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      <title>A Fistful of Links - August 02, 2021</title>
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      <description>&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Classic Testing Mistakes&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Testers Need to Read Code&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;CSRF, CORS, and HTTP Security headers Demystified&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Challenge to scientists: does your ten-year-old code still run?&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;What is the right question to ask?&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;</description>
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      <title>A Fistful of Links - July 26, 2021</title>
      <link>https://afistfuloflinks.github.io/posts/2021-07-26/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2021 00:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description>&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Python behind the scenes: how the Python import system works&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Python Concurrency: The Tricky Bits&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;A 5-Point Framework For Python Performance Management&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;How Performance Became the Nemesis of the Secure Python Code&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Five Common Django Mistakes&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;</description>
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      <title>A Fistful of Links - July 19, 2021</title>
      <link>https://afistfuloflinks.github.io/posts/2021-07-19/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2021 00:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
      
      <guid>https://afistfuloflinks.github.io/posts/2021-07-19/</guid>
      <description>&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Are Automated Test Retries Good or Bad?&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;7 ways to implement DTOs in Python and what to keep in mind&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Why asynchronous Rust doesn&#39;t work&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Are You Stuck On Vision, Strategy, or Tactics?&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;One of the fathers of modern computing used this 6-step process to solve any problem&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;</description>
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      <title>A Fistful of Links - July 12, 2021</title>
      <link>https://afistfuloflinks.github.io/posts/2021-07-12/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2021 00:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description>&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;How to Know Your Test Automation Project Is Doomed&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Software Tester or Lazy Developer?&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Developer tools can be magic. Instead, they collect dust.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Abstract Syntax Trees in Python&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Modern Javascript: Everything you missed over the last 10 years&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;</description>
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      <title>A Fistful of Links - July 05, 2021</title>
      <link>https://afistfuloflinks.github.io/posts/2021-07-05/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2021 00:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description>&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;An Introduction to Reactive Programming in Python&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Make tests a part of your app&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Testing and the Path to Quality&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Bharani Asks About Daily Practice&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;How I read books: setting up a new system&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;</description>
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      <title>A Fistful of Links - June 28, 2021</title>
      <link>https://afistfuloflinks.github.io/posts/2021-06-28/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2021 00:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
      
      <guid>https://afistfuloflinks.github.io/posts/2021-06-28/</guid>
      <description>&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Leading without managing&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;The COMPOSE Framework for Writing&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;3 Ways to Hack Your Brain to Conquer Your Nerves, According to a Stanford Neuroscientist&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;How We Introduced Levels to Our Engineering Organisation without Losing People or Hurting Our Productivity&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;How to Write Successful Queries for Any Genre of Writing&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;</description>
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      <title>A Fistful of Links - June 21, 2021</title>
      <link>https://afistfuloflinks.github.io/posts/2021-06-21/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2021 00:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
      
      <guid>https://afistfuloflinks.github.io/posts/2021-06-21/</guid>
      <description>&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Assess Quality, Don’t Measure It&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ditching Excel for Python – Lessons Learned from a Legacy Industry&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Did you break your code today?&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Deactivating the “Somebody Else’s Problem” Field&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Classifying Communities with the 3Ps: Product, Practice, and Play&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;</description>
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      <title>A Fistful of Links - June 14, 2021</title>
      <link>https://afistfuloflinks.github.io/posts/2021-06-14/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2021 00:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
      
      <guid>https://afistfuloflinks.github.io/posts/2021-06-14/</guid>
      <description>&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Tools for effective delegation in engineering management&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Open Source Communities Need More Safe Spaces and Codes of Conducts. Now.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;To the brain, reading computer code is not the same as reading language&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Your engineering team is (probably) too big&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;When Executives Break&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;</description>
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      <title>A Fistful of Links - June 07, 2021</title>
      <link>https://afistfuloflinks.github.io/posts/2021-06-07/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2021 00:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
      
