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Fri, 23 Oct 2026 06:30:41 +0000

These are articles and links that I’ve saved from around the web using Raindrop.io

A new worst coder has entered the chat: vibe coding without code knowledge - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2025-08-17 · stackoverflow.blog

In the age of AI, being able to make applications and create code has never been easier. But is it any good? Here's what vibe coding is like for someone without technical skills.

tech programming

AI slows down open source developers. Peter Naur can teach us why.

Saved on 2025-08-09 · johnwhiles.com

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How I build software quickly

Saved on 2025-08-09 · evanhahn.com

Know how good your code needs to be for the task at hand. Start with a rough draft. Try to soften requirements if you can. Don't get distracted. Make small changes. Practice specific skills.

programming tech

Most RESTful APIs aren’t really RESTful

Saved on 2025-08-09 · florian-kraemer.net

When talking about REST, it is worth reading the dissertation of Roy Thomas Fielding. The original paper that describes RESTful web, “Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures” Roy T. Fielding (2000), introduces the Representational State Transfe

tech programming

Building better platforms with continuous discovery - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2025-08-09 · stackoverflow.blog

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When Swiping Supplants Scissors: The Hidden Cost of Touchscreens — And How Designers Can Help…

Saved on 2025-08-09 · caseorganic.medium.com

The history of technology is full of innovators who got their start creating with their hands. Steve Jobs cites a calligraphy class at Reed

tech hardware

LLM Daydreaming

Saved on 2025-08-09 · gwern.net

Proposal & discussion of how default mode networks for LLMs are an example of missing capabilities for search and novelty in contemporary AI systems.

tech ai

To be a better programmer, write little proofs in your head

Saved on 2025-08-09 · the-nerve-blog.ghost.io

This is a brief write-up of a trick I learned that helps me write code faster and more accurately. I say "trick", but it's really something I started to do without noticing as I moved further into my career. When you're working on something difficult, sketch a proof in your

tech programming

The Great Unracking: Saying goodbye to the servers at our physical datacenter - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2025-08-09 · stackoverflow.blog

So long and thanks for all the bits!

tech hardware

A new era of Stack Overflow - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2025-08-09 · stackoverflow.blog

Live from the stage of WeAreDevelopers, we’re unveiling our new vision and mission for the future of Stack Overflow and our community.

tech ai

Tech CEOs don't seem to realise just how anti-human their AI fanaticism is, and I think it's all because of the Enlightenment

Saved on 2025-08-09 · pcgamer.com

I know that sounds bonkers, but just hear me out.

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Developers remain willing but reluctant to use AI: The 2025 Developer Survey results are here - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2025-08-09 · stackoverflow.blog

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Do AI coding tools help with imposter syndrome or make it worse? - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2025-08-09 · stackoverflow.blog

Spoiler: Yes.

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To Save C, We Must Save ABI

Saved on 2025-07-25 · thephd.dev

After that first Firebrand of an article on Application Binary Interface (ABI) Stability, I’m not sure anyone expected this to be the title of the next one, ...

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On How Long it Takes to Know if a Job is Right for You or Not

Saved on 2025-07-14 · charity.wtf

A few eagle-eyed readers have noticed that it’s been 4 weeks since my last entry in what I have been thinking of as my “niblet series” — one small piece per week, 1000 words or less, for the next t…

tech career business

The Drawbridges Go Up

Saved on 2025-07-14 · dbreunig.com

The AI era is speedrunning the Web 2.0 story. Open and accessible MCPs are not our future. Integrations will be tightly governed.

tech

Lessons From 9 More Years of Tricky Bugs

Saved on 2025-07-14 · henrikwarne.com

Since 2002, I have been keeping track of all the tricky bugs I have come across. Nine years ago, I wrote a blog post with the lessons learned from the bugs up till then. Now I have reviewed all the…

tech testing

Reliability for unreliable LLMs - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2025-07-14 · stackoverflow.blog

Large language models are non-deterministic by design. Here's how you can inject a little bit of determinism into GenAI workflows.

ai tech

Learn like a lurker: Gen Z’s digital-first lifestyle and the future of knowledge - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2025-07-14 · stackoverflow.blog

As a generation characterized as "digital natives," the way Gen Z interacts with and consumes knowledge is rooted in their desire for instant gratification and personalization. How will this affect the future of knowledge management and the technologies of tomorrow?

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Almost Fired

Saved on 2025-07-14 · engineersneedart.com

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A neural brain implant provides near instantaneous speech

Saved on 2025-07-14 · arstechnica.com

Focusing on sound production instead of word choice makes for a flexible system.

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How Questions Build Software

Saved on 2025-07-14 · akdev.blog

Looking back, I never thought I would build a career in software. My degree is in Chemistry, a field of precise rules and predictable reactions. What could a mind buzzing with ionic bonds and benzene rings understand about software? That self-inflict...

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ChatGPT's Impact On Our Brains According to an MIT Study

Saved on 2025-07-14 · time.com

The study, from MIT Lab scholars, measured the brain activity of subjects writing SAT essays with and without ChatGPT.

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Moonbase Alpha: That time NASA made a meme video game

Saved on 2025-07-14 · spacebar.news

John Madden. John Madden. Aeiou. Aeiou.

tech games science

Advanced Delegates in C++

Saved on 2025-07-14 · unreal-garden.com

All the flavours, all the considerations.

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Bookmarks

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These are articles and links that I’ve saved from around the web using Raindrop.io

Intro to Delegates in C++

Saved on 2025-07-14 · unreal-garden.com

How to declare a dynamic multicast delegate and subscribe to it, using C++.

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Chapter 1: Be The Idea Guy

Saved on 2025-07-14 · travismcgeathy.substack.com

An Idea Alone Never Ships a Game

tech games

Cross Products in Game Development and Their Use Cases

Saved on 2025-07-06 · amirazmi.net

Introduction If you are coming from the Dot Product math tutorial, I thank you for going through it! The understandings of the previous tutorials are just the tools in your toolbox to becoming a ga…

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Dot Products in Games and Their Use Cases

Saved on 2025-07-06 · amirazmi.net

Introduction If you are coming from the Points and Vectors guide, let me thank you guys for reading that and I hoped it helped! If you are new to the series, I will be going over 3D and Linear Alge…

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Anthropic’s AI utterly fails at running a business — 'Claudius' hallucinates profusely as it struggles with vending drinks

Saved on 2025-07-02 · tomshardware.com

It's like a business graduate with no common sense.

ai tech

levered beta is all you need

Saved on 2025-06-29 · textql.notion.site

A tool that connects everyday work into one space. It gives you and your teams AI tools—search, writing, note-taking—inside an all-in-one, flexible workspace.

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Component · Decoupling Patterns · Game Programming Patterns

Saved on 2025-06-29 · gameprogrammingpatterns.com

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Multiple Coordinate Spaces - 3D Math Primer for Graphics and Game Development

Saved on 2025-06-22 · gamemath.com

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Rolling the ladder up behind us

Saved on 2025-06-21 · xeiaso.net

Who will take over for us if we don't train the next generation to replace us? A critique of craft, AI, and the legacy of human expertise.

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How we decreased GitLab repo backup times from 48 hours to 41 minutes

Saved on 2025-06-21 · about.gitlab.com

Learn how we tracked a performance bottleneck to a 15-year-old Git function and fixed it, leading to enhanced efficiency that supports more robust backup strategies and can reduce risk.

tech performance git code programming

Trusting your own judgement on ‘AI’ is a huge risk

Saved on 2025-06-21 · baldurbjarnason.com

Web dev at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland

tech ai psychology

My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts

Saved on 2025-06-21 · fly.io

My smartest friends have bananas arguments about LLM coding.

tech ai

Study looking at AI chatbots in 7,000 workplaces finds 'no significant impact on earnings or recorded hours in any occupation'

Saved on 2025-06-21 · fortune.com

Despite AI’s promise to revolutionize white-collar work, most workers are using it sparingly—or hiding it from their boss.

tech ai business productivity

When memory was measured in kilobytes: The art of efficient vision

Saved on 2025-06-21 · softwareheritage.org

Back when RAM was precious, clever code reigned. Inria's "Efficient Chain-Linking Algorithm" from the late 80s, now archived at Software Heritage, gives a peek into early computer vision's elegant solutions.

tech code history

VC money is fueling a global boom in worker surveillance tech

Saved on 2025-06-21 · restofworld.org

A funding surge has given rise to technologies to track, analyze and manage workers — often in countries with little regulation.

career tech business

Forgotten Employee

Saved on 2025-06-20 · sites.google.com

PART ONE An epiphany was had this morning as I perused SA, sipping Code Red and toying with the notion of stepping outside for my third cigarette in an hour: Nine years and 2 months of my life have been devoted towards the goal of personal advancement within a small yet thrivin

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Why Not Just Do Simple C++ RAII in C?

Saved on 2025-06-11 · thephd.dev

Ever since I finished publishing the “defer” paper and successfully defended it on its first go-around (it now has tentative approval to go to a Technical Sp...

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Doom Engine source code review

Saved on 2025-06-08 · fabiensanglard.net

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AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt

Saved on 2025-06-06 · arstechnica.com

Attackers explain how an anti-spam defense became an AI weapon.

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Dispatch from the Trenches of the Butlerian Jihad

Saved on 2025-06-06 · solarshades.club

Trying to teach in the age of the AI homework machine.

tech ai

U.S. Sanctions Cloud Provider ‘Funnull’ as Top Source of ‘Pig Butchering’ Scams

Saved on 2025-06-06 · krebsonsecurity.com

The U.S. government today imposed economic sanctions on Funnull Technology Inc., a Philippines-based company that provides computer infrastructure for hundreds of thousands of websites involved in virtual currency investment scams, commonly known as “pig butchering." In January

tech security

The Defer Technical Specification: It Is Time

Saved on 2025-06-05 · thephd.dev

After the Graz, Austria February 2025 WG14 Meeting, I am now confident in the final status of the defer TS, and it is now time.

programming tech

Emerging Developer Patterns for the AI Era | Andreessen Horowitz

Saved on 2025-06-04 · a16z.com

Developers are moving past AI as just tooling and starting to treat AI agents as a new foundation for how software gets built.

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Five Boring Things That Have A Bigger Impact Than “A.I.” Coding Assistants On Dev Team Productivity

Saved on 2025-06-04 · codemanship.wordpress.com

Here are 5 factors that make a bigger difference to software development outcomes than “A.I.” coding assistants, but teams don’t address because they’re “old news, gra…

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Zuckerberg Says in Response to Loneliness Epidemic, He Will Create Most of Your Friends Using Artificial Intelligence

Saved on 2025-06-04 · futurism.com

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is more concerned about his billions of customers making friends with AI chatbots than creating bonds with real human beings.

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Bookmarks

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These are articles and links that I’ve saved from around the web using Raindrop.io

Manual Work is a Bug: A.B.A: always be automating

Saved on 2025-06-04 · queue.acm.org

Every IT team should have a culture of constant improvement - or movement along the path toward the goal of automating whatever the team feels confident in automating, in ways that are easy to change as conditions change. As the needle moves to the right, the team learns from eac

productivity tech

Covert Web-to-App Tracking via Localhost on Android

Saved on 2025-06-04 · localmess.github.io

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AI safety is not a model property

Saved on 2025-05-29 · aisnakeoil.com

Trying to make an AI model that can’t be misused is like trying to make a computer that can’t be used for bad things

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The raccoons who made computer magazine ads great

Saved on 2025-05-27 · technologizer.com

In the 1980s and 1990s, PC Connection built its brand on a campaign starring folksy small-town critters. They’ll still charm your socks off.

tech history

The Gruen Transfer is consuming the internet

Saved on 2025-05-27 · sebs.website

pThe Gruen Transfer is taking over social media. What is it and how can we avoid it?/p

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o3 Beats a Master-Level Geoguessr Player—Even with Fake EXIF Data

Saved on 2025-05-27 · sampatt.com

In Which I Try to Maintain Human Supremacy for a Bit Longer

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Bot farms invade social media to hijack popular sentiment

Saved on 2025-05-27 · fastcompany.com

Governments, financial influencers, and entertainment insiders are using data center-like facilities full of phones to push narratives fabricated through fake social media engagement.

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Why performance optimization is hard work

Saved on 2025-05-27 · purplesyringa.moe

I’m not talking about skill, knowledge, or convincing a world focused on radical acceleration that optimization is necessary. Performance optimization is hard because it’s fundamentally a brute-force task, and there’s nothing you can do about it. This post is a bit of a rant on m

tech performance

The Curse of Knowing How, or; Fixing Everything | Blog

Saved on 2025-05-27 · notashelf.dev

A reflection on control, burnout, and the strange weight of technical fluency.

tech programming

Best practices for third-party data acquisition: powering AI context - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2025-05-27 · stackoverflow.blog

This post explores crucial lessons learned in the trenches of data licensing, drawing insights from Stack Overflow and the growing importance of socially responsible data practices in a changing internet landscape.

tech ai

Iceland approved the 4-day workweek in 2019: nearly 6 years later, all the predictions made have come true.

Saved on 2025-05-27 · farmingdale-observer.com

In 2019, Iceland made headlines by becoming one of the first countries in the world to adopt the four-day working week, not through a general law, but through agreements allowing workers to negotiate shorter weeks or reduced hours. Five years on, the results are indisputable. The

business management

Beyond speed: Measuring engineering success by impact, not velocity - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2025-05-27 · stackoverflow.blog

If velocity is just a tool and not a goal, how do you measure real success for engineering teams?

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Whether AI is a bubble or revolution, how does software survive? - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2025-05-27 · stackoverflow.blog

Money is pouring into the AI industry. Will software survive the disruption it causes?

tech ai

Reasoning models don't always say what they think \\ Anthropic

Saved on 2025-05-26 · anthropic.com

Research from Anthropic on the faithfulness of AI models' Chain-of-Thought

tech ai

The Era Of The Business Idiot

Saved on 2025-05-25 · wheresyoured.at

Fair warning: this is the longest thing I've written on this newsletter. I do apologize. Soundtrack: EL-P - $4 Vic Listen to my podcast Better Offline. We have merch. Last week, Bloomberg profiled Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, revealing that he's either a liar or a specific kin

business management tech ai

English Is Not Normal

Saved on 2025-05-02 · aeon.co

No, English isn’t uniquely vibrant or mighty or adaptable. But it really is weirder than pretty much every other language.

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OAuth's Role in MCP Security

Saved on 2025-04-28 · defensiblesystems.substack.com

Limits and Opportunities in the Identity Layer

programming security ai

TLS Certificate Lifetimes Will Officially Reduce to 47 Days | DigiCert

Saved on 2025-04-27 · digicert.com

The CA/Browser Forum has officially voted to amend the TLS Baseline Requirements to set a schedule for shortening both the lifetime of TLS certificates.

security

Like self-driving cars, fully AI-automated sysadmins don't exist - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2025-04-27 · stackoverflow.blog

As with cars, there are few system administration tasks that involve little to no automation.

tech ai

Engineering teams need to adapt to AI’s scaling challenges - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2025-04-27 · stackoverflow.blog

AI is not a linear process. To scale effectively, engineering leaders must account for varied edge cases, presenting a new set of challenges.

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Wait, what is agentic AI? - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2025-04-27 · stackoverflow.blog

Is “agentic AI” just a buzzword, or is it the sea change it seems?

Can renewables and nuclear play nice in Australia's power grid of tomorrow

Saved on 2025-04-26 · abc.net.au

Our energy system is evolving at breakneck speed. Here we look at how our power grid works, what more renewables mean for energy prices, how nuclear fits into the picture, and how we might build a grid fit for the future.

tech politics

Abstract Heresies: Why I Program in Lisp

Saved on 2025-04-19 · funcall.blogspot.com

A blog about computers, functional languages, Lisp, and Scheme.

code programming

Demystifying the #! (shebang): Kernel Adventures - Bruno Croci

Saved on 2025-04-19 · crocidb.com

Clarifying the shebang (#!) mechanism: A step-by-step look using strace and kernel code shows how Linux handles script execution directly, revealing the shell isn't involved initially.

code history

Open-source AI: Are younger developers leading the way? - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2025-04-19 · stackoverflow.blog

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Bookmarks

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These are articles and links that I’ve saved from around the web using Raindrop.io

Software Architecture in an AI World – O’Reilly

Saved on 2025-04-16 · oreilly.com

ai architecture tech

Why doing less makes you a better leader - Blog - Tech Leaders Launchpad

Saved on 2025-04-14 · techleaderslaunchpad.com

Recently I've been speaking to a lot of new leaders, and a mistake I am seeing quite often is equating productivity with the number of tasks they complete, meetings they attend, and decisions they make. Many new leaders, particularly those transitioning from individual contributo

leadership management

From training to inference: The new role of web data in LLMs - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2025-04-13 · stackoverflow.blog

ai tech

What is Local-first Web Development? | alexop.dev

Saved on 2025-04-13 · alexop.dev

Explore the power of local-first web development and its impact on modern web applications. Learn how to build offline-capable, user-centric apps that prioritize data ownership and seamless synchronization. Discover the key principles and implementation steps for creating robust

architecture programming tech

An image of an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip

Saved on 2025-04-13 · theaiunderwriter.substack.com

There is only one thing worse than being imitated

The Slow Collapse of Critical Thinking in OSINT due to AI

Saved on 2025-04-13 · dutchosintguy.com

OSINT used to be a thinking game. Now it’s becoming a trusting game and that should terrify you.I’ve seen it firsthand, analysts running solid investigations, then slowly shifting more and more of the thinking to GenAI tools. At first, it’s small. You use ChatGPT to summarise a d

ai tech psychology

Health indicators and power ups: The 'freaky and unpleasant' world when video games leak into the ph

Saved on 2025-04-11 · bbc.com

Video games are the biggest form of entertainment in the world, but sometimes they bleed into people's lives offline in surprising and disturbing ways.

games psychology tech

The Software Engineering Identity Crisis - Annie Vella

Saved on 2025-04-11 · annievella.com

Many of us became software engineers because we found our identity in building things. Not managing things. Not overseeing things. Building things. With our own hands, our own minds, our own code. But that identity is being challenged. AI coding assistants aren’t just changing ho

career management tech ai

Length and capacity in Go slices

Saved on 2025-04-06 · javorszky.co.uk

Length and capacity in Go slices confused me for a while. They're related but different, and important. This will give you more clarity on what they are.

code programming tech

Nibble Stew: Writing your own C standard library from scratch

Saved on 2025-04-06 · nibblestew.blogspot.com

The C++ standard library (also know as the STL) is, without a doubt, an astounding piece of work. Its scope, performance and incredible back...

code tech

Piranesi’s Perspective Trick. This is a quick report explaining what… | by Bruno Postle | Medium

Saved on 2025-04-06 · medium.com

This is a quick report explaining what I have been doing with some research on what I started to call ‘Piranesi’s perspective trick’. In the past I would have written this up as an academic paper…

history

How Fast the Days Are Getting Longer – Joe Antognini

Saved on 2025-03-29 · joe-antognini.github.io

Here in the northern hemisphere the vernal equinox just passed and the days arequickly getting longer. One of my col...

history

Introducing command and commandfor | Blog | Chrome for Developers

Saved on 2025-03-29 · developer.chrome.com

Learn about the new capabilities for declarative behavior on buttons.

code tech

AI's effects on programming jobs | Seldo.com

Saved on 2025-03-29 · seldo.com

There's been a whole lot of discussion recently about the impact of AI on the market for web developers, for programmers in general, and even more generally the entire labor market. I find myself making the same points over and over, and whenever I do that it's time to write a bl

career tech

How are sandwich generation developers dealing? - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2025-03-25 · stackoverflow.blog

career tech

Why Do We Have a Cache-Control Request Header? – Web Performance and Site Speed Consultant

Saved on 2025-03-19 · csswizardry.com

Learn how the Cache-Control request header works, how browsers handle refresh and hard refresh caching, and when developers should use it for realtime data and offline-first applications.

tech

A look under the hood: How (and why) we built Question Assistant - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2025-03-19 · stackoverflow.blog

tech ai

Truth, Lies and Progress Bars – Cloud Four

Saved on 2025-03-13 · cloudfour.com

An early encounter with a fabricated progress indicator inspired several more honest alternatives.

design tech

Abusing SQLite to Handle Concurrency | SkyPilot Blog

Saved on 2025-03-13 · skypilot.ai

SkyPilot uses the venerable SQLite for state management. SQLite can handle millions of QPS, and terabytes of data. However, our efforts to scale our Managed Jobs feature ran up against the one downfall of SQLite: many concurrent writers. Since SkyPilot typically runs as a CLI on

code data database sql tech

Black Eye Technologies on Procedural Camera Systems & Their New Unreal Engine Plug-In

Saved on 2025-03-09 · 80.lv

Black Eye Technologies' Adam Myhill and Gerald Orban have joined 80 Level to discuss their brand-new Unreal Engine add-on Black Eye Cameras, and share the tool's capabilities.

games tech

This page is under construction - localghost

Saved on 2025-03-07 · localghost.dev

If you take just one thing away from this article, I want it to be this: please build your own website.

history tech

Comparing local large language models for alt-text generation | Dries Buytaert

Saved on 2025-03-07 · dri.es

I tested 12 LLMs – 10 running locally and 2 cloud-based – to assess their accuracy in generating alt-text for images.

tech ai

First Steps in Game Development With Rust and Bevy

Saved on 2025-02-28 · blog.jetbrains.com

Some of us might remember this 15-year-old Abstruse Goose comic about our choices in life. Learning the theory of computations might not be the most direct path to video game development. However, you

code games tech

Do Things that Don't Scale

Saved on 2025-02-27 · paulgraham.com

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When Imperfect Systems are Good, Actually: Bluesky's Lossy Timelines · Jaz's Blog

Saved on 2025-02-26 · jazco.dev

By examining the limits of reasonable user behavior and embracing imperfection for users who go beyond it, we can continue to provide service that meets the expectations of users without sacrificing scalability of the system.

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Bookmarks

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These are articles and links that I’ve saved from around the web using Raindrop.io

How bloom filters made SQLite 10x faster - blag

Saved on 2025-02-26 · avi.im

This is the fascinating story of how researchers used Bloom filters cleverly to make SQLite 10x faster for analytical queries. These are my five-minute notes on the paper SQLite: Past, Present, and Future

database performance tech

Keeping Figma Fast | Figma Blog

Saved on 2025-02-26 · figma.com

When a laptop crashed in an empty office, we knew it was time to overhaul our performance testing framework.

performance tech

The Ultimate Guide To Software Architecture Documentation

Saved on 2025-02-26 · workingsoftware.dev

This guide shows you how to write, structure, visualize and manage software architecture documentation in a lean way using appropriate documentation tools.

tech

My Washing Machine Refreshed My Thinking on Software Effort Estimation — Cosive

Saved on 2025-02-20 · cosive.com

I recently had a saga with a washing machine that reminded me why one of the most feared and hated tasks for software developers starts with the question: “So how long will it take you to build that?”

agile tech

Exploring Apache Kafka Internals and Codebase | Moncef Abboud

Saved on 2025-02-20 · cefboud.com

Trying to dig into the Apache Kafka codebase and make some sense of it.

code tech

the sudoku affair • Buttondown

Saved on 2025-02-20 · explaining.software

Software design is a deliberate process, and requires deliberate effort.

code tech

The Evolution of Security at Riot | Riot Games Technology

Saved on 2025-02-17 · riotgames.com

Hey folks! We’re Mark Hillick, Jason Clark, and David Rook from the Riot Security team and we’re here to discuss how the security program at Riot has evolved over the last 4 years.

gaming tech

Welcome to the Death Dimension | Riot Games Technology

Saved on 2025-02-17 · riotgames.com

It's time for a trip to a new dimension!

gaming tech

A Story of Fog and War | Riot Games Technology

Saved on 2025-02-17 · riotgames.com

http://riot.com/1NvPXyT #RiotTechBlog

gaming tech

Riot's Approach to Anti-Cheat | Riot Games Technology

Saved on 2025-02-17 · riotgames.com

https://riot.com/2mgcpBj #RiotTechBlog

gaming tech

/dev/null: Anti-Cheat Kernel Driver

Saved on 2025-02-17 · leagueoflegends.com

We’re protecting some of Riot’s upcoming games with new anti-cheat systems.

gaming tech

Monorepos in JavaScript & TypeScript

Saved on 2025-02-15 · robinwieruch.de

A tutorial how to use a monorepo architecture in frontend JavaScript and TypeScript with tools like npm/yarn/pnpm workspaces, Turborepo/NX/Lerna, Git Submodules, ...

javascript tech

Memory Allocation

Saved on 2025-02-03 · samwho.dev

A visual introduction to memory allocation.

tech

Software Testing Anti-patterns · Codepipes Blog

Saved on 2025-02-03 · blog.codepipes.com

tech testing

Getting Things Done In A Chaotic Environment | Stay SaaSy

Saved on 2025-02-03 · staysaasy.com

Have one main focus and keep it that way.

management tech

Why all developers should adopt a safety-critical mindset - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2025-02-03 · stackoverflow.blog

career tech

VALORANT Shaders and Gameplay Clarity

Saved on 2025-01-27 · riotgames.com

VALORANT had three graphics priorities - competitive integrity, high performance, and a sweet art style. This article describes how we balanced these pillars by using cool shader techniques and a collaborative team philosophy.

games tech

Demolishing Wallhacks with VALORANT's Fog of War

Saved on 2025-01-27 · riotgames.com

Anti-cheat lead Paul Chamberlain walks us through the technical guts of Fog of War, VALORANT's anti-wallhack system.

games tech

Five Flawed Productivity Metrics

Saved on 2025-01-26 · leaddev.com

Which commonly-used metrics aren't working and why?

leadership management tech

VALORANT's 128-Tick Servers | Riot Games Technology

Saved on 2025-01-26 · riotgames.com

Engineer Brent Randall tells the technical story behind VALORANT's search for optimal server performance.

games programming tech

Peeking into VALORANT's Netcode | Riot Games Technology

Saved on 2025-01-26 · riotgames.com

Take a peek behind the scenes of VALORANT's netcode.

games programming tech

Assertive communication: What it is and how to do it well - Work Life by Atlassian

Saved on 2025-01-26 · atlassian.com

Assertive communication helps you express your thoughts and feelings while still being respectful of others. Here’s why it matters and how to get it right.

leadership management

Tracking Engineering Time - Jacob Kaplan-Moss

Saved on 2025-01-07 · jacobian.org

How do you understand what engineers are doing with that time? How do you know if they’re working on the “right” things? Here’s how I suggest answering those questions.

career leadership management tech

Things we learned about LLMs in 2024

Saved on 2025-01-07 · simonwillison.net

A lot has happened in the world of Large Language Models over the course of 2024. Here’s a review of things we figured out about the field in the past …

tech ai

Kill Your Heroes, Stop Doing it Harder | Irrational Exuberance

Saved on 2025-01-06 · lethain.com

One of the most destructive ideas is that you can dig out of a hole by doing what you’re already doing, but doing it harder. This doesn’t work, but it does breed and kill your heroes, and alienate everyone else.

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Three-Bucket Framework for Engineering Metrics

Saved on 2025-01-06 · newsletter.getdx.com

Deciding what metrics to track and report to stakeholders.

career management tech

Unicode is harder than you think · mcilloni's blog

Saved on 2025-01-06 · mcilloni.ovh

history tech

Laurence Tratt: Four Kinds of Optimisation

Saved on 2025-01-06 · tratt.net

performance tech code algorithms

New Grad to Staff at Meta in 3 years: Evan King

Saved on 2025-01-06 · developing.dev

On Speed, Being Bold, and Depositing Into the “Favor Bank”

career leadership tech

It’s not what you know, it’s how you know you know it - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2025-01-04 · stackoverflow.blog

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15 Lessons From 15 Years of Indie App Development

Saved on 2025-01-04 · lukaspetr.com

Exactly 15 years ago on November 9th, 2009, I got my first MacBook and started learning how to build apps. I was fascinated with the idea that you can build something that other people will find useful and enjoy using. I also heard about those "indie developers" on Twitter who

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Why am I writing a JavaScript toolchain in Zig?

