{{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/43/images/1055997911.jpg" title="The Complete Guide to Time Blocking" link="https://todoist.com/productivity-methods/time-blocking" domain="todoist.com" date="2020-08-31" tags="productivity" excerpt="...and its cousins task batching and day theming. Control your schedule so it doesn't control you" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/43/images/1055997755.png" title="A gRPC Example: Our experience designing and building gRPC services | Bugsn" link="https://www.bugsnag.com/blog/using-grpc-in-production" domain="bugsnag.com" date="2020-08-31" tags="architecture, code, programming, tech" excerpt="Blog" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/43/images/1055998974.jpg" title="Ice, water, steam: reflecting on the language of agile teams | by James Ber" link="https://medium.com/humans-of-xero/ice-water-steam-reflecting-on-the-language-of-agile-teams-81c18d097c07" domain="medium.com" date="2020-08-31" tags="agile, architecture, leadership, tech" excerpt="Lately, I’ve been thinking about what we need to do to continue our journey towards world-class engineering, and perform at that level over the long term. I’ve also been thinking about how Xero’s…" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/43/images/1055998970.jpg" title="How can you find time to design?. 7 tips to own your time | by José Torre |" link="https://uxdesign.cc/how-can-you-find-time-to-design-cc9a4e3a2b5d" domain="uxdesign.cc" date="2020-08-31" tags="career, productivity" excerpt="For the past few months, I’ve noticed an increasing number of designers online complaining about their lack of time to design. They have a packed agenda full of meetings and, if they’re lucky, they…" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/43/images/1055997871.webp" title="Proving Your Value at Work — Why It’s So Hard and How to Do it Anyway" link="https://doist.com/blog/how-to-promote-yourself-at-work" domain="doist.com" date="2020-08-30" tags="career, productivity" excerpt="Actionable steps for making sure \"out of sight\" doesn't mean \"out of mind\"" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/43/images/1055997869.webp" title="5 Habits for Crafting the Perfect Remote Work Day" link="https://doist.com/blog/remote-work-habits" domain="doist.com" date="2020-08-30" tags="career, productivity" excerpt="The reality of working from home is rarely as rosy as it seems" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/43/images/1055998965.webp" title="Dear Google Cloud: Your Deprecation Policy is Killing You | by Steve Yegge" link="https://medium.com/@steve.yegge/dear-google-cloud-your-deprecation-policy-is-killing-you-ee7525dc05dc" domain="medium.com" date="2020-08-30" tags="architecture, stories, tech" excerpt="God dammit, I didn’t want to blog again. I have so much stuff to do. Blogging takes time and energy and creativity that I could be putting to good use: my novels, my music, my game, and so on. But…" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/43/images/1055998964.jpg" title="Emotional Agility" link="https://hbr.org/2013/11/emotional-agility" domain="hbr.org" date="2020-08-30" tags="health, leadership, psychology" excerpt="How effective leaders manage their negative thoughts and feelings" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/43/images/1055998966.webp" title="Building domain knowledge | Janella’s blog" link="https://blog.janella.nz/posts/2020/08/16/building-domain-knowledge.html" domain="blog.janella.nz" date="2020-08-30" tags="career, psychology, tech" excerpt="I started a new engineering role two weeks ago, after ten years at my previous company." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/43/images/1055998953.jpg" title="Building greater accessibility into Facebook.com - Facebook Engineering" link="https://engineering.fb.com/web/facebook-com-accessibility" domain="engineering.fb.com" date="2020-08-29" tags="code, design, facebook, javascript, tech" excerpt="As part of our recent redesign of Facebook.com, we took advantage of recent React improvements to build accessibility into the foundation" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/43/images/1055998942.jpg" title="The Impact of Toxic Influencers on Communities · Intense Minimalism" link="https://intenseminimalism.com/2020/the-impact-of-toxic-influencers-on-communities" domain="intenseminimalism.com" date="2020-08-29" tags="health, psychology, tech" excerpt="There’s a common character that can be often spotted in many online communities. It’s the “toxic influencer” (sometimes referred as “intellectual bully”). A toxic influencer is a person…" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/43/images/1055998940.jpg" title="Microservices Adoption in 2020 – O’Reilly" link="https://www.oreilly.com/radar/microservices-adoption-in-2020/" domain="oreilly.com" date="2020-08-27" tags="architecture, microservices, tech" excerpt="Everyone’s talking about microservices. Who’s actually doing it?" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/43/images/1055998967.jpg" title="Our Brains Struggle to Process This Much Stress | Elemental" link="https://elemental.medium.com/your-surge-capacity-is-depleted-it-s-why-you-feel-awful-de285d542f4c" domain="elemental.medium.com" date="2020-08-26" tags="psychology" excerpt="We are processing an inordinate amount of stress, loss, and grief over a sustained period of time. Psychologists and experts explain what this does to our brains." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/43/images/1055998949.webp" title="Let's build a Full-Text Search engine - Artem Krylysov" link="https://artem.krylysov.com/blog/2020/07/28/lets-build-a-full-text-search-engine" domain="artem.krylysov.com" date="2020-08-25" tags="code, programming, tech" excerpt="" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/43/images/1055997873.png" title="Asynchronous Communication: What It Is & Why You Should Care About It" link="https://doist.com/blog/asynchronous-communication" domain="doist.com" date="2020-08-25" tags="psychology, tech" excerpt="And what you can do to start implementing it, whether you're an individual contributor or a team leader." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/43/images/1055997834.jpg" title="Book Summary: Accelerate. Accelerate — Building and Scaling High… | by Trev" link="https://medium.com/@tdevroome/book-summary-accelerate-c531efe4c34c" domain="medium.com" date="2020-08-12" tags="agile, leadership, management, product, productivity, tech" excerpt="By making meaningful steps to introduce and improve your capabilities in continuous delivery, architecture, product & process, lean practices, and culture — you can create a profound impact on…" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/43/images/1055998962.jpg" title="The Relationship Between Software Architecture And Business Models (and mor" link="https://medium.com/nick-tune-tech-strategy-blog/the-relationship-between-software-architecture-and-business-models-and-more-7209dc3be83e" domain="medium.com" date="2020-08-12" tags="architecture, tech" excerpt="As an architect, how often are you thinking about business models? If every significant architecture decision has business consequences, then knowing the business model and which trade-offs to choose…" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/43/images/1055997630.webp" title="No Silver Bullet" link="https://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/Outreach/pc204/NoSilverBullet.html" domain="cgl.ucsf.edu" date="2020-08-11" tags="architecture, learning, programming, tech" excerpt="" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/44/images/1055998944.webp" title="10 Standout GitHub Profile READMEs - DEV" link="https://dev.to/github/10-standout-github-profile-readmes-h2o" domain="dev.to" date="2020-08-11" tags="games, programming, tech" excerpt="My good friend and colleague @bdougieyo is at Codeland today and is giving away early access to Codes..." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/44/images/1055998951.jpg" title="What software teams can learn from music masterclasses - Helen Hou-Sandí" link="https://helen.blog/2020/07/what-software-teams-can-learn-from-music-masterclasses" domain="helen.blog" date="2020-08-11" tags="career, leadership, learning, music" excerpt="I come from a musical background, with degrees in piano performance and piano accompanying and chamber music, and I think a lot about how that’s shaped who I’ve become in web and software development. I’ve even gotten to give a talk relating musicianship skills to programming and" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/44/images/1055998947.webp" title="How GPT3 Works - Visualizations and Animations – Jay Alammar – Visualizing" link="https://jalammar.github.io/how-gpt3-works-visualizations-animations" domain="jalammar.github.io" date="2020-08-11" tags="tech, ai" excerpt="Discussions: Hacker News (397 points, 97 comments), Reddit r/MachineLearning (247 points, 27 comments) Translations: German, Korean, Chinese (Simplified), Russian, Turkish The tech world is abuzz with GPT3 hype. Massive language models (like GPT3) are starting to surprise us " >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/44/images/1055998960.png" title="Availability Group issues fixed with Alerts - Wayne Sheffield" link="https://blog.waynesheffield.com/wayne/archive/2020/08/availability-group-issues-fixed-with-alerts" domain="blog.waynesheffield.com" date="2020-08-10" tags="data, database, sql, tech" excerpt="Learn how to use the SQL Server Agent Alerting system to detect Availability Group issues and to respond to them by running jobs." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/images/bookmark-placeholder.jpg" title="Katie Sylor-Miller - Frontend Architect at Etsy | StaffEng" link="https://staffeng.com/stories/katie-sylor-miller" domain="staffeng.com" date="2020-08-10" tags="architecture, career, interviews, tech" excerpt="This story was recorded in August, 2020. Learn more about Katie on her website, Linkedin, and Twitter. Tell us a little about your current role: your title, the company you work at, and generally what sort of work does your team do? I work at Etsy, which is the world’s leading on" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/44/images/1055997655.jpg" title="Applying Conway's Law to improve your software development | ThoughtWorks" link="https://www.thoughtworks.com/insights/blog/applying-conways-law-improve-your-software-development" domain="thoughtworks.com" date="2020-08-07" tags="architecture, tech, thoughtworks" excerpt="Many organizations have become adept at identifying what they need from software development projects, based on a keen understanding of their business goals. Even so, they’re often surprised to find out that the end results don’t achieve the transformative impact they were expect" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/44/images/1055998959.jpg" title="A Founder's Guide to Writing Well — 8 Writing Tips | First Round Review" link="https://firstround.com/review/a-founders-guide-to-writing-well" domain="firstround.com" date="2020-08-06" tags="psychology" excerpt="There's a long list of most frequently-cited skills for becoming a successful entrepreneur. One that rarely makes the list is effective writing. Upstart CEO Dave Girouard pens this thoughtful case for the importance of strong writing in the startup world — and his tips for leveli" >}}