      <guid>https://afistfuloflinks.github.io/posts/2021-06-07/</guid>
      <description>&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;737 Max 8&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;The worst so-called “best practice” for Docker&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Meet python-mockito and leave built-in mock &amp; patch behind&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;The Tester as Engineer?&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;What I&#39;ve Learned From 10&#43; Years of Personal Projects&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;</description>
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      <title>A Fistful of Links - May 31, 2021</title>
      <link>https://afistfuloflinks.github.io/posts/2021-05-31/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2021 00:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description>&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Want to Learn How Things Really Work at Your New Job? Talk to the People at the Bottom&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Systems design explains the world: volume 1&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Build tools around workflows, not workflows around tools&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Engineering Productivity Can Be Measured - Just Not How You&#39;d Expect&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Scaling Product Delivery: The &#34;Dirty&#34; Secret of High Performing Product Teams&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;</description>
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      <title>A Fistful of Links - May 24, 2021</title>
      <link>https://afistfuloflinks.github.io/posts/2021-05-24/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2021 00:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description>&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;When Do I Stop Testing?&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Improve your software product delivery process performance using metrics (two-part series)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;How well do you know “this”?&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;First Aid for the Mission Statement&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;The Testing Mindset Myth&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;</description>
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      <title>A Fistful of Links - May 17, 2021</title>
      <link>https://afistfuloflinks.github.io/posts/2021-05-17/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2021 00:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description>&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;IT leadership: How to spot a collaboration superstar in interviews&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Closing the stress cycle&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Awesome CTO&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;ARE WE REALLY ENGINEERS?&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;[Part 2] The problems with MVPs in legacy replacement&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;</description>
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      <title>A Fistful of Links - May 10, 2021</title>
      <link>https://afistfuloflinks.github.io/posts/2021-05-10/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2021 00:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description>&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Quality Engineer Learning Roadmap&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Dying, fast and slow: out-of-memory crashes in Python&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;An interesting issue around using is with a literal in Python&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Embrace the Grind&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Remote work tips: availability heat map&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;</description>
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      <title>A Fistful of Links - May 03, 2021</title>
      <link>https://afistfuloflinks.github.io/posts/2021-05-03/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2021 00:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
      
      <guid>https://afistfuloflinks.github.io/posts/2021-05-03/</guid>
      <description>&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;How to build organizational resilience&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;The Career Story Interview&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Billionaires Build&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;shifting leadership focus in the post covid-19 era from kpi’s to cpi’s&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;[Part 1] The problems with MVPs in legacy replacement&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;</description>
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      <title>A Fistful of Links - April 26, 2021</title>
      <link>https://afistfuloflinks.github.io/posts/2021-04-26/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2021 00:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
      
      <guid>https://afistfuloflinks.github.io/posts/2021-04-26/</guid>
      <description>&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Unclogging the Bug Pipeline&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Python strings are immutable, but only sometimes&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Write code that is easy to delete, not easy to extend&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Performance comparison: counting words in Python, Go, C&#43;&#43;, C, AWK, Forth, and Rust&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Recovering Our Lost Free Will Online: Tools and Techniques That Are Available Now&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;</description>
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      <title>A Fistful of Links - April 19, 2021</title>
      <link>https://afistfuloflinks.github.io/posts/2021-04-19/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2021 00:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
      
      <guid>https://afistfuloflinks.github.io/posts/2021-04-19/</guid>
      <description>&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;6 Essential Steps to Building a Great Data Culture&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;MANAGERING IN TERRIBLE TIMES&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;TDD changed my relationship with Software Testing&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;DO OKRS WORK WITH JOBS TO BE DONE?&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;5 Signs of an Immature Software Developer&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;</description>
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      <title>A Fistful of Links - April 12, 2021</title>
      <link>https://afistfuloflinks.github.io/posts/2021-04-12/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2021 00:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
      
