• forge - Work with GitHub or GitLab from the comfort of Emacs.
• Rails schema autoresolve - Automatically fix git merge conflicts in Rails schema files caused by differing version strings.
• A Tour of AWS Functionality Added in Jan 2019 - Good roundup for people who don't have time to read the entire firehose.
• Sloth - A "Mac application that displays all open files and sockets in use by all running processes on your system."
• Questions for a new technology. - A solid set of questions to use when the engineers want to chase the latest new shiny thing.
• Modern Alternatives to PGP - Yep, that ship has sailed. Or sunk.
• Talos - Stripped-down Linux distribution tailerd for Kubernetes.
• Cortex - "Cortex is an open-source platform for building, deploying, and managing machine learning applications in production."

• Next.js 8 - Including a serverless mode that builds a lambda per page.
• Help! None of my projects want to be SPAs - Oh good, I'm not the only one skeptical of the notion that every web app requires a megabyte of JS.
• Using Faktory with JavaScript - An example of working with this new polyglot background job system.
• Problem solving with Unix commands - The Unix toolbox is way more powerful than most developers these days (including myself) know.
• The New Golden Age of Building with Soul - We're not done innovating in technology yet!
• Hipster Shop: Cloud-Native Microservices Demo Application - A big ol' pile of stuff to show you the Google Cloud way.
• Purview - "What if your React components ran on the server-side?"
• OpenCensus - A backend-agnostic telemetry framework with plenty of integrations.

• share your git hooks and config - Setting things up for uniformity on a software development team.
• Redmond Themes repository - Want to make your Linux look like some flavor of Windows? It's a free country I guess.
• Announcing Linaria 1.0 - "Linaria is a zero-runtime CSS in JS library. What’s special about Linaria is that it extracts all of the styles you write in your JavaScript code to real CSS files."
• SQL: One of the Most Valuable Skills - It's certainly served me well over the years.
• Create and install SSL certificates with ease – a Capistrano plugin (revised) - A set of tasks to handle some of the tedium.
• Caching beyond RAM: Riding the cliff - There's work going on to extend memcached to flash devices.
• Marp - Markdown Presentation Writer, a cross-platform (Electron) application to construct slides with Markdown.
• Don’t Get Clever with Login Forms - Amen to that.

• So you want to be a wizard - A conference talk from Julia Evans, with slides & transcript. Yes, you can learn how to learn and be a wizard.
• Coaching Tools – The One on One - Specifically written for managers of Product Managers, but there are pieces here with wider applicability.
• Introducing swc 1.0 - A faster alternative to babel in the javascript-to-javascript world.
• Principled GraphQL - A set of best practices for working with GraphQL.
• DeskGap - An alternative to Electron that depends on native webviews plus Node.
• (Anti-)Application Video for YC120 2019 - Deconstructing the nonsense that is the YCombinator application. Thank you Bryan Cantrill.
• Weird Ruby - Odds and ends in the language that you might not know about.
• Who could be your Jeff Dean? - Some thoughts about implementing the Principal Engineer role in an organization.

• gitin - CLI tool for exploring the history and state of a git repo.
• Electron v5.0.0 Timeline - Basically, moving to the same release cadence as Chromium.
• Helping To Build Cloudflare, Part 5: People: Finding, Nurturing and Learning to Let Go - More lessons from managing in a rapidly-growing company.
• Closing svn2github - Taking a moment to say thanks & goodbye to this tool.

• Hello, CSS! - A simple and neutral set of CSS defaults.
• Un-SAFe At Any Speed: Rethinking Scale and Agility - It doesn't feel like Big Agile is the answer to any question that I personally care about.
• stylelint - A linter for CSS and CSS-like files.
• Git History - Pretty browser for the history of any file on GitHub.
• Nginx Quick Reference - A compendium of notes.

• cssreference.io - An illustrated animated guide to CSS.
• 30 minutes every day for your craft: Committing code to GitHub for 365 consecutive days - A report on building a habit of coding.
• K9s - A CLI for managing K8s clusters. Of course.
• Putting Users and Publishers at the Center of the Online Value Exchange - Another reason to keep using Firefox.
• Infrastructure Development Environment - Docker image with Ansible, kubectl, Terraform, various cloud CLIs, and more.
• Working from home: the yin and yang - A bunch of things to think about if you're just entering the remote workforce.

