• How to build an npm worm - Helpful advice on screwing up the NPM ecosystem.
• Hasura GraphQL Engine - Automatic GraphQL APIs from your PostgreSQL database.
• Build a Realtime Serverless GraphQL API with Websockets on AWS - Lots of moving parts, but no (visible) servers.
• C's Biggest Mistake - Just one? (Actually, I still fondly recall the time long ago I made my living writing C).
• Forest - Stay focused by taking a 30-minute timeout on your phone, and plant real trees to save the planet. Neat idea.

• REST was NEVER about CRUD - Well, except that there are plenty of cases where it was. But yes, there are other uses.
• PentesterLab - Get hands-on pen testing experience by working with vulnerable sandboxes.
• tinyssh - New ssh server aiming for simplicity & security.
• μPad - Interesting-looking open-source note-taking application.
• Rockstar - "Rockstar is a dynamically-typed Turing-complete programming language." I love this. Let's make it happen.
• Terraform Pipelines in GitLab - A quick how-to.
• On Toxic Jobs, Low Self-Esteem, & Interviewing - Really, it's not you, it's them.

• Material Design is a political choice - Yes, indeed it is.
• Scrum is not an Agile Software Development Framework - More fun from Ron Jeffries.
• Using economic arguments to figure out what to test. -
• You don’t need that Bastion host - A skeptical look at some accepted security wisdom.
• ndb - Improved debugging for Node, courtesy of Chrome devtools.
• How to write a good software design doc - Plenty of good guidance here, especially if you don't have experience in such things.
• You’re not even criticising Scrum - Snarky responses to some common straw-man arguments.
• Veneur - Implementation of the DogStatsD protocol for universal observability from Stripe.

• Eggshell - Bash script manager & runner for the MacOS menu bar.
• Building Web based UIs for Terminals using JavaScript - Interesting technique, though personally I'm not all that keen on using curl to load javascript from untrusted sources.
• Lore - A framework built on top of React, Redux, WebPack and more.
• Git Shortcuts - One power user's approach.
• The Forwardable module in Ruby — Part I - A dive into some of the modern ruby plumbing.
• Guppy - MacOS UI to help with React development.
• https://alexgaynor.net/2018/jul/20/worst-truism-in-infosec/ - But aphorisms are much easier than thinking!
• How to beat LinkedIn: The Game - Other people game LinkedIn. Why shouldn't you?

• vue-patterns - Repo of "useful Vue patterns, techniques, tips and tricks and helpful curated links."
• itty bitty - Cram an entire web site into the URL.
• Rules of Machine Learning - A "best practices" document from Google.

• About Firefox Pioneer - An opt-in program to help Mozilla understand browsing behavior.
• Revenge of the PMO - How organizational inertia can co-opt agile methods into the same old top-down planning model.
• Vue.js: the good, the meh, and the ugly - A couple years of experience afte a move from React.

• AWS Kinesis with Lambdas: Lessons Learned - Some experience from converting things to a streaming architecture.
• cheat.sh - Command-line access to a bunch of cheat sheets.
• An extensive ZFS setup on MacOS - There was a time when I had the patience to noodle around with this sort of thing. I'm glad someone still does.

• An Illustrated Proof of the CAP Theorem - If you're doiung any work with a distributed system (even something as trivial as database sharding) you need to understand this stuff.
• Watchdog: Auto-detect performance anomalies without setting alerts - DataDog will keep an eye on your events to see if anything unusual is going on, even without you setting up an alert.
• New – Lifecycle Management for Amazon EBS Snapshots - Another useful tool for those of us on AWS.
• Navy Aims for “Compile to Combat in 24 Hours” - Microservices, they are everywhere.
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Want to work with me? Our team is looking to hire an Junior Ruby/Rails Engineer.

• "A minimal CQRS library for Ruby," designed to plug into any web framework. -
• Milestoner - CLI for managing milestones in git repos.
• Terrible Ideas in Git - Some things you probably shouldn't try at home (though the typo autocorrection is interesting)
• E-Commerce at Scale: Inside Shopify's Tech Stack - You're probably not operating at Shopify scale, but this sort of thing is fun to read anyhow.

I've got some vacation and travel coming up, so postings will be spotty or nonexistent for the next couple of weeks.

• Rutie - Use Ruby in Rust, or vice versa.
• A one size fits all database doesn't fit anyone - Werner Vogels explains why there are so many different databases on AWS.
• Don’t be a Junior Developer: The Roadmap - One opinion as to what you should know in 2018.
• How my role as CTO has changed as we've grown to 100 engineers - Some thoughts from Gusto's CTO.
• git-treesame-commit - Cherry-pick an entire file tree at once.
• Surviving as an Old in the Tech Worl - Ideas about what companies could do to treat older workers better if they cared, which most don't.

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• Effectively using AWS Reserved Instances - Advice from Stripe on lowering your AWS bill.
• Monitoring Rails applications with Datadog - A how-to article.
• Introducing VMware Kubernetes Engine™ (VKE) - And adding yet another layter of abstraction to the top of the cloud stack.
• AWS Lambda Adds Amazon Simple Queue Service to Supported Event Sources - A nice feature for those of us tinkering on the edges of monoliths.
• Resources on code ethics - I for one hope not to be just a hired gun.
• TestProf - Framework to profile your ruby tests, with some fixes for common problems.
• "Stylish" browser extension steals all your internet history - If you've got Stylish installed you probably ought to get rid of it.

