Bookmarks from 2019
124 bookmarks from 2019
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Six Common Traps that Undermine Strategic Product Management [Mind the Product]
Product management blog that summarizes product manager posts, news and articles from around the web.
Bot Ross: Teaching a Computer to Paint
I am not, I will admit, a terribly good artist. Not with a brush and paint at least. I can make a credible effort with a pen or pencil, provided you’re not after something tricky like human hands or…
How Postgres Makes Transactions Atomic
A dive into the mechanics that allow Postgres to provide strong atomic guarantees despite the chaotic entropy of production.
Are Cats Liquid? - Tenderly
Most contemporary physicists are concerned with technical, big-picture questions: Why do neutrinos have mass when the Standard Model says that they shouldn’t? Why are quantum field theory and general…
Open Banking in the UK: what's happened so far | 11:FS Pulse
Since January 2018, we have heard a lot about Open Banking, the regulation that has released the financial data of consumers from the banks’ ownership and into the hands of consumers. The short answer is “Yes, a lot has changed.” It took us over a century to build the mess that w
8 Things Leaders Do That Make Employees Quit
They’re some of the most expensive mistakes you can make.
Liberating Structures - Introduction
liberating structures, social invention.net, microstructures, disruptive innovation, behavior change, collaboration, social invention, diffusion of innovation, strategy, transformation, heuristics, complexity science, emergence
You should not run your mail server because mail is hard - poolp.org
TL;DR: - Mail is not hard: people keep repeating that because they read it, not because they tried it - Big Mailer Corps are quite happy with that myth, it keeps their userbase growing - Big Mailer Corps control a large percentage of the e-mail address space which is good for non
Ten Principles for Growth as an Engineer - Dan Heller - Medium
A brief list of practices for maturing as a software engineer.
How to do a code review | eng-practices
Google’s Engineering Practices documentation
The True Cost of Commuting
It was a beautiful evening in my neighborhood, and I was enjoying one of my giant homebrews on a deck chair I had placed in the middle of the street, as part of a nearby block’s Annual Stree…
I test in prod – Increment: Testing
Testing in production is a superpower. It’s our inability to acknowledge it that’s the trouble.
Agile Software Guide
Agile software development is an approach designed to build software for uncertain and changing needs.
An introduction to innersource | GitHub Resources
Organizations worldwide are incorporating open source methodologies into the way they build and ship their own software.
'Plastic recycling is a myth': what really happens to your rubbish?
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
You Can’t Fix Unethical Design by Yourself - Modus
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.
How to Test Node.js Apps using Mocha, Chai, and SinonJS
Learn how to test Node.js applications with Mocha, Chai, and SinonJS.
Growth modeling for developers | ThoughtWorks
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
How to Have a Happy Marriage - 20 Tips for a Happy Marriage
Remember that you chose to love this person.
A Year Of Running Kubernetes at MYOB, And The Importance Of Empathy.
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.
Ronald Fisher, a Bad Cup of Tea, and the Birth of Modern Statistics | Science History Institute
A lesson in humility begets a scientific revolution.
Brewer's CAP Theorem
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.
Why I love Trunk Based Development (or pushing straight to master)
Teams that are using short-lived feature branches would usually benefit from aiming to work directly on master.