HTTPS
TLS/SSL Explained: TLS/SSL Terminology and Basics
HTTPS on Stack Overflow: The End of a Long Road
Repositories
Towards true continuous integration: distributed repositories and dependencies - The Netflix Tech Blog
Windows switch to Git almost complete: 8,500 commits and 1,760 builds each day - arstechnica
Programming languages
Flexibility Equates to Lower Quality
Javascript
V8, Advanced JavaScript, & the Next Performance Frontier (Google I/O ‘17):
Matt Johnson: The Past, Present, and Future of JavaScript Date and Time APIs | JSConf EU 2017:
Reports
The State of Code Review 2017: Trends & Insights into Dev Collaboration | SmartBear
The PDF Report
2017 Security Awareness Report
The PDF Report
Other
Stack Overflow: Helping One Million Developers Exit Vim
Kill Google AMP before it KILLS the web
An in case you want to dig into linux binaries:
ELF Hello World Tutorial