• Accessibility Inspector - A recent addition to Firefox developer tools.
• Testing Firefox Monitor, a New Security Tool - A partnership with HaveIBeenPwned.
• Microsoft Bob Gets the Last Laugh - I was an early user of Bob. But in my defense, I got him for free.
• Simple, Async, Map/Reduce queue for Ruby - Distributed data querying to keep an eye on things.
• HashiCorp Terraform 0.12 Preview - A step in the right direction. I wish they'd just allow arbitrary scripting languages to plug-in, though, instead of this lurching progress on HCL.
• Debugging Serverless Apps: from monitoring invocations to observing a system of functions - Keeping track of your exploded monolith.

• Self-Hosted Developer Bliss - Self-hosting your own development environment with Dokku and Drone.
• Retained Display Lists for improved page performance - The latest round of low-level speed improvements in Firefox.
• We’re moving from Azure to Google Cloud Platform - GitLab is making the switch to take advantage of Kubernetes. I'm sure the Microsoft purchase of GitHub has nothing to do with the move.
• <a href=https://github.com/FiloSottile/mkcert"">mkcert</a> - Zero-configuration tool for making development certificates.
• Supercharging the Git Commit Graph - Microsoft is becoming quite the source for git innovation.
• How to have a good relationship with your boss when you’re working remotely - Some best practices that help with managing up.

• A Primer on MySQL Online Schema Change - How to alter tables without locking in production.
• Convergence to Kubernetes - There's a lot going on here, but standardizing low-level junk to focus on high-level added value is a big part of the story.
• Management & false certainty - You need to make bets, you need to argue, you need to engage - otherwise, you're doing it wrong.
• HashiCorp Consul 1.2: Service Mesh - Better service discovery and other goodies for Consul clusters.
• Exposing the Secret Office 365 Forensics Too - If you're on a corporate server, pretty much every keystroke can be retrieved. Pretty much no surprise there.
• React From Zero - A simple tutorial designed to let you focus on React instead of the latest sexy JS.
• git-god - Ruby shortcuts & scripting for git.

• Http.rb is Great - Code examples and performance testing agree here.
• MiniSql - "MiniSql is a very simple, safe and fast SQL executor and mapper for PG."
• JSON Serialization in Rails: A Complete Guide - A quest for optimization.
• jsonnet - Extended JSON with object orientation as a configuration language.
• JustAPI - "A robust, specification based, codeless testing framework that tests REST, GraphQL (or any HTTP based) APIs."
• Initial Thoughts on The Airbnb Announcement - Why you might still want to use React Native even though AirBNB is moving away from it.

• Blockers to IPv6 Adoption - I'm no longer holding my breath for progress on this front.
• <a href=https://pgdash.io/blog/postgres-features.html?h"">PostgreSQL Features You May Not Have Tried But Should</a> - There's a lot floating around in that product.
• The "Boring Software" manifesto - Don't chase the shiny.
• Material Dashboard - A "free Material Bootstrap Admin with a fresh, new design inspired by Google's Material Design."" Not my fave look but hey it's this year's style.
• Inspeqtor - Modern alternative to monit, now with all features in the free version.
• FireHydrant - Incident Management as a service.

• National Security Agency - Look who has a GitHub account.
• Hello, Pulumi! - A new set of abstractions for cloud programming, spanning the stack from infrastructure as code right up to serverless functions.
• A Performance Cheat Sheet for PostgreSQL - Tucking this one away for the next time I need it.
• What Happens If Your JWT Is Stolen? - Bad people do bad things with your identity, of course.
• Paper clips and string -"All software is held together with patches, shortcuts and cruft." Short but true.
• Support of Ruby 2.2 has ended - And how many unsupported versions are you running now?
• Woah! - A (really) minimal web framework on top of Rack.
• GitLab 11.0 released with Auto DevOps and License Management - Still moving right along in an enterprise-friendly direction.

• Microsoft Unveils FASTER – a key-value store for large state management - Some news from MS Research, so not a product you can buy right now.
• Announcing Gatsby v2 beta launch! - Lots of changes on the way for this site generator for React.
• ActorDB distributed SQL database - A combination of KV store and relational database.
• Is Serverless Just a New Word for Cloud Based? - Pretty much, though with a fresh set of challenges & benefits.
• Firefox Is Back. It’s Time to Give It a Try. - Earth to NYT: It never went away.
• Strategies for Decomposing a System into Microservices - Architectural thinking and trying to find the sweet spot.
• Competitive sitting and leaving loudly - "Check whether your own actions align with the workplace that you wish to see around you."
• Thinking Architecturally - Free ebook from Pivotal + O'Reilly that digs into how to evaluate technology tradeoffs.

• Fibonacci Hashing: The Optimization that the World Forgot (or: a Better Alternative to Integer Modulo) - A dive into one low-level optimization.
• How we fixed our on call process to avoid engineer burnout - An interesting approach: moving on-call to (compensated) volunteers.
• Full guide to developing REST API’s with AWS API Gateway and AWS Lambda - And node.js for that matter.
• GraphQL for databases: A layer for universal database access? - Maybe you don't even need an ORM.
• Keybase Exploding Messages - Time-limited messages with forward secrecy in my favorite secure chat client.
• MySQL High Availability at GitHub - You're not GitHub, either. Fun reading anyhow.
• Kong blew up their monolith. Here's how they did it. - Another microservices migration story.
• How to Use Slack and Not Go Crazy - Feels like I'm seeing a lot of Slack backlash lately - which begs the question of why it's so darned popular.

• Decades-old PGP bug allowed hackers to spoof just about anyone’s signature - We can't have nice things. Ever.
• RefactoringUI - A site that tries to teach you how to do it better.
• Strapdown.js - Create and render Markdown by dropping in this JS file.