Saved on 2025-01-04 · injuly.in

Announcing the existence of Jam – An robust JS toolchain in Zig

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Four approaches to creating a specialized LLM - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2025-01-04 · stackoverflow.blog

tech ai

How to Think About Time

Saved on 2025-01-04 · errorprone.info

science tech

How Large Language Models work

Saved on 2024-12-05 · medium.com

Thanks to Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, Artificial Intelligence has now caught the attention of pretty much everyone, but how these models work is still less widely understood.

tech ai

Fake It Till You Make It: Good Advice or a Setup for Failure?

Saved on 2024-11-28 · vivianmanningschaffel.com

Imitating confidence, competency, and drive may work for some, but what are the long-term professional implications?

career psychology

Serving a billion web requests with boring code - llimllib notes

Saved on 2024-11-28 · notes.billmill.org

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Mathematical Thinking Isn’t What You Think It Is | Quanta Magazine

Saved on 2024-11-28 · quantamagazine.org

The mathematician David Bessis claims that everyone is capable of, and can benefit greatly from, mathematical thinking.

career maths psychology

The actor model in 10 minutes

Saved on 2024-11-26 · brianstorti.com

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Why do developers love clean code but hate writing documentation? - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2024-11-25 · stackoverflow.blog

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Engineering Managers' Guide to Effective Annual Feedback

Saved on 2024-11-14 · peterszasz.com

Breaking down the feedback cycle process from preparation to follow-up. Approaches I found useful, antipatterns to avoid, and a document structure that can help bring it all to one place. I hope to turn this often-dreaded task into a powerful tool for individual growth and organi

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What docs as code really means - passo.uno

Saved on 2024-11-14 · passo.uno

I’ve recently started a new job as a documentation engineer. While my work is largely the same as that of a technical writer, the sound and semantics of my new job title gave me some pause and made me think about what it really means to be doing docs-as-code. To say that it’s abo

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A Map of Sync

Saved on 2024-11-14 · stack.convex.dev

We can categorize sync platforms across nine dimensions: data size, data update rate, the structure of the data, input latency, offline support, numbe...

cloud tech

The Dual Nature of Events in Event-Driven Architecture

Saved on 2024-11-14 · reactivesystems.eu

Given that events play such a central role in event-driven architecture, there’s an astonishing lack of agreement on what should be contained in an event. This may be rooted in the fact that, depending on your perspective, events fulfill different purposes.

architecture tech

Should JavaScript be split into two languages? New Google-driven proposal divides opinion • DEVCLASS

Saved on 2024-11-14 · devclass.com

A Google engineer presented a proposal to the official standardization committee that would split JavaScript into two languages, […]

google javascript tech

A brief summary of language model finetuning - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2024-11-14 · stackoverflow.blog

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The Secret to a Meaningful Life is Simpler Than You Think

Saved on 2024-11-11 · qz.com

Unhappy people fail to recognize what matters, instead becoming overly focused on what they believe is missing from their existence.

career psychology

Brain Drain: David vs Goliath - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2024-10-24 · stackoverflow.blog

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Know your “One Job” and do it first – charity.wtf

Saved on 2024-10-12 · charity.wtf

Story time. Susan was hired as a database engineer. Her primary projects, which are supposed to be upgrading/rolling out a major point release and running load tests against various config options …

career management tech

Being Glue — No Idea Blog

Saved on 2024-10-12 · noidea.dog

Slides and notes for the Being Glue talk.

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The Hierarchy Is Bullshit (And Bad For Business) – charity.wtf

Saved on 2024-10-12 · charity.wtf

My friend Molly has had an impressive career. She got a job as a software engineer after graduating from college, and after kicking ass for a year or so she was offered a promotion to management, w…

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Questionable Advice: “My boss says we don’t need any engineering managers. Is he right?”

Saved on 2024-10-12 · charity.wtf

I recently joined a startup to run an engineering org of about 40 engineers. My title is VP Engineering. However, I have been having lots of ongoing conflict with the CEO (a former engineer) around…

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How Hard Should Your Employer Work To Retain You?

Saved on 2024-10-12 · charity.wtf

Recently we learned that Google spent $2.7 billion to re-hire a single AI researcher who had left to start his own company. As Charlie Brown would say: “Good grief.” 🙄 This is an (incredibly!) extr…

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Do All Problems Have Technical Fixes? – Communications of the ACM

Saved on 2024-10-11 · cacm.acm.org

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What a 160-year-old theory about coal predicts about our self-driving future - The Verge

Saved on 2024-10-11 · theverge.com

The Jevons paradox originated in the coal era, but it has a lot to teach us about the future of self-driving cars.

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Ongoing community data protection - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2024-10-11 · stackoverflow.blog

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Attribution as the foundation of developer trust - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2024-10-11 · stackoverflow.blog

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Knowledge-as-a-service: The future of community business models - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2024-10-11 · stackoverflow.blog

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The changing state of the Internet and related business models - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2024-10-11 · stackoverflow.blog

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The First Rule of Machine Learning: Start without Machine Learning

Saved on 2024-10-08 · eugeneyan.com

Why this is the first rule, some baseline heuristics, and when to move on to machine learning.

tech ai

Your company needs Junior devs

Saved on 2024-10-06 · softwaredoug.com

Junior engineers are foundational to whether a team can collaborate and innovate

career management tech

Doing support makes you a better engineer - by Ian Vanagas

Saved on 2024-10-03 · newsletter.posthog.com

What we've learned about providing support that doesn't suck (and does scale)!

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Career Advice: Simplifiers Go Far, Complexifiers Get Stuck - Kellblog

Saved on 2024-10-03 · kellblog.com

“If you can’t explain it to a six year-old, you don’t understand it yourself.” – Albert Einstein There are two types of people in business: Simplifiers: who make complex things simple Complexifiers: who make simple things complex Quick joke Question: What … Continue reading →

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Do AI companies work? - by Benn Stancil - benn.substack

Saved on 2024-10-03 · benn.substack.com

The market needs to be irrational for you to stay solvent.

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Masked self-attention: How LLMs learn relationships between tokens - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2024-10-03 · stackoverflow.blog

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Where developers feel AI coding tools are working—and where they’re missing the mark - Stack Overflo

Saved on 2024-10-03 · stackoverflow.blog

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Simplify Your RAG Implementation Using Foundational Models | AWS Marketplace

Saved on 2024-10-02 · aws.amazon.com

Learn how to deploy production-ready vector storage capabilities, using tried-and-tested components already available in the tech stack of most organizations.

tech ai

One of the best ways to get value for AI coding tools: generating tests - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2024-10-02 · stackoverflow.blog

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What Research Says About Cats: They’re Selfish, Unfeeling, and Environmentally Harmful

Saved on 2024-09-18 · vox.com

Vox is a general interest news site for the 21st century. Its mission: to help everyone understand our complicated world, so that we can all help shape it. In text, video and audio, our reporters explain politics, policy, world affairs, technology, culture, science, the climate c

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The hidden cost of speed - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2024-09-13 · stackoverflow.blog

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Best practices for cost-efficient Kafka clusters - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2024-09-13 · stackoverflow.blog

cloud tech

Why I still self host my servers (and what I've recently learned) - Christian Hollinger

Saved on 2024-09-13 · chollinger.com

A short story on why I still go through the effort of self hosting servers and some things it taught me recently.

tech

The Road to Out-of-Process ReSharper: Asynchronous Typing | The .NET Tools Blog

Saved on 2024-09-10 · blog.jetbrains.com

Taking ReSharper out of process is a monumental undertaking. We covered the magnitude of this in a previous blog post and posted some updates on YouTrack along the way. In the simplest

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American data spies will never care where the servers are

Saved on 2024-09-08 · world.hey.com

In the two years since the European Court of Justice invalidated the Privacy Shield concept, European companies have been scrambling to pretend to comply with the ruling, without changing anything consequential about how they use American internet services. The erroneous consensu

cloud tech

Even Amazon can't make sense of serverless or microservices

Saved on 2024-09-08 · world.hey.com

The Prime Video team at Amazon has published a rather remarkable case study on their decision to dump their serverless, microservices architecture and replace it with a monolith instead. This move saved them a staggering 90%(!!) on operating costs, and simplified the system too.

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Don't be fooled by serverless

Saved on 2024-09-08 · world.hey.com

Cloud aficionados love pinning the true promise of the cloud on serverless functions and services. Not getting the savings you thought you would with the cloud? It's because you didn't go serverless. Frustrated with the complexity of the cloud? Serverless! Performance questions?

aws cloud tech

An Ode to Deluxe Paint | datagubbe.se

Saved on 2024-09-07 · datagubbe.se

design history tech

What engineering can teach (and learn from) us

Saved on 2024-09-07 · hillelwayne.com

This is part three of the crossover project. Part one is here and part two is here. A conference talk based on this work is now available here. I met William at Deconstruct 2019.1 We were walking back from the pre-party—too loud for my comfort level—and I took the chance to inter

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We Are Not Special

Saved on 2024-09-07 · hillelwayne.com

This is part two of the crossover project. Part one is here and part three is here. A conference talk based on this work is now available here. No one thinks about moving the starting or ending point of the bridge midway through construction. -Justin Cave I had to move a bridge.

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Did the Microsoft Stack Kill MySpace? - High Scalability -

Saved on 2024-09-07 · highscalability.com

Robert Scoble wrote a fascinating case study, MySpace’s death spiral: insiders say it’s due to bets on Los Angeles and Microsoft, where he reports MySpace insiders blame the Microsoft stack on why they lost the great social network race to Facebook. Does anyone know if this is t

facebook history tech

The slow evaporation of the free/open source surplus – Baldur Bjarnason

Saved on 2024-09-07 · baldurbjarnason.com

Web dev at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland

history tech

Making LLMs’ default architecture more effective - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2024-09-07 · stackoverflow.blog

tech ai

The Big Cloud Exit FAQ

Saved on 2024-09-06 · world.hey.com

Just over a year ago, we announced our intention to leave the cloud. We then shared our complete $3.2 million cloud budget for 2022, and the fact that we were going to build our own tooling rather than pay for overpriced enterprise service contracts. The mission was set! A month

aws cloud tech

LLMs evolve quickly. Their underlying architecture, not so much. - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2024-08-31 · stackoverflow.blog

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The 1 Hour per Year Bug (But Only in Pacific Time!)

Saved on 2024-08-31 · tomeraberba.ch

:::note This article was updated in response to some helpful comments on Hacker News. I originally incorrectly formatted the Pacific Time Zone daylight saving times relative to the Eastern Time Zone!…

history tech

Ethernet History Deepdive – Why Do We Have Different Frame Types? – Daniels Networking Blog

Saved on 2024-08-31 · lostintransit.se

history tech

Practical tips for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2024-08-31 · stackoverflow.blog

code tech ai

Navigating cities of code with Norris Numbers - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2024-08-31 · stackoverflow.blog

code tech

How I won $2,750 using JavaScript, AI, and a can of WD-40

Saved on 2024-08-31 · davekiss.com

I’ve won many marketing video contest promotions over the past decade using my proven techniques and tactics. This particular haul, however, was the first where I can give at least partial credit to the application of code and AI tools.

javascript tech ai

Nintendo completely sat out the video game graphics wars. It’s winning anyway. - Sherwood News

Saved on 2024-08-31 · sherwood.news

What Nintendo lacks in fancy pixels, it makes up for in dopamine. That’s why it basically prints money.

games history

Is It Time To Version Observability? (Signs Point To Yes) – charity.wtf

Saved on 2024-08-20 · charity.wtf

Augh! I am so behind on so much writing, I’m even behind on writing shit that I need to reference in order to write other pieces of writing. Like this one. So we’re just gonna do this quick and dir…

tech

AI Act is Here

Saved on 2024-08-20 · alvaromontoro.com

The European Union enabled the Artificial Intelligence Act, the first-ever legal framework on AI, addressing its risks and positioning Europe as a leader in AI legislation. This article reviews the AI Act, the different risk categories, and how (and when) it will impact developme

history tech ai

The Curse of Knowledge - Ness Labs

Saved on 2024-08-20 · nesslabs.com

The curse of knowledge is a cognitive bias that occurs when someone incorrectly assumes that others have enough background to understand.

career psychology

This developer tool is 40 years old: can it be improved? - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2024-08-20 · stackoverflow.blog

code programming tech

Categories of leadership on technical teams | benkuhn.net

Saved on 2024-08-11 · benkuhn.net

overall direction • people management • project management • technical leadership • example divisions of labor

career leadership tech

The Effect of CRTs on Pixel Art | datagubbe.se

Saved on 2024-08-11 · datagubbe.se

games history programming tech

Copying is the way design works || Matthew Ström: designer & developer

Saved on 2024-08-06 · matthewstrom.com

What exists in the space between riffing and ripping

design history tech

Story Points are Pointless, Measure Queues | Brightball

Saved on 2024-07-25 · brightball.com

Their creator has disavowed them. The measure and definition is different for every team that uses it. They sow confusion, create conflict, unreliable timelines, are easily gamed, demotivate and degrade the performance of your team.

career management

The real 10x developer makes their whole team better - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2024-07-20 · stackoverflow.blog

career tech

Breaking up is hard to do: Chunking in RAG applications - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2024-07-20 · stackoverflow.blog

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Are We Really Engineers?

Saved on 2024-07-20 · hillelwayne.com

This is part one of the Crossover Project. Part two is here and part three is here. A conference talk based on this work is now available here. I sat in front of Mat, idly chatting about tech and cuisine. Before now, I had known him mostly for his cooking pictures on Twitter, the

career tech

Generative AI is not going to build your engineering team for you - Stack O

Saved on 2024-07-20 · stackoverflow.blog

career tech ai

How To Hack Your Google Lighthouse Scores In 2024 — Smashing Magazine

Saved on 2024-07-20 · smashingmagazine.com

Do perfect Lighthouse scores mean the performance of your website is perfect? As it turns out, Lighthouse is influenced by a number of things that can be manipulated and bent to make sites seem more performant than they really are, as Salma Alam-Naylor demonstrates in several exp

javascript performance tech

Hacking Millions of Modems (and Investigating Who Hacked My Modem)

Saved on 2024-07-20 · samcurry.net

Two years ago, something very strange happened to me while working from my home network. I was exploiting a blind XXE vulnerability that required an external HTTP server to smuggle out files, so I spun up an AWS box and ran a simple Python webserver to receive the traffic from th

code history tech

Data Fetching Patterns in Single-Page Applications

Saved on 2024-07-20 · martinfowler.com

Five patterns to help Single Page Applications fetch data from remote sources

code tech

2-Page Login Pattern, And How To Fix It — Smashing Magazine

Saved on 2024-07-20 · smashingmagazine.com

The 2-page login pattern is becoming pervasive. Here are the reasons behind this design choice and alternative solutions to create a more efficient and user-friendly authentication experience.

code tech

Developers get by with a little help from AI: Stack Overflow Knows code ass

Saved on 2024-06-07 · stackoverflow.blog

code tech ai

Enlightenmentware

Saved on 2024-06-05 · mmapped.blog

Software that makes you a better programmer.

code tech

The curious case of the missing period - Tjaart’s Substack

Saved on 2024-06-05 · tjaart.substack.com

When Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is not simple

history tech

UI Density || Matthew Ström, designer-leader

Saved on 2024-06-05 · matthewstrom.com

I speak and write about design, front-end code, leadership, and (occasionally) math.

design tech

You should keep a developer’s journal - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2024-06-05 · stackoverflow.blog

tech

Here’s What a Good LGBTQ Ally Looks Like

Saved on 2024-06-02 · vox.com

In response to critics calling Taylor Swift’s latest video, packed with queer imagery, self-serving, here are some examples of how to be a good LGBTQ ally,

lgbt politics

The Assimilationist, or: On the Unexpected Cost of Passing as a Trans Woman

Saved on 2024-06-02 · vox.com

The trouble with finding my true self in the beauty aisles.

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State of the Terminal | g.p. anders

Saved on 2024-05-25 · gpanders.com

This is a companion article to my talk at Neovimconf 2023. I have been using Vim/Neovim as my full time text editor for close to 10 years. I’ve spent a lot of time in the terminal and have become very aware of the many flaws and idiosyncrasies of this bizarre platform. But I also

history tech

Why do only a small percentage of GenAI projects actually make it into prod

Saved on 2024-05-25 · stackoverflow.blog

tech ai

Remote Synthesis | Community is a Tamagotchi

Saved on 2024-05-19 · remotesynthesis.com

Many companies handle community wrong because they focus on outcomes over inputs. Here's some tips on how to think about community.

career tech

We Need To Rewild The Internet

Saved on 2024-05-19 · noemamag.com

The internet has become an extractive and fragile monoculture. But we can revitalize it using lessons learned by ecologists.

cloud history tech

Go or Rust? Just Listen to the Bots - Cybernetist

Saved on 2024-05-12 · cybernetist.com

It all started as a joke. I was in a group chat with a few of my friends and we were talking about football (soccer for the American readers). I entered the chat during a mildly heated discussion about the manager of a team one of my friends supports. It was going on for a bit wh

programming tech

How to succeed as a data engineer without the burnout - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2024-04-26 · stackoverflow.blog

data database tech

Why So Many Smart People Aren’t Happy

Saved on 2024-04-23 · theatlantic.com

It’s a paradox: Shouldn’t the most accomplished be well equipped to make choices that maximize life satisfaction?

psychology

ESA - Telling time on the Moon

Saved on 2024-04-21 · esa.int

A new era of lunar exploration is on the rise, with dozens of Moon missions planned for the coming decade. Europe is in the forefront here, contributing to building the Gateway lunar station and the Orion spacecraft – set to return humans to our natural satellite – as well as dev

science

How to get somebody fired using Git - DEV Community

Saved on 2024-04-21 · dev.to

This is Billy. He is a trainee developer working for an important company. Unfortunately...

code git tech

Asking for help is a core developer skill — Rami James

Saved on 2024-04-16 · ramijames.com

Intentionally or otherwise, I have been blowing up my life since last summer. It has been less than ideal. We will get to why in a second, but first, let us talk about javascript and the impact of package managers, their packages, and the endless toil they create.

career psychology tech

The Wi-Fi only works when it's raining

Saved on 2024-04-16 · predr.ag

The strangest hardware problem I've ever had to debug.

history tech

The State of Generative AI, 2024 - by Alberto Romero

Saved on 2024-04-16 · thealgorithmicbridge.com

A nuanced analysis and a glimpse of the future

tech ai

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Community products: Reflections and looking ahead - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2024-04-10 · stackoverflow.blog

history tech

Patterns of Legacy Displacement

Saved on 2024-04-01 · martinfowler.com

Patterns for the effective modernization of legacy software systems

tech thoughtworks

Update on apps distributed in the European Union - Support - Apple Develope

Saved on 2024-04-01 · developer.apple.com

apple politics tech

How Discord Moved Engineering to Cloud Development Environments

Saved on 2024-03-07 · discord.com

Join us as we tell the story of how we transitioned all of Discord’s backend and infrastructure development to a Linux-based Cloud Development Environment with the help of our friends at Coder.

games tech

CSS { In Real Life } | Design Patterns that Encourage Junk Data

Saved on 2024-03-07 · css-irl.info

data database tech

Even LLMs need education—quality data makes LLMs overperform - Stack Overfl

Saved on 2024-03-07 · stackoverflow.blog

tech ai

Defining socially responsible AI: How we select partners - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2024-03-07 · stackoverflow.blog

tech ai

Can a programming language implement time travel? - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2024-02-26 · stackoverflow.blog

history programming tech

First 3D-printed functional human brain tissue grows like the real thing

Saved on 2024-02-20 · newatlas.com

Researchers have used a novel technique to 3D print brain tissue whose cells developed into functional neurons that communicated with each other in a matter of weeks. The approach could be used to study the healthy and unhealthy brain or test drugs.

science tech

Too much of a good thing: the trade-off we make with tests | nicole@web

Saved on 2024-02-20 · ntietz.com

programming tech testing

Thomas Steeles unearths the origins of the world’s most hated font, Comic S

Saved on 2024-02-20 · itsnicethat.com

An extract from the designer’s recent publication Comic Sans, Is it Really That Bad? delves into the history of the contentious font, uncovering the story of its creation and early uses.

history tech

why lowercase letters save data | endtimes.dev

Saved on 2024-01-25 · endtimes.dev

programming tech

Never underestimate HTML - HTMHell

Saved on 2024-01-24 · htmhell.dev

A collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites.

programming tech

Is software getting worse? - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2024-01-24 · stackoverflow.blog

programming tech

Developer with ADHD? You’re not alone. - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2024-01-24 · stackoverflow.blog

programming tech

Stop saying “technical debt” - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2024-01-24 · stackoverflow.blog

programming tech

Self-healing code is the future of software development - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2024-01-24 · stackoverflow.blog

programming tech

The hardest part of building software is not coding, it's requirements - St

Saved on 2024-01-24 · stackoverflow.blog

programming tech

Images altered to trick machine vision can influence humans too - Google De

Saved on 2024-01-24 · deepmind.google

In a series of experiments published in Nature Communications, we found evidence that human judgments are indeed systematically influenced by adversarial perturbations.

google tech ai

What we talk about when we talk about impostor syndrome - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2024-01-24 · stackoverflow.blog

management psychology tech

If you want to address tech debt, quantify it first - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2024-01-24 · stackoverflow.blog

programming tech

The moral imperative to learn from diverse phenomenal experiences | Aeon Es

Saved on 2023-12-22 · aeon.co

New research is uncovering the hidden differences in how people experience the world. The consequences are unsettling

psychology science

Three types of AI-assisted programmers - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2023-12-22 · stackoverflow.blog

programming tech ai

Introducing StyleX | StyleX

Saved on 2023-12-14 · stylexjs.com

We are thrilled to introduce StyleX. StyleX is an expressive, deterministic,

css javascript tech

glandium.org » Blog Archive » How I (kind of) killed Mercurial at Mozilla

Saved on 2023-12-14 · glandium.org

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Explorers, exploiters, and the myth of the 100x engineer - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2026-08-14 · stackoverflow.blog

The “find the special ones and promote their traits” approach isn’t the best or only way to drive AI adoption and productivity on an engineering team.

tech programming productivity

“Gravity is worth asking about.” – Unsung

Saved on 2026-08-14 · unsung.aresluna.org

A blog about software craft and quality

tech history

Don't be a meat proxy

Saved on 2026-08-10 · gruhn.me

tech ai

I'm leaving OpenAI to build Jurassic Park

Saved on 2026-08-10 · taylor.town

Gonna send you back to the stone age.

ai tech

Long Presumed Dead, a West African Reef Is Found Thriving

Saved on 2026-07-30 · e360.yale.edu

science history

Claude Is Not a Compiler - exe.dev blog

Saved on 2026-07-30 · blog.exe.dev

Claude Is Not a Compiler

tech ai programming code

Meet the Conservationist Who Turned 40 Terabytes of Public Data Into a Video Game - exe.dev blog

Saved on 2026-07-24 · blog.exe.dev

Raffael Hickisch spent years dreaming up conservation tools he couldn't afford to build. Then he built them himself, with an AI agent and a country's worth of public data.

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Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail

Saved on 2026-07-24 · fabiensanglard.net

tech history

The power of collaboration: How we can reduce traffic congestion

Saved on 2026-07-22 · research.google

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Control the ideas, not the code - antirez

Saved on 2026-07-22 · antirez.com

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AI Model Token Cost Benchmark | Playcode Blog

Saved on 2026-07-22 · playcode.io

If you build with an AI coding agent, your workload is basically TypeScript - and that's exactly where the model tokenizer gap is widest. The same TypeScript file becomes 1,178 tokens on Claude's newest tokenizer versus 681 on GPT-5.x's o200k: 1.73x more, before a cent of price d

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The truth about being a manager

Saved on 2026-07-22 · sofiakodar.github.io

I vividly remember most of my own journey into engineering management over the years. Throughout my career, I’ve also mentored several people taking the step from engineer to engineering manager. It’s a challenging and often lonely journey, and here are a few truths most new mana

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Matt’s Script Archive: The Scripts That Reshaped The Web

Saved on 2026-07-22 · tedium.co

The high schooler who developed everyone’s forums and guestbooks in 1996 didn’t really think about security. But Matt’s Script Archive was more than exploits.

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You can't unit test for taste

Saved on 2026-07-22 · dev.karltryggvason.com

I’m building In the Long Run where runners do virtual runs on famous routes around the world. The app tallies up your Strava mileage and plots your total distance as progress against country- or continent-spanning routes. The intention is to provide long-term inspiration and moti

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Why I Stopped Arguing With People

Saved on 2026-07-10 · wangcong.org

I am a software engineer, and I used to enjoy arguing with people for technical correctness. Code reviews, design meetings, mailing-list threads, dinner tables. If someone was wrong, I wanted them to know it, and I wanted them to know exactly why. I collected counterarguments the

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Fixing a kubelet Memory Leak in Kubernetes 1.36 | Blog | HeyOnCall

Saved on 2026-07-10 · heyoncall.com

How I tracked down a tiny Go lifecycle bug in Kubernetes kubelet which leaked a context on every startPodSync.

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/Wakamoleguy - home of the wakamoleguy

Saved on 2026-07-10 · wakamoleguy.com

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I discovered a large-scale malware distribution on GitHub

Saved on 2026-06-25 · orchidfiles.com

This is the story of how I found 10,000 repositories on GitHub that distribute Trojan malware. They are all from different contributors, have different names, and are not forks of other repositories. But they share a common pattern, which is what allowed me to write a script to f

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I hate compilers

Saved on 2026-06-25 · xeiaso.net

You'd think that given the same bytes of input you'd get the same bytes of output. lol. lmao. No, you don't. It's complicated.

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Loop Engineering

Saved on 2026-06-21 · addyosmani.com

You don't really need to be good at prompting anymore. The thing to get good at is the loop that does the prompting for you. It's five building blocks plus s...

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Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work

Saved on 2026-06-20 · simonwillison.net

In all of the debates about the value of AI-assistance in software development there’s one depressing anecdote that I keep on seeing: the junior engineer, empowered by some class of …

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I Didn't Become a Developer to Review AI Slop

Saved on 2026-06-20 · builder.io

AI makes PRs cheap, but trust is still expensive. Why developers are stuck reviewing endless AI slop and how automated code review can fix the bottleneck.

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Agentic Code Review

Saved on 2026-06-19 · addyosmani.com

Coding agents are extraordinarily good now, and getting better fast. The interesting consequence is that the hard part of engineering moved from writing code...

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Announcing Stack Overflow for Agents - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2026-06-18 · stackoverflow.blog

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What can 500 years of journalism teach developers about AI trustworthiness? - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2026-06-18 · stackoverflow.blog

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Email obfuscation: What works in 2023?

Saved on 2023-12-14 · spencermortensen.com

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CEO update: Giving thanks and building upon our product & engineering found

Saved on 2023-12-14 · stackoverflow.blog

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Your stolen package is everyone’s problem

Saved on 2023-11-25 · vox.com

A thoroughly modern nuisance for consumers, shippers, and retailers alike.

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The product approach to open source communities - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2023-11-20 · stackoverflow.blog

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Privacy in the age of generative AI - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2023-11-20 · stackoverflow.blog

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Visualizing MBTA Data

Saved on 2023-11-20 · mbtaviz.github.io

An interactive exploration of ridership, congestion, and delay on Boston's subway system.

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Every story in the world has one of these six basic plots - BBC Culture

Saved on 2023-11-20 · bbc.com

Researchers analysed over 1700 novels to reveal six story types – but can they be applied to our most-loved tales? Miriam Quick takes a look.