• Being a Great Engineering Mentor - Some thoughts about the various functions of mentorship.
• Don't Let the Internet Dupe You, Event Sourcing is Hard - Lessons learned from actually trying to use event sourcing./li>
• Gita - Command-line tool for managing multiple git repos together.
• Introducing Templates: A way to share your Functions with the Community - If you're working with FaaStRuby, that is.
• The Cost of Bad Software Architecture - Not being able to scale will bite you./li>
• Mercury Goes Open Source! - Web-parsing in JavaScript.
• Feature Flagging in Ruby Using EightBall - The genesis of a new Ruby library.
• How We Use Trello to Help Us Onboard Our New Employees - Systematic onboarding is a good thing.
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• React as a UI Runtime - Digging into the workings of React.
• Mermaid Live Editor - Generate diagrams and flow charts from a structured text file.
• Opportunity Cost for developers — or how I stopped worrying about the future and learned to code for the present - Think about what you're not doing when you try to "future-proof" code.
• Heaven's Door - Generate capybara test scripts by recording browser actions.
• Preload, Eager Load, Includes and Joins in Ruby on Rails - In case you're fuzzy about what the differences are.
• React v16.8: The One With Hooks - Major new functionality has landed in React stable.
• Dear CEO: Your Feel-Good Diversity Initiative is Undermined By Every Other Way You’re Doing Business - Many parts of this industry are still a spectacular failure on the diversity front.
• Introducing: @pika/pack - A new NPM package builder.

• fonts-degooglifier - Script to cache fonts locally instead of always pinging Google for them, because privacy matters.
• Launching Your Own Ruby Gem (part 2): Popularizing it within the Ruby Community - Things you can do to help a gem get traction, if you care about that sort of thing.
• Why we use Ruby on Rails to build GitLab - Because it's a working, boring solution.
• What’s wrong with the Raspberry Pi - Or at least, why it's not a perfect fit for every application.
• Covered - A shot at better Ruby code coverage including templates that run through eval.

• Trouble hiring senior engineers? It's probably you - Book pitch with some good advice for hiring departments.
• Defining the tracking practices that will be blocked in Firefox - Things like this are why I stick with Firefox (and avoid Chrome like the plague).
• ImmortalDB - "A relentless key-value store for the browser" that does its best to stash info where the user won't get rid of it.
• rails_ops - "This Gem introduces an additional service layer for Rails: Operations. An operation is in most cases a business action or use case and may or may not involve one or multiple models."
• Tools for Introspection - Some ways to get out shared expectations within a team.
• Broot - An interesting attempt at a better way to navigate directories in your shell.

• My Losing Battle with Enterprise Sales - Some facts of life about making big money in software.
• A Primer on Type Systems - A good starting point, especially if you're not familiar with the terminology behind the debates.
• A List of Post-mortems! - Your chance to learn from (or be amused by) disasters that happened to other people.
• Announcing Hanami v2.0.0.alpha1 - A starting-from-scratch rewrite of this framework.
• What you (don’t) get from an open source project - Don't depend on a git repo to fulfill all of your human needs.
• Learn React App - A browser-based tutorial.
• Putting Wikipedia on the blockchain - More interesting than the latest get-rich-quick ICO scam, at least.
• Homebrew 2.0.0 - New major version is out, hooray!

• McKinsey & Company and Scrum.org Release Joint Research Study on Agile Teams - Because I like to get all of my agile advice from vast multinational management consulting firms.
• Why Don't People Use Formal Methods? - A more complex question than you might think, if you're talking about software.
• Dank Neon - "A danker, more neon theme for anywhere you view code."
• Demystifying JOIN Algorithms - What the heck is that database server up to, anyhow?
• ValueSemantics—A Gem for Making Value Classes - A framework for writing immutable structs, more or less.
• RSpec Mocks and Stubs in Plain English - With pointers to more precise but harder to understand explanations.
• Rails Autoscale - Paid service to scale your Heroku dynos up and down.
• Packages and Modern Security - Yup, still screwed.

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• Double Shot

• On Being A Principal Engineer - A look at what this role means, at least in one company.
• Querying on Multiple Attributes in Amazon DynamoDB - Global secondary indexes for the win.
• Advice to new Programmers - A look at the most common responses in a huge Twitter thread on this subject.
• λ# — Accelerate Serverless Development with CloudFormation - An opinionated tool to help version your infrastructure.
• faucet-pipeline - A "framework-independent, pluggable asset pipeline that takes the pain out of preprocessing JavaScript, CSS and associated files."
• Kommando - "Command runner with expect-like features," which makes it good for testing multi-step processes.
• Ruby 2.6.1 Released - Bug fixes for all.
• Introducing dry-schema - The latest in this set of foundational ruby gems.

