Double Shot #2352
- Cage Fight: Electronic VS Physical Boards - If your team is all-remote, you pretty much have to track work electronically. But if you're in the same space, whiteboards and post-its and magnets still rule.
- An Overview of JavaScript Testing in 2019 - A great roundup with links to many tools. There's a lot going on in this space that I don't know about (but should).
- What it Means to be a Technology Consultant - @laurieontech discusses her career path and current work. This spawned the excellent Tech Career Guide with many other paths to think about.
- How to enable full mitigation for Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS) vulnerabilities - Mac owners get to take their pick, remain vulnerable to Intel CPU shenanigans or take a 40% performance hit.
- Contribute to Rails 6! - A step-by-step tale of a first commit accepted to the Rails repo.
- Linux distros without systemd - You're not alone if you don't like systemd (though increasingly I think you're an outlier).
- Addressing Hiring Gaps Through User Research - An important initiative from Automattic: "For our initial research, we’re looking for women and non-binary people (trans/cis/gnc) who may experience similar gender discrimination in the workplace, who have multiple years of experience in a software development role."
- What Should We Do to Prevent Software From Failing? - I suspect "require a license to write critical code" will not be a popular idea with my readership.
- The Art of Command Line - Lots of tips to help level up your command-line skills.
- PostgreSQL 12 Beta 1 Released! - Development marches on.
- Understanding Fake Agile - A look at the many ways to claim victory without changing, with some (deserved) bad words to say about SAFe.