FOUND THIS WEEK

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Product Management Primer

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James Turnbull on Increment published a great primer on product management for engineers, covering user stories and prioritisation very well.

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Web Dev

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The Stack Overflow blog published a piece on 4 software development metrics defined by Google over a 6 year project to understand high performance software teams. Deployment frequency, Mean change lead time, Mean time to restore, and Change failure rate are apparently the best way to measure software development performance in a meaningful way.

Web Dev

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Big Things Fast

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Patrick Collison of Stripe maintains a list of big projects that have been executed fast, such as The Eiffel Tower, Amazon Prime, and most recently, The Covid-19 Vaccine. The list is a great reminder that big things can be done when needed.

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Innovation

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Podcast Of The Week: Tim & Balaji Part 2

Tim Ferriss interviewed Balaji Srinivasan for a second time, in a monster 4.5 hour podcast. Highlights of the interview include the future of the world powered by blockchain, China & geo-political outlook, anarchy in the U.S.A. and lots more. Listen to/watch the interview, and you'll be thinking about it for a week afterwards.

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Data From Encrypted Messaging

An FOIA request has revealed a report from the FBI on the different types of data that can be obtained from encrypted messaging apps by U.S. law enforcement.

Business

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Smartphone Sensors Scripts

Sensor-js.xyz published a review of all the main javascript libraries and scripts used by websites and domains that access the sensors in your smartphone. These sensors, such as motion, orientation and light sensors, are used by for different reasons like real human detection, or display customisation.

Web Dev

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IoT For Beginners

Microsoft published a neat IoT for Beginners course with 24 lessons like making a smart plant and training an object detection stock detector.

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Visualising COVID Transmission

The British Medical Journal published an excellent interactive tool to visualise the estimates of COVID transmission as defined by experts in different scenarios. TL;DR; It's airborne, wear a FFP3 mask.

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