Issue #143

A Reading Club For Software Developers

Pointer.io How To Invest In Technical Infrastructure - Will Larson #Management #Infrastructure   tl;dr: Playbook on managing technical infrastructure focussing on how to transition from constant firefighting mode to a structured operational framework.    Conscious Leadership - Alex MacCaw #Management   tl;dr: This article covers a set of values that management at Clearbit look for in employees, starting with the principle of "learning above the line" where employees are intellectually curious, not stubborn about being right.    The End Of Mobile - Benedict Evans #General tl;dr: There are approximately 5.3bn people on earth that are over 15 years old and, of these, ~5bn have a mobile phone. We were curious what would happen once everyone had a phone, now we are here.    The Programmer Who Created Python Isn’t Interested In Mentoring White Guys - Dan Kopf #General tl;dr: Open-source communities need to become more inclusive by establishing codes of conduct and mentoring. The problem is that some may not feel comfortable or confident enough in defending their own ideas to those they don't know, so their ideas are not equally represented.    Understanding Fake Agile - Steve Denning #Management tl;dr: As Agile Methodology has been increasingly banded around and adopted by larger enterprises, this article clarifies how agile methodology really works.    GitHub's New Features Show It's Finally Listening To Developers - Owen Williams #GitHub #General   tl;dr: Newly launched tool GitHub Sponsor allows contributors to support a specific person or project directly with no fee taken. GitHub matched every dollar contributed in the first year.    A Tale Of Query Optimization - Manish Gill #General   tl;dr: Case study into how the author isolated, debugged and optimized a query, reducing its call-time from ~24 mins to 2 seconds. Author also discusses lessons learned.    Speed At Scale - What's New In Web Performance? - Katie Hempenius & Addy Osmani #General   tl;dr: (1) Lighthouse supports Performance Budgeting (2) Native image and iframe lazy-loading comes to the web (3) Google Fonts now supports font-display as a query parameter.    Reducing Motion With The Picture Element - Brad Frost #HTML tl;dr: If you deal with moving images on the web, this is how you can use the "prefers-reduced-motion" within a picture tag in HTML.     Why I'm Still Using jQuery In 2019 - Martin Tournoij #jQuery tl;dr:  Authors believes there are a less reasons to stick with simple JavaScript, since it is longer and has a higher compile time than jQuery.    Before Netscape: The Forgotten Web Browsers Of The Early 1990s - Matthew Lasar #General tl;dr: Old browsers screenshots, including Tim Berner Lee's original WorldWideWeb browser CERN that ran on the NeXTStep operating system.    Moving To Require Python 3 - Python Open Source Community #Python tl;dr: Python 2 will be sunset as of January 1st 2020, this covers the reasons why and what happens if you don't transition onto Python 3.     Notable Developer Conferences 2019 Microsoft Build  May 6-8 Seattle, Washington, USA PHP[tek]  May 21 - 23 Atlanta, Georgia, USA GlueCon  May 22-23 Broomfield, Colorado, USA OSCON  July 17-18 Portland, Oregon, USA Open Source Summit  July 17-19 Tokyo, Japan GopherCon  July 24-27 San Diego, California, USA ApacheCon  Sept 9–12 Las Vegas, Nevada, USA Strange Loop  Sept 12-14 St. Louis, Missouri, USA  DjangoCon US  Sept 22-27 San Diego, CA Oracle CodeOne  Sept 16–19 SF, California React Day Berlin  Nov 30 Berlin, Germany Microsoft Ignite  Nov 4-8 Orlando, Florida, USA dotJS  Dec 5-6 Paris, France DevTernity  December 6-7 Riga, Latvia Pointer.io unsubscribe from this list