      <guid>https://afistfuloflinks.github.io/posts/2021-04-12/</guid>
      <description>&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;A Visual Guide To React Mental Models (two-part series)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;User-defined Order in SQL&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Three routes to fixing problems test cases hide&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;How to Develop Your Talent Stack&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Observability, continuous delivery, DevOps &amp; related resources&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;</description>
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      <title>A Fistful of Links - April 05, 2021</title>
      <link>https://afistfuloflinks.github.io/posts/2021-04-05/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2021 00:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
      
      <guid>https://afistfuloflinks.github.io/posts/2021-04-05/</guid>
      <description>&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Software Engineering Culture Metrics&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;The ABCs of Organizational Improvement&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Things your manager might not know&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70%&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Know Your “One Job” And Do It First&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;</description>
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      <title>A Fistful of Links - March 29, 2021</title>
      <link>https://afistfuloflinks.github.io/posts/2021-03-29/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2021 00:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
      
      <guid>https://afistfuloflinks.github.io/posts/2021-03-29/</guid>
      <description>&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;The problem with ‘5 whys’&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Developers mentoring other developers: practices I&#39;ve seen work well&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Definition of Done&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Are we Done? Really Done?&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Faking testing and getting caught&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;</description>
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      <title>A Fistful of Links - March 22, 2021</title>
      <link>https://afistfuloflinks.github.io/posts/2021-03-22/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2021 00:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
      
      <guid>https://afistfuloflinks.github.io/posts/2021-03-22/</guid>
      <description>&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Top lessons learned from working with a 10x developer&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Your confusion is the litmus test&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;How to be a more collaborative leader: 4 key competencies&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Should engineering managers be technical?&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Career ladders aren&#39;t enough – you need a thoughtful promotion process, too&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;</description>
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      <title>A Fistful of Links - March 15, 2021</title>
      <link>https://afistfuloflinks.github.io/posts/2021-03-15/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2021 00:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
      
      <guid>https://afistfuloflinks.github.io/posts/2021-03-15/</guid>
      <description>&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Why Most Unit Testing is Waste&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Unit Testing is Overrated&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Should You Hunt for That Bug?&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Python &amp; the Clean Architecture in 2021&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Why are video calls so tiring? You might have opposing cultural styles&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;</description>
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      <title>A Fistful of Links - March 08, 2021</title>
      <link>https://afistfuloflinks.github.io/posts/2021-03-08/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2021 00:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
      
      <guid>https://afistfuloflinks.github.io/posts/2021-03-08/</guid>
      <description>&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Interview advice that got me offers from Google, Microsoft, and Stripe&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Getting The Most Out Of Git&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Three crucial skills that leaders must develop to become executives&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Driving engineering culture change at Microsoft: An experimental journey&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mistakes I’ve Made as an Engineering Manager&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;</description>
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      <title>A Fistful of Links - March 01, 2021</title>
      <link>https://afistfuloflinks.github.io/posts/2021-03-01/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2021 00:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
      
      <guid>https://afistfuloflinks.github.io/posts/2021-03-01/</guid>
      <description>&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;A zero bug policy (ongoing series)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;The Cold Hard Truth About Zero-Defect Software&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Python Versions Management With pyenv&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Web Authentication Methods Compared&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;My Testing Manifesto&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;</description>
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      <title>A Fistful of Links - February 22, 2021</title>
      <link>https://afistfuloflinks.github.io/posts/2021-02-22/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2021 00:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
      
      <guid>https://afistfuloflinks.github.io/posts/2021-02-22/</guid>
      <description>&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Stop Making Excuses for Toxic Bosses&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Fulfilling the promise of CI/CD&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;2 Simple Techniques to Help You Get Out of Your Own Head&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Do less and do it better&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Use This Time to Let Go of Your Pseudo-Self&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;</description>
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      <title>A Fistful of Links - February 15, 2021</title>
      <link>https://afistfuloflinks.github.io/posts/2021-02-15/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2021 00:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
      
