Ideas about how to use AWS - Julia Evans
Interesting thoughts on using AWS, includes a suggestion for light-touch docker use
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The Happy Genius Of My Household
“Use containers. Not too much. Mostly for packaging”
Building and Motivating Engineering Teams – Medium
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How I share information with my team
Interesting idea - send my team a "Week in Review" update every Friday. Would be particularly helpful as we become more distributed
On Being Surpassed Gracefully
TL;DR: As a first-time engineering manager, you will have to spend a substantial fraction of your time on non-technical work. Therefore, you will see others surpass you in technical abilities. This is usually unavoidable, but scary nonetheless. Find ways to preserve some technical abilities, and remind yourself that you are developing other skills instead.
The iron triangle of planning | The Agile Coach
Everything mattered: lessons from 2016's bizarre presidential election - Vox
Elfin
A non-punycode homographic domain generator
Competent Jerks, Lovable Fools, and the Formation of Social Networks
“everybody wanted to work with the lovable star, and nobody wanted to work with the incompetent jerk. Things got a lot more interesting, though, when people faced the choice between competent jerks and lovable fools”
Charlax — Negative feedback antipatterns
Flowchart Maker & Online Diagram Software
9 New Features in Ruby 2.4
Engineering career development at Khan Academy | Khan Academy Engineering
Dark corners of Unicode / fuzzy notepad
How to have an honest one-on-one with an employee
PostgreSQL 10 Built-in Partitioning at Keith's Ramblings…
Behind Every Great Product
JanVanRyswyck/awesome-talks
lat lon - Measuring accuracy of latitude and longitude? - Geographic Information Systems Stack Exchange
Invoke --data-checksums using pg_createcluster on Ubuntu 14.04: Stack Overflow
Upgrade postgresql on Debian Jessie with pg_upgradecluster – scottlinux.com | Linux Blog
Feature #5481: Gemifying Ruby standard library - Ruby trunk - Ruby Issue Tracking System
From Tape Drives to Memory Orbs, the Data Formats of Star Wars Suck (Spoilers) | Motherboard
[ANN] Giving up maintenance of ruby-xz gem
Taming the Steamroller – Medium
Some good tips for working in English with non-native speakers
The Rust Programming Language
How to ask good questions - Julia Evans
The Multi-Column Index of the Mysteries
super interesting summary of how and when postgres can use multi-column indexes