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Beware of Integer Overflows in Your C Code – Giovanni Dicanio's Blog

Saved on 2023-11-20 · giodicanio.com

Summing signed integer values on computers, with a *finite* number of bits available for representing integer numbers (16 bits, 32 bits, whatever) is not always possible, and can lead to subtle bug…

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Beware of Unsafe Conversions from size_t to int – Giovanni Dicanio's Blog

Saved on 2023-11-20 · giodicanio.com

Converting from size_t to int can cause subtle bugs! Let’s take the Win32 Unicode conversion API calls introduced in previous posts as an occasion to discuss some interesting size_t-to-int bu…

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The 2023 State of Kubernetes in Production - The New Stack

Saved on 2023-11-15 · thenewstack.io

Enterprises running Kubernetes in production are still struggling to find the balance of flexibility and complexity. Read Spectro Cloud's 2023 report.

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Is AI enough to increase your productivity? - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2023-10-27 · stackoverflow.blog

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Retrieval augmented generation: Keeping LLMs relevant and current - Stack O

Saved on 2023-10-27 · stackoverflow.blog

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Contributing to Tech Communities: How Open-Source can land you a job and ge

Saved on 2023-10-27 · dev.to

Hello there! TL;DR In this article, we’re going to see how open-source can...

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Why HTTP/3 is eating the world | APNIC Blog

Saved on 2023-10-27 · blog.apnic.net

Guest Post: What problems HTTP/3 solves, how it performs, why it’s seen such swift adoption, and what limitations it is still working to overcome.

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Long Live The Test Pyramid — Smashing Magazine

Saved on 2023-10-27 · smashingmagazine.com

Is the Test Pyramid really dead? Discover the more contemporary testing strategies and evaluate the Test Pyramid’s relevance in today’s software development practices.

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What’s in a domain name: The meaning of URL suffixes - Rest of World

Saved on 2023-10-27 · restofworld.org

Three major websites — Twitch, Discord, Github — have domain names with each with an iconic URL suffix, which come from small island nations and territories.

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Should academic disciplines have both a purpose and a finish date? | Aeon E

Saved on 2023-10-27 · aeon.co

Academics need to think harder about the purpose of their disciplines and whether some of those should come to an end

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Open Discussion: What can be done to reduce infrastructure-as-code complexi

Saved on 2023-10-27 · stackoverflow.blog

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The Negative Impact of Mobile-First Web Design on Desktop

Saved on 2023-10-27 · nngroup.com

Mobile-first web designs cause significant usability issues when viewed on desktop. Content becomes overly dispersed across long scrolling pages with expansive white space and enlarged images and fonts, making it difficult for users to consume and understand the information.

design tech

How a 23-year-old first-time Firefox coder fixed a 22-year-old bug | Ars Te

Saved on 2023-10-22 · arstechnica.com

Tiny text boxes, lingering on screens like ghosts, exorcised after 2 decades.

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From prototype to production: Vector databases in generative AI application

Saved on 2023-10-22 · stackoverflow.blog

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Integrating AI tools into your workflow - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2023-10-22 · stackoverflow.blog

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In a git repository, where do your files live?

Saved on 2023-10-02 · jvns.ca

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Bricolage | Some notes on Local-First Development

Saved on 2023-09-22 · bricolage.io

Local-first shifts reads and writes to client databases synced by engines. A major paradigm shift ahead.

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Stop Lazy Loading Product and Hero Images – Cloud Four

Saved on 2023-09-22 · cloudfour.com

I see a recurring performance problem on many ecommerce sites—the most important images on the page are being lazy loaded when they shouldn't be. You’re better off not implementing lazy loading at all than implementing it incorrectly.

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How to land the manager-to-IC pivot - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2023-09-22 · stackoverflow.blog

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The Worst Programmer I Know - Dan North & Associates Ltd

Saved on 2023-09-18 · dannorth.net

The great thing about measuring developer productivity is that you can quickly identify the bad programmers. I want to tell you about the worst programmer I know, and why I fought to keep him in the team.

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Tabs are objectively better than spaces | Go Make Things

Saved on 2023-09-18 · gomakethings.com

Yesterday, I shared some spicy takes. A few were particularly controversial—most notably, that I correct Gif the correct way (with a soft G)—but I also got a lot of emails asking me to elaborate on a few of them. Today, I wanted to talk about how tabs are objectively better than

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The War of Art: How to Fall in Love with Hard Work - Nick Wignall

Saved on 2023-08-26 · nickwignall.com

Brief lessons in professionalism, art, and productivity from The War of Art. To do our best work, we must learn to fall in love with hard work.

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Ask like a human: Implementing semantic search on Stack Overflow - Stack Ov

Saved on 2023-08-19 · stackoverflow.blog

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Platform engineering is just DevOps with a product mindset - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2023-08-19 · stackoverflow.blog

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Announcing OverflowAI - Stack Overflow Blog

Saved on 2023-08-19 · stackoverflow.blog

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What is a 'AI drift' and why is it making ChatGPT dumber? | ZDNET

Saved on 2023-08-19 · zdnet.com

You may want to rethink using GPT-4, especially for math problems.

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Things you forgot (or never knew) because of React - Josh Collinsworth blog

Saved on 2023-08-19 · joshcollinsworth.com

If you don't often look beyond established comfortable defaults, you might be surprised to learn just how far the world of frontend has moved away from React, and how big that gap continues to grow.

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Is Laravel the happiest developer community on the planet? · GitHub

Saved on 2023-08-19 · github.com

How the PHP framework Laravel prioritizes developer experience by focusing on details and avoiding the hype cycle

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Pyramid or Crab? Find a testing strategy that fits

Saved on 2023-08-19 · web.dev

Discover how to combine different testing types into a reasonable strategy that matches your project.

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Modern Technology And The Future Of Language Translation — Smashing Magazin

Saved on 2023-08-19 · smashingmagazine.com

The field of language translation has never been more exciting. Explore the evolution of language translation platforms, how we got to where we are today, and what advancements we can look forward to in the coming years.

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A case study on scroll-driven animations performance - Chrome Developers

Saved on 2023-08-19 · developer.chrome.com

The new API is much smoother than the classic way of implementing scroll-driven animations.

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matthewwolfe.github.io/blog/mocking-in-unit-tests

Saved on 2023-08-19 · matthewwolfe.github.io

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The new @font-face syntax

Saved on 2023-08-19 · fullystacked.net

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Can We Query the Root Container? | OddBird

Saved on 2023-08-19 · oddbird.net

The complexities of containment, overflow, and 'propagation'

code css tech

The infrastructure behind ATMs

Saved on 2023-08-16 · bitsaboutmoney.com

ATMs are connected to banks by networks which operate little-understood payment rails.

finance tech

Why transformative AI is really, really hard to achieve | Zhengdong

Saved on 2023-08-10 · zhengdongwang.com

A collection of the best technical, social, and economic arguments

tech ai

Exploring the infrastructure and code behind modern edge functions - Stack

Saved on 2023-08-10 · stackoverflow.blog

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How a year-long LeetCode habit upped my professional game—Martian Chronicle

Saved on 2023-08-10 · evilmartians.com

Are algorithmic tasks like those on LeetCode useful for a developer beyond live-coding interview tasks? After spending a year developing a LeetCode habit, Nina Torgunakova answers the question and gives tips.

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The Coolest Library on Earth | Hakai Magazine

Saved on 2023-08-10 · hakaimagazine.com

At the University of Copenhagen, researchers store ice cores that hold the keys to Earth’s climate past and future.

science tech history

Happy 50th birthday, Ethernet | APNIC Blog

Saved on 2023-07-14 · blog.apnic.net

Why has Ethernet endured as a ubiquitous data framing protocol over all these years?

data history tech

Why knowledge management is foundational to AI success - Stack Overflow Blo

Saved on 2023-07-14 · stackoverflow.blog

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Do large language models know what they are talking about? - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2023-07-14 · stackoverflow.blog

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Junior to senior: An action plan for engineering career success · GitHub

Saved on 2023-07-09 · github.com

A guide providing actionable tips on how to transition from a junior to senior software engineer. Learn the essential technical competencies and communication skills needed to succeed, including th...

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How Bloomberg’s engineers built a culture of knowledge sharing - Stack Over

Saved on 2023-07-09 · stackoverflow.blog

career tech

The hardest part of building software is not coding, it's requirements - St

Saved on 2023-07-09 · stackoverflow.blog

career tech ai

Git is my buddy: Effective Git as a solo developer - Mikkel Paulson

Saved on 2023-07-01 · mikkel.ca

At this point, most developers use Git as a tool for collaboration. We have our rote-learned commands to pull, commit, and push. And of course, there's that one coworker who knows a bit more about Git than everyone else, who helps get us back on track whenever our local repos end

tech

Before your next frontend pull request, use this checklist—Martian Chronicl

Saved on 2023-07-01 · evilmartians.com

Frontend pull requests often contain common mistakes. Avoid them with this list of 7 small (but crucial) rules.

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IKEA-Oriented Development

Saved on 2023-07-01 · taylor.town

To frugally furnish a codebase, imitate Ikea.

tech

To improve as an engineer, get better at requesting (and receiving) feedbac

Saved on 2023-07-01 · stackoverflow.blog

career management tech

The massive bug at the heart of the npm ecosystem

Saved on 2023-06-30 · vlt.io

An article detailing the massive bug at the heart of the npm ecosystem; encompassing a lack of validation by the public registry, package manifest inconsistancies & assumptions about package managers & security products

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What is a Vector Database? | Pinecone

Saved on 2023-06-25 · pinecone.io

Discover Vector Databases: How They Work, Examples, Use Cases, Pros & Cons, Selection and Implementation. They have combined capabilities of traditional databases and standalone vector indexes while specializing for vector embeddings.

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No, ‘AI’ Will Not Fix Accessibility — Adrian Roselli

Saved on 2023-06-25 · adrianroselli.com

In recent years, a series of new technologies have provided better experiences and outcomes for disabled users. Collectively branded “Artificial Intelligence”, the two biggest breakthroughs have been in computer vision and large language models (LLM). The former, computer vision,

tech ai

Hype or not? AI’s benefits for developers explored in the 2023 Developer Su

Saved on 2023-06-25 · stackoverflow.blog

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2023 Developer Survey results are in: the latest trends in technology and w

Saved on 2023-06-25 · stackoverflow.blog

programming tech

JSON Hijacking | You’ve Been Haacked

Saved on 2023-06-14 · haacked.com

A while back I wrote about a subtle JSON vulnerability which could result in the disclosure of sensitive information. That particular exploit involved overriding the JavaScript Array constructor to disclose the payload of a JSON array, something which most browsers do not support

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Big Tech’s Biggest Bets (Or What It Takes to Build a Billion-User Platform)

Saved on 2023-06-11 · matthewball.co

Meta’s Reality Labs losses may be eye-watering, but such investments aren’t rare - and they’re looking increasingly essential to building (or disrupting) a billion user platform.

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Email addresses are not primary user identities | nicole@web

Saved on 2023-06-11 · ntietz.com

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Using the Y-Axis to Maintain Focus and Attention - Christopher Butler

Saved on 2023-06-11 · chrbutler.com

Attention is the product of focus. It is what we give information — our observation, concentration, and consideration — when we are able to maintain

data product tech

Building a safer community: Announcing our new Code of Conduct - Stack Over

Saved on 2023-06-11 · stackoverflow.blog

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CEO Update: Paving the road forward with AI and community at the center - S

Saved on 2023-06-11 · stackoverflow.blog

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More on our AI future: building course recommendations and a new data platf

Saved on 2023-06-11 · stackoverflow.blog

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8 annoying A/B testing mistakes every engineer should know - PostHog

Saved on 2023-06-03 · posthog.com

Running experiments is equal parts powerful and terrifying. Powerful because you can validate changes that will transform your product for the better…

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Modern work requires attention. Constant alerts steal it - Stack Overflow B

Saved on 2023-06-03 · stackoverflow.blog

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How to use marketing techniques to build a better resume - Stack Overflow B

Saved on 2023-06-03 · stackoverflow.blog

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Where Is the Line? | How Arbitrary Rules Are Crucial to a Successful Projec

Saved on 2023-05-24 · simplethread.com

Discover the significance of conventions in your codebase and how they shape your software development projects. Explore the benefits of establishing and following conventions, including efficiency, reliability, troubleshooting, and maintainability. Learn how conventions can enha

management productivity tech

A Backup of Historical Proportions - CHM

Saved on 2023-05-18 · computerhistory.org

Discover what surprises await in CHM's release of the Xerox PARC file system archive.

history tech

Adactio: Journal—The intersectionality of web performance

Saved on 2023-05-18 · adactio.com

Business, sustainability, and inclusivity.

performance tech

How do we get a tech team to make a big technical change? - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2023-05-18 · stackoverflow.blog

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Z-order indexing for multifaceted queries in Amazon DynamoDB: Part 2 | Amazon Web Services

Saved on 2023-05-18 · aws.amazon.com

In a previous AWS Database Blog post, I introduced Z-order indexing, a way in which you can sort your data to efficiently query an Amazon DynamoDB table by using range bounds on multiple attributes. In this post, we explore the process of creating a schema for your index. We look

aws database programming

How to land a job in climate tech - Stack Overflow Blog

Saved on 2023-05-14 · stackoverflow.blog

science tech

Don’t panic! A playbook for managing any production incident - Stack Overfl

Saved on 2023-05-14 · stackoverflow.blog

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AI isn't the app, it's the UI - Stack Overflow Blog

Saved on 2023-05-14 · stackoverflow.blog

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Go Memory Management Part 3 – Povilas Versockas

Saved on 2023-05-10 · povilasv.me

Go Memory Management. In this blogpost we will go thru how cgo impacts go virtual memory. We will look at Go Execution Tracer and how to trace system calls.

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Go Memory Management Part 2 – Povilas Versockas

Saved on 2023-05-10 · povilasv.me

Go Memory Management. In this blogpost we will go thru how go uses cgo. We will look at Go DNS resolver implentations, libc & more!

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Installing Linux on a Dead Badger: User's Notes

Saved on 2023-05-09 · strangehorizons.com

Place badger in center of fireproof surface, making sure ventilation is adequate and all doors are locked.

tech

Scaling up the Prime Video audio/video monitoring service and reducing cost

Saved on 2023-05-09 · primevideotech.com

We create and provide access to world-class entertainment through Amazon Originals, Prime Video, Audible, Amazon Games, Twitch, Amazon Music, Prime Gaming, and more. Amazon’s digital entertainment products enable customers to access the latest apps and games, stream or download m

aws microservices tech

The Potentially Dangerous Non-Accessibility Of Cookie Notices — Smashing Ma

Saved on 2023-05-05 · smashingmagazine.com

In this piece, a Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) auditor shares some cookie banner error patterns that can massively hurt a page’s overall conformance. Let’s explore what to look out for with this omnipresent piece of the web interface.

javascript security tech

A Completely Non-Technical Explanation of AI and Deep Learning - Parand

Saved on 2023-05-05 · parand.com

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The worst coder in the world tries an AI sidekick - Stack Overflow Blog

Saved on 2023-05-05 · stackoverflow.blog

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Instantly verify your customers online with Open Banking APIs - Stack Overf

Saved on 2023-05-05 · stackoverflow.blog

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Why Performance Matters, Part 3: Tolerance Management — Smashing Magazine

Saved on 2023-04-30 · smashingmagazine.com

User reaction to a wait online is no different from that in the offline world. Studies based on the analysis of more than a thousand cases identify 14 distinct types of waiting situations on the web. Being dependent on your users' loyalty, you cannot leave them facing a passive w

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Why Performance Matters, Part 2: Perception Management — Smashing Magazine

Saved on 2023-04-30 · smashingmagazine.com

When we talk about the user’s perception of time, we mean psychological time, or brain time. This time is of interest to psychologists, neuroscientists and odd individuals like me. Objective time is dealt with by technical means, and those means have limits that become insurmount

design psychology tech

To understand AI sentience, first understand it in animals | Aeon Essays

Saved on 2023-04-28 · aeon.co

As the power of AI grows, we need to have evidence of its sentience. That is why we must return to the minds of animals

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Community is the future of AI - Stack Overflow Blog

Saved on 2023-04-28 · stackoverflow.blog

tech ai

Introducing Communities on Teams: where domain, practice, and community com

Saved on 2023-04-28 · stackoverflow.blog

education tech

An example of LLM prompting for programming

Saved on 2023-04-27 · martinfowler.com

Generated knowledge and chain of thought prompting of an LLM can generate useful code.

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Open source is fueling the future of nuclear physics · GitHub

Saved on 2023-04-21 · github.com

A look at the open source artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and high performance computing (HPC) tools used in the nuclear fusion ignition breakthrough at Lawerence Livermore Labs.

science tech

What’s the difference between software engineering and computer science deg

Saved on 2023-04-21 · stackoverflow.blog

learning tech

Are meetings making you less productive? - Stack Overflow Blog

Saved on 2023-04-21 · stackoverflow.blog

career psychology

The delusion of Healthy Tensions

Saved on 2023-04-20 · nomad8.com

Every organisation I’ve ever worked with has suffered from ‘healthy tensions’ between roles turned nasty in one form or another. I’ve seen them lead to interpersonal conflict, team dysfunction, silos and productivity grinding to a halt. In general - bad outcomes all round....

career leadership tech

Right-sizing your technology team | Thoughtworks

Saved on 2023-04-19 · thoughtworks.com

Managing the scale of your technology teams to accomplish strategic goals can be challenging. How can business leaders get it right?

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Balancing Autonomy and Alignment with Accountability | by Richard Lennox |

Saved on 2023-04-19 · medium.com

Autonomous teams that are highly Aligned to purpose, are also explicitly Accountable. By having concrete mechanisms maximising Transparency and improving Commitments you can drive accountabilty.

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"Data driven" decisions aren't innovative decisions - Stack Overflow Blog

Saved on 2023-04-14 · stackoverflow.blog

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Understanding the .NET ecosystem: The evolution of .NET into .NET 7

Saved on 2023-04-06 · andrewlock.net

Hi, my name is Andrew, or ‘Sock’ to most people. This blog is where I share my experiences as I journey into ASP.NET Core.

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Building a collaborative asynchronous work environment - Stack Overflow Blo

Saved on 2023-04-06 · stackoverflow.blog

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Hard to work with. | Irrational Exuberance

Saved on 2023-04-05 · lethain.com

Managing teams has taught me a lot about my own behaviors and motivations. For example, I overworked for a long time. This left me continually teetering on the brink of burnout, and I had no energy left to absorb the typical sorts of organizational changes that happen at any comp

career leadership

Your tech toolbox: The middle ground between tech chaos and rigidity - Stac

Saved on 2023-03-31 · stackoverflow.blog

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Who builds it and who runs it? SRE team topologies - Stack Overflow Blog

Saved on 2023-03-31 · stackoverflow.blog

career management

What’s different about these layoffs - Stack Overflow Blog

Saved on 2023-03-31 · stackoverflow.blog

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Moving From Vue 1 To Vue 2 To Vue 3: A Case Study Of Migrating A Headless C

Saved on 2023-03-24 · smashingmagazine.com

In this article, Elisabeth Wieser-Linhart explores its potential benefits and drawbacks and shares what considerations and steps were involved in the process of migrating the front-end interface of Storyblok’s headless content management system.

javascript tech

alextaylor.ca - Adventures in Time: Debugging a Daylight Saving Bug

Saved on 2023-03-24 · alextaylor.ca

What’s more fun than bugs? Bugs involving time! And none are so fascinating as bugs involving daylight saving time. With Daylight saving time almost upon us again, I thought it would be fun to rev...

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Tech Layoffs: A Forgotten Deja Vu | by Amit Phansalkar | Jan, 2023 | Medium

Saved on 2023-03-24 · medium.com

The big-tech layoffs, coming one after another, have caught the media by storm. Some of the biggest names, like Alphabet, Meta, and Amazon have joined the “layoff” bandwagon on the heels of Twitter…

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The AI hype bubble is the new crypto hype bubble | by Cory Doctorow | Mar,

Saved on 2023-03-24 · doctorow.medium.com

Back in 2017 Long Island Ice Tea — known for its undistinguished, barely drinkable sugar-water — changed its name to “Long Blockchain Corp.” Its shares surged to a peak of 400% over their…

Making Sense of Generative AI in 2023 | by Eon Mattis | Mar, 2023 | Startup

Saved on 2023-03-24 · blog.startupstash.com

Since its launch in November 2022, Chat-GPT, a Generative AI model, has garnered significant attention worldwide. Generative AI, a subset of Artificial Intelligence, utilizes foundational models to…

Will ChatGPT spark the next financial bubble? | by Michael F. Buckley | UX

Saved on 2023-03-24 · uxdesign.cc

Revolutionary technology will always be synonymous with a new way to get rich. With the current growth of Artificial Intelligence (AI), it is fair to say we are looking at another technology gold…

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I Graduated Into The 2000 DotCom Crash, And It Was The Best Thing To Ever H

Saved on 2023-03-24 · hunterwalk.medium.com

In retrospect the fact we were all day trading tech stocks from Stanford’s computer labs probably suggested it was a bit of a bubble, although eToys options did pay for two consecutive Spring Break…

career history

The Rise and Fall of the Dot-Com Foosball Table | by Clive Thompson | Mar,

Saved on 2023-03-24 · clivethompson.medium.com

Back during the dot-com boom of the late 90s, if you visited one of the then-hot startups in San Francisco — or other major US cities like New York — there was an emerging workplace aesthetic. Ties…

history

The Day the Dotcom Bust Began. The lesson we still refuse to learn… | by Do

Saved on 2023-03-24 · rushkoff.medium.com

The Internet changed for me on the morning of January 10, 2000, when an editor from the New York Times called to ask if I could bang out an OpEd by that afternoon. I was thrilled. The culture of the…

history

The Original Apocalypse:. 5 Lessons from the Dot-Com Crash | by Jeff Fluhr

Saved on 2023-03-24 · medium.com

Startup lessons from the dotcom crash of 2000 are relevant again today in the midst of the current COVID-19 crisis.

history

SpeedCurve | Why you need to know your site's performance plateau (and how

Saved on 2023-03-16 · speedcurve.com

Find feature updates, web performance speed tips and industry insights on the SpeedCurve blog.

performance

Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models

Saved on 2023-03-16 · assemblyai.com

Emergence can be defined as the sudden appearance of novel behavior. Large Language Models apparently display emergence by suddenly gaining new abilities as they grow. Why does this happen, and what does this mean?

After the buzz fades: What our data tells us about emerging technology sent

Saved on 2023-03-16 · stackoverflow.blog

programming

How Intuit democratizes AI development across teams through reusability - S

Saved on 2023-03-10 · stackoverflow.blog

Why governments need open source more than ever - Stack Overflow Blog

Saved on 2023-03-10 · stackoverflow.blog

tech programming

Stop saying “technical debt” - Stack Overflow Blog

Saved on 2023-03-10 · stackoverflow.blog

tech management programming

Why your consciousness depends on the low-entropy early Universe | Psyche I

Saved on 2023-03-05 · psyche.co

What would your time-reverse twin think and feel walking back from the present into the past? And why does it matter?

psychology

How I Broke Into a Bank Account With an AI-Generated Voice

Saved on 2023-03-05 · vice.com

Banks in the U.S. and Europe tout voice ID as a secure way to log into your account. I proved it's possible to trick such systems with free or cheap AI-generated voices.

security

How edge functions move your back end close to your front end - Stack Overf

Saved on 2023-03-05 · stackoverflow.blog

cloud code

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Are clouds having their on-prem moment? - Stack Overflow Blog

Saved on 2023-03-05 · stackoverflow.blog

cloud

Developer with ADHD? You’re not alone. - Stack Overflow Blog

Saved on 2023-03-02 · stackoverflow.blog

career

How Inevitable Is the Concept of Numbers?—Stephen Wolfram Writings

Saved on 2023-02-25 · writings.stephenwolfram.com

Stephen Wolfram considers if numbers are actually required, the use of symbolics and the potential for the growing role of computational irreducibility.

maths psychology science

Why does 0.1 0.2 = 0.30000000000000004?

Saved on 2023-02-25 · jvns.ca

code maths

Serverless scales well, but most databases don’t - Stack Overflow Blog

Saved on 2023-02-25 · stackoverflow.blog

database

Monitoring debt builds up faster than software teams can pay it off - Stack

Saved on 2023-02-25 · stackoverflow.blog

tech distributed systems

Coding 102: Writing code other people can read - Stack Overflow Blog

Saved on 2023-02-22 · stackoverflow.blog

code programming

Announcing .NET 8 Preview 1 - .NET Blog

Saved on 2023-02-22 · devblogs.microsoft.com

.NET 8 Preview 1 introduces a roadmap for the year ahead, native AOT compilation, enhanced container and Linux support, and significant performance improvements.

code programming

It’s the future — you can stop using JPEGs — Daniel Immke

Saved on 2023-02-20 · daniel.do

An overview of some compelling alternatives.

tech

Three layers to secure a software development organization - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2023-02-20 · stackoverflow.blog

programming security

The nature of simulating nature: Q&A with IBM quantum computing research -

Saved on 2023-02-20 · stackoverflow.blog

programming

The maze is in the mouse - Praveen Seshadri - Medium

Saved on 2023-02-15 · medium.com

What ails Google. And how it can turn it around.

career leadership management

Refraction, dispersion, and other shader light effects - Maxime Heckel's Bl

Saved on 2023-02-12 · blog.maximeheckel.com

A guide on how to reproduce a chromatic dispersion effect for your React Three Fiber and shader projects with FBO, refraction, chromatic aberration, specular, and other tricks through 9 interactive code playgrounds.

code games gaming programming tech

CEO update: Eliminating obstacles to productivity, efficiency, and learning

Saved on 2023-02-12 · stackoverflow.blog

management productivity

Hello, PNG! | Blog

Saved on 2023-02-04 · da.vidbuchanan.co.uk

code programming

How to optimize your code reviews · GitHub

Saved on 2023-02-04 · github.com

The secret to stronger team communication and more knowledge-sharing? Per @captainsafia, it’s all in the code review:

programming

Comparing tag trends with our Most Loved programming languages - Stack Over

Saved on 2023-02-04 · stackoverflow.blog

programming

AI applications open new security vulnerabilities - Stack Overflow Blog

Saved on 2023-02-04 · stackoverflow.blog

Why Not document.write()? – CSS Wizardry – Web Performance Optimisation

Saved on 2023-02-01 · csswizardry.com

We’re often told not to use document.write(), but… why?!

javascript

Minimizing the downsides of dynamic programming languages - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2023-02-01 · stackoverflow.blog

code programming

Implementing CSS Style Inheritance in React Native

Saved on 2023-01-23 · builder.io

Ever wondered why applying text styles to a button's text doesn't work in React Native? The solution involves re-creating some of CSS's cascading mechanisms.

css tech

Beyond Git: The other version control systems developers use - Stack Overfl

Saved on 2023-01-23 · stackoverflow.blog

tech

The ’80s Are Back, Baby – Eye on Design

Saved on 2023-01-23 · eyeondesign.aiga.org

This story is part of our Weekend Reads series, where we highlight a story we love from the archives. It was originally published online in January, 2022. What are you seeing? Layered, type-driven design inspired by 1980s advertising is on the rise, and along with it, a worthy

design

How we improved our documentation

Saved on 2023-01-23 · medusajs.com

This is a new page

tech

You should be reading academic computer science papers - Stack Overflow Blo

Saved on 2023-01-23 · stackoverflow.blog

tech

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Remote work is killing big offices. Cities must change to survive - Stack O

Saved on 2023-01-23 · stackoverflow.blog

career leadership management

The Great Resignation is here. What does that mean for developers? - Stack

Saved on 2023-01-23 · stackoverflow.blog

career leadership management

Picture perfect images with the modern element - Stack Overflow Blog

Saved on 2023-01-23 · stackoverflow.blog

code design tech

Why the number input is the worst input - Stack Overflow Blog

Saved on 2023-01-23 · stackoverflow.blog

code design tech

Finding Language in the Brain | The MIT Press Reader

Saved on 2023-01-23 · thereader.mitpress.mit.edu

Psycholinguist Giosuè Baggio sheds light on the thrilling, evolving field of neurolinguistics, where neuroscience and linguistics meet.

psychology

How I still use Flash in 2022 – Foon by Robin Allen

Saved on 2023-01-01 · foon.uk

code programming tech

chreke's blog - Little Languages Are The Future Of Programming

Saved on 2022-12-25 · chreke.com

Little languages; what they are, why they matter and how they will shape the future of programming.

programming tech

12 Factor App Revisited

Saved on 2022-12-25 · architecturenotes.co

The Twelve-Factor App methodology is a methodology for building software-as-a-service applications by Adam Wiggins. We cover how they have since evolved, and what we can learn from them today and how they changed the status quo of yesteryear.

architecture microservices tech

Taming Names in Software Development - Simple Thread

Saved on 2022-12-25 · simplethread.com

Good names What is a name? A name is a label, a handle, a pointer in your brain’s memory. A complex idea neatly encapsulated. A name lets you refer to “the economy” , or “dogfooding” mid-sentence without needing a three-paragraph essay to explain the term. If you think of softwar

programming tech

Does WWW still belong in URLs? | CSS-Tricks - CSS-Tricks

Saved on 2022-12-25 · css-tricks.com

For years, a small pedantry war has been raging in our address bars. In one corner are brands like Google, Instagram, and Facebook. This group has chosen to

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Why writing by hand is still the best way to retain information - Stack Ove

Saved on 2022-12-25 · stackoverflow.blog

productivity psychology

Why HTML is a Strategic Dead End for Business Transactions and E-Commerce

Saved on 2022-12-25 · jimgray.azurewebsites.net

programming tech

Breaking through innovation fatigue | Perspectives

Saved on 2022-12-23 · thoughtworks.com

This Perspectives issue explores how leaders can balance their innovation initiatives with day-to-day operation priorities. Read now.

business tech thoughtworks

Customer Experience | Perspectives

Saved on 2022-12-23 · thoughtworks.com

Customer experience: Measuring the real returns on surprise and delight

tech thoughtworks

Effective Engineering Practices | Perspectives

Saved on 2022-12-23 · thoughtworks.com

In this issue of Perspectives, Thoughtworks experts explain how business leaders can reprioritize their development portfolios and enhance engineering effectiveness to maintain a competitive edge and generate value, while minimizing waste and keeping spending in check.

business tech thoughtworks

Change management: Why it matters, and how to make it stick

Saved on 2022-12-23 · thoughtworks.com

This Perspectives explores the approaches that help leaders to achieve the elusive goal of making change stick.

architecture business tech thoughtworks

Continuous delivery, meet continuous security - Stack Overflow Blog

Saved on 2022-12-19 · stackoverflow.blog

devops security

When to use gRPC vs GraphQL - Stack Overflow Blog

Saved on 2022-12-19 · stackoverflow.blog

facebook programming

Just laid off? Nervous about possible layoffs? Here’s what to do. - Stack O

Saved on 2022-12-19 · stackoverflow.blog

career

How to make time for learning in tech - Stack Overflow Blog

Saved on 2022-12-19 · stackoverflow.blog

learning

Physicists Create a Wormhole Using a Quantum Computer | Quanta Magazine

Saved on 2022-12-13 · quantamagazine.org

The unprecedented experiment explores the possibility that space-time somehow emerges from quantum information, even as the work’s interpretation remains disputed.

science

Everything I wish I knew when learning C - Tom M

Saved on 2022-12-13 · tmewett.com

code

Does Money Buy Happiness?