      <guid>https://afistfuloflinks.github.io/posts/2021-02-15/</guid>
      <description>&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Excellent Software Testing&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;How to Make Your Code Reviewer Fall in Love with You&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;25 IPython Tips for Your Next Advent of Code&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;So you want to work in security&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;The Agile Manifesto at 20: What&#39;s still relevant — and what&#39;s not&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;</description>
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      <title>A Fistful of Links - February 08, 2021</title>
      <link>https://afistfuloflinks.github.io/posts/2021-02-08/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2021 00:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
      
      <guid>https://afistfuloflinks.github.io/posts/2021-02-08/</guid>
      <description>&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Feedback&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;My Engineering Axioms&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;How to present to executives&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;The Highest Good: An Introduction To The 4 Stoic Virtues&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;You’re Never Going to Be “Caught Up” at Work. Stop Feeling Guilty About It&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;</description>
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      <title>A Fistful of Links - February 01, 2021</title>
      <link>https://afistfuloflinks.github.io/posts/2021-02-01/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2021 00:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
      
      <guid>https://afistfuloflinks.github.io/posts/2021-02-01/</guid>
      <description>&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Bad Test Strategies and How You Can Avoid Them&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Command Line Interface Guidelines&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Don&#39;t write command-line interfaces (generate them)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;How to Join a Team and Learn a Codebase&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;If you lose your cellphone, don’t blame Wayne Dobson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;</description>
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      <title>A Fistful of Links - January 25, 2021</title>
      <link>https://afistfuloflinks.github.io/posts/2021-01-25/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2021 00:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
      
      <guid>https://afistfuloflinks.github.io/posts/2021-01-25/</guid>
      <description>&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;No Meetings, No Deadlines, No Full-Time Employees&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Quality Engineering Vs. Quality Assurance: Everything You Need To Know&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;My Learning Curve at the GNOME Foundation&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;How a DevOps culture can make the hybrid cloud work&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;14 Signs you’re working in a Scrum Feature Factory&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;</description>
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      <title>A Fistful of Links - January 18, 2021</title>
      <link>https://afistfuloflinks.github.io/posts/2021-01-18/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2021 00:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
      
      <guid>https://afistfuloflinks.github.io/posts/2021-01-18/</guid>
      <description>&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Puppeteer vs Selenium vs Playwright, a speed comparison&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;node.example.com Is An IP Address&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Some Economics of software&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;The Third Age of JavaScript&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Tips to stay focused and finish your hobby project&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;</description>
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      <title>A Fistful of Links - January 11, 2021</title>
      <link>https://afistfuloflinks.github.io/posts/2021-01-11/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2021 00:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
      
      <guid>https://afistfuloflinks.github.io/posts/2021-01-11/</guid>
      <description>&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Scrum sucks without solid Product Management&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Why Intelligent Minds Like Elon Musk and Steve Jobs Embrace the &#34;No Silo Rule&#34;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;2020 Learnings, 2021 Expectations&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;“WHY ARE MY TESTS SO SLOW?” A LIST OF LIKELY SUSPECTS, ANTI-PATTERNS, AND UNRESOLVED PERSONAL TRAUMA.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Manager OKRs, Maker OKRs: How Early Stage Startups Should Think About Goal-Setting&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;</description>
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      <title>A Fistful of Links - January 04, 2021</title>
      <link>https://afistfuloflinks.github.io/posts/2021-01-04/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2021 00:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
      
