• Geek Career Paths - Lots of good advice from Tim Bray. What do twenty years from now when you're writing code now?
• Awesome OS X Command Line - All sorts of things you can do without taking your hands off the keyboard.
• Gmvault - Backup and restore for your GMail account.

• Brilliant Jerks Cost More Than They Are Worth - Yes, yes they do.
• The Biggest and Weirdest Commits in Linux Kernel Git History - Git problems that I am glad I do not have.
• awless - AWS CLI for exploring your infrastructure and managing resources through scriptable templates.

• Investment Time - Why ThoughtBot only works for clients four days each week.
• Opening Up Our Internal Handbook - Some guidance for small tech companies from MeetEdgar. Always nice to see new ideas on managing things.
• A better Pry prompt for the Rails console - How to customize your prompt to show which Rails environment you are in.

• Integrate Rubocop gem with Popular Ruby Text Editors - Just in case you'd like to speed up the nagging loop.
• Introducing Docker Secrets Management - Easy security is better security, but sheesh does the Docker landscape move fast.
• Postmortem of database outage of January 31 - From GitLab, and a good example of how to write a postmortem for a serious problem.

• pg-logical-backup-test - Test your backups! Via Docker in this case.
• Introducing Keybase Chat - A new take on end-to-end encrypted chat.
• How to gain more visiblity into your Github Projects using Scope - Open source status board layered on top of GitHub issues and PRs.

• Inform and Act - GitHub is actually trying to do something to promote their own ideals on travel and immigration. Kudos to them, and if this area concerns you too, don't just complain, get involved.
• Open-Source Software: What is in a poke? - An attempt to evaluate ruby gems based on objective factors, resulting in the launch of OSSERT.
• feedfilter - Junk filtering for RSS & Atom feeds.

• Trunk Based Development - An extended argument and manual for a particular style of source code management in a team.
• Awesome NLP with Ruby - A curated list of resources for natrual language processing.
• Percona Migrator Announcement - Online MySQL migrations in Rails 4.2 via an AR adapter.

• Unseen Open Source Infrastructure - The unsung hero projects of GitHub, depended on by many and starred by few.
• What it Takes to Truly Delete Data - Answer: a lot of effort and some fancy hardware.
• Announcing GVFS (Git Virtual File System): Source code management at scale from Microsoft. But: apparently Windows-only, and they don't say anything about upstreaming their patches.

• Working with the Evernote API in Rails - Not the easiest thing in the world, but it can be done.
• Gitlab.com Database Incident - Sucks to be them. And make sure you verify that your backups can actually be restored.
• Snapcraft.io - "Package any app for every Linux", a fancy new file format being promoted by Canonical.

If you've got DevOps skills and are looking for a new opportunity, the company I work for is hiring.

• Announcing dry-view, a functional view rendering system for Ruby - A view library that works with all sorts of ruby code, even without HTTP requests.
• htop Explained Visually - A guide to the information hiding in all those pretty colors.
• Front-End Developer Handbook 2017 - A free guide to (one view of) the state of the art.

Jeff Atwood speaks for many people in I'm Loyal to Nothing Except the Dream. I almost never speak of politics here, but this is an exception. Please read it, or at least scroll down to the list of things he's doing. Then do some or all of them yourself to help. Thanks.

• Whalebrew - "Homebrew, but with Docker images". I've never seen a way to run wget with more overhead.
• 10acre-ranch - Scripts to bootstrap Rancher on GCE or MacOS.
• ROM 3.0 Released - That'd be the Ruby Object Mapper, a data mapping and persistence layer for ruby applications.

• I cannot continue working on my add-ons anymore - As expected, we're starting to see casualties from Firefox switching to WebExtensions. I'm going to deeply miss Beyond Australis.
• Site Reliability Engineering - Free ebook from Google, or buy a copy thanks to partnership with O'Reilly.
• TTY - An integrated set of gems for building command-line applications in ruby.

• Memo::It - Generic solution that adds memoization to Ruby's Object class.
• Ship 2.0 - MacOS native interface to GitHub issues.
• Why Rails developers should learn React - Pretty much the same reason they learned Rails: because that's where the money is.

• Wine Announcement - Specifically, Wine 2.0 is out.
• Headway - Changelog as a service.
• A Shameless Plug for Shameless - Engineering Our Schemaless Data Store - An append-only distributed data store implemented on top of MySQL to handle a steady stream of updates.

• Gitea - "Painless self-hosted git service" that can run on most anything.
• Iridium Browser - A fork of Chromium that exists primarily to rip out all the "call home to Google" stuff.
• Elixir for Rubyists - "A gentle intrduction".

• Netflix Culture: Freedom & Responsibility - 124 slides from Reed Hastings. A few years old now, but worth a read.
• Amazon Web Services in Plain English - just in case you can't remember what stuff like "Route 53" does.
• Twist - New team communication app launching in beta.

• Ruby's Mysterious Triple Equals Operator, a.k.a. Case Equality Operator - This is the sort of language feature that encourages me to use other language features instead.
• How terrible code gets written by perfectly sane people - We're all in a hurry, of course.
• Everything you need to know about HTTP security headers - Can I just hire other people to know this stuff instead?

• ActiveRecord SQL Server Adapter - For Rails 5 and SQL Server 2012 and up, including the new Linux builds.
• Passenger 5.1: a new milestone in robustness, security and efficiency - Lots of incremental improvements here.
• Gitscout - GitHub issues client for OS X.

• Schemadoc - Convert a database schema into a nice-looking static site.
• What Can Daru Do For You? - It can help you with data analysis in ruby, that's what.
• Mastering Bash and Terminal - Well, not really mastering, but some tips for better usage.

If you know somebody good (or you are somebody good!) the company I work for is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer

• Wrenchmode - Good-looking maintenance pages as a service. Currently free, there may be premium features coming.
• Opera Neon - A "concept browser" for Mac where Opera is trying out some new UI concepts.
• Feeling Safer Online with Firefox - Not everyone wants all these security notifications, but I depend on them.