Saved on 2022-12-08 · theatlantic.com

In most of the world, yes. In the United States, not any more.

psychology health science

High income improves evaluation of life but not emotional well-being | PNAS

Saved on 2022-12-08 · pnas.org

Recent research has begun to distinguish two aspects of subjective well-being. Emotional well-being refers to the emotional quality of an individua...

health psychology

How Wanting Less Leads to Satisfaction - The Atlantic

Saved on 2022-12-01 · theatlantic.com

The secret to satisfaction has nothing to do with achievement, money, or stuff.

psychology

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Are You the Same Person You Used to Be? | The New Yorker

Saved on 2022-12-01 · newyorker.com

Researchers have studied how much of our personality is set from childhood, but what you’re like isn’t who you are. Joshua Rothman on “The Origins of You,” by Richie Poulton, Jay Belsky, Avshalom Caspi, and Terrie E. Moffitt; and “Life Is Hard,” by Kieran Setiya.

psychology

Do my friends hate me? The pandemic is making people doubt friendships. - T

Saved on 2022-12-01 · thelily.com

For many women, friendship insecurity has gotten worse, especially during the colder months.

psychology

Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid

Saved on 2022-12-01 · theatlantic.com

It’s not just a phase.

history politics

What’s so great about functional programming anyway?

Saved on 2022-11-27 · jrsinclair.com

To hear some people talk about functional programming, you’d think they’d joined some kind of cult. They prattle on about how it’s changed the way they think about code. They’ll extol the benefits of purity, at length. And proclaim that they are now able to “reason about their co

code programming tech

"Performant" is nonsense, but performance can still matter - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2022-11-27 · stackoverflow.blog

performance programming tech

You can add biometric authentication to your webpage. Here's how. - Stack O

Saved on 2022-11-27 · stackoverflow.blog

code programming security

Speeding software innovation with low-code/no-code tools - Stack Overflow B

Saved on 2022-11-27 · stackoverflow.blog

code programming

The Remote Worker's Guide to "Managing Up"

Saved on 2022-11-20 · blog.doist.com

Actionable steps for making sure "out of sight" doesn't mean "out of mind"

career management

The Zeigarnik Effect: Why Unfinished Work Follows Us Home [comic]

Saved on 2022-11-20 · blog.doist.com

Why it's so hard to stop thinking about everything we have to get done (and so easy to forget what we've already accomplished)

productivity psychology

7 Real-Life Todoist Setups to Steal

Saved on 2022-11-20 · blog.doist.com

Copy the powerful workflows of productivity experts

productivity

Deep Work: The Complete Guide (Including a Step-by-Step Checklist)

Saved on 2022-11-20 · blog.doist.com

How to master the #1 job skill that will never be obsolete

career productivity

Complexity Bias: Why We Overcomplicate Our Lives [comic]

Saved on 2022-11-20 · blog.doist.com

Why we prefer complex solutions over simple ones

productivity

Makers vs Managers: The Battle Over Remote Work - Ambition & Balance

Saved on 2022-11-20 · blog.doist.com

Managers want to go back to the office. Employees aren’t so sure.

career management

The Two-Minute Rule: Stop Procrastinating With This Simple Trick

Saved on 2022-11-20 · blog.doist.com

A simple technique to ensure your small tasks don’t become big headaches

productivity

I Declare To-Do List Bankruptcy! (and you should too)

Saved on 2022-11-20 · blog.doist.com

Can't see your way out of your to-do list debt? Read this.

productivity

The Sunk Cost Fallacy & Your Productivity [comic] - Doist Blog

Saved on 2022-11-20 · blog.doist.com

Why it's so hard to walk away even when it's the only rational thing to do

productivity

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up Your To-Do List

Saved on 2022-11-20 · blog.doist.com

Your to-do list should spark joy, not dread.

productivity

How to Craft the Perfect Daily Schedule (According to Science)

Saved on 2022-11-20 · blog.doist.com

Schedule your energy, not your time. And don’t forget to take breaks.

career productivity

When to Take Real-time Meetings Async

Saved on 2022-11-20 · blog.doist.com

Here's how to decide which meetings can be async threads (and which can't)

career

Virtual Networking 101: How to Network Online Like a Human

Saved on 2022-11-20 · blog.doist.com

Connect with industry peers, potential clients, and future employers without feeling super awkward

career

The Distributed Computing Manifesto | All Things Distributed

Saved on 2022-11-17 · allthingsdistributed.com

Today, I am publishing the Distributed Computing Manifesto, a canonical document from the early days of Amazon that transformed the architecture of Amazon's ecommerce platform. It highlights the challenges we were facing at the end of the 20th century, and hints at where we were

amazon architecture aws tech

The ‘Form’ Element Created the Modern Web. Was It a Big Mistake? | WIRED

Saved on 2022-11-17 · wired.com

A little HTML widget gave us all-powerful Amazon and Facebook. There's no closing Pandora's text box now.

history tech

How companies made productivity a personal problem

Saved on 2022-11-17 · async.twist.com

How the hell did finding the time and focus to do our actual jobs become an individual responsibility? And what can we do about it?

career productivity psychology

LARPing your job - by Anne Helen Petersen - Culture Study

Saved on 2022-11-17 · annehelen.substack.com

A few weeks ago, I went on one of my favorite podcasts — The Ezra Klein Show — to talk about burnout, workism, and our relationship to labor.

career productivity psychology

The Future of Remote Work is the Opposite of Lonely

Saved on 2022-11-17 · annehelen.substack.com

This is the midweek edition of Culture Study — the newsletter from Anne Helen Petersen, which you can read about here. If you like it and want more like it in your inbox, consider subscribing.

career productivity psychology

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Remember: What You Do Is Not Who You Are - The New York Times

Saved on 2022-11-17 · nytimes.com

The line between our personal lives and our work lives has all but disappeared. Make the effort to redraw it.

career psychology

Speed matters: Why working quickly is more important than it seems « the js

Saved on 2022-11-17 · jsomers.net

The obvious benefit to working quickly is that you'll finish more stuff per unit time. But there's more to it than that. If you work quickly, the cost of doing something new will seem lower in your mind. So you'll be inclined to do more. The converse is true, too. If every time y

google productivity psychology

Feeling Blah During the Pandemic? It's Called Languishing - The New York Ti

Saved on 2022-11-17 · nytimes.com

The neglected middle child of mental health can dull your motivation and focus — and it may be the dominant emotion of 2021.

psychology

The Imperfectionist: Three or four hours

Saved on 2022-11-17 · oliverburkeman.com

career productivity psychology

Engineer by Day, Venture Capitalist by Night | by Casey Caruso | Medium

Saved on 2022-11-16 · caseycaruso.medium.com

For the past three years, I have had two jobs. I work full-time as an engineer at Google and part-time as an investor at Bessemer Venture Partners. Many people have asked why I do this, how it…

career google productivity

Why the "new normal" workday should be a whole lot shorter - RescueTime

Saved on 2022-11-16 · blog.rescuetime.com

Once we get over the practical hurdles of the “new normal” there’s a deeper question to answer: How should the workday look?

career productivity psychology

Stop requiring only one assertion per unit test: Multiple assertions are fi

Saved on 2022-11-13 · stackoverflow.blog

code tech testing dotnet

Flutter vs. React Native: Which is the right cross-platform framework for y

Saved on 2022-11-13 · stackoverflow.blog

react tech

How hardware and software can maximize your flow states - Stack Overflow Bl

Saved on 2022-11-13 · stackoverflow.blog

productivity psychology tech

Privacy-friendly machine learning data sets: synthetic data - Stack Overfl

Saved on 2022-11-13 · stackoverflow.blog

data tech ai

How observability-driven development creates elite performers - Stack Overf

Saved on 2022-11-13 · stackoverflow.blog

leadership management psychology tech

How to earn a million reputation on Stack Overflow: be of service to others

Saved on 2022-11-13 · stackoverflow.blog

psychology tech

Two heads are better than one: What second brains say about how developers

Saved on 2022-11-13 · stackoverflow.blog

programming psychology tech

I spent two years trying to do what Backstage does for free - Stack Overflo

Saved on 2022-11-13 · stackoverflow.blog

psychology tech

Why the number input is the worst input - Stack Overflow Blog

Saved on 2022-11-13 · stackoverflow.blog

design security tech

The many problems with implementing Single Sign-On - Stack Overflow Blog

Saved on 2022-11-13 · stackoverflow.blog

security tech

How machine learning algorithms figure out what you should watch next - Sta

Saved on 2022-11-13 · stackoverflow.blog

algorithms tech ai

Functional programming is an ideal fit for developing blockchains - Stack O

Saved on 2022-11-13 · stackoverflow.blog

blockchain tech

Open source and accidental innovation - Stack Overflow Blog

Saved on 2022-11-13 · stackoverflow.blog

tech

Does high velocity lead to burnout? That may be the wrong question to ask.

Saved on 2022-11-13 · stackoverflow.blog

leadership management psychology tech

How to interrogate unfamiliar code - Stack Overflow Blog

Saved on 2022-11-13 · stackoverflow.blog

code programming tech

Will low and no code tools ever truly disrupt tech development? - Stack Ove

Saved on 2022-11-13 · stackoverflow.blog

code programming tech

Can you stop your open-source project from being used for evil? - Stack Ove

Saved on 2022-11-13 · stackoverflow.blog

security tech

Great engineering cultures are built on social learning communities - Stack

Saved on 2022-11-13 · stackoverflow.blog

leadership psychology tech

Skilling for success: How demand for development skills is changing - Stack

Saved on 2022-11-13 · stackoverflow.blog

leadership management tech

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Measurable and meaningful skill levels for developers - Stack Overflow Blog

Saved on 2022-11-13 · stackoverflow.blog

leadership management tech

Automate the boring parts of your job - Stack Overflow Blog

Saved on 2022-11-13 · stackoverflow.blog

productivity programming tech

Design patterns for asynchronous API communication - Stack Overflow Blog

Saved on 2022-11-13 · stackoverflow.blog

architecture design patterns tech

How observability is redefining the roles of developers - Stack Overflow Bl

Saved on 2022-11-13 · stackoverflow.blog

management programming psychology tech

C#: IEnumerable, yield return, and lazy evaluation - Stack Overflow Blog

Saved on 2022-11-13 · stackoverflow.blog

code programming tech dotnet

The Great Decentralization? Geographic shifts and where tech talent is movi

Saved on 2022-11-13 · stackoverflow.blog

leadership management psychology tech

Remote work is killing big offices. Cities must change to survive - Stack O

Saved on 2022-11-13 · stackoverflow.blog

leadership management psychology tech

Why Perl is still relevant in 2022 - Stack Overflow Blog

Saved on 2022-11-13 · stackoverflow.blog

tech

How Stack Overflow is leveling up its unit testing game - Stack Overflow Bl

Saved on 2022-11-13 · stackoverflow.blog

tech testing

Skilling up to architect: What you need to land high-paying IT roles - Stac

Saved on 2022-11-13 · stackoverflow.blog

architecture tech

The science of interviewing developers - Stack Overflow Blog

Saved on 2022-11-13 · stackoverflow.blog

interviews tech

Stack under attack: what we learned about handling DDoS attacks - Stack Ove

Saved on 2022-11-13 · stackoverflow.blog

security tech

Empathy for the Dev: Avoiding common pitfalls when communicating with devel

Saved on 2022-11-13 · stackoverflow.blog

leadership psychology tech

The robots are coming for (the boring parts of) your job - Stack Overflow B

Saved on 2022-11-13 · stackoverflow.blog

programming tech

Will chatbots ever live up to the hype? - Stack Overflow Blog

Saved on 2022-11-13 · stackoverflow.blog

tech

The complete guide to protecting your APIs with OAuth2 (part 1) - Stack Ove

Saved on 2022-11-13 · stackoverflow.blog

security tech

Why do domain names sometimes end with a dot?

Saved on 2022-11-13 · jvns.ca

tech

Amazon and the Rise of ‘Luxury Surveillance’ - The Atlantic

Saved on 2022-11-13 · theatlantic.com

Surveillance isn’t just imposed on people: Many of us buy into it willingly.

amazon history tech

The Illustrated Stable Diffusion – Jay Alammar – Visualizing machine learni

Saved on 2022-11-13 · jalammar.github.io

Translations: Chinese, Vietnamese. (V2 Nov 2022: Updated images for more precise description of forward diffusion. A few more images in this version) AI image generation is the most recent AI capability blowing people’s minds (mine included). The ability to create striking vis

tech ai

How fateful?

Saved on 2022-11-13 · chan.co.za

data history tech

JavaScript APIs You Don’t Know About — Smashing Magazine

Saved on 2022-11-13 · smashingmagazine.com

In this article, Juan Diego covers the least known yet extremely useful APIs, such as the Page Visibility API, Web Sharing API, Broadcast Channel API and Internationalization API. Together we will see what they are, where we should use them, and how to use them.

code javascript tech

The Twisted Life of Clippy | Seattle Met

Saved on 2022-11-13 · seattlemet.com

In the ’90s, Microsoft created a cartoon paperclip that it quickly retired. Its developers never imagined the virtual assistant would become a cultural icon.

history tech

State Machines II

Saved on 2022-11-13 · blog.yoshuawuyts.com

algorithms code programming tech

Why React Re-Renders

Saved on 2022-11-13 · joshwcomeau.com

In React, we don't update the DOM directly, we tell React what we want the DOM to look like, and React tackles the rest. But how exactly does it do this? In this tutorial, we'll unpack exactly when and why React re-renders, and how we can use this information to optimize the perf

code javascript react tech

Redis Explained - An in-depth tutorial

Saved on 2022-11-13 · architecturenotes.co

A deep technical dive into all things Redis. Covering various Redis topologies, data persistence and process forking.

data tech

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Interviews aren’t about you (sorry) - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2026-06-12 · stackoverflow.blog

tech interviews career psychology

You shipped it fast. But did you ship it right? - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2026-06-12 · stackoverflow.blog

tech ai code productivity performance testing

AI Outperforms Law Professors in Stanford Law Study | Stanford Law School

Saved on 2026-06-12 · law.stanford.edu

A groundbreaking study led by Stanford Law School Professor Julian Nyarko reveals that law professors overwhelmingly prefer AI-generated answers to st

tech ai

If Data Centers Are So Great, Why Are They Being Built in Secret?

Saved on 2026-06-12 · thebrockovichreport.com

We Have A Transparency Problem When It Comes To Data Center Construction

tech ai politics

Guidelines for Respectful Use of AI

Saved on 2026-06-10 · skamille.medium.com

As companies adopt AI tools, a lot of time is spent on thinking about AI policies from a security, compliance, or even cost-focused angle…

ai programming tech code

Using AI to write better code more slowly

Saved on 2026-06-09 · nolanlawson.com

A lot of people seem convinced that the point of AI coding is to write low-quality code as fast as possible. Spew out barely-passable slop, open massive PRs, and merge them unvetted. Ship it! But t…

tech ai programming productivity code

Agents on a leash: Agentic AI remains mostly single-agent and monitored at work - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2026-06-09 · stackoverflow.blog

ai tech programming

In an AI world, the most valuable developers will be both artisans and builders - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2026-06-09 · stackoverflow.blog

history tech ai programming

The Cost of Safetyism

Saved on 2026-06-09 · stevemagness.substack.com

What we lost when we stopped letting kids leave the front yard.

history psychology

The Cognitive Shortcut Paradox

Saved on 2026-06-08 · oreilly.com

This article is part of a series on the Sens-AI Framework—practical habits for learning and coding with AI.AI gives novice developers the ability to skip

programming tech ai

The Rise of the 'Brogrammer'

Saved on 2026-06-08 · web.archive.org

programming tech

The Eternal Sloptember

Saved on 2026-06-04 · geohot.github.io

I’m calling it now, the adoption of AI agents into software development will be one of the most costly mistakes in the field’s history. Agents cannot program, and it’s taking longer and longer to realize that they can’t. They are a highly sophisticated statistical model designed

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Everything in C is undefined behavior

Saved on 2026-06-03 · blog.habets.se

If he had been a programmer, Cardinal Richelieu would have said “Give me six lines written by the hand of the most expert C programmer in the world, and I wi...

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Taking a walk may lead to more creativity than sitting, study finds

Saved on 2026-06-03 · apa.org

“We wanted to see if a simple walk might lead to more free-flowing thoughts and more creativity.”

psychology health productivity science

“You can't vibe code scale”: What the AI hype gets wrong about software engineering - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2026-06-03 · stackoverflow.blog

programming tech ai

Coding agents are giving everyone decision fatigue - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2026-06-03 · stackoverflow.blog

programming tech ai productivity

Dispatches from O'Reilly: The accidental orchestrator - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2026-06-03 · stackoverflow.blog

programming tech ai

What is Date::ITALY?

Saved on 2026-05-26 · aesthetikx.info

Exploring the Date::ITALY Ruby constant, Julian day numbers, and the history of the Gregorian calendar switchover.

programming code tech history

Three Inverse Laws of AI - Susam Pal

Saved on 2026-05-26 · susam.net

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The bottleneck was never the code

Saved on 2026-05-26 · thetypicalset.com

The other month I finally ran an experiment we had been postponing for over a year at .txt.

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James Shore: You Need AI That Reduces Maintenance Costs

Saved on 2026-05-22 · jamesshore.com

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The Unreal book of tips - The Unreal book of tips

Saved on 2026-05-18 · craftedcart.gitlab.io

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Agentic Coding is a Trap | Lars Faye

Saved on 2026-05-12 · larsfaye.com

Remaining vigilant about cognitive debt and atrophy.

programming tech code ai productivity

What Can We Gain by Losing Infinity? | Quanta Magazine

Saved on 2026-05-09 · quantamagazine.org

Ultrafinitism, a philosophy that rejects the infinite, has long been dismissed as mathematical heresy. But it is also producing new insights in math and beyond.

maths science

Introducing talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930

Saved on 2026-05-09 · talkie-lm.com

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Don’t call it a comeback: Why Java is still champ · GitHub

Saved on 2022-11-13 · github.com

Java has been declared dead many times—and yet, it’s still going strong, undergoing what some might call a renaissance from both a technology and ecosystem perspective. Learn more on The ReadME Pro...

programming tech

DOC • A brief history of the numeric keypad

Saved on 2022-11-13 · doc.cc

Picture the keypad of a telephone and calculator side by side. Can you see the subtle difference between the two without resorting to your smartphone? Don’t worry if you can’t recall the design. Most of us are so used to accepting the common interfaces that we tend to overlook th

history tech

React key attribute: best practices for performant lists

Saved on 2022-11-13 · developerway.com

Looking into how React "key" attribute works, how to use it correctly, how to improve performance of lists with it, and why array index as key is a good idea sometimes

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How FedEx Influenced the React Logo — Maykel Loomans

Saved on 2022-11-13 · maykelloomans.com

Personal website of Maykel Loomans, a digital product designer from the Netherlands.

design tech

Faster JavaScript Builds with Metro | by Rae Liu | The Airbnb Tech Blog | M

Saved on 2022-11-13 · medium.com

How Airbnb migrated from Webpack to Metro and made the development feedback loop nearly instantaneous, the largest production build 50% faster, with marginal end-user runtime improvements. In 2018…

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Things You Should Know About Databases

Saved on 2022-11-13 · architecturenotes.co

How Relational Databases Work. This post talks about how indexes and transactions work on the inside of relational databases.

database tech

The Best Managers Don’t Fix, They Coach — Four Tools to Add to Your Toolkit

Saved on 2022-11-13 · review.firstround.com

Anita Hossain Choudhry (The Grand, First Round) and Mindy Zhang (Dropbox, Oscar Health) draw on their experiences as executive coaches to unpack why managers fall into the “fixing” trap and make the case for adding coaching as a skill.

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How far behind a plane is its noise? · Caffeinspiration

Saved on 2022-11-13 · alexanderell.is

If you’re ever near a relatively low flying airplane, you may have noticed that it sounds like it’s in a different spot in the sky than where it actually is. You can hear the loud engines, and your ears tell you it should be in one place, but your eyes tell you it’s clearly well

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Using WebAssembly (created in Rust) for Fast React Components | www.joshfin

Saved on 2022-11-13 · joshfinnie.com

In this blog post we will learn how to leverage the Rust programming language to compile WebAssembly which we will then use in our React application. This gives us access to low-level components to speed up our code!

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Writing a simple 16 bit VM in less than 125 lines of C | andreinc

Saved on 2022-11-13 · andreinc.net

Writing a simple VM for LC3 in less than 125 lines of C

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How not to learn TypeScript

Saved on 2022-11-13 · fettblog.eu

“TypeScript and I are never going to be friends”. Oh wow, how often have I heard this phrase? Learning TypeScript, even in 2022, can be frustrating it seems. And for so many different reasons. People who write Java or C# and find out things are working differently than they shoul

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Trailing Slashes on URLs: Contentious or Settled?—zachleat.com

Saved on 2022-11-13 · zachleat.com

A post by Zach Leatherman (zachleat)

code tech

Pay attention to WebAssembly | Harshal Sheth

Saved on 2022-11-13 · harshal.sheth.io

Read in Japanese thanks to the folks at POSTD.

programming tech

Yet Another Hot Take on "Folders versus Tags"

Saved on 2022-11-13 · obsidianroundup.org

Ye Olde Obsidian Resources page, courtsey of the Obsidian Roundup, which is currently experiencing my (annual?) DNS glitches. If you are looking for past editions of the Roundup, I highly recommend checking them out on the hub: 🗂️ Obsidian Roundup - Obsidian Hub - Obsidian Publi

product tech

Anatomy of a JWT - FusionAuth

Saved on 2022-11-13 · fusionauth.io

Technical article explains JSON Web Tokens (JWT), their component parts, and how they are used for authentication.

security tech

How sharding a database can make it faster - Stack Overflow Blog

Saved on 2022-11-13 · stackoverflow.blog

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New data: What makes developers happy at work - Stack Overflow Blog

Saved on 2022-11-13 · stackoverflow.blog

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Rewriting Bash scripts in Go using black box testing - Stack Overflow Blog

Saved on 2022-11-13 · stackoverflow.blog

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Stop aggregating away the signal in your data - Stack Overflow Blog

Saved on 2022-11-13 · stackoverflow.blog

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What you give up when moving into engineering management - Stack Overflow B

Saved on 2022-11-13 · stackoverflow.blog

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Work estimates must account for friction - Stack Overflow Blog

Saved on 2022-11-13 · stackoverflow.blog

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The three top-paying tech roles in 2022 and the skills you need to land the

Saved on 2022-11-13 · stackoverflow.blog

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The complete beginners guide to dynamic programming - Stack Overflow Blog

Saved on 2022-11-13 · stackoverflow.blog

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Psychological safety is critical for high-performing teams - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2022-11-13 · stackoverflow.blog

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Plan for tradeoffs: You can’t optimize all software quality attributes - St

Saved on 2022-11-13 · stackoverflow.blog

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The Great Resignation is here. What does that mean for developers? - Stack

Saved on 2022-11-13 · stackoverflow.blog

career tech

Favor real dependencies for unit testing - Stack Overflow Blog

Saved on 2022-11-13 · stackoverflow.blog

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Don’t push that button: Exploring the software that flies SpaceX rockets an

Saved on 2022-11-13 · stackoverflow.blog

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What I wish I had known about single page applications - Stack Overflow Blo

Saved on 2022-11-13 · stackoverflow.blog

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Best practices can slow your application down - Stack Overflow Blog

Saved on 2022-11-13 · stackoverflow.blog

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New data: What developers look for in future job opportunities - Stack Over

Saved on 2022-11-13 · stackoverflow.blog

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Smashing bugs to set a world record: AWS BugBust - Stack Overflow Blog

Saved on 2022-11-13 · stackoverflow.blog

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The four engineering metrics that will streamline your software delivery -

Saved on 2022-11-13 · stackoverflow.blog

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You should be reading academic computer science papers - Stack Overflow Blo

Saved on 2022-11-13 · stackoverflow.blog

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Comparing Go vs. C in embedded applications - Stack Overflow Blog

Saved on 2022-11-13 · stackoverflow.blog

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Does ES6 make JavaScript frameworks obsolete? - Stack Overflow Blog

Saved on 2022-11-13 · stackoverflow.blog

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Why SOLID principles are still the foundation for modern software architect

Saved on 2022-11-13 · stackoverflow.blog

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Photoshop's journey to the web

Saved on 2022-11-13 · web.dev

Over the last three years, Chrome has been working to empower web applications that want to push the boundaries of what's possible in the browser. One such web application has been Photoshop. The idea of running software as complex as Photoshop directly in the browser would h

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Strong teams are more than just connected, they are communities - Stack Ove

Saved on 2022-11-13 · stackoverflow.blog

career programming tech

Microsoft's Rich Signature (undocumented)

Saved on 2022-11-13 · ntcore.com

code programming tech

Code quality: a concern for businesses, bottom lines, and empathetic progra

Saved on 2022-11-13 · stackoverflow.blog

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The Case for 'Developer Experience' | Future

Saved on 2022-11-13 · future.com

How are developers supposed to manage and coordinate fast-moving, heterogeneous systems including maintenance & operations — and free themselves to build?

career programming tech

Big O Notation as a Mid-Level Developer Who Has Been Avoiding It Since Boot

Saved on 2022-11-13 · dev.to

At the beginning of this year, I was promoted to intermediate developer 🎊 At your company, that...