      <guid>https://afistfuloflinks.github.io/posts/2021-01-04/</guid>
      <description>&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Practical Web Cache Poisoning&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Strategies &amp; Tips For Improving Your Testing Reputation&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Hunting for Malicious Packages on PyPI&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Scale your thinking for better testing&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;“I&#39;ve had to relearn coding to get through the new interviews”&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;</description>
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      <title>A Fistful of Links - December 28, 2020</title>
      <link>https://afistfuloflinks.github.io/posts/2020-12-28/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2020 00:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <link>https://afistfuloflinks.github.io/posts/2020-05-04/</link>
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      <link>https://afistfuloflinks.github.io/posts/2020-04-20/</link>
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      <link>https://afistfuloflinks.github.io/posts/2020-03-23/</link>
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      <link>https://afistfuloflinks.github.io/posts/2020-03-09/</link>
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      <link>https://afistfuloflinks.github.io/posts/2019-11-25/</link>
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      <link>https://afistfuloflinks.github.io/posts/2019-11-11/</link>
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      <link>https://afistfuloflinks.github.io/posts/2019-10-21/</link>
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      <link>https://afistfuloflinks.github.io/posts/2019-09-09/</link>
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      <link>https://afistfuloflinks.github.io/posts/2019-09-02/</link>
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      <link>https://afistfuloflinks.github.io/posts/2019-08-19/</link>
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      <link>https://afistfuloflinks.github.io/posts/2019-08-12/</link>
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      <link>https://afistfuloflinks.github.io/posts/2019-08-05/</link>
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      <link>https://afistfuloflinks.github.io/posts/2019-07-29/</link>
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      <link>https://afistfuloflinks.github.io/posts/2019-07-22/</link>
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      <link>https://afistfuloflinks.github.io/posts/2019-07-15/</link>
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      <link>https://afistfuloflinks.github.io/posts/2019-07-08/</link>
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      <link>https://afistfuloflinks.github.io/posts/2019-07-01/</link>
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      <link>https://afistfuloflinks.github.io/posts/2019-06-24/</link>
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      <link>https://afistfuloflinks.github.io/posts/2019-06-17/</link>
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      <link>https://afistfuloflinks.github.io/posts/2019-06-10/</link>
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      <link>https://afistfuloflinks.github.io/posts/2019-06-03/</link>
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      <link>https://afistfuloflinks.github.io/posts/2019-05-27/</link>
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      <link>https://afistfuloflinks.github.io/posts/2019-05-20/</link>
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      <link>https://afistfuloflinks.github.io/posts/2019-05-13/</link>
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      <link>https://afistfuloflinks.github.io/posts/2019-05-06/</link>
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      <link>https://afistfuloflinks.github.io/posts/2019-04-29/</link>
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      <link>https://afistfuloflinks.github.io/posts/2019-04-22/</link>
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      <link>https://afistfuloflinks.github.io/posts/2019-04-15/</link>
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      <link>https://afistfuloflinks.github.io/posts/2019-04-08/</link>
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      <link>https://afistfuloflinks.github.io/posts/2019-04-01/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <link>https://afistfuloflinks.github.io/posts/2019-03-25/</link>
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      <link>https://afistfuloflinks.github.io/posts/2019-03-18/</link>
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      <link>https://afistfuloflinks.github.io/posts/2019-03-11/</link>
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      <link>https://afistfuloflinks.github.io/posts/2019-03-04/</link>
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      <link>https://afistfuloflinks.github.io/posts/2019-02-25/</link>
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      <link>https://afistfuloflinks.github.io/posts/2019-02-18/</link>
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      <link>https://afistfuloflinks.github.io/posts/2019-02-11/</link>
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      <link>https://afistfuloflinks.github.io/posts/2018-12-31/</link>
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      <link>https://afistfuloflinks.github.io/posts/2018-06-22/</link>
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      <link>https://afistfuloflinks.github.io/posts/2018-06-07/</link>
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      <link>https://afistfuloflinks.github.io/posts/2018-06-01/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <link>https://afistfuloflinks.github.io/posts/2018-05-25/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <title>A Fistful of Links - May 18th 2018</title>
      <link>https://afistfuloflinks.github.io/posts/2018-05-18/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
      <guid>https://afistfuloflinks.github.io/posts/2018-05-18/</guid>
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