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Blog - We need to talk

I’m a middle-aged white male of British descent. I am privileged. And I know it. I’m liberal, I’m open, I’m honest and I say what I think. I listen and I’m always learning and I have worked in the technology industry for over 15 years now. Over the years things have been ge...

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• Accidentally in Code

Linked - Dimensions of Engineering Growth

The four growth dimensions are: Scope Complexity Output Agenda

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Linked - Start test names with should

I like this, I’d name my tests function_ first to identify and sort when executing - this view really helps me view test cases and look for gaps. E.g., add_should_return_sum_of_values A trick I learned from Dave Hounslow, a former colleague, is to start test names with ...

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Blog - Using a label to trigger automation with GitHub Actions

I have been evolving my website over the last few weeks - football season is over - and I am using GitHub Actions to automate my processes and essentially use GitHub’s Issues as a content management system (CMS). CMSs typically have a database backend see WordPress and MySq...

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• Quoting Dark Reading

Linked - 6 Steps to Ensure Cyber Resilience

This step comes back to cyber protection being only as strong as each remote employee. Cyber awareness is essential when establishing cyber resilience so IT teams need to take the time to educate employees about cybercrime tactics such as phishing and business email compr...

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• Quoting Salma Alam-Naylor

Linked - Level up your link previews in Slack

improve web page link previews unfurled in Slack by including extra metadata using Open Graph.

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Blog - Handling Defects

Defects should be tackled and fixed as soon as possible, rather than establishing a potentially wasteful process of triaging them, classifying them, and storing them in your ticketing system for who knows how long. Look at the Toyota production lines and how they stopped eve...

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Blog - Keeping a digital book library

I wanted to keep a digital library of all the books I own, some physical, some digital (mostly on my Kindle). Thanks to Katy Decorah much of the work had been done for me. Including a Shortcut for my phone. I embellished Katy’s version with a scan QR Barcode action. So I can...

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Ride - Zwift - Triple Flat Loops in Watopia

  • Distance: 13.38 km
  • Duration: 0:30:13
  • Calories: 256.655
  • Avg power: 149 W
  • Max power: 343 W
  • Avg heart rate: 119 bpm
  • Max heart rate: 143 bpm
  • Elevation gain: 72 m

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// Published 2022-05-22, with 31 words.

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• Quoting GitHub

Linked - Math support in Markdown

Not gonna need it but pretty cool nonetheless.

For example, the following Markdown will render nicely

When $a \ne 0$, there are two solutions to $(ax^2 + bx + c = 0)$ and they are
$$ x = {-b \pm \sqrt{b^2-4ac} \over 2a} $$

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// Published 2022-05-21, with 55 words.

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Linked - How we’re continuing to enable all developers to build

GitHub has created a central accessibility team that consists of designers, engineers, product and program managers—all of whom work with external consultants with disabilities and we subsequently consider their feedback as we build out our solutions. The role of our team...

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• Quoting CircleCI

Linked - Software bill of materials - What it is and why you need one

Using a software bill of materials (SBOM) is a highly effective strategy for reducing software supply chain cyberattacks. Just as a recipe lists the ingredients necessary to make a favorite meal, the SBOM lists all components of a software application.

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Linked - Gender pay gap at UK unicorns

Of the 20 UK unicorns that were required by law to submit gender pay gap data, only seven reported a gap that was smaller than the national average of 10% — meaning women are paid 90p for every £1 men earn.

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• Quoting Jeremiah Lee

Linked - Agile User Story Estimation

Estimate user stories by thinking about the solution effort, additional testing effort, and risk level. Assess the solution effort, then increase the estimate if testing effort or risks exceed typical levels.

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• Quoting Martin Lewis

Linked - UO is just as important as UX

UO quite simply stands for ‘User Outcomes’, and when I use it, it very simply means does the user get the right answer, when using or reading the site, apps or tools?

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Linked - Write more secure code with the OWASP Top 10 Proactive Controls

by consistently applying defensive programming concepts as developers, you reduce your odds of introducing vulnerabilities. At the very least, you reduce the odds of them being exploited in the event that a vulnerability does make its way into your code.