• Module Counts - The growth rate of the main NPM module repository is completely absurd. We're so far down the wrong path here we can't even see the road signs any more.
• agoo - "A High Performance HTTP Server for Ruby" that is 1000x faster than Rails and supports the rack API as well.
• Using the Product Canvas to Define Your Product: Getting Started - Reminds me of a 360 review, but for products instead of people.
• Practical Deep Learning for Coders 2019 - You can learn a thing.
• The TypeScript Tax -I personally have never been attracted to learning TypeScript, but perhaps I'm just a dinosaur.
• Scrum Master ≠ Project Manager - True.
• How to Make Things High-Quality - "Do fewer things better, but make them the most important things."
• Here to stay - Analyzing RubyGems stats for 2018 - A look at both gem creation and gem downloads.

• Some delightful developer experiences in 2019. - There are a whole pile of rabbit holes to explore in this post.
• Awesome Software Patreons - Curated list of software-related Patreon accounts.
• MySQL client allows MySQL server to request any local file - Don't connect to untrusted servers.
• Staying Safe with Open Source - Attacks against open source ecosystems are real, serious, and underdiscussed.
• On Accountability - Hint: it doesn't mean punishing people.
• Design Patterns for Managing Up - Ways to deal with some challenging interactions with your boss.
• WebAuthn - Another technology I really should learn one of these days.
• Streaming HTTP for Ruby/a></strong> - "We present async-http, a modern, streaming HTTP client and server supporting HTTP/1, HTTP/2 and SSL out of the box."</li> </ul>

• The Internals of PostgreSQL - Lots of info "for database administrators and system developers".
• Mozart.js - Organize your javascript into components instead of installing the gargantuan framework du jour.
• Serverless Failure Stories and Kubernetes Failure Stories - Collections of cautionary tales
• The Practical Linux Hardening Guide - How to create a secure production Linux system.
• Be careful of the JWT hype train -Especially for the pattern of using it as a client-facing session token.
• I Didn't Want to Be a Manager Anymore—and the World Didn't End - The manager track isn't for everyone, and that's OK.
• Professional Software Development - There is too damned much to learn. This online book can help.
• Vim Configuration Tutorial In 10 Minutes - A starting point, in case you want one.

• #MenteeGoals Prepping for a mentoring relationship - How to get started in this bit of career growth.
• Large-Scale Agile: Where Do You Want Your Complexity? - None of the technical solutions to cross-team coordination are all that great.
• Ruby on Rails 6.0 Beta 1 Deprecations - A handy list of things to stop doing.
• AWS Lambda Container Image Converter - A tool to repackage Docker images to Lambda layers.
• run.rb - Run Ruby code in the browser via WebASM.
• Electronegativity is finally out! - A security auditing tool for Electron applications.
• The Design of Engineering Culture - You get a culture whether you design it or not. The question is how toxic it will be.
• What Does Open Source Mean in the Era of Cloud APIs? - For one thing, "APIs are increasingly of greater importance than the code that instantiates them" and for another, Google v. Oracle is incredbily important. More solid analysis from RedMonk.

• Building trust in teams: What and why? - We talk about high-functioning teams having trust, but ever think about what that means?
• How I use my Raspberry Pis to help me work on with my side projects - Pi for all!
• Zeitwerk: A new code loader for Ruby - The classic Rails autoloader is going to go the way of the dodo.
• What exactly do developer advocates do? - Quite a lot, despite the stupid prejudices of some uninformed developers.
• Our Software Dependency Problem - A deep dive into the mess that headlong module reuse and tree-style dependency managers have put us into.
• Yarn's Future - v2 and beyond - Big plans, including becoming a pluggable package manager for things other than Node.
• Queueing theory - Some basics that I'm surprised more developers don't already know.
• Decolonizing Silicon Valley: The critical role of inclusion in tech - Software companies could actually make a cultural difference, if we can stop focusing on this Unicorn nonsense for a little while.

• Be safe on the internet. - "An open source checklist of resources designed to improve your online privacy and security." Good suggestions, though I'd feel even safer if I didn't need to enable JS to view their site.
• The Cliff Nest - "Interactive serial sci-fi book" with embedded security puzzles to solve.
• Devurls - An aggregator of headlines across various dev news sites.
• json2graphql - A "tool that imports a JSON file to initialise schema and data in Postgres and then allows you to start querying it with GraphQL."
• The joy of caretaking - Motivating people to work on the less-flashy projects is important.
• Useful Curl features - There's probably more in curl than you know.
• Strategies for Tackling Uncertainty with Apostrophe’s Kathy Keating - Some things to try when you don't quite know where you need to go.
• Recommenders - Jupyter notebooks with examples of building recommendation systems, from Microsoft.