-08" tags="aws, tech" excerpt="In a year, we had 100 production apps across 26 tribes running on our cluster; we drove ISO 27001 compliance across 12 products, and taught 200 developers how to productionize software." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997800.jpg" title="Ronald Fisher, a Bad Cup of Tea, and the Birth of Modern Statistics | Science History Institute" link="https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/ronald-fisher-a-bad-cup-of-tea-and-the-birth-of-modern-statistics" domain="sciencehistory.org" date="2019-08-08" tags="history" excerpt="A lesson in humility begets a scientific revolution." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997566.webp" title="Brewer's CAP Theorem" link="http://www.julianbrowne.com/article/brewers-cap-theorem" domain="julianbrowne.com" date="2019-08-07" tags="architecture, tech" excerpt="An explanation of Eric Brewer’s CAP theorem, which says you cannot have more than two of Consistency, Availability and Partition-tolerance in web-based distributed systems." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997798.png" title="Why I love Trunk Based Development (or pushing straight to master)" link="https://medium.com/@mattia.battiston/why-i-love-trunk-based-development-641fcf0b94a0" domain="medium.com" date="2019-08-05" tags="programming, tech" excerpt="Teams that are using short-lived feature branches would usually benefit from aiming to work directly on master." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997592.jpg" title="Sticky Love — Choosing Between Physical Boards and Online Tools" link="https://medium.com/@johnpcutler/sticky-love-choosing-between-physical-boards-and-online-tools-874a457ebc80" domain="medium.com" date="2019-08-05" tags="agile, product, tech" excerpt="The physical board vs. online tool debate has been a staple of my career for 5–8 years now. It changes form occasionally, and with each year there are new twists, but for the most part it has…" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997781.jpg" title="How Dark deploys code in 50ms - Darklang - Medium" link="https://medium.com/darklang/how-dark-deploys-code-in-50ms-771c6dd60671" domain="medium.com" date="2019-08-01" tags="devops, programming, tech" excerpt="Speed of developer iteration is the single most important factor in how quickly a technology company can move. Unfortunately, modern applications work against us: our systems are required to be live…" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997796.jpg" title="Why Generics? - The Go Programming Language" link="https://blog.golang.org/why-generics" domain="blog.golang.org" date="2019-08-01" tags="code, golang, programming, tech" excerpt="Why should we add generics to Go, and what might they look like?" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997439.webp" title="Sierra Web Design, Inc" link="http://www.lahey.com/float.htm" domain="lahey.com" date="2019-08-01" tags="code, maths, programming, tech" excerpt="" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/images/bookmark-placeholder.jpg" title="Engineering Management: The Pendulum Or The Ladder" link="https://charity.wtf/p/engineering-management-the-pendulum-or-the-ladder" domain="charity.wtf" date="2019-08-01" tags="career, leadership, tech" excerpt="Last night I was out with a dear friend who has been an engineering manager for a year now, and by two drinks in I was rattling off a long list things I always say to newer engineering managers. Th…" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/images/bookmark-placeholder.jpg" title="The Engineer/Manager Pendulum" link="https://charity.wtf/p/the-engineer-manager-pendulum" domain="charity.wtf" date="2019-08-01" tags="career, leadership, tech" excerpt="Lately I’ve been doing some career counseling for people off Twitter (long story). The central drama for many people goes something like this: “I’m a senior engineer, but I’m thin…" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997535.png" title="The Definition of a Tech Lead" link="https://www.thekua.com/atwork/2014/11/the-definition-of-a-tech-lead" domain="thekua.com" date="2019-07-31" tags="career, leadership, tech, thoughtworks" excerpt="Our industry is infamous for confusing terms. Roles in software development are a good example. Titles like Architect, Tech Lead, Team Lead and Engineering Manager ... Read more" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997524.jpg" title="Knightmare: A DevOps Cautionary Tale" link="https://dougseven.com/2014/04/17/knightmare-a-devops-cautionary-tale" domain="dougseven.com" date="2019-07-27" tags="devops, tech" excerpt="In the first 45-minutes the market was open the faulty software deployment sent millions of child orders into the market resulting in 4 million transactions against 154 stocks for more than 397 mil…" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/images/bookmark-placeholder.jpg" title="Fast Software, the Best Software" link="https://craigmod.com/essays/fast_software" domain="craigmod.com" date="2019-07-27" tags="tech" excerpt="Essay on the benefits of speedy software, and how it affects user perception of engineering quality and overall usability" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997611.png" title="Hypothesis Driven UX" link="https://medium.com/@anton_yee/hypothesis-driven-ux-design-69e6aea8c275" domain="medium.com" date="2019-07-26" tags="design, product, tech" excerpt="Hypothesis Driven UX In this article I aim to provide a high-level process on how hypothesis driven UX can be applied during the research phase of your design process. Hypothesis driven UX stems from …" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997747.png" title="Move Fast and Fix Things" link="https://github.blog/2015-12-15-move-fast" domain="github.blog" date="2019-07-26" tags="architecture, tech" excerpt="Anyone who has worked on a large enough codebase knows that technical debt is an inescapable reality: The more rapidly an application grows in size and complexity, the more technical…" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997569.jpg" title="Monitoring Check Smells | Benji's Blog -" link="https://benjiweber.co.uk/blog/2015/03/02/monitoring-check-smells" domain="benjiweber.co.uk" date="2019-07-26" tags="architecture, tech, testing" excerpt="I have become increasingly convinced that there is little difference between monitoring and testing. Often we can run our automated tests against a production system with only a little effort. We are used to listening to our automated tests for feedback about our software in the " >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/images/bookmark-placeholder.jpg" title="Should We Stop Keeping Pets?" link="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/aug/01/should-we-stop-keeping-pets-why-more-and-more-ethicists-say-yes" domain="theguardian.com" date="2019-07-25" tags="psychology, science" excerpt="Research into animals’ emotional lives has cast doubt on the ethics of petkeeping." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997558.jpg" title="The AI Revolution: The Road to Superintelligence" link="https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revolution-1.html" domain="waitbutwhy.com" date="2019-07-25" tags="history, science, tech, ai" excerpt="Part 1 of 2: \"The Road to Superintelligence\". Artificial Intelligence — the topic everyone in the world should be talking about." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997788.webp" title="How Stack Overflow upgraded from Windows Server 2012" link="https://www.tarynpivots.com/post/how-stack-overflow-upgraded-from-windows-2012" domain="tarynpivots.com" date="2019-07-23" tags="architecture, data, database, sql, stories" excerpt="Warning: This post is long. While working through this massive server upgrade/migration process, tears were shed, many cuss words were said, along with a general feeling of frustration, which ultimately culminated into extreme happiness once the migration was completed. The scale" >}}