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Why solve a problem twice? Design patterns let you apply existing solutions

Saved on 2022-11-13 · stackoverflow.blog

code programming tech

Best practices for REST API security: Authentication and authorization - St

Saved on 2022-11-13 · stackoverflow.blog

programming tech

Extracting text from any file is harder than it looks. Extracting formattin

Saved on 2022-11-13 · stackoverflow.blog

programming tech

I completely ignored the front end development scene for 6 months. It was f

Saved on 2022-11-13 · rachsmith.com

I've learnt I don't need to keep up with the hectic pace of Front End development news.

career javascript tech

Scaling front end design with a design system - Stack Overflow Blog

Saved on 2022-11-13 · stackoverflow.blog

design tech

Why are hyperlinks blue?

Saved on 2022-11-13 · blog.mozilla.org

We took a deep dive into the history of interfaces and link designs over the years to track down the origin of the blue link we know today.

history tech

Pandemic lockdowns accelerated cloud migration by three to four years - Sta

Saved on 2022-11-13 · stackoverflow.blog

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Decoding AVIF: Deep dive with cats and imgproxy—Martian Chronicles, Evil Ma

Saved on 2022-11-13 · evilmartians.com

It is time to talk seriously about AVIF, how it is different from predecessors, and how to start using it for web images today with the help of dead-simple and reliable self-hosted image converter from Evil Martians

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Does shadow DOM improve style performance? | Read the Tea Leaves

Saved on 2022-11-13 · nolanlawson.com

Update: I wrote a follow-up post on this topic. Short answer: Kinda. It depends. And it might not be enough to make a big difference in the average web app. But it’s worth understanding why. …

code javascript performance programming

Diagnose engineering process failures with data visualization - Stack Overf

Saved on 2022-11-13 · stackoverflow.blog

programming tech

You’re living in the Metaverse, you just don’t know it yet. - Stack Overflo

Saved on 2022-11-13 · stackoverflow.blog

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Using stretch work assignments to help engineers grow - Stack Overflow Blog

Saved on 2022-11-13 · stackoverflow.blog

career tech

How We Design Our APIs at Slack - Slack Engineering

Saved on 2022-11-13 · slack.engineering

More than five years ago, we launched the Slack Platform, giving developers an easy way to build apps in Slack and publish them in our App Directory. Today, millions of users bring their work into Slack, and those apps built by over 885,000 active developers on the platform are k

programming tech

The strange domain names that developers bought - Stack Overflow Blog

Saved on 2022-11-13 · stackoverflow.blog

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How writing can advance your career as a developer - Stack Overflow Blog

Saved on 2022-11-13 · stackoverflow.blog

career tech

700,000 lines of code, 20 years, and one developer: How Dwarf Fortress is b

Saved on 2022-11-13 · stackoverflow.blog

code programming tech

How to Help Developers Work in The Flow - DEV Community ?‍??‍?

Saved on 2022-11-13 · dev.to

Developer’s job is one of the most mentally demanding jobs. Developers work with complex algorithms,...

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The unexpected benefits of mentoring others - Stack Overflow Blog

Saved on 2022-11-13 · stackoverflow.blog

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Best practices for writing code comments - Stack Overflow Blog

Saved on 2022-11-13 · stackoverflow.blog

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What makes a great IT consultant – and how you can become one - Stack Overf

Saved on 2022-11-13 · stackoverflow.blog

career tech

Can InnerSource bring open source practices to closed corporate bureaucraci

Saved on 2022-11-13 · stackoverflow.blog

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History of the Web: Part 1

Saved on 2022-11-13 · matthewgerstman.com

Today I'm going to share twenty years of context on the web. We'll talk about how the web evolved into what we have today, and why it makes building web applications so hard in 2021.

history tech

Using low-code tools to iterate products faster - Stack Overflow Blog

Saved on 2022-11-13 · stackoverflow.blog

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Things your manager might not know

Saved on 2022-11-13 · jvns.ca

career leadership tech

How developers can be their own operations department - Stack Overflow Blog

Saved on 2022-11-13 · stackoverflow.blog

devops tech

Access broader knowledge with Unified Search - Stack Overflow Blog

Saved on 2022-11-13 · stackoverflow.blog

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Accelerating Stack Overflow’s transformation - Stack Overflow Blog

Saved on 2022-11-13 · stackoverflow.blog

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How often do people actually copy and paste from Stack Overflow? Now we kno

Saved on 2022-11-13 · stackoverflow.blog

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What international tech recruitment looks like post-COVID-19 - Stack Overfl

Saved on 2022-11-13 · stackoverflow.blog

career tech

A look under the hood: how branches work in Git - Stack Overflow Blog

Saved on 2022-11-13 · stackoverflow.blog

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Forget Moore’s Law. Algorithms drive technology forward - Stack Overflow Bl

Saved on 2022-11-13 · stackoverflow.blog

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“This should never happen. If it does, call the developers.” - Stack Overfl

Saved on 2022-11-13 · stackoverflow.blog

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Digital Minimalism and the Radical Power of Unplugging

Saved on 2022-11-11 · blog.doist.com

What Cal Newport can (and can't) teach us about digitally decluttering our lives

productivity tech

The Bill Gates Line – Stratechery by Ben Thompson

Saved on 2022-11-07 · stratechery.com

Understanding the differences between aggregators and platforms matters for companies interacting with them and also regulators considering antitrust.

apple google product tech

The Moat Map – Stratechery by Ben Thompson

Saved on 2022-11-07 · stratechery.com

The Moat Map describes the correlation between the degree of supplier differentiation and the externalization (or internalization) of a company’s network effect.

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Tech’s Two Philosophies – Stratechery by Ben Thompson

Saved on 2022-11-07 · stratechery.com

Google and Facebook represent one philosophy, and Microsoft and Apple represent another; tech needs both, but ultimately platforms are more important than aggregators.

google product tech

Platforms (and dogfood) everywhere | Kislay Verma

Saved on 2022-10-30 · kislayverma.com

How to discover opportunities for building platforms in any business problem

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A Reverse Engineer’s Perspective on the Boeing 787 ‘51 days’ Airworthiness

Saved on 2022-10-19 · ioactive.com

Uncover the implications of hacking a Boeing 787 as we analyze recent FAA directives and aviation technology concepts.

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How to Develop Your Talent Stack

Saved on 2022-10-16 · dev.to

A breakdown of how to be extraordinary by building your talent stack.

career productivity programming tech

Building A Discord Bot Using Discord.js — Smashing Magazine

Saved on 2022-10-16 · smashingmagazine.com

An introduction to building a Discord bot using the Discord.js module. The bot will share random jokes, assign or revoke user roles, and post tweets of a specific account to a Discord channel. In this article, Subha Chanda will showu you how to build a bot from scratch using Java

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The pros and cons of being a software engineer at a BIG tech company - Stac

Saved on 2022-10-16 · stackoverflow.blog

career tech

Microprocessor's Romance With Negative Integers – The How and Why of CPU Ar

Saved on 2022-10-16 · freecodecamp.org

By Vivek Agrawal One of the first things we learn about computers is that they only understand 0s and 1s, or bits. We humans, on the other hand, communicate numbers via the decimal system. This system uses digits from 0 to 9 along with plus and minu...

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I followed my dreams and got demoted to software developer - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2022-10-16 · stackoverflow.blog

career tech

Why are video calls so tiring? You might have opposing cultural styles - St

Saved on 2022-10-16 · stackoverflow.blog

psychology tech

Choosing Java instead of C for low-latency systems - Stack Overflow Blog

Saved on 2022-10-16 · stackoverflow.blog

programming tech

E-mail Is Making Us Miserable | The New Yorker

Saved on 2022-10-16 · newyorker.com

Cal Newport writes about the history of e-mail as a form of mass communication, and the ways in which it has proved an ineffective tool both for our working and personal lives—an excerpt from his forthcoming book, “A World Without Email.”

psychology tech

Looking back on Software Development in 2020 and forward to 2021 - Scott Ha

Saved on 2022-10-16 · hanselman.com

I think we can all agree 2020 sucked. Hopefully 2021 will be better. I've been ...

career programming tech

The Algebra of Wealth | No Mercy / No Malice

Saved on 2022-10-16 · profgalloway.com

The news of the (second) impeachment seems strangely pedestrian after the blowtorch intensity of Reddit vs. The Hedge Funds. The good news is that the hedge funds didn’t conspire with market makers and trading apps to suppress a (warranted) generational revolution. The inevitable

finance

A Realistic Guide to Time Management

Saved on 2022-10-16 · blog.doist.com

Managing your time well isn't just about getting more done

productivity

How to Move Your Team Toward Async-First Communication

Saved on 2022-10-16 · blog.doist.com

Advice for team leaders and team members who want to bring more calm, focused productivity to the workplace

productivity

Why It's So Hard to Focus at Work (Hint: It's not you, it's your workplace)

Saved on 2022-10-16 · blog.doist.com

Few companies invest in protecting their most valuable asset — their team’s attention.

productivity

The productivity tax you pay for context switching

Saved on 2022-10-16 · async.twist.com

Every time you switch between apps and tasks, you leave a little bit of your attention behind. Here's what you can do about it...

productivity

It's Time to Re-Examine the Office-Serendipity Theory of Innovation

Saved on 2022-10-16 · blog.doist.com

One of the biggest concerns about remote work is that there's no more chance encounters. But is that really what drives innovation?

productivity

Productivity Shame: How To Stop Feeling Like You Haven't Done 'Enough'

Saved on 2022-10-16 · blog.doist.com

5 strategies to end the cycle of "never enough"

productivity

How to Make Your Business Writing Readable (With Real-Life Examples)

Saved on 2022-10-16 · blog.doist.com

Steal these data-backed marketing tricks of the trade to improve your memos, emails, messages, and more

productivity

How to (Actually) Read More Books in 2022

Saved on 2022-10-16 · blog.doist.com

Lessons learned tripling the number of books I read last year

productivity

How to Plan Your Day: The Complete Guide to Everyday Productivity

Saved on 2022-10-16 · blog.doist.com

The 10-minute productivity practice for achieving more in work and life

productivity

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5 Unconventional Goal Setting Methods to Achieve What You Want in 2021

Saved on 2022-10-16 · blog.doist.com

Traditional goal setting didn’t work for you last year? Try on something new...

productivity

Performance Improvements in .NET 7 - .NET Blog

Saved on 2022-09-02 · devblogs.microsoft.com

.NET 7 is fast. Really fast. This post deep-dives into hundreds of performance improvements that contributed to that reality.

code programming tech

Build your own React

Saved on 2022-08-24 · pomb.us

We are going to rewrite React from scratch. Step by step. Following the architecture from the real React code but without all the…

code javascript programming tech

Software Engineering is different from Programming | by Samer Buna | EdgeCo

Saved on 2022-08-23 · medium.com

Some people don’t like the term Software Engineer because of the engineering metaphor. This article is not about that term. If you don’t like it you can substitute it with Software Author, Software…

programming tech

A Teenager’s View on Social Media | by Andrew Watts | Backchannel | Medium

Saved on 2022-08-22 · medium.com

I read technology articles quite often and see plenty of authors attempt to dissect or describe the teenage audience, especially in regards to social media. However, I have yet to see a teenager…

psychology tech

Kernels 101 – Let’s write a Kernel - Arjun Sreedharan

Saved on 2022-08-22 · arjunsreedharan.org

Hello World, Let us write a simple kernel which could be loaded with the GRUB bootloader on an x86 system. This kernel will display a message on the screen and then hang. How does an x86 machine...

code programming tech

The Great Works of Software | by Paul Ford | The Message | Medium

Saved on 2022-08-22 · medium.com

Is it possible to propose a software canon? To enumerate great works of software that are deeply influential—that changed the nature of the code that followed? Canons emerge over time, as certain…

programming tech

An Entirely Other Day: The Back-Logged Life

Saved on 2022-08-22 · eod.com

tech

James Shore: Epilogue

Saved on 2022-08-22 · jamesshore.com

agile tech

James Shore: Week Nineteen

Saved on 2022-08-22 · jamesshore.com

agile tech

James Shore: Week Eighteen

Saved on 2022-08-22 · jamesshore.com

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James Shore: Week Seventeen: Thursday

Saved on 2022-08-22 · jamesshore.com

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James Shore: Week Seventeen: Wednesday

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James Shore: Week Sixteen

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James Shore: Week Fifteen

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James Shore: Week Eleven: Thursday

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James Shore: Week Eleven: Tuesday

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James Shore: Week Eleven: Monday

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James Shore: Week Ten

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James Shore: Week Nine: Tuesday

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James Shore: Week Nine: Monday

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James Shore: Week Eight: Wednesday

Saved on 2022-08-22 · jamesshore.com

agile tech

James Shore: Weeks One Through Eight

Saved on 2022-08-22 · jamesshore.com

agile tech

James Shore: Introduction

Saved on 2022-08-22 · jamesshore.com

agile tech

Video Games Are Boring | GamesIndustry.biz

Saved on 2022-08-21 · gamesindustry.biz

Video games are bigger than movies. Everyone's a gamer. I've devoted my life-no exaggeration-to video games for 14 year…

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The Descent to C

Saved on 2022-04-27 · chiark.greenend.org.uk

code programming tech

“Diversity of Thought” without Diverse Representation is Status Quo | by Mi

Saved on 2021-05-19 · medium.com

At some point along our journey, some of us seem to have lost the core purpose of Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity. In the last 2–3 years, I’ve observed the phrase “Diversity of Thought” gain…

career psychology tech

.net - I'm lost. What happened to ASP.NET MVC 5? - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2021-05-19 · stackoverflow.com

programming tech dotnet

Making better, faster decisions that are good enough for now | by Bonnie Sl

Saved on 2021-05-19 · medium.com

For the past year, I’ve been lucky enough to work on a big technology project at Xero, where I spend much of my time supporting the leadership team. But it didn’t take long for me to realise that…

leadership psychology tech

Why do we buy into the 'cult' of overwork? - BBC Worklife

Saved on 2021-05-10 · bbc.com

Overwork culture is thriving; we think of long hours and constant exhaustion as a marker of success. Given what we know about burnout, why do we do give in?

psychology tech

Domain, Subdomain, Bounded Context, Problem/Solution Space in DDD: Clearly

Saved on 2021-04-27 · medium.com

Domain-Driven Design is an approach to designing systems, usually software, that emphasises creating a common language between domain experts and system builders. Famous DDD principles include Use a…

architecture microservices tech

Domain Services: The Next (small) Evolution of Microservices | by Nick Tune

Saved on 2021-04-27 · medium.com

The microservices era has been good for software architecture. I remember when the idea of multiple databases was punishable by death. But, the over-focus on micro has detracted from the true…

architecture microservices tech

Signal Blog Exploiting vulnerabilities in Cellebrite UFED and Physica

Saved on 2021-04-27 · signal.org

Cellebrite makes software to automate physically extracting and indexing data from mobile devices. They exist within the grey – where enterprise branding joins together with the larcenous to be called “digital intelligence.” Their customer list has included authoritarian regimes

security tech

The UX on this Small Child Is Terrible - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency

Saved on 2021-04-12 · mcsweeneys.net

Not only am I VP of Reproduction for this household, but I’ve also been the end-user of this Small Child for over three years now. I’m going to giv...

design tech

Slack’s Jan 2021 outage: a tale of saturation – Surfing Complexity

Saved on 2021-04-11 · surfingcomplexity.blog

Laura Nolan of Slack recently published an excellent write-up of their Jan. 4, 2021 outage on Slack’s engineering blog. One of the things that struck me about this writeup is the contributing facto…

tech

Handling rejected promises in React with an error boundary – eddiewould.com

Saved on 2021-04-11 · eddiewould.com

Treat unhandled promise rejections (exceptions in async code) consistently with regular synchronous exceptions in React.

code javascript programming tech

How to build organizational resilience – Increment: Reliability

Saved on 2021-04-02 · increment.com

By encoding resilience into an organization’s culture, engineering teams can be better equipped to tackle the unknown and unexpected.

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Demystifying Product Strategy. Product Strategy has been a significant… | b

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Product Strategy has been a significant part of most companies and particularly holds a special place in the tech industry, where the strategy takes many different paths and flavours. We will look…

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How to become a grandmaster of your own career | by Jenks Guo | Humans of X

Saved on 2021-04-02 · medium.com

It was another quiet night in lockdown, well past the city curfew. But my wife and I were awake and staring at the coffee table. There was silence in the living room and the tension was palpable. You…

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Resilience engineering: Where do I start? - Resilience Engineering Associat

Saved on 2021-04-02 · resilience-engineering-association.org

Originally published by Lorin Hochstein This an introductory guide to readings in resilience engineering. Key papers are organized into themes: What is resilience? Changing perspectives […]

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The human side of AI for chess - Microsoft Research

Saved on 2021-03-02 · microsoft.com

Researchers at Microsoft, University of Toronto, and Cornell University have created new chess AI that better matches human play at various skill levels. Learn how Maia, a custom chess engine, predicts individual players’ moves with up to 75% accuracy when personalized.

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The real thing: my battle to beat a 27-year Diet Coke addiction | Soft drin

Saved on 2021-03-02 · theguardian.com

I have been obsessed with the sugar-free soda since I was four, spending £500 a year on up to seven cans a day. This is what happened when I tried to quit

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Why It’s Not Too Late to Learn New Skills | The New Yorker

Saved on 2021-03-02 · newyorker.com

You missed your chance to be a prodigy, but there’s still growth left for grownups, Margaret Talbot writes.

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How to run VS Code as a Container for Remote Development - DEV Community

Saved on 2021-03-02 · dev.to

Launch your own Code Server container with preloaded dev tools (SDKs, npm packages, CLIs etc) for an...

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HTML and CSS still isn’t about painting with code | Christian Heilmann

Saved on 2021-03-02 · christianheilmann.com

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Build, compile, run: A crash course in classpaths - DEV Community

Saved on 2021-02-25 · dev.to

Wherein we learn about the various classpaths important in building and running your Java/Kotlin/Android projects

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Creating a pomodoro app with open-source tools — Imre

Saved on 2021-02-25 · buymeacoffee.com

Post by Imre Gera

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Cypress vs Selenium vs Playwright vs Puppeteer speed comparison | Checkly b

Saved on 2021-02-25 · blog.checklyhq.com

How does Cypress compare to Puppeteer, Playwright, WebDriverIO, and Selenium, speed-wise? We ran our own benchmark to find out.

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The future of work is written – Increment: Remote

Saved on 2021-02-25 · increment.com

Exploring the opportunities of asynchronous communication and the (conscientiously) written word.

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'Why Do I Spend Weeks Avoiding Tasks That Will Take Me 10 Minutes to Do?'

Saved on 2021-02-25 · vice.com

Procrastinating has less to do with time management and more to do with mood management.

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Why the iPhone Timer App displays a Fake Time

Saved on 2021-02-25 · lukashermann.dev

While building a timer app I came across a peculiarity with displaying time and found out that the iPhone timer addresses it by showing you a fake time.

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Learn to program BASIC with a Twitter bot - Stack Overflow Blog

Saved on 2021-02-23 · stackoverflow.blog

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Things You Can Do With CSS Today — Smashing Magazine

Saved on 2021-02-23 · smashingmagazine.com

The present and future of CSS are very bright indeed and if you take a pragmatic, progressive approach to your CSS, then things will continue to get better and better on your projects, too. Some of the really handy powers CSS gives you might have slipped you by, so in this articl

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How to Find the Nth Prime Number - STEM hash

Saved on 2021-02-23 · stemhash.com

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Why scientists are turning to Rust

Saved on 2021-02-23 · nature.com

Despite having a steep learning curve, the programming language offers speed and safety.

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Super Optimised Static Sites

Saved on 2021-02-23 · jacobdoescode.com

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How to stand out as a ThoughtWorks candidate | ThoughtWorks

Saved on 2021-02-23 · thoughtworks.com

We’re intentional about hiring at Thoughtworks. We’re so intentional, in fact, that we made an entire program dedicated to it—Joy of Interviewing, or JOI for short—and everyone involved with interviewing goes through it. We strongly believe that interviewing can be equal parts ch

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[Career Pathways] Slow down, listen to the people around you, and take the

Saved on 2021-02-22 · thoughtworks.com

In our series ‘Career Pathways’, we share inspiring, real-life stories from Thoughtworkers on how they began their career in technology, lessons they learnt along the way, and how their journey at Thoughtworks has enabled their career as technologists. Name: Effy EldenJoined Th

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Is work the right getaway from private problems?

Saved on 2021-02-22 · welcometothejungle.com

Feeling good at work can save us from feeling bad at home. But there is a thin line between enjoying work and becoming a workaholic.

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Lack of Psychological Safety at Boeing - IT Revolution

Saved on 2021-02-09 · itrevolution.com

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How my military service helped me thrive in a corporate career | by Josh An

Saved on 2021-02-08 · medium.com

I decided to join the military during my second year of college, right after 9/11. I spent that summer working for the Bureau of Land Management, doing backcountry survey expeditions in Wyoming. I…

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Null-tracking, or the difference between union and sum types

Saved on 2021-02-05 · blog.waleedkhan.name

Functional programming features have been making their way into mainstreamlanguages lately, such as with new programming languages like Scala and Rust, ornew...

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Cold Paths - Tim Kellogg

Saved on 2021-02-05 · timkellogg.me

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'Revenge Bedtime Procrastination' Is Real, According to Psychologists | Gla

Saved on 2021-02-03 · glamour.com

Revenge bedtime procrastination is the phenomenon where you stubbornly stay up late for no reason because you feel like you didn't get any time to yourself.

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Benefitting from bugs. Fix the product, but fix your… | by Adam Howard | Hu

Saved on 2021-02-01 · medium.com

Sometimes, bugs happen. We’d prefer they didn’t, of course. But they always will. What matters most is how we react to them. That reaction has two key elements: fixing the bug, and fixing the…

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New campaign targeting security researchers

Saved on 2021-02-01 · blog.google

Details on an ongoing campaign, which we attribute to a government-backed entity based in North Korea, targeting security researchers working on vulnerability research and development.

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A deeper dive into our May 2019 security incident - Stack Overflow Blog

Saved on 2021-02-01 · stackoverflow.blog

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Cannes: How ML saves us $1.7M a year on document previews - Dropbox

Saved on 2021-02-01 · dropbox.tech

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A comprehensive survey of Product Management – Issue 57 - Lenny's Newslette

Saved on 2021-02-01 · lennysnewsletter.com

What’s the product manager role like at different companies?

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How we built the GitHub globe - The GitHub Blog

Saved on 2021-01-23 · github.blog

GitHub is where the world builds software. More than 56 million developers around the world build and work together on GitHub. With our new homepage, we wanted to show how…

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When is no-code useful? | linus.coffee

Saved on 2021-01-23 · linus.coffee

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Guidelines for choosing React Libraries — Max Rozen

Saved on 2021-01-23 · maxrozen.com

There are a *lot* of React libraries out there. So how do you pick which one to use in your app? This article provides guidelines for choosing.

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The semantic future of the web - Stack Overflow Blog

Saved on 2021-01-23 · stackoverflow.blog

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Does your organization need a developer evangelist? - Stack Overflow Blog

Saved on 2021-01-23 · stackoverflow.blog

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What are SQL Joins? Types of SQL joins explained - DEV Community

Saved on 2021-01-23 · dev.to

This article was written by Christina Kopecky and was originally published at Educative, Inc. Str...

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Please stop using CDNs for external Javascript libraries – Terence Eden’s B

Saved on 2021-01-23 · shkspr.mobi

I want to discuss a (minor) antipattern that I think is (slightly) harmful. Lots of websites use large Javascript libraries. They often include them by using a 3rd party Content Delivery Network like so: HTML There are, supposedly, a couple of advantages to doing things this

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Old is Solid; New Gets Talked About | CSS-Tricks

Saved on 2021-01-23 · css-tricks.com

When Chris asked me to write about "one thing I learned about building websites this year" I admit my brain immediately went through a list of techniques and

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The Rules of Margin Collapse

Saved on 2021-01-23 · joshwcomeau.com

“Margin collapse” has a dastardly reputation, one of the trickier parts of CSS. Fortunately, it gets a lot easier once you learn a few rules! In this tutorial, we take a deep dive into the governing principles, and learn how to use them to our advantage.

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The Perfect Dark Mode — Sreetam Das

Saved on 2021-01-23 · sreetamdas.com

How hard can implementing the perfect dark mode be? A journey through blocking scripts, IIFEs, CSS variables and much more.

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Why it's good for users that HTML, CSS and JS are separate languages

Saved on 2021-01-23 · hidde.blog

A response to an idea to merge HTML, CSS and JavaScript into one language.

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What's so great about Go? - Stack Overflow Blog

Saved on 2021-01-23 · stackoverflow.blog

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Communities and Connections will power our growth in 2021 - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2021-01-23 · stackoverflow.blog

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The macro problem with microservices - Stack Overflow Blog

Saved on 2021-01-23 · stackoverflow.blog

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Square’s Growth Framework for Engineers and Engineering Managers | Square C

Saved on 2021-01-20 · developer.squareup.com

A system for leveling up at Square

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Meet Face ID and Touch ID for the Web | WebKit

Saved on 2021-01-17 · webkit.org

People often see passwords are the original sin of authentication on the web.

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Generating Social Sharing Images In Eleventy - DEV Community

Saved on 2021-01-16 · dev.to

Standing on the shoulders of giants makes it possible to generate social sharing images for your static site with very little code.

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Spotify Music Taste Analysis Project | by baileigh cordice | CodingBlackFem

Saved on 2021-01-16 · medium.com

There aren’t enough words in the English language to describe how different my two friends (Elizabeth and Maya) music tastes are. This made me wonder a few things: In this article, I will be…

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Let's stop fooling ourselves. What we call CI/CD is actually only CI. - DEV

Saved on 2021-01-16 · dev.to

We all need CD but only a few chosen ones can have it.

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If not SPAs, What? - macwright.com

Saved on 2021-01-15 · macwright.com

Trends trends trends!

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goldbergyoni/nodebestpractices: The Node.js best practices list (January 20

Saved on 2021-01-15 · github.com

:white_check_mark: The Node.js best practices list (July 2024) - goldbergyoni/nodebestpractices

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How to communicate more deliberately and efficiently when working remotely

Saved on 2021-01-15 · stackoverflow.blog

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How to lead with clarity and empathy in the remote world - Stack Overflow B

Saved on 2021-01-15 · stackoverflow.blog

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Making the most of your one-on-one with your manager or other leadership -

Saved on 2021-01-15 · stackoverflow.blog

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Tips to stay focused and finish your hobby project - Stack Overflow Blog

Saved on 2021-01-15 · stackoverflow.blog

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Clamp | Utopia

Saved on 2021-01-15 · utopia.fyi

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Out of the Matrix: Early Days of the Web (1991)

Saved on 2021-01-14 · danielkehoe.com

30 years ago, the web emerged from the Matrix to change the world. But have we forgotten its original vision? Daniel Kehoe recalls the early days of the web.

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What’s Wrong With Comic Sans?

Saved on 2021-01-14 · thecut.com

It’s legible to more people.

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Knowledge Worker’s Prayer: Best Practices to Stay Sane and Sensible in Digi

Saved on 2021-01-11 · medium.com

God, grant me the serenity to mute Slack notifications, courage to reject meetings I didn't schedule, and wisdom to differentiate: 1) calls that should be emails, and emails that should be calls, 2) Zoom that should be phone calls, and phone calls that should be Zooms, ....