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Blog - Agile Team Tooling

A couple of tools to support agile team working

  1. https://sprintnamegenerator.com/ - A sprint name generator, because ‘Sprint 2716’ is boring.
  2. https://app.storypoint.poker/ - Planning poker online for a team.

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• Quoting Changelog

Linked - Automation is the serialization of understanding

Because if you understand what you’re doing, you can automate if you want to.

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// Published 2022-05-12, with 16 words.

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• Quoting CircleCI

Linked - How we hired more engineers faster

Most questions I ask start with “tell me about a time” or “give an example of a time when you…” I want specifics. If I’m interviewing you, I want to understand if you made something good happen or stood next to people who did. At the same time, do you take all the credit ...

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• Quoting CircleCI

Linked - Observability versus monitoring in software development

Monitoring is a subset of observability that involves keeping track of important events and metrics so that anomalies, errors, and downtime are noticeable immediately. Metrics monitoring involves identifying specific criteria for success and measuring the performance of t...

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Linked - Threat Intelligence in the SOC - How can it help mitigate risks?

For most organizations, Security Operations Center (SOC) teams have long since been their first line of defense. These SOC systems efficiently ensure robust cybersecurity and are designed to detect, analyze, respond to, and prevent any cybersecurity incident that the organization might come across.

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Linked - How to safely think in systems

Communicating effectively is a valuable leadership skill, but Meadows focuses on an even more fundamental skill: how to think correctly. Since reading Thinking in Systems, I’ve spent a lot of time doing what the title recommends: starting with an introduction to systems t...

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• Lethain

Linked - Measures of engineering impact

Measures of engineering impact are not Accelerate’s measures of developer productivity: lead time, batch size, failure rate, and time to revert. Those measures support understanding and optimizing your development process but aren’t very effective at grading business impa...

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• Quoting John Cutlefish

Linked - Monthly Strategy Prompt Exercise

Really like this hypotheses written up on a monthly basis. I can see value in this being company public. A new puzzle we’ll need to wrap our heads around is unraveling the complexity around non-rental car mobility in Europe. There’s a lot to consider, but a promising pla...

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• Lethain

Linked - Service cookbooks

Simply, created some ‘issue types’ in Jira for this purpose - each template is phrased accordingly asking specific things for each use case. Took less than 5 minutes to set-up and it’s easier to iterate upon. Project selection is very much like optimizing system performa...

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• Lethain

Linked - Should you prioritize infrastructure costs

Before diving into the mechanics of managing infrastructure costs, the first question to answer is whether it’s a valuable use of organizational time to make your current infrastructure spend more efficient. How you think about this will vary a bit depending on whether your company is early-stage, prioritizing growth or profitability.

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• Quoting DevRelBook

Linked - 2021 Report State of Developer Relations

This report is a tool for DevRel practitioners to benchmark their activities and provide some scope to the emerging practice of DevRel. We encourage you to ponder the revelations, insights, and implications. Feel free to share the report, comment on it, and review it with your peers.

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• Quoting DevRelBook

Linked - A Framework for Developer Relations

DevRel is a professional practice focused on the engagement of developers as the primary user of a product. It’s also a program and set of activities with a company, most often called a Developer Program. The Developer Framework outlines the core components activated to interact with developers on their journey with your product and company.

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• Quoting Jacob Kaplan-Moss

Linked - Exit Interviews Are a Trap

Say you’re leaving a job, and you have some criticism. Maybe your boss sucked. Maybe the working conditions were bad. Maybe your teammates were hard to work with. Maybe the food in the cafeteria is better on the other side of Sand Hill Road. Whatever: the details of the c...

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• Quoting Jeff Gothelf

Linked - OKR Leadership - Stop telling people what to do

Key results must be outcomes — meaningful measures of human behavior that tell us we’ve delivered value. As a leader your job is to approve your teams’ key results. However, if OKRs are to succeed then your job is no longer to prescribe solutions for your teams. That’s th...