{{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/40/images/1055999017.png" title="Managing technical quality in a codebase." link="https://lethain.com/managing-technical-quality" domain="lethain.com" date="2020-10-29" tags="leadership, product, tech" excerpt="If there’s one thing that engineers, engineering managers, and technology executives are likely to agree on, it’s that there’s a crisis of technical quality. One diagnosis and cure is easy to identify: our engineers aren’t prioritizing quality, and we need to hire better engineer" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/40/images/1055997885.png" title="Self-service database provisioning with Octopus Runbooks and Redgate SQL Cl" link="https://octopus.com/blog/self-service-database-provisioning-with-octopus-runbooks-and-redgate-sql-clone" domain="octopus.com" date="2020-10-29" tags="code, data, database, sql, tech" excerpt="A discussion about database provisioning for dev and test, including a walk-through of Redgate SQL Clone and Octopus Runbooks" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/40/images/1055999030.png" title="‘All I wanted to do was get into bed and pull the covers over my head.’ | b" link="https://medium.com/humans-of-xero/all-i-wanted-to-do-was-get-into-bed-and-pull-the-covers-over-my-head-b6f8cbfc4c66" domain="medium.com" date="2020-10-28" tags="health, psychology" excerpt="One in five people are affected by mental health challenges each year. And while the world continues to experience the unprecedented impact of the global health emergency due to COVID-19, millions…" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/40/images/1055997669.png" title="What I Talk About When I Talk About Platforms" link="https://martinfowler.com/articles/talk-about-platforms.html" domain="martinfowler.com" date="2020-10-28" tags="architecture, product, tech" excerpt="These days everyone is building a 'platform' to speed up delivery of digital products. But what makes an effective digital platform?" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/40/images/1055999031.webp" title="Build better platform products. Four tips to help you embed great… | by Cla" link="https://medium.com/clarion-coughlan/build-better-platform-products-f4ca01da2e92" domain="medium.com" date="2020-10-28" tags="product, tech" excerpt="In 2018, I came across Evan Bottcher’s article What I Talk About When I Talk About Platform. I was coaching a company’s platform teams, which were looking to apply Agile principles and practices to…" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/40/images/1055999013.jpg" title="When should you hire your first Product Manager? - Product and Systems" link="https://productandsystems.substack.com/p/building-a-product-management-practise" domain="productandsystems.substack.com" date="2020-10-28" tags="product, tech" excerpt="Building a Product Management practice (1/3): In this first post of the series I will share when to hire and what to look for in your first PM" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/40/images/1055999007.jpg" title="Apple's T2 Security Chip Has an Unfixable Flaw | WIRED" link="https://www.wired.com/story/apple-t2-chip-unfixable-flaw-jailbreak-mac" domain="wired.com" date="2020-10-27" tags="apple, security, tech" excerpt="The Checkm8 vulnerability that exposed years of iPhones to jailbreaking has finally been exploited in Macs as well." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/images/bookmark-placeholder.jpg" title="The history of the BMW M logo and its colors | BMW.com" link="https://www.bmw-m.com/en/topics/magazine-article-pool/die-geschichte-des-bmw-m-logos.html" domain="bmw-m.com" date="2020-10-27" tags="cars" excerpt="The logo of BMW M. The distinctive BMW M logo with the three stripes attached to the M is recognised by petrolheads worldwide. But who invented it? Here is the answer." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/40/images/1055999025.webp" title="New Chrome 0-day Under Active Attacks – Update Your Browser Now" link="https://thehackernews.com/2020/10/chrome-zeroday-attacks.html" domain="thehackernews.com" date="2020-10-27" tags="google, security, tech" excerpt="Chrome version 86.0.4240.111 released to patch several security high-severity issues, including a zero-day vulnerability." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/40/images/1055999021.jpg" title="Adblockers installed 300,000 times are malicious and should be removed now" link="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/10/popular-chromium-ad-blockers-caught-stealing-user-data-and-accessing-accounts" domain="arstechnica.com" date="2020-10-27" tags="google, security, tech" excerpt="If you have Chromium versions of Nano Adblocker or Nano Defender, pay attention." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/40/images/1055999027.jpg" title="Study shows which messengers leak your data, drain your battery, and more |" link="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/10/study-shows-which-messengers-leak-your-data-drain-your-battery-and-more" domain="arstechnica.com" date="2020-10-27" tags="apple, google, product, tech" excerpt="Link previews provide convenience. They can also compromise privacy or security." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/40/images/1055999019.jpg" title="Doctors May Have Found Secretive New Organs in the Center of Your Head - Th" link="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/19/health/saliva-glands-new-organs.html" domain="nytimes.com" date="2020-10-26" tags="health, science" excerpt="They appear to be a fourth pair of large salivary glands, tucked into the space where the nasal cavity meets the throat." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/40/images/1055999026.png" title="How prioritisation has guided my personal approach to mental wellbeing | by" link="https://medium.com/humans-of-xero/how-prioritisation-has-guided-my-personal-approach-to-mental-wellbeing-24e7f502b09d" domain="medium.com" date="2020-10-26" tags="psychology, tech" excerpt="Prioritisation is one of those processes that is simple to understand but difficult to action. At its heart, prioritisation involves understanding the work you have to do and choosing to focus on the…" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/40/images/1055999014.png" title="Play the long game when learning to code. - Stack Overflow Blog" link="https://stackoverflow.blog/2020/10/05/play-the-long-game-when-learning-to-code" domain="stackoverflow.blog" date="2020-10-26" tags="career, programming, tech" excerpt="" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/40/images/1055998992.jpg" title="The untold history of macOS System Preferences" link="https://www.arun.is/blog/system-preferences" domain="arun.is" date="2020-10-25" tags="tech" excerpt="System Preferences may not be the most exciting part of the Mac, but by looking through its evolution over the decades, we'll see that it holds some secrets and fun easter eggs." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/40/images/1055998998.png" title="What I learned from hiring hundreds of engineers can help you land your nex" link="https://stackoverflow.blog/2020/09/23/hiring-jobs-candidates-software-coding-programmers-teresa-dietrich" domain="stackoverflow.blog" date="2020-10-25" tags="career, tech" excerpt="" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/40/images/1055999003.gif" title="Same Stats, Different Graphs" link="https://www.autodesk.com/research/publications/same-stats-different-graphs" domain="autodesk.com" date="2020-10-25" tags="data, tech" excerpt="AUTODESK RESEARCH | Why graphical representation and visualization are so important to understand statistical data." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/40/images/1055998941.jpg" title="How Flash games shaped the video game industry" link="http://www.flashgamehistory.com" domain="flashgamehistory.com" date="2020-10-25" tags="gaming, tech" excerpt="Flash is dead. But the influence of Flash games on modern gameplay is inescapable." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/41/images/1055998997.gif" title="Wikipedia is getting a new look for the first time in 10 years. Here’s why." link="https://diff.wikimedia.org/2020/09/23/wikipedia-is-getting-a-new-look-for-the-first-time-in-10-years-heres-why" domain="diff.wikimedia.org" date="2020-10-25" tags="tech" excerpt="This is the first blog in a series about desktop improvements coming to Wikipedia. Wikipedia has remained a critical and widely-used resource for knowledge across the world for the past two decades…" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/41/images/1055999002.jpg" title="Why do microservices need an API Gateway? - DEV" link="https://dev.to/rahul_ramfort/why-do-microservices-need-an-api-gateway-503i" domain="dev.to" date="2020-10-25" tags="architecture, programming, tech" excerpt="API Gateways are becoming increasingly popular with the microservice architecture. Recently, Google a..." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/images/bookmark-placeholder.jpg" title="Subscription or no subscription? That is not the question. – iA" link="https://ia.net/topics/subscription-or-no-subscription" domain="ia.net" date="2020-10-25" tags="product, tech, business" excerpt="Companies selling apps via subscriptions use drama to sell: \"Either subscription or we die.”" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/41/images/1055998972.png" title="Motoko, a programming language for building directly on the internet - Stac" link="https://stackoverflow.blog/2020/08/24/motoko-the-language-that-turns-the-web-into-a-computer" domain="stackoverflow.blog" date="2020-10-25" tags="programming, tech" excerpt="" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/41/images/1055999015.png" title="Weighing Network-based Competitive Advantages | by Damon Callaghan | ECP In" link="https://medium.com/ecp-insights/weighing-network-based-competitive-advantages-13de32ca0c64" domain="medium.com" date="2020-10-14" tags="business, tech" excerpt="Networks are one of the most powerful competitive advantages a business can possess. Strong network effects make it difficult for businesses to be replicated, enabling long-term pricing power…" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/41/images/1055999008.png" title="Xero, a Beautiful Business Model. Inside Xero’s Competitive Advantage | by" link="https://medium.com/ecp-insights/xero-a-beautiful-business-model-607b1b7afea0" domain="medium.com" date="2020-10-14" tags="business, tech" excerpt="At ECP, we continually assess the quality and the sustainability of our investments to evaluate the strength of their competitive advantage through time. Xero is a notable portfolio company which…" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/41/images/1055997640.webp" title="How Complex Systems Fail" link="https://how.complexsystems.fail" domain="how.complexsystems.fail" date="2020-10-12" tags="architecture, distributed systems, tech" excerpt="" >}}