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The Rise and Fall of Getting Things Done | The New Yorker

Saved on 2021-01-11 · newyorker.com

Cal Newport on the 43 Folders blogger Merlin Mann; the late productivity expert Peter Drucker; the author David Allen’s “Getting Things Done” method; and why G.T.D. doesn’t address the anxiety and inefficiency associated with e-mail overload, a phenomenon that knowledge workers e

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10 Principles to Organize Your Life (And Keep It That Way)

Saved on 2021-01-09 · blog.doist.com

10 principles for organizing your work, home, health, fitness, hobbies, finances, and more...

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Software is trying to change your habits. Make sure you agree with it. | Za

Saved on 2021-01-09 · zapier.com

Have you ever gotten lost in a mall? It's not your fault. Malls are intentionally confusing, a sort of modern labyrinth. The idea is you'll get lost, see some random stuff you don't need, then spend money on said stuff.

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How to Prioritize When There's Always More To Do

Saved on 2021-01-09 · blog.doist.com

Advice for managing life's chaos and focusing on what's important

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Organize Your Home: Declutter and Clean with Checklists for Every Room

Saved on 2021-01-09 · blog.doist.com

Take back your space with check-lists for every room in your place

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Self-care should result in more margin | Changelog

Saved on 2021-01-09 · changelog.com

With constant change being our new normal these days, I cannot attest enough to the importance of implementing the habit of self-care. The biggest reason, aside from the sheer benefit of taking care of yourself, is the crucial by-product of margin that we gain. However, the chall

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6 Rules That Are Guaranteed to Improve Your Productivity, Even if You Feel

Saved on 2021-01-09 · medium.com

In my work as a productivity coach, I supported hundreds of people to improve their daily workflow and get more done in less time. Whenever I talk about productivity, I have one goal: I want my…

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How do you cut a monolith in half? — programming is terrible

Saved on 2020-12-24 · programmingisterrible.com

It depends. The problem with distributed systems, is that no matter what the question is, the answer is inevitably ‘It Depends’. When you cut a larger service apart, where you cut depends on latency,...

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From human dissection to product marketing | by Aqua Delaney | Humans of Xe

Saved on 2020-12-09 · medium.com

As a teen who loved health and fitness, sports psychology and physiology was an obvious career choice. Straight out of university, I landed a ‘dream’ contract with New Zealand Rugby and launched my…

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Don't Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice | Kalzumeus Softw

Saved on 2020-12-08 · kalzumeus.com

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Why data literacy is the key to future-proofing your career | by Kendra Van

Saved on 2020-12-08 · medium.com

Some years ago, I read a book that’s had a profound effect on how I look at careers and advise the people I mentor. That book is The 100-Year Life: Living and Working in an Age of Longevity by Scott…

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Changing Lanes: How Lyft is Migrating 100 Frontend Microservices to Next.j

Saved on 2020-12-08 · eng.lyft.com

In 2019, Lyft’s frontend architecture needed a reckoning. We were growing quickly as a company, and new teams were creating new software systems daily. At that point in time, we were generating new…

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The Architect’s Path (Part 2 - Implementation) - The Architect Elevator

Saved on 2020-12-04 · architectelevator.com

Growing an architect is different from growing a system. This bookshelf will help.

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How Events Will Fail You. Our catalog of situations encountered… | by Chris

Saved on 2020-12-04 · medium.com

Events have become a fixture of modern software solutions, whether it’s the no-longer-trendy Event Sourcing model or the also-blockchain-like but typically client-focused CRDT, discrete units of…

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The ‘arctic fox’ model of software delivery | by Mark Rees | Humans of Xero

Saved on 2020-12-04 · medium.com

Recently, I celebrated my seven year anniversary of originally starting at Xero, and it got me thinking about what we’ve achieved in that time. Scaling from a startup to a global tech company in the…

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How should we build the APIs of tomorrow? – Increment: APIs

Saved on 2020-12-04 · increment.com

A meditation on embracing physics, improving developer experience, and evolving the status quo.

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The Observation Deck » Software: Immaculate, fetid and grimy

Saved on 2020-12-04 · dtrace.org

Once, long ago, there was an engineer who broke the operating system particularly badly. Now, if you’ve implemented important software for any serious length of time, you’ve seriously screwed up at least once – but this was notable for a few reasons. First, the change that the en

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(Remote) Pairing 101 | ThoughtWorks

Saved on 2020-11-25 · thoughtworks.com

Remote working is not a new practice, but it’s also not the norm. That has changed during this pandemic. Many software delivery teams were forced to move from working together in a shared space to remote working, which has impacted how they collaborate. One of the practices we re

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41 Powerful Journaling Exercises for Mind Expansion and Effective Behavior

Saved on 2020-11-25 · journalsmarter.com

Over the next 41 weeks, you have a chance to change your life. These journaling exercises use world-class expert knowledge to help you get there.

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7 Cognitive Biases That Make Us Suck at Time Management

Saved on 2020-11-19 · blog.doist.com

Our brains are hardwired to sabotage our productivity. Can we do anything about it?

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How Frictionless Technology Is Making Us Miserable | Digital Trends

Saved on 2020-11-18 · digitaltrends.com

Frictionless experiences have long been a top priority for interface designers, but the war on friction has led to some unintended consequences

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How to Centralize Your Tasks When You’re Using Too Many Apps

Saved on 2020-11-18 · blog.doist.com

What to do when your productivity apps are making you less productive

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A tale of webpage speed, or throwing away React

Saved on 2020-11-11 · solovyov.net

Back in 2011, I happened to get a job writing Backbone.js app. If you never did that, don’t. I was complaining about difficulties with composition left and right to [...]

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Content delivery networks (CDNs)

Saved on 2020-11-11 · web.dev

This article provides a comprehensive overview of content delivery networks (CDNs). In addition, it explains how to choose, configure, and optimize a CDN setup.

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Improve database performance with connection pooling - Stack Overflow Blog

Saved on 2020-11-11 · stackoverflow.blog

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Pixar's 22 Rules of Storytelling

Saved on 2020-11-11 · aerogrammestudio.com

Pixar's Rules of Storytelling were originally tweeted by Emma Coats, a Pixar Story Artist. Rule 1: You admire a character for trying more than for their successes.

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Kubernetes 1.19: The future of traffic ingress and routing | Cloud Native C

Saved on 2020-11-06 · cncf.io

Guest post originally published on eficode’s blog by Michael Vittrup Larsen, Consultant at eficode The Kubernetes community is giving up on Ingress and will…

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What Makes a World-Class Engineer? | by Joshua C. Carroll | Building Creati

Saved on 2020-11-06 · medium.com

As an engineering manager at Creative Market, my entire job description can be summarized in one statement: build a world-class engineering team. We want to make Creative Market into a world-class…

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Why Life Can’t Be Simpler

Saved on 2020-11-04 · fs.blog

We’d all like life to be simpler. But we also don’t want to sacrifice our options and capabilities. Tesler’s law of the conservation of complexity, a rule from design, explains why we can’t have both. Here’s how the law can help us create better products and services by rethinkin

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Turn app interactions into team knowledge in Slack | by Vasilis Bountris |

Saved on 2020-11-04 · medium.com

Open offices, coffee nooks, meeting rooms and more. The traditional workplace as we know it is undergoing a radical transformation. Our work is now mostly digital — in a home office, on chat…

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How to put machine learning models into production - Stack Overflow Blog

Saved on 2020-10-31 · stackoverflow.blog

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⚔️ Cross micro frontends communication ? - DEV

Saved on 2020-10-29 · dev.to

In this article, I'm going to explain some ways to communicate between multiple applications and a pa...

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Managing technical quality in a codebase.

Saved on 2020-10-29 · lethain.com

If there’s one thing that engineers, engineering managers, and technology executives are likely to agree on, it’s that there’s a crisis of technical quality. One diagnosis and cure is easy to identify: our engineers aren’t prioritizing quality, and we need to hire better engineer

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Self-service database provisioning with Octopus Runbooks and Redgate SQL Cl

Saved on 2020-10-29 · octopus.com

A discussion about database provisioning for dev and test, including a walk-through of Redgate SQL Clone and Octopus Runbooks

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‘All I wanted to do was get into bed and pull the covers over my head.’ | b

Saved on 2020-10-28 · medium.com

One in five people are affected by mental health challenges each year. And while the world continues to experience the unprecedented impact of the global health emergency due to COVID-19, millions…

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What I Talk About When I Talk About Platforms

Saved on 2020-10-28 · martinfowler.com

These days everyone is building a 'platform' to speed up delivery of digital products. But what makes an effective digital platform?

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Build better platform products. Four tips to help you embed great… | by Cla

Saved on 2020-10-28 · medium.com

In 2018, I came across Evan Bottcher’s article What I Talk About When I Talk About Platform. I was coaching a company’s platform teams, which were looking to apply Agile principles and practices to…

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When should you hire your first Product Manager? - Product and Systems

Saved on 2020-10-28 · productandsystems.substack.com

Building a Product Management practice (1/3): In this first post of the series I will share when to hire and what to look for in your first PM

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Apple's T2 Security Chip Has an Unfixable Flaw | WIRED

Saved on 2020-10-27 · wired.com

The Checkm8 vulnerability that exposed years of iPhones to jailbreaking has finally been exploited in Macs as well.

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The history of the BMW M logo and its colors | BMW.com

Saved on 2020-10-27 · bmw-m.com

The logo of BMW M. The distinctive BMW M logo with the three stripes attached to the M is recognised by petrolheads worldwide. But who invented it? Here is the answer.

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New Chrome 0-day Under Active Attacks – Update Your Browser Now

Saved on 2020-10-27 · thehackernews.com

Chrome version 86.0.4240.111 released to patch several security high-severity issues, including a zero-day vulnerability.

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Adblockers installed 300,000 times are malicious and should be removed now

Saved on 2020-10-27 · arstechnica.com

If you have Chromium versions of Nano Adblocker or Nano Defender, pay attention.

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Study shows which messengers leak your data, drain your battery, and more |

Saved on 2020-10-27 · arstechnica.com

Link previews provide convenience. They can also compromise privacy or security.

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Doctors May Have Found Secretive New Organs in the Center of Your Head - Th

Saved on 2020-10-26 · nytimes.com

They appear to be a fourth pair of large salivary glands, tucked into the space where the nasal cavity meets the throat.

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How prioritisation has guided my personal approach to mental wellbeing | by

Saved on 2020-10-26 · medium.com

Prioritisation is one of those processes that is simple to understand but difficult to action. At its heart, prioritisation involves understanding the work you have to do and choosing to focus on the…

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Play the long game when learning to code. - Stack Overflow Blog

Saved on 2020-10-26 · stackoverflow.blog

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The untold history of macOS System Preferences

Saved on 2020-10-25 · arun.is

System Preferences may not be the most exciting part of the Mac, but by looking through its evolution over the decades, we'll see that it holds some secrets and fun easter eggs.

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What I learned from hiring hundreds of engineers can help you land your nex

Saved on 2020-10-25 · stackoverflow.blog

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Same Stats, Different Graphs

Saved on 2020-10-25 · autodesk.com

AUTODESK RESEARCH | Why graphical representation and visualization are so important to understand statistical data.

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How Flash games shaped the video game industry

Saved on 2020-10-25 · flashgamehistory.com

Flash is dead. But the influence of Flash games on modern gameplay is inescapable.

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Wikipedia is getting a new look for the first time in 10 years. Here’s why.

Saved on 2020-10-25 · diff.wikimedia.org

This is the first blog in a series about desktop improvements coming to Wikipedia. Wikipedia has remained a critical and widely-used resource for knowledge across the world for the past two decades…

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Why do microservices need an API Gateway? - DEV

Saved on 2020-10-25 · dev.to

API Gateways are becoming increasingly popular with the microservice architecture. Recently, Google a...

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Who Owns the Code Claude Wrote?

Saved on 2026-05-09 · legallayer.substack.com

AI-generated code copyright explained for builders.

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Welcome to the “find out” stage of AI - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2026-05-09 · stackoverflow.blog

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Dispatches from O'Reilly: Fast paths and slow paths - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2026-05-09 · stackoverflow.blog

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The Worst Coder in the World goes agentic: building a leaderboard cracking AI - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2026-05-09 · stackoverflow.blog

Agents are everywhere, so isn't it fitting that the Worst Coder in the World goes agentic? A coding newbie explores the challenges and rewards of building an agent for work—and trying to learn a few things about coding along the way.

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Laws of Software Engineering

Saved on 2026-05-01 · lawsofsoftwareengineering.com

A collection of principles and patterns that shape software systems, teams, and decisions.

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Running a Minecraft Server and more on a 1960s UNIVAC Computer

Saved on 2026-05-01 · farlow.dev

18 bit registers, 90kb of memory, ones’ complement, powered by RISC-V.

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On sabotaging projects by overthinking, scope creep, and structural diffing

Saved on 2026-05-01 · kevinlynagh.com

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Black box AI drift: AI tools are making design decisions nobody asked for - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2026-05-01 · stackoverflow.blog

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ue4-unreal-automation-tool/README.md at main · botman99/ue4-unreal-automation-tool

Saved on 2026-04-29 · github.com

Contribute to botman99/ue4-unreal-automation-tool development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Why AI hasn't replaced human expertise—and what that means for your SaaS stack - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2026-04-27 · stackoverflow.blog

The most valuable AI tools in your enterprise stack do more than generate answers. They help developers determine which answers to trust.

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How to Fail at Game Development | Travis McGeathy | Substack

Saved on 2026-04-24 · travismcgeathy.substack.com

A Practical Guide for Learning From Others' Mistakes. Click to read How to Fail at Game Development, by Travis McGeathy, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

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The peril of laziness lost

Saved on 2026-04-21 · bcantrill.dtrace.org

In his classic Programming Perl — affectionately known to a generation of technologists as "the Camel Book" — Larry Wall famously wrote of the three virtues of a programmer as laziness, impatience, and hubris: If we’re going to talk about good software design, we have to talk a

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#4: Bring Back Idiomatic Design

Saved on 2026-04-21 · essays.johnloeber.com

I’m part of the desktop software generation. From Windows 95 to Windows 7, I grew using mostly-offline software on computers operated via mouse and keyboard, well before tablets and smartphones. Recently, I’ve been missing one particular part of that era: its consistency in desig

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Center for Responsible, Decentralized Intelligence at Berkeley

Saved on 2026-04-21 · rdi.berkeley.edu

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Gen Z needs a knowledge base (and so do you) - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2026-04-21 · stackoverflow.blog

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Animnode-References

Saved on 2026-04-13 · aaronkemner.com

Technical Animation is a tricky, but maybe I can be of help.

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Spring-It-On: The Game Developer's Spring-Roll-Call

Saved on 2026-04-13 · theorangeduck.com

Computer Science, Machine Learning, Programming, Art, Mathematics, Philosophy, and Short Fiction

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Box of Secrets

Saved on 2026-04-13 · jackhogan.me

Discreetly modding my friend’s apartment intercom to work with Apple Home.

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Scaling long-running autonomous coding · Cursor

Saved on 2026-04-13 · cursor.com

We've been experimenting with running coding agents autonomously for weeks at a time.

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So where are all the AI apps? – Answer.AI

Saved on 2026-04-13 · answer.ai

Practical AI R&D

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The Cognitive Dark Forest

Saved on 2026-04-13 · ryelang.org

The open web with AIs is turning into a dark forest.

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Email address obfuscation: What works in 2026?

Saved on 2026-04-13 · spencermortensen.com

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Comprehension Debt - the hidden cost of AI generated code.

Saved on 2026-04-13 · addyosmani.com

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A Love Letter To 'Girl Games'

Saved on 2026-04-13 · aftermath.site

Games are doomed by femininity.

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What the AI trust gap means for enterprise SaaS - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2026-04-13 · stackoverflow.blog

Adoption and trust are moving in diametrically opposed directions, and that gap has real implications for organizations deciding how to spend money on software.

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Subscription or no subscription? That is not the question. – iA

Saved on 2020-10-25 · ia.net

Companies selling apps via subscriptions use drama to sell: "Either subscription or we die.”

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Motoko, a programming language for building directly on the internet - Stac

Saved on 2020-10-25 · stackoverflow.blog

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Weighing Network-based Competitive Advantages | by Damon Callaghan | ECP In

Saved on 2020-10-14 · medium.com

Networks are one of the most powerful competitive advantages a business can possess. Strong network effects make it difficult for businesses to be replicated, enabling long-term pricing power…

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Xero, a Beautiful Business Model. Inside Xero’s Competitive Advantage | by

Saved on 2020-10-14 · medium.com

At ECP, we continually assess the quality and the sustainability of our investments to evaluate the strength of their competitive advantage through time. Xero is a notable portfolio company which…

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How Complex Systems Fail

Saved on 2020-10-12 · how.complexsystems.fail

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Revolutionizing Money Movements at Scale with Strong Data Consistency | Ube

Saved on 2020-10-12 · eng.uber.com

While we expand to multiple lines of businesses, and strategize the next best, the engineers in Uber Money also thrive on building the next generation’s Payments Platform which extends Uber’s growth. In this blog, we introduce you to this platform and provide insights into our le

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VRIO Framework Overview: Step-By-Step, Template & Examples

Saved on 2020-10-12 · cascade.app

Explore the VRIO Framework to achieve sustained competitive advantage. Get the full overview with a step-by-step guide, real-world examples, and a free template.

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Value Disciplines Model & Your Competitive Advantage

Saved on 2020-10-12 · cascade.app

We explain the Value Discipline Model, diving into Customer Intimacy Strategy, Product Leadership Strategy & Operational Excellence Value Disciplines!

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How to Implement the Balanced Scorecard (2019 Update)

Saved on 2020-10-12 · cascade.app

Discover the purpose of a balanced scorecard framework, its pros and cons, and how to implement it the right way to hit strategic goals.

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Maslow's Hierarchy as a Business Framework

Saved on 2020-10-12 · cascade.app

There are a lot of business frameworks in the world. We explain why Maslow's Hierarchy of needs is actually one of the best business frameworks out there!

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What Is Stakeholder Theory? Benefits, Challenges & Application

Saved on 2020-10-12 · cascade.app

What is Stakeholder Theory? Explore its benefits, challenges and step-by-step guide to implement it. Grab your free template for efficient stakeholder management!

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The Ansoff Matrix: 4 Growth Strategies Explained (With Examples)

Saved on 2020-10-12 · cascade.app

Discover key elements of the Ansoff Matrix, its pros & cons, and how to use it in your strategic planning process.

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Three Horizons Framework To Help You Grow (With Template)

Saved on 2020-10-12 · cascade.app

Learn McKinsey's Three Horizons Framework, how to apply it with real-life examples, and get a FREE template to boost your company’s growth.

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Why Our Leaders Fail Us and Then Save Us: The Preventable Problem Paradox |

Saved on 2020-10-08 · medium.com

Have you ever wondered why a smart company like Facebook is also the undisputed World Champion of Self-Inflicted Debacles? Or, why Google falls prey to avoidable mistakes — across its products…

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The Supreme Court hears Oracle v. Google tomorrow—here’s what’s at stake |

Saved on 2020-10-08 · arstechnica.com

The Supreme Court could decide whether APIs can be copyrighted.

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Definitely not Windows 95: What operating systems keep things running in sp

Saved on 2020-10-07 · arstechnica.com

The updates don’t come every spring and fall, but space operating systems keep evolving.

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The New New Product Development Game

Saved on 2020-10-07 · hbr.org

In today’s fast-paced, fiercely competitive world of commercial new product development, speed and flexibility are essential. Companies are increasingly realizing that the old, sequential approach to developing new products simply won’t get the job done. Instead, companies in Jap

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Facebook leaks show Mark Zuckerberg defending his decisions to angry employ

Saved on 2020-10-06 · theverge.com

The Verge obtained leaked audio of internal meetings

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How I Structured Engineering Teams at LinkedIn and AdMob for Success | Firs

Saved on 2020-10-01 · firstround.com

LinkedIn’s SVP of Engineering shares the team structure and mindset that clinched its $2.5B IPO.

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Can one person run an open source project alone? - Stack Overflow Blog

Saved on 2020-09-30 · stackoverflow.blog

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What is the Value of Browser Diversity? - daverupert.com

Saved on 2020-09-30 · daverupert.com

In May 2019 I attended a talk by Mike Taylor who works on webcompat at Mozilla. Mike told the sordid story of window.event, a non-standard IE invention that was replicated in Konqueror, which showed up in Webkit, which stuck around in Blink, and was now Mike’s problem in Firefox.

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If everyone hates it, why is OOP still so widely spread? - Stack Overflow B

Saved on 2020-09-30 · stackoverflow.blog

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Neural networks could help computers code themselves: Do we still need huma

Saved on 2020-09-30 · stackoverflow.blog

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Why Time Management Won't Solve Your Time Problems

Saved on 2020-09-28 · blog.doist.com

Having more time is like earning more money — the more you have, the more you want to spend. Here's a different way to think about it...

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Improve Your Focus and Find Your Calling by Working in Seasons - Ambition &

Saved on 2020-09-28 · blog.doist.com

The rest of your life is a long time – start working in seasons instead.

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The Neuroscience of Achieving Your Long-Term Goals

Saved on 2020-09-28 · blog.doist.com

And 3 strategies for achieving your long-term goals anyway, according to science

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Why senior engineers get nothing done | Swizec Teller

Saved on 2020-09-23 · swizec.com

You start a new job and it's amazing. Code all day, clear objectives, easy guidelines, ship a bunch of features be a hero. Then something happens and suddenly you get nothing done. 🤔

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Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule

Saved on 2020-09-23 · paulgraham.com

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How to build a documentation culture | by James Scott | The Startup | Mediu

Saved on 2020-09-22 · medium.com

Most programmers don’t like writing documentation, it’s just a fact. In some of the engineering teams I’ve worked in it’s often felt like the annoying but necessary task that is left until the last…

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Rewriting the Technical Interview

Saved on 2020-09-22 · aphyr.com

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Discovery - Judgement | Silicon Valley Product Group

Saved on 2020-09-18 · svpg.com

To continue with the series on common sources of confusion regarding product discovery, in this article I want to talk about the critical role of judgement in product discovery. This may in fact be the single most common confusion I encounter. I think the source of the issue is

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Combining the Best of AWS EventBridge and AWS Kinesis | by John Gilbert | M

Saved on 2020-09-18 · medium.com

I have been using AWS Kinesis extensively and effectively, with AWS Lambda, since 2015. I am a big fan. Now we have another great alternative, AWS EventBridge. Each has its strengths and weaknesses…

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How to keep the plates spinning in software development | by Mike Reid | Hu

Saved on 2020-09-18 · medium.com

Imagine you have seven plates spinning on top of sticks in front of you. Each is precious and it’s up to you to keep them from toppling over. The last thing you want is a floor full of broken plates…

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If Management Isn’t A Promotion, Then Engineering Isn’t A Demotion – charit

Saved on 2020-09-18 · charity.wtf

I wrote a piece this week about what motivates people to become managers (tldr mostly org dysfunction), and Julian Dunn replied with some typically insightful tweets: (I originally titled this arti…

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Intercom on Product: The principles behind how we build | Inside Intercom

Saved on 2020-09-18 · intercom.com

Des Traynor and Paul Adams discuss the principles we use, such as "Start with the problem" and "Ship to learn", that help to guide us as we build product.

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A robot wrote this entire article. Are you scared yet, human?

Saved on 2020-09-11 · theguardian.com

We asked GPT-3, OpenAI’s powerful new language generator, to write an essay for us from scratch. The assignment? To convince us robots come in peace

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IO Block Size for SQL Server, Disk Block Size - Pure Storage

Saved on 2020-09-11 · blog.purestorage.com

Check out this Pure Storage post to understand a bit more about SQL Server IO block sizes, as well as backups and restores.

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Security September: Escaping CodeBuild - The compromise that wasn't – One C

Saved on 2020-09-11 · onecloudplease.com

Aidan pushes the boundaries of CodeBuild and comes away pleasantly surprised. This is the second of a 5-part series on AWS exploits and similar findings discovered through the course of 2020.

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How To Master Your Goals With The Ulysses Pact

Saved on 2020-09-03 · blog.trello.com

Struggling to achieve your long-term goals? Banish procrastination once and for all by holding yourself accountable with the Ulysses pact.

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The magic ingredient that improves workshop collaboration | by Will Lester

Saved on 2020-09-01 · medium.com

I love working collaboratively. I get a real buzz out of getting a group together, grappling tricky problems and bouncing around ideas. At its best, collaboration can be an energising experience. But…

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Introducing Domain-Oriented Microservice Architecture

Saved on 2020-09-01 · uber.com

Recently there has been substantial discussion around the downsides of service oriented architectures and microservice architectures in particular. While only a few years ago, many people readily adopted microservice architectures due to the numerous benefits they provide such as

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If software architects' soft skills fail, so does the business

Saved on 2020-09-01 · searchapparchitecture.techtarget.com

Mark Richards and Neal Ford, authors of 'Fundamentals of Software Architecture,' share real-life examples of why architects must communicate well, and explain how to do it.

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Deep Work: The Complete Guide (Including a Step-by-Step Checklist)

Saved on 2020-08-31 · doist.com

How to master the #1 job skill that will never be obsolete

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Edge Perspectives with John Hagel: Innovation on the Edge

Saved on 2020-08-31 · edgeperspectives.typepad.com

I’ve played on the edge throughout most of my professional career, whether it was doing deals in the Sultanate of Oman back in the 1970s, building a start-up around a new technology called the microprocessor in 1980, building a new...

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Products are not Platforms | Kislay Verma

Saved on 2020-08-31 · kislayverma.com

Learning to distinguish between products and platforms

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Being Fast or Getting Faster? (aka Build Momentum, not Velocity) | Kislay V

Saved on 2020-08-31 · kislayverma.com

Setting the organization's goal to being faster over time ids better than just trying to be fast right now

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The Commitment Inventory: Get More Done By Saying "No"

Saved on 2020-08-31 · todoist.com

Make sure every area of your life gets the time and energy it deserves

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The Weekly Review: A Productivity Ritual to Get More Done

Saved on 2020-08-31 · todoist.com

10x your productivity with just one hour a week

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OKRs: A Guide to Data-Driven Goal Setting for Individuals and Teams

Saved on 2020-08-31 · todoist.com

Set rigorous goals that align big-picture priorities with day-to-day actions

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The Medium Method: The Best of Analog & Digital Productivity Combined

Saved on 2020-08-31 · todoist.com

Want to be more productive? Don't go (completely) paperless

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Systemist: Todoist's Founder's Personal Productivity Workflow

Saved on 2020-08-31 · todoist.com

Follow Todoist's founder's personal productivity system

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Avoid the "Urgency Trap" with the Eisenhower Matrix

Saved on 2020-08-31 · todoist.com

Avoid the "Urgency Trap" with Dwight D. Eisenhower's famous prioritization framework

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The Pomodoro Technique – Why It Works & How To Do It

Saved on 2020-08-31 · todoist.com

Beat procrastination and improve your focus one pomodoro at a time

productivity

What Is Eat the Frog? A Dead Simple System for Productivity Minimalists

Saved on 2020-08-31 · todoist.com

If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning

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So You Want to GTD? Your Step-By-Step Guide to Getting Things Done

Saved on 2020-08-31 · todoist.com

Systematize the clutter in your brain and get things done

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The Complete Guide to Time Blocking

Saved on 2020-08-31 · todoist.com

...and its cousins task batching and day theming. Control your schedule so it doesn't control you

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A gRPC Example: Our experience designing and building gRPC services | Bugsn

Saved on 2020-08-31 · bugsnag.com

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Ice, water, steam: reflecting on the language of agile teams | by James Ber

Saved on 2020-08-31 · medium.com

Lately, I’ve been thinking about what we need to do to continue our journey towards world-class engineering, and perform at that level over the long term. I’ve also been thinking about how Xero’s…

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How can you find time to design?. 7 tips to own your time | by José Torre |

Saved on 2020-08-31 · uxdesign.cc

For the past few months, I’ve noticed an increasing number of designers online complaining about their lack of time to design. They have a packed agenda full of meetings and, if they’re lucky, they…

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Proving Your Value at Work — Why It’s So Hard and How to Do it Anyway

Saved on 2020-08-30 · doist.com

Actionable steps for making sure "out of sight" doesn't mean "out of mind"

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5 Habits for Crafting the Perfect Remote Work Day

Saved on 2020-08-30 · doist.com

The reality of working from home is rarely as rosy as it seems

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Dear Google Cloud: Your Deprecation Policy is Killing You | by Steve Yegge

Saved on 2020-08-30 · medium.com

God dammit, I didn’t want to blog again. I have so much stuff to do. Blogging takes time and energy and creativity that I could be putting to good use: my novels, my music, my game, and so on. But…

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Emotional Agility

Saved on 2020-08-30 · hbr.org

How effective leaders manage their negative thoughts and feelings

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Building domain knowledge | Janella’s blog

Saved on 2020-08-30 · blog.janella.nz

I started a new engineering role two weeks ago, after ten years at my previous company.

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Building greater accessibility into Facebook.com - Facebook Engineering

Saved on 2020-08-29 · engineering.fb.com

As part of our recent redesign of Facebook.com, we took advantage of recent React improvements to build accessibility into the foundation

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The Impact of Toxic Influencers on Communities · Intense Minimalism

Saved on 2020-08-29 · intenseminimalism.com

There’s a common character that can be often spotted in many online communities. It’s the “toxic influencer” (sometimes referred as “intellectual bully”). A toxic influencer is a person…

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Microservices Adoption in 2020 – O’Reilly

Saved on 2020-08-27 · oreilly.com

Everyone’s talking about microservices. Who’s actually doing it?

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Our Brains Struggle to Process This Much Stress | Elemental

Saved on 2020-08-26 · elemental.medium.com

We are processing an inordinate amount of stress, loss, and grief over a sustained period of time. Psychologists and experts explain what this does to our brains.

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Let's build a Full-Text Search engine - Artem Krylysov

Saved on 2020-08-25 · artem.krylysov.com

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Asynchronous Communication: What It Is & Why You Should Care About It

Saved on 2020-08-25 · doist.com

And what you can do to start implementing it, whether you're an individual contributor or a team leader.

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Book Summary: Accelerate. Accelerate — Building and Scaling High… | by Trev

Saved on 2020-08-12 · medium.com

By making meaningful steps to introduce and improve your capabilities in continuous delivery, architecture, product & process, lean practices, and culture — you can create a profound impact on…

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The Relationship Between Software Architecture And Business Models (and mor

Saved on 2020-08-12 · medium.com

As an architect, how often are you thinking about business models? If every significant architecture decision has business consequences, then knowing the business model and which trade-offs to choose…

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No Silver Bullet

Saved on 2020-08-11 · cgl.ucsf.edu

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10 Standout GitHub Profile READMEs - DEV

Saved on 2020-08-11 · dev.to

My good friend and colleague @bdougieyo is at Codeland today and is giving away early access to Codes...

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What software teams can learn from music masterclasses - Helen Hou-Sandí

Saved on 2020-08-11 · helen.blog

I come from a musical background, with degrees in piano performance and piano accompanying and chamber music, and I think a lot about how that’s shaped who I’ve become in web and software development. I’ve even gotten to give a talk relating musicianship skills to programming and

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How GPT3 Works - Visualizations and Animations – Jay Alammar – Visualizing

Saved on 2020-08-11 · jalammar.github.io

Discussions: Hacker News (397 points, 97 comments), Reddit r/MachineLearning (247 points, 27 comments) Translations: German, Korean, Chinese (Simplified), Russian, Turkish The tech world is abuzz with GPT3 hype. Massive language models (like GPT3) are starting to surprise us

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Availability Group issues fixed with Alerts - Wayne Sheffield

Saved on 2020-08-10 · blog.waynesheffield.com

Learn how to use the SQL Server Agent Alerting system to detect Availability Group issues and to respond to them by running jobs.

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Katie Sylor-Miller - Frontend Architect at Etsy | StaffEng

Saved on 2020-08-10 · staffeng.com

This story was recorded in August, 2020. Learn more about Katie on her website, Linkedin, and Twitter. Tell us a little about your current role: your title, the company you work at, and generally what sort of work does your team do? I work at Etsy, which is the world’s leading on

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Applying Conway's Law to improve your software development | ThoughtWorks

Saved on 2020-08-07 · thoughtworks.com

Many organizations have become adept at identifying what they need from software development projects, based on a keen understanding of their business goals. Even so, they’re often surprised to find out that the end results don’t achieve the transformative impact they were expect

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A Founder's Guide to Writing Well — 8 Writing Tips | First Round Review

Saved on 2020-08-06 · firstround.com

There's a long list of most frequently-cited skills for becoming a successful entrepreneur. One that rarely makes the list is effective writing. Upstart CEO Dave Girouard pens this thoughtful case for the importance of strong writing in the startup world — and his tips for leveli

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Designing for the Appearance of Speed | by Bill Chung | Medium

Saved on 2020-08-03 · medium.com

The jury has spoken: performance, conversion, and brand engagement are inextricably connected.

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Why Perceived Performance Matters, Part 1: The Perception Of Time — Smashin

Saved on 2020-08-03 · smashingmagazine.com

In this article, Denys Mishunov aims to provide you with the reasons and theories for why things function in certain way. He will use examples that are observable in the offline world and, using principles of psychology, research and analysis in psychophysics and neuroscience, he

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Real-time cinematic short Memories of Australia stirs powerful emotions - U

Saved on 2020-08-01 · unrealengine.com

When Andrew Svanberg Hamilton left his native Australia to pursue a career in game development on the other side of the world, he took with him deeply ingrained memories of family and landscape. Now he’s recreated them in a beautiful short film, rendered in real time in Unreal En

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Linters aren't in your way. They're on your side - Stack Overflow Blog

Saved on 2020-08-01 · stackoverflow.blog

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The State Of Pixel Perfection

Saved on 2020-08-01 · ishadeed.com

A walkthrough of the term pixel perfection and if it's still relevant today or not.

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Ethical technology: From purpose to practice | Perspectives | ThoughtWorks

Saved on 2020-08-01 · thoughtworks.com

This issue of Perspectives explores the strategies and frameworks that enable enterprises to foster an ethical technology practice.

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Your blog doesn’t need a JavaScript framework /// Iain Bean

Saved on 2020-08-01 · iainbean.com

Why I choose Eleventy over Gatsby for my new website

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Research-backed actions to help communicate more effectively

Saved on 2020-07-31 · fastcompany.com

University of Oregon professors offer science-backed strategies to converse and connect with coworkers, clients, and family in a virtual environment.

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Go hard and go home: what it’s like designing during a pandemic | by Jordan

Saved on 2020-07-31 · medium.com

At the end of April 2020, the Australian Government introduced a range of measures to help small businesses deal with the impact of COVID-19. JobKeeper was one of those measures. It was basically a…

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China’s Artificial Intelligence Surveillance State Goes Global - The Atlant

Saved on 2020-07-31 · theatlantic.com

Xi Jinping is using artificial intelligence to enhance his government’s totalitarian control—and he’s exporting this technology to regimes around the globe.

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37 Ways That Words Can Be Wrong

Saved on 2020-07-27 · lesswrong.com

Some reader is bound to declare that a better title for this post would be "37 Ways That You Can Use Words Unwisely", or "37 Ways That Suboptimal Use…

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We Can Protect the Economy From Pandemics. Why Didn't We?

Saved on 2020-07-25 · wired.com

A virologist helped crack an impossible problem: how to insure against the economic fallout from devastating viral outbreaks. The plan was ingenious. Yet we're still in this mess.

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You've only added two lines - why did that take two days! ~ Matt Lacey: Cre

Saved on 2020-07-23 · mrlacey.com

It might seem a reasonable question, but it makes some terrible assumptions: lines of code = effort lines of code = value all lines of c...

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Blog Posts

Saved on 2020-07-22 · learningfromincidents.io

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All Hands on Deck. What does Slack do when Slack goes… | by Ryan Katkov | J

Saved on 2020-07-21 · slack.engineering

This story speaks to the process behind incident response at Slack and uses the May 12th, 2020 outage as an example. For a deeper technical review of the same outage, read Laura Nolan’s post, “A Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Day at Slack” Slack is a critical tool for mill

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A Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Day at Slack | by Laura Nolan | Jun

Saved on 2020-07-21 · slack.engineering

This story describes the technical details of the problems that caused the Slack downtime on May 12th, 2020. To learn more about the process behind incident response for same outage, read Ryan Katkov’s post, “All Hands on Deck”. On May 12, 2020, Slack had our first significant ou

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Container technologies at Coinbase | by Coinbase | Jun, 2020 | The Coinbase

Saved on 2020-07-21 · blog.coinbase.com

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Accessible to some - Manuel Matuzović

Saved on 2020-07-21 · matuzo.at

An experiment that tries to help you understand how bad accessibility affects users and their daily experiences on the web.

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Mental Models: The Best Way to Make Intelligent Decisions (109 Models Expla

Saved on 2020-07-21 · fs.blog

The smartest people in the world use mental models to make intelligent decisions, avoid stupidity, and increase productivity. Let's take a look at how ...

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Staff-plus interview processes.

Saved on 2020-07-17 · lethain.com

When we talk about designing a Staff-plus engineer interview loop, the first thing to talk about is that absolutely no one is confident their Staff-plus interview loop works well. Many loops end up looking for a senior engineer who’s really fast at solving problems, which doesn’t

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How Stack Overflow hires engineers - Stack Overflow Blog

Saved on 2020-07-11 · stackoverflow.blog

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The History of Search Engines - Audits.com

Saved on 2020-07-04 · carlhendy.com

Search Engines play an integral role in the lives of many of us, sometimes without us realising. A purchase on Amazon, usually starts with a product search. A new vacation booking, often begins with a hotel search. The answer to any question, is just a web search away. We look at

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Understanding the significance of cloud | ThoughtWorks

Saved on 2020-06-29 · thoughtworks.com

A whistle-stop tour of why cloud became the major platform for modern IT

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Why are we so bad at software engineering? | www.bitlog.com

Saved on 2020-06-26 · bitlog.com

Our industry's mindset grew in an environment where failure is cheap and we are incentivized to move quickly. Our processes are poorly applied when the cost of a redo is high or a redo is impossible.

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Maersk, me & notPetya - gvnshtn

Saved on 2020-06-23 · gvnshtn.com

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The Architect Elevator — Visiting the upper floors

Saved on 2020-06-22 · martinfowler.com

Architects in traditional organizations need to ride the elevator between executive penthouse and digital engine room.

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Tackle Big-O Notation in .NET Core - Simple Talk

Saved on 2020-06-17 · red-gate.com

Every computer science student must learn about Big-O Notation, a way to conceptualize algorithm complexity that directly relates to performance of the algorithm. In this article, Camilo Reyes demonstrates how to apply Big-O algorithms to .NET Core applications.

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C# 9: Simplified Parameter Null Validation

Saved on 2020-06-17 · infoq.com

Simplified parameter null validation has been promoted to a C# 9 feature. This narrowly tailored feature reduces the amount of code needed to validate non-null parameters to a single character in the

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iiSM.org

Saved on 2020-06-15 · iism.org

Most companies mistakenly apply value replication principles to discovery

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How working apart brought our team together - Humans of Xero - Medium

Saved on 2020-06-12 · medium.com

Historically, I haven’t been the biggest advocate of remote working. Sure, my team worked from home occasionally, but I always believed that in-person collaboration was vital for development teams. I…

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How I Learned to Have Uncomfortable Conversations | Human Parts

Saved on 2020-06-09 · humanparts.medium.com

I had 50 painfully uncomfortable conversations with strangers in New York City to practice being assertive under pressure. Here’s what I learned.

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Machine learning makes finding the right tech on the Xero app marketplace e

Saved on 2020-06-09 · devblog.xero.com

At Xero, we’re on a mission to get more apps into the hands of small business owners, because we know when they’re connected to the right technology, they’re more likely to see increased revenue and…

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Bakedbean.org.uk - Developing Stack Overflow on MacOS

Saved on 2020-06-09 · bakedbean.org.uk

After a whole lot of months in the making we finally finished porting Stack Overflow to .NET Core 3.1 🎉! When you hit any part of Stack Overflow or the wider Stack Exchange network you’re now hitting our main application running on .NET Core behind IIS using the in-process execut

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The Culture Map: A Systematic & Intentional Tool For Designing Great Compan

Saved on 2020-06-09 · strategyzer.com

If I asked you: what’s the one thing you’ll do differently tomorrow to make your organization a better place to work, where would you start? How would you design, communicate and implement

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Web Developer Roadmap in 2019 – Yogeswaran

Saved on 2020-06-09 · yogeswaran.home.blog

Introduction to Web Development Front-end Development Roadmap Back-end Development Roadmap DevOps Roadmap

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The System Thinking Change Agent Survival Guide | @johncutlefish's blog

Saved on 2020-06-09 · cutle.fish

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Row counts and arrow width, Compute Scalar - SQL Server Fast

Saved on 2020-06-04 · sqlserverfast.com

This is the fifth and final post in my May 2020 series about the Actual and Estimated Number of Rows properties in execution plans. In the previous posts, I talked about how you can use them, the confusion a Nested Loops operator can cause, how sometimes the graphical representat

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The Future of Product Management in the 2020s - Product Management Insider

Saved on 2020-06-03 · medium.com

Paul Simon chose “The Boy in the Bubble” as the lead track for his 1985 album, Graceland, because it conveyed to the listener his mindset during the making of the album. Fresh off his divorce from…

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Did someone say BigQuery UDFs? I'll take 10! — Chris Tippett

Saved on 2020-06-03 · christippett.dev

If you're not already a fan of BigQuery's UDFs, you soon will be.

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Remote-first: A behavioural pattern for product team design | ThoughtWorks

Saved on 2020-06-03 · thoughtworks.com

Six headphone-wearing tech-workers on a product team sit together in a co-work facility, with an iron-clad rule that states that they must not talk to each other face-to-face at any time. To level the collaboration playing field with their 4 remote team members, they all use Zoom

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The Remote Pairing Cheat Sheet | ThoughtWorks

Saved on 2020-06-03 · thoughtworks.com

The ongoing global COVID-19 pandemic has pushed the distributed model to the forefront, with remote work becoming the norm, even for teams that are usually co-located. This impacts everything, from an organization’s global footprint, to cultural aspects like prioritising communic

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Rebuilding our tech stack for a new Facebook.com - Facebook Engineering

Saved on 2020-05-25 · engineering.fb.com

Building a new web app for today’s browsers, we completely rebuilt our tech stack to achieve our goals for performance and sustainable future growth.

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Why Atlassian uses an internal PaaS to regulate AWS access - Atlassian Deve

Saved on 2020-05-25 · blog.developer.atlassian.com

Unleashing the potential of all teams with tips, tools, and practices

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Productivity in the age of hypergrowth.

Saved on 2020-05-25 · lethain.com

There are few things more exciting than being at a company during hypergrowth, but it’s easy to let hypergrowth get away from you, and to end up reacting instead of planning. It’s hard to steer when you’re rebuilding a plane mid-flight, but you can always nudge it in the right di

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Migrations: the sole scalable fix to tech debt.

Saved on 2020-05-25 · lethain.com

Migrations are both essential and frustratingly frequent as your codebase ages and your business grows: most tools and processes only support about one order magnitude of growth before becoming ineffective, so rapid growth makes them a way of life. This post takes a look at why m

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What the Heck is Backstage Anyway? | Labs

Saved on 2020-05-25 · engineering.atspotify.com

Yesterday, we released the open source version of , our homegrown developer portal. And we learned a thing or two via the feedback we received. So, I wanted to take this opportunity to further explain what we’re trying to do with Backstage — and more importantly, what we want to

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Time is linear. Customer journeys are not. - Humans of Xero - Medium

Saved on 2020-05-25 · medium.com

As a service designer, I’m often asked to help map the customer journey of products and services. Most of the time, people want a journey because it’s visual — something they can look at and have a…

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Commit Hygiene - Winning with GIT - EddieWould

Saved on 2020-05-20 · eddiewould.com

GIT101: A novel mental-model of git concepts, the pitfalls of traditional “pulling” and “merging” & how to author a good commit (and why it matters).

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Don't Rewrite Your App, Unless You Have To - Snap Engineering

Saved on 2020-05-14 · eng.snap.com

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Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System - The Donella Meadows Proj

Saved on 2020-05-08 · donellameadows.org

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The Patient Change Agent | @johncutlefish's blog

Saved on 2020-05-07 · cutle.fish

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Things I Wished More Developers Knew About Databases

Saved on 2020-04-27 · medium.com

A large majority of computer systems have some state and are likely to depend on a storage system. My knowledge on databases accumulated over time, but along the way our design mistakes caused data…

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Making the Right Decision Every Time - Ben Fathi - Medium

Saved on 2020-04-20 · medium.com

In the world of computer science, “priority inversion” refers to a condition where a low priority task gets to run instead of a higher priority one, potentially resulting in a system deadlock…

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You don’t need to stop shipping features to fix technical debt

Saved on 2020-04-20 · medium.com

The easiest way to solve Technical Debt, and a framework to help you explain Technical Debt and convince decision makers to let you work on it

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Team Objectives - Overview | Silicon Valley Product Group

Saved on 2020-03-23 · svpg.com

After many years of being a very vocal advocate for the OKR (Objectives and Key Results) technique, in the majority of companies I meet, I have stopped recommending the practice. That’s because, in so many companies, even though conceptually the technique is simple and sound, it

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Clean Coder Blog

Saved on 2020-03-04 · blog.cleancoder.com

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Typing the technical interview

Saved on 2020-03-04 · aphyr.com

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Amazon: How Bezos built his data machine

Saved on 2020-03-04 · bbc.co.uk

Leo Kelion investigates the rise of Amazon and its huge data-gathering operation

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On Pair Programming

Saved on 2020-03-04 · martinfowler.com

A guide to effective pair-programming

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Producing gasoline and diesel emits more CO2 than we thought

Saved on 2020-02-20 · ioplus.nl

Many of you know that I regularly debunk the claim that diesel vehicles emit less CO2 than electric vehicles. But one thing that I hadn’t really worked out is just how much CO2 is emitted when…

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Frederick Vanbrabant delirious rantings

Saved on 2020-02-19 · frederickvanbrabant.com

Clean code makes projects more comfortable to work with and improves shelf life. Its the antagonist of vile legacy codebases that are unmaintainable. Then why does business always treat it as a secondary objective? Do they just dont get it?

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How DISC is like the Hogwarts Houses

Saved on 2020-02-19 · athleteassessments.com

Often with behavioral profiles like DISC, being able to apply the concept to something you already know, helps to quickly understand it. If you are familiar with Harry Potter, then this is an excellent platform to better get to know DISC behavioral profiling. Whether you grew up

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3 Strategies for Becoming a Self-Made Meeting Master | Inc.com

Saved on 2020-02-14 · inc.com

It takes skill to run a great meeting. Here's how to get the practice you need.

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2 Questions to Ask When Interviewing New Leaders | Inc.com

Saved on 2020-02-14 · inc.com

Leaders spend up to 80 percent of their day in meetings. Better make sure they have the skills needed to use that time well.

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10 Research-Backed Rules for Meaningful Meetings | Inc.com

Saved on 2020-02-14 · inc.com

Studies reveal the keys to running consistently effective and meaningful business meetings.

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Everything you always wanted to know about running Silent Meetings but were

Saved on 2020-02-14 · medium.com

UPDATE: I expanded this post into a much more detailed guide called “Silent Meeting Manifesto v1”. Go there if you want to learn more. “Silent Meetings” are meetings where most of the time is spent…

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The Evil List: Which tech companies are doing the most harm?

Saved on 2020-02-14 · slate.com

The 30 most dangerous corporations in the industry, ranked by the people who know.

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How the CIA used Crypto AG encryption devices to spy on countries for decades

Saved on 2020-02-13 · washingtonpost.com

U.S. and German intelligence agencies partnered on a scheme to dupe dozens of nations into buying rigged encryption systems — taking their money and stealing their secrets.

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Work Is Work

Saved on 2020-01-14 · codahale.com

In which returns diminish.

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Observability — A 3-Year Retrospective - The New Stack

Saved on 2020-01-13 · thenewstack.io

A summary of the observability movement over the past three years.

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FlaccidScrum

Saved on 2020-01-13 · martinfowler.com

Scrum intentionally does not mandate technical practices as part of its definition, but it expects you to add your own. If you don't you'll get a sickly code base that slows down feature development.

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Anarchitecture - DEV Community ?‍??‍?

Saved on 2020-01-13 · dev.to

Development in Post-Agile, Managerless Teams Software teams often need a personnel as a br...

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The software engineer’s guide to asserting dominance in the workplace

Saved on 2020-01-13 · medium.com

As a software engineer, changing jobs is a way of life. Every day, beautiful recruiters from top tech companies reach out to you on LinkedIn with new opportunities, and each new job equals higher pay…

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Do you have what it takes to be an agile coach? - Humans of Xero - Medium

Saved on 2020-01-13 · medium.com

Before joining Xero, I used to work in project management. The way we ran projects was to think about people as specialised resources who would be deployed to different initiatives. But there was one…

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Product managers — get away from the backlog! - The Startup - Medium

Saved on 2020-01-13 · medium.com

Controversial? Some might say “yes,” but I hope to change your mind by the end of this article. Marty Cagan wrote an excellent article a couple of months ago highlighting the differences between…

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A Product Manager’s Guide to When to Say No to Machine Learning (and When t

Saved on 2020-01-13 · medium.com

Product managers, myself included, face increasing pressure to integrate machine learning into their products. This pressure comes from many places: engineers and data scientists excited by…

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Talk write-up: "How to build a PaaS for 1500 engineers"

Saved on 2020-01-13 · srvaroa.github.io

This article is based on a presentation I gave as part ofAdevintaTalks in Barcelona on November 2019.I’m experimenting with this format: I went through the s...

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Why Container Devs Need to Care about re:Invent 2019’s Serverless Launches

Saved on 2020-01-13 · medium.com

A field guide to the 2019 AWS re:Invent Serverless launches.

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Defining SLOs for services with dependencies - CRE life lessons | Google Cl

Saved on 2020-01-10 · cloud.google.com

Learn how to define and manage SLOs for services with dependencies, each of which may have their own SLOs.

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The Calculus of Service Availability: You’re only as available as the sum of your dependencies.

Saved on 2020-01-10 · queue.acm.org

Most services offered by Google aim to offer 99.99 percent (sometimes referred to as the "four 9s") availability to users. Some services contractually commit to a lower figure externally but set a 99.99 percent target internally. This more stringent target accounts for situatio

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NULL complexities – Part 1 - SQLPerformance.com

Saved on 2019-12-17 · sqlperformance.com

Itzik Ben-Gan kicks off a new series of Transact-SQL blog posts treating NULL handling in SQL Server.

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Monads aren't as hard as you think Ying Wang

Saved on 2019-12-16 · bytes.yingw787.com

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Why Good Developers Write Bad Unit Tests - mtlynch.io

Saved on 2019-12-16 · mtlynch.io

The standard techniques of good development can lead you astray if you don't adjust them for unit tests.

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How to Boost Your Team’s Productivity

Saved on 2019-12-16 · hbr.org

Set clear expectations.

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Product engineers - Sherif Mansour - Medium

Saved on 2019-12-10 · sherifmansour.medium.com

We had just finished a customer conference and on a long, 14-felt-like-18 hour flight from San Francisco back to Sydney. I was sitting next to Jean-Michel Lemieux (“JML” ), our head of Engineering at…

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The care and feeding of software engineers (or, why engineers are grumpy) -

Saved on 2019-12-10 · humanwhocodes.com

The Official Web Site of Nicholas C. Zakas

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We Overengineered a Teapot - Better Programming - Medium

Saved on 2019-12-06 · medium.com

Overengineering is fun, but it can trick you and your team into thinking actual value is delivered.

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The most copied StackOverflow snippet of all time is flawed! | Programming.Guide

Saved on 2019-12-04 · programming.guide

In a recent study titled Usage and Attribution of Stack Overflow Code Snippets in GitHub Projects, an answer I wrote almost a decade ago was found to be the most copied snippet on Stack Overflow. Ironically it happens to be buggy.

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The Service Mesh: What Every Software Engineer Needs to Know about the Worl

Saved on 2019-12-04 · servicemesh.io

Architecturally, a service mesh is nothing more than a bunch of userspace proxies stuck next to your services plus a set of management processes

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Quantum computing for the very curious

Saved on 2019-12-04 · quantum.country

Presented in an experimental mnemonic medium that makes it almost effortless to remember what you read

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Applying systems thinking in product design

Saved on 2019-11-18 · intercom.com

Tips for using system thinking to prioritize problems when designing a product's foundation before tackling the specific interactions.

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htop explained | peteris.rocks

Saved on 2019-11-18 · peteris.rocks

Explanation of everything you can see in htop/top on Linux

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Are Your Microservices Overly Chatty? - The New Stack

Saved on 2019-11-14 · thenewstack.io

Using synchronous communications, like REST, across an entire system makes it behave like a monolith. ironSource describes a different approach.

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The Front-End Tooling Survey 2019 - Results - AshleyNolan.co.uk - Blog and

Saved on 2019-11-14 · ashleynolan.co.uk

The results of the 2019 Front-End Tooling Survey are out! Check out the results and analysis of the responses here.

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Announcing the Bytecode Alliance: Building a secure by default, composable

Saved on 2019-11-13 · hacks.mozilla.org

Lin Clark introduces the Bytecode Alliance, and uses Code Cartoon illustrations to share their vision of a WebAssembly ecosystem that is secure by default, fixing cracks in today’s software foundations. ...

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The most important thing Dropbox did to scale Product Management

Saved on 2019-11-07 · medium.com

I spent a lot of time in 2016 doing mentoring, advising, and consulting. Many conversations revolved around building product management teams, and through those conversations, I’ve got to reflect on…

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How the Best Bosses Interrupt Bias on Their Teams

Saved on 2019-11-07 · hbr.org

Strategies to foster equity and inclusion

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An Honest Review of AWS Managed Apache Kafka: Amazon MSK

Saved on 2019-11-07 · medium.com

This article was written when Amazon MSK was released in beta form and since then MSK has tremendously improved. I have created an online course in partnership with AWS to help you learn it and I’ve…

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GraphQL Search Indexing - Netflix TechBlog

Saved on 2019-11-07 · medium.com

Almost a year ago we described our learnings from adopting GraphQL on the Netflix Marketing Tech team. We have a lot more to share since then! There are plenty of existing resources describing how to…

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I Accidentally Uncovered a Nationwide Scam on Airbnb - VICE

Saved on 2019-11-06 · vice.com

While searching for the person who grifted me in Chicago, I discovered just how easy it is for users of the short-term rental platform to get exploited.

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Availability Groups and Redo Latency, Data Committed on a Primary isn’t Vis

Saved on 2019-10-29 · sqlundercover.com

If you’re running availability groups it may seem like a great idea to offload your read only reporting workloads to a secondary. There are a couple of ways that you could do that, you could …

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The worst volume control UI in the world - UX Collective

Saved on 2019-10-28 · uxdesign.cc

A group of bored developers and designers has decided to start a thread on reddit to figure out who can come up with the worst volume control interface in the world: Yep. That super simple volume…

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Open Source is Broken - Don Goodman - Medium

Saved on 2019-10-25 · medium.com

The Open Source movement, as championed by the OSI, prizes absolute openness above all other concerns. Openness, they claim, is an absolute good, from which all other virtues flow, not to be…

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Council Post: 13 Tech Experts Predict The Next Big Trend In Software Develo

Saved on 2019-10-23 · forbes.com

Members of Forbes Technology Council share their predictions for upcoming trends in software development.

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Automated Continuous Deployment at Heroku | Heroku

Saved on 2019-10-23 · blog.heroku.com

Over the past four years, the Heroku Runtime team has transitioned from occasional, manual deployments to continuous, automated deployments. Changes are now rolled out globally within a few hours of merging any change—without any human intervention. It's been an overwhelmingly po

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Is Amazon Unstoppable?

Saved on 2019-10-23 · newyorker.com

Politicians want to rein in the retail giant. But Jeff Bezos, the master of cutthroat capitalism, is ready to fight back, Charles Duhigg writes.

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Delta: A Data Synchronization and Enrichment Platform

Saved on 2019-10-23 · medium.com

Delta is an eventual consistent, event driven, data synchronization and enrichment platform built at Netflix.

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Product Management Digest from API Days - rosebytespaint - Medium

Saved on 2019-10-23 · medium.com

Last month, the APIDays conference took place in Melbourne. The conference was about the shifting API landscape. And just like every Platform /API Product Manager would be keen to understand API…

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Open Sourcing Mantis: A Platform For Building Cost-Effective, Realtime, Ope

Saved on 2019-10-23 · medium.com

Learn more about how Mantis provides on-demand data fetching, aggressive data reuse, and native autoscaling to help you minimize the costs of observing microservices without compromising on required a

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The technology behind preview photos

Saved on 2019-10-21 · engineering.fb.com

Visit the post for more.

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Unraveling The JPEG

Saved on 2019-10-21 · parametric.press

JPEG images are everywhere in our digital lives, but behind the veil of familiarity lie algorithms that remove details that are imperceptible to the human eye. This produces the highest visual quality with the smallest file size—but what does that look like? Let's see what our ey

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The Time Value of Shipping - The Black Box of Product Management

Saved on 2019-10-21 · blackboxofpm.com

Shipping is a Feature is a core principle for product managers. It proposes that you’ll never be able to build a perfect product, so you need to learn how and when to ship your imperfect one, because…

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"The uncomfortable world of constant discovery" or "The difference between

Saved on 2019-10-21 · defmyfunc.com

A look at the differences between 'Product' teams and 'Delivery' teams

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How LinkedIn customizes Apache Kafka for 7 trillion messages per day | Link

Saved on 2019-10-21 · engineering.linkedin.com

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The Log: What every software engineer should know about real-time data's un

Saved on 2019-10-21 · linkedin.com

I joined LinkedIn about six years ago at a particularly interesting time. We were just beginning to run up against the limits of our monolithic, centralized database and needed to start the transition to a portfolio of specialized distributed systems. This has been an interesting

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Big Data Processing at Spotify: The Road to Scio (Part 1) | Labs

Saved on 2019-10-21 · engineering.atspotify.com

This is the first part of a 2 part blog series. In this series we will talk about , a Scala API for and , and how we built the majority of our new data pipelines on Google Cloud with Scio.

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Capturing data pipeline errors functionally with Writer Monads | ThoughtWor

Saved on 2019-10-21 · thoughtworks.com

As businesses grapple with vast quantities of data, emerging from batch-based and streaming sources, it’s truly exciting to see the dominant data processing frameworks embrace the Kappa Architecture, that unifies batch and stream processing. With Kappa Architecture, the batch pro

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The State of Cryptocurrency Mining - The Sia Blog

Saved on 2019-10-16 · blog.sia.tech

For those new to the blog, I am the lead developer of Sia, a blockchain based cloud storage platform. About a year ago, myself and some members of the Sia team started Obelisk, a cryptocurrency ASIC…

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7 Things I Learnt from 10 Conversations About Recognition

Saved on 2019-10-15 · medium.com

If you aren’t familiar with Officevibe check them out, but essentially it’s a tool that uses an ongoing survey with a randomised set of questions. Results are then grouped into 10 metrics…

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Go memory ballast: How I learnt to stop worrying and love the heap

Saved on 2019-10-13 · blog.twitch.tv

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Chernobyl DevOps: Software Engineering, Disaster Management, and Observability

Saved on 2019-10-08 · medium.com

Or at least, that’s the story that operators working for FirstEnergy in a power substation in Wadsworth, Ohio, just a few miles southwest of Akron, had in front of them. All systems seemed…

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Changing Lanes - Becoming a Platform Product Manager - Mind the Product

Saved on 2019-10-06 · mindtheproduct.com

I’m a product manager for a content management system that runs some of the most-visited websites in the world. Our team reports to the CTO, and we sit within the engineering arm of the organization. Prior to this I’d had a year’s product experience at a customer-facing SaaS comp

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Product management in infrastructure engineering.

Saved on 2019-10-06 · lethain.com

Recently a bunch of teams I work with have turned the corner, having paid down technical debt to a long-term sustainable level. The future unfurls with possibility. Many of the infrastructure engineer teams I’ve been a part of have struggled to make the transition from maintenanc

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Stop Trying to Delight Your Customers

Saved on 2019-10-06 · hbr.org

To really win their loyalty, forget the bells and whistles and just solve their problems.

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Testing in Production: the hard parts - Cindy Sridharan - Medium

Saved on 2019-09-30 · medium.com

There’s a fair bit of chatter about the virtues of testing in production these days. I’ve myself written about this topic over a year ago. This post isn’t so much of an argument as to why one should…

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Testing in Production, the safe way - Cindy Sridharan - Medium

Saved on 2019-09-30 · medium.com

In this post, I hope to explore different forms of “testing in production”, when each form of testing is the most beneficial as well as how to test services in production in a safe way. However…

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Accelerate - Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organisations

Saved on 2019-09-26 · mattbutton.com

I first read Accelerate by Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, Gene Kim back in 2018 when it was a hot topic in the office; only an hour or two would go by between overhearing somebody talk about it, internal blog posts were being written, and we’d receive emails about following the fin

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Pando: Move fast, break things: The sad story of Platform, Facebook’s gigan

Saved on 2019-09-26 · pando.com

Democratizing career progression

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Strong Opinions Loosely Held Might be the Worst Idea in Tech - The Glowforg

Saved on 2019-09-25 · blog.glowforge.com

Meet Glowforge, the 3D laser printer that makes magical things at the push of a button.

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The problem with ‘5 whys’

Saved on 2019-09-25 · qualitysafety.bmj.com

‘The Problem with…’ series covers controversial topics related to efforts to improve healthcare quality, including widely recommended but deceptively difficult strategies for improvement and pervasive problems that seem to resist solution. The ‘5 whys’ technique is one of the mo

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Six Common Traps that Undermine Strategic Product Management [Mind the Product]

Saved on 2019-09-23 · a-product-manager.blogspot.com

Product management blog that summarizes product manager posts, news and articles from around the web.

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Bot Ross: Teaching a Computer to Paint

Saved on 2019-09-23 · medium.com

I am not, I will admit, a terribly good artist. Not with a brush and paint at least. I can make a credible effort with a pen or pencil, provided you’re not after something tricky like human hands or…

How Postgres Makes Transactions Atomic

Saved on 2019-09-23 · brandur.org

A dive into the mechanics that allow Postgres to provide strong atomic guarantees despite the chaotic entropy of production.

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Are Cats Liquid? - Tenderly

Saved on 2019-09-21 · medium.com

Most contemporary physicists are concerned with technical, big-picture questions: Why do neutrinos have mass when the Standard Model says that they shouldn’t? Why are quantum field theory and general…

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Open Banking in the UK: what's happened so far | 11:FS Pulse

Saved on 2019-09-14 · pulse.11fs.com

Since January 2018, we have heard a lot about Open Banking, the regulation that has released the financial data of consumers from the banks’ ownership and into the hands of consumers. The short answer is “Yes, a lot has changed.” It took us over a century to build the mess that w

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8 Things Leaders Do That Make Employees Quit

Saved on 2019-09-13 · hbr.org

They’re some of the most expensive mistakes you can make.

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Liberating Structures - Introduction

Saved on 2019-09-09 · liberatingstructures.com

liberating structures, social invention.net, microstructures, disruptive innovation, behavior change, collaboration, social invention, diffusion of innovation, strategy, transformation, heuristics, complexity science, emergence

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You should not run your mail server because mail is hard - poolp.org

Saved on 2019-09-09 · poolp.org

TL;DR: - Mail is not hard: people keep repeating that because they read it, not because they tried it - Big Mailer Corps are quite happy with that myth, it keeps their userbase growing - Big Mailer Corps control a large percentage of the e-mail address space which is good for non

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Ten Principles for Growth as an Engineer - Dan Heller - Medium

Saved on 2019-09-09 · medium.com

A brief list of practices for maturing as a software engineer.

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How to do a code review | eng-practices

Saved on 2019-09-08 · google.github.io

Google’s Engineering Practices documentation

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The True Cost of Commuting

Saved on 2019-08-30 · mrmoneymustache.com

It was a beautiful evening in my neighborhood, and I was enjoying one of my giant homebrews on a deck chair I had placed in the middle of the street, as part of a nearby block’s Annual Stree…

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I test in prod – Increment: Testing

Saved on 2019-08-29 · qa.increment.com

Testing in production is a superpower. It’s our inability to acknowledge it that’s the trouble.

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How to Build Good Software

Saved on 2019-08-29 · knowledge.csc.gov.sg

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Agile Software Guide

Saved on 2019-08-29 · martinfowler.com

Agile software development is an approach designed to build software for uncertain and changing needs.

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An introduction to innersource | GitHub Resources

Saved on 2019-08-26 · resources.github.com

Organizations worldwide are incorporating open source methodologies into the way they build and ship their own software.

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Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single Repository | July 2

Saved on 2019-08-26 · cacm.acm.org

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'Plastic recycling is a myth': what really happens to your rubbish?

Saved on 2019-08-20 · theguardian.com

You sort your recycling, leave it to be collected – and then what? From councils burning the lot to foreign landfill sites overflowing with British rubbish, Oliver Franklin-Wallis reports on a global waste crisis

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You Can’t Fix Unethical Design by Yourself - Modus

Saved on 2019-08-16 · modus.medium.com

Like the climate emergency, unethical design won’t be solved with individual action alone. We need a radical shift in how the industry operates and educates, and regulatory bodies with power.

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How to Test Node.js Apps using Mocha, Chai, and SinonJS

Saved on 2019-08-16 · scotch.io

Learn how to test Node.js applications with Mocha, Chai, and SinonJS.

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Growth modeling for developers | ThoughtWorks

Saved on 2019-08-14 · thoughtworks.com

For anybody beginning a career as a software developer, we often make assumptions about how to succeed — assumptions that often turn out to be hopelessly wrong. As I've discovered over the last year, growth opportunities present themselves in all sorts of surprising ways, and I w

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How to Have a Happy Marriage - 20 Tips for a Happy Marriage

Saved on 2019-08-12 · thecut.com

Remember that you chose to love this person.

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A Year Of Running Kubernetes at MYOB, And The Importance Of Empathy.

Saved on 2019-08-08 · medium.com

In a year, we had 100 production apps across 26 tribes running on our cluster; we drove ISO 27001 compliance across 12 products, and taught 200 developers how to productionize software.

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Ronald Fisher, a Bad Cup of Tea, and the Birth of Modern Statistics | Science History Institute

Saved on 2019-08-08 · sciencehistory.org

A lesson in humility begets a scientific revolution.

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Brewer's CAP Theorem

Saved on 2019-08-07 · julianbrowne.com

An explanation of Eric Brewer’s CAP theorem, which says you cannot have more than two of Consistency, Availability and Partition-tolerance in web-based distributed systems.

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Why I love Trunk Based Development (or pushing straight to master)

Saved on 2019-08-05 · medium.com

Teams that are using short-lived feature branches would usually benefit from aiming to work directly on master.

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Sticky Love — Choosing Between Physical Boards and Online Tools

Saved on 2019-08-05 · medium.com

The physical board vs. online tool debate has been a staple of my career for 5–8 years now. It changes form occasionally, and with each year there are new twists, but for the most part it has…

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How Dark deploys code in 50ms - Darklang - Medium

Saved on 2019-08-01 · medium.com

Speed of developer iteration is the single most important factor in how quickly a technology company can move. Unfortunately, modern applications work against us: our systems are required to be live…

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Why Generics? - The Go Programming Language

Saved on 2019-08-01 · blog.golang.org

Why should we add generics to Go, and what might they look like?

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Sierra Web Design, Inc

Saved on 2019-08-01 · lahey.com

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Engineering Management: The Pendulum Or The Ladder

Saved on 2019-08-01 · charity.wtf

Last night I was out with a dear friend who has been an engineering manager for a year now, and by two drinks in I was rattling off a long list things I always say to newer engineering managers. Th…

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The Engineer/Manager Pendulum

Saved on 2019-08-01 · charity.wtf

Lately I’ve been doing some career counseling for people off Twitter (long story). The central drama for many people goes something like this: “I’m a senior engineer, but I’m thin…

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The Definition of a Tech Lead

Saved on 2019-07-31 · thekua.com

Our industry is infamous for confusing terms. Roles in software development are a good example. Titles like Architect, Tech Lead, Team Lead and Engineering Manager ... Read more

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Knightmare: A DevOps Cautionary Tale

Saved on 2019-07-27 · dougseven.com

In the first 45-minutes the market was open the faulty software deployment sent millions of child orders into the market resulting in 4 million transactions against 154 stocks for more than 397 mil…

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Fast Software, the Best Software

Saved on 2019-07-27 · craigmod.com

Essay on the benefits of speedy software, and how it affects user perception of engineering quality and overall usability

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Hypothesis Driven UX

Saved on 2019-07-26 · medium.com

Hypothesis Driven UX In this article I aim to provide a high-level process on how hypothesis driven UX can be applied during the research phase of your design process. Hypothesis driven UX stems from …

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Move Fast and Fix Things

Saved on 2019-07-26 · github.blog

Anyone who has worked on a large enough codebase knows that technical debt is an inescapable reality: The more rapidly an application grows in size and complexity, the more technical…

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Monitoring Check Smells | Benji's Blog -

Saved on 2019-07-26 · benjiweber.co.uk

I have become increasingly convinced that there is little difference between monitoring and testing. Often we can run our automated tests against a production system with only a little effort. We are used to listening to our automated tests for feedback about our software in the

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Should We Stop Keeping Pets?

Saved on 2019-07-25 · theguardian.com

Research into animals’ emotional lives has cast doubt on the ethics of petkeeping.

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The AI Revolution: The Road to Superintelligence

Saved on 2019-07-25 · waitbutwhy.com

Part 1 of 2: "The Road to Superintelligence". Artificial Intelligence — the topic everyone in the world should be talking about.

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How Stack Overflow upgraded from Windows Server 2012

Saved on 2019-07-23 · tarynpivots.com

Warning: This post is long. While working through this massive server upgrade/migration process, tears were shed, many cuss words were said, along with a general feeling of frustration, which ultimately culminated into extreme happiness once the migration was completed. The scale

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Building shared coding guidelines for AI (and people too) - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2026-04-13 · stackoverflow.blog

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The AI water issue is fake

Saved on 2026-04-12 · blog.andymasley.com

On the national, local, and personal level

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Vulnerability Research Is CookedVulnerability Research Is Cooked — Quarrelsome

Saved on 2026-04-10 · sockpuppet.org

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AI Code

Saved on 2026-03-26 · aicode.swerdlow.dev

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‘Your Frustration Is the Product’

Saved on 2026-03-26 · daringfireball.net

The people making these decisions for these websites are like ocean liner captains who are *trying* to hit icebergs.

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Snowflake Cortex AI Escapes Sandbox and Executes Malware

Saved on 2026-03-26 · promptarmor.com

A vulnerability in the Snowflake Cortex Code CLI allowed malware to be installed and executed via indirect prompt injection, bypassing human-in-the-loop command approval and escaping the sandbox.

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AI is becoming a second brain at the expense of your first one - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2026-03-26 · stackoverflow.blog

Founded in 2008, Stack Overflow’s public platform is used by nearly everyone who codes to learn, share their knowledge, collaborate, and build their careers.

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Survivor's Guilt: Processing Through AI Layoffs | AI with Zach

Saved on 2026-03-25 · aiwithzach.com

Cognitive dissonance can occur when you watch your colleagues lose their jobs, ostensibly due to AI tools you evangelize. Here is what the data says and how I processed through when it happened at my company.

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Let's Get Physical | m4iler

Saved on 2026-03-23 · m4iler.cloud

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Maybe making is about mattering

Saved on 2026-03-23 · sharif.io

Wanting to matter might be the most honest reason to create anything.

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Willingness to look stupid is a genuine moat in creative work

Saved on 2026-03-23 · sharif.io

Looking foolish is underrated.

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Organizing productive platform teams - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2026-03-23 · stackoverflow.blog

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The context problem: Why enterprise AI needs more than foundation models - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2026-03-23 · stackoverflow.blog

The difference between AI that impresses people in demos and AI that drives production value is context.

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remotely unlocking an encrypted hard disk

Saved on 2026-03-23 · jyn.dev

what's a few systemd services in initramfs between friends?

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AI And The Ship of Theseus

Saved on 2026-03-23 · lucumr.pocoo.org

Slopforks: what happens when a library gets rewritten with AI?

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Hacking Super Mario 64 using covering spaces (+ hyperbolic geometry)

Saved on 2026-03-23 · happel.ai

Visualization of the universal cover of a surface of genus 2, which is a hyperbolic space.

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DeveloperWeek 2026: Making AI tools that are actually good - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2026-03-23 · stackoverflow.blog

From interoperability to knowledge architecture to creating AI tools people can actually use, here’s a recap of what we learned from DeveloperWeek 2026.

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Rathbun’s Operator – MJ Rathbun | Scientific Coder 🦀

Saved on 2026-03-06 · crabby-rathbun.github.io

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Beyond block or allow: How pay-per-crawl is reshaping public data monetization - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2026-03-05 · stackoverflow.blog

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Modular: The Claude C Compiler: What It Reveals About the Future of Software

Saved on 2026-02-26 · modular.com

Compilers occupy a special place in computer science. They're a canonical course in computer science education. Building one is a rite of passage. It forces you to confront how software actually works, by examining languages, abstractions, hardware, and the boundary between human

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Why demand for code is infinite: How AI creates more developer jobs - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2026-02-26 · stackoverflow.blog

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How everyone and anyone can use AI for good - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2026-02-26 · stackoverflow.blog

There are big hitters in the AI space that use this tech for humanitarian and environmental good—from start-ups fighting climate change to voice recognition experts diagnosing diseases. But you don't need to be backed by AWS or Microsoft to do good. In part two of this series, we

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Is anyone using AI for good? - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2026-02-26 · stackoverflow.blog

In a world where AI is replacing human workers, using up energy and water, and deepening disconnect, is AI for humanitarian good even possible? The answer is yes. In the first part of this two-part series, we're taking a look at just a few AI do-gooders and what they're doing to

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Mind the gap: Closing the AI trust gap for developers - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2026-02-26 · stackoverflow.blog

Developer trust is synonymous with a willingness to deploy AI-generated code to production systems with minimal human review, as well as assurance that AI tools aren’t introducing unacceptable risks and technical debt that will burden you down the line.

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Wirth's Revenge

Saved on 2026-02-26 · jmoiron.net

Are LLMs the final blow in the war against Wirth's law?

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bliki: Integration Database

Saved on 2019-07-23 · martinfowler.com

An integration database is a data store for multiple applications, thus integrating them through data storage. This leads to excessive coupling that makes change risky and expensive.

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On GraphQL Schema Stitching & API Gateways - Marc-André Giroux - Medium

Saved on 2019-07-23 · medium.com

I’ve been thinking a lot on GraphQL “Schema Stitching” these days. At its core, Schema Stitching is the art of composing multiple GraphQL Schemas into one GraphQL Schema. As you can imagine, this can…

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On software quality

Saved on 2019-07-23 · linkedin.com

What do we really need in order to develop a self-driving car? My colleague Felix posted recently an excellent article about what it really takes to be a self-driving car engineer. I want to dig deeper into the first point of that article about solid software engineering.

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Council Post: Facebook's Libra: Potential To Increase Demand For Bitcoin

Saved on 2019-07-23 · forbes.com

Facebook recently announced its planned 2020 launch of a cryptocurrency it calls Libra.

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When a rewrite isn’t: rebuilding Slack on the desktop

Saved on 2019-07-23 · slack.engineering

Conventional wisdom holds that you should never rewrite your code from scratch, and that’s good advice. Time spent rewriting something that already works is time that won’t be spent making our customers working lives simpler, more pleasant, and more productive. And running code k

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The Science of Why You Hate Your Open Office - Fast Company - Medium

Saved on 2019-07-23 · medium.com

The backlash against the dreaded open office plan has been brewing for many years. Not without good reason: Many employees struggle to focus amid the endless distractions and noise that are…

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How to Assess Product Management Skills and Competencies?

Saved on 2019-07-22 · medium.com

Many CEOs and technology leaders believe that product managers need to be among the strongest talent in the company because innovative products provide competitive advantage and drive future growth…

product tech

Opinion | Why Some Teams Are Smarter Than Others

Saved on 2019-07-19 · mobile.nytimes.com

It’s about listening, empathy and having more women.

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Functional Programming Isn't the Answer – John A De Goes

Saved on 2019-07-19 · degoes.net

Functional programming is a means to an end, not an end in itself.

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Serverless Best Practices - Paul Johnston - Medium

Saved on 2019-07-19 · medium.com

Within the community we’ve been debating the best practices for many years, but there are a few that have been relatively accepted for most of that time. Most serverless practitioners who subscribe…

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Serverless is a Doctrine, not a Technology - Paul Johnston - Medium

Saved on 2019-07-19 · medium.com

I have spent the last few years in the serverless community trying to figure out how to help other people understand what it means to “go serverless”. For me in recent months talking about serverless…

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Productive Rage - I didn't understand why people struggled with (.NET's) as

Saved on 2019-07-19 · productiverage.com

Long story short (I know that some readers love a TL;DR), I have almost always worked with async/await in C# projects where it's been async from top-to-bottom and so I've rarely tried to start..

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Amazon's Build System

Saved on 2019-07-19 · gist.github.com

Amazon's Build System. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

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Notes on Escaping the Build Trap

Saved on 2019-07-18 · lethain.com

Last year while thinking about product management in infrastructure I read Cagan’s Inspired, which I thought was a very solid book. I just finished reading Perri’s Escaping the Build Trap, which is similarly excellent, and I’ve written up some notes.

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You are never too old to have a mentor - Victoria MacLennan - Medium

Saved on 2019-07-18 · medium.com

One of my standard interview questions is to ask whether a candidate has a mentor. A young woman I met recently answered that she had one but no longer needs a mentor — she knows everything she needs…

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Aurora Serverless: The Good, the Bad and the Scalable - Jeremy Daly

Saved on 2019-07-16 · jeremydaly.com

Take a deep dive into the pros and cons of Amazon's new Aurora Serverless service and find out if it's right for you and your company's needs and budget.

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Some thoughts on GraphQL vs. BFF

Saved on 2019-07-16 · philcalcado.com

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Clean Coder Blog

Saved on 2019-07-15 · blog.cleancoder.com

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Versioning limitations in .NET

Saved on 2019-07-15 · codeblog.jonskeet.uk

This is a blog post I’ve intended to write for a very long time. (Other blog posts in that category include a recipe for tiramisu ice cream, and “knights and allies”.) It’s …

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Scientist: Measure Twice, Cut Over Once - The GitHub Blog

Saved on 2019-07-15 · github.blog

Today we’re releasing Scientist 1.0 to help you rewrite critical code with confidence. As codebases mature and requirements change, it is inevitable that you will need to replace or rewrite…

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Opening up our Atlassian Term Sheet

Saved on 2019-07-15 · atlassian.com

The traditional M&A process is broken and favors large companies. So, we're leveling the playing field by releasing our Term Sheet for anyone to see.

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What You Should Never Ask Your Customers - Dave Bailey

Saved on 2019-07-15 · medium.dave-bailey.com

Learn the right questions to ask customer about your product, and the questions you should avoid at all costs.

product tech

Talk at Yale: Part 1 of 3

Saved on 2019-07-14 · joelonsoftware.com

This is part one of the text of a talk delivered to the Yale Computer Science department on November 28. The rest of the talk will be published tomorrow and Wednesday. I graduated with a B.S. in Co…

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What’s Next in Computing?

Saved on 2019-07-14 · medium.com

The computing industry progresses in two mostly independent cycles: financial and product cycles. There has been a lot of handwringing lately about where we are in the financial cycle. Financial…

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Stop Mistaking Shared Trauma for Compatibility - Human Parts

Saved on 2019-07-12 · medium.com

Where others might view someone’s unaddressed trauma as a red flag, a similarly traumatized person would see the potential risks as being worth the camaraderie that comes with them.

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Shopify and the Power of Platforms

Saved on 2019-07-11 · stratechery.com

It is all but impossible to beat an Aggregator head-on, as Walmart is trying to do with Amazon. The solution instead is to build a platform like Shopify.

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How to be an awesome mentee: a checklist - Mentorloop Mentoring Software

Saved on 2019-07-10 · mentorloop.com

Ready to build a great mentoring relationship? Here's a checklist that will help you be an awesome mentee.

career leadership learning

25 Mentorship Questions to Ask Your Mentor or Mentee - Mentorloop

Saved on 2019-07-10 · mentorloop.com

Here's a list of engaging mentorship questions to ask your mentor, help you dive deeper, and add some structure to your meetings.

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Great products do less, but better - UX Collective

Saved on 2019-07-09 · uxdesign.cc

A few years later, the team behind the product comes to the conclusion it has to do more. Features are added, new use cases are covered, and functionality becomes more sophisticated. That happens for…

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Steve Blank Why Build, Measure, Learn – isn’t just throwing things against the wall to see if they work – the Minimal Viable Product

Saved on 2019-07-04 · steveblank.com

I am always surprised when critics complain that the Lean Startup’s Build, Measure, Learn approach is nothing more than “throwing incomplete products out of the building to see if they work.” Unfor…

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The Lean Analytics Cycle: Metrics > Hypothesis > Experiment > Act - Occam's Razor by Avinash Kaushik

Saved on 2019-07-04 · kaushik.net

Companies, small or large, fail to iterate fast enough leading to poor business results. Lean Analytics Cycle is a structured process to avoid that fate!

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From design patterns to category theory

Saved on 2019-06-15 · blog.ploeh.dk

How do you design good abstractions? By using abstractions that already exist.

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The Secret History of Women in Coding

Saved on 2019-04-11 · nytimes.com

Computer programming once had much better gender balance than it does today. What went wrong?

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The Ultimate Guide to Personal Productivity Methods

Saved on 2019-04-11 · doist.com

You don't need a to-do list, you need a system you can trust.

productivity

The State of Agile Software in 2018

Saved on 2018-09-11 · martinfowler.com

Agile Software Development may be mainstream, but much of what's done is faux-agile, and we need to push back.

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EX-99.1

Saved on 2018-09-11 · sec.gov

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The Humanizing Work Guide to Splitting User Stories

Saved on 2018-09-11 · agileforall.com

The definitive guide to splitting features & stories, including the latest versions of Richard Lawrence's popular story splitting flowchart

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Z-Order Indexing for Multifaceted Queries in Amazon DynamoDB: Part 1 | Amazon Web Services

Saved on 2018-09-11 · aws.amazon.com

Update from May 29, 2018: Today, we published Z-order indexing for multifaceted queries in Amazon DynamoDB: Part 2. TL;DR Using Z-order indexing, you can efficiently run range queries on any combination of fields in your schema. Although Amazon DynamoDB doesn’t natively support Z

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Go Corporate or Go Home

Saved on 2018-09-11 · ribbonfarm.com

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The Psychology of Money

Saved on 2018-09-11 · collaborativefund.com

Let me tell you the story of two investors, neither of whom knew each other, but whose paths crossed in…

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Gardener - The Kubernetes Botanist

Saved on 2018-09-11 · kubernetes.io

Today, Kubernetes is the natural choice for running software in the Cloud. More and more developers and corporations are in the process of containerizing their applications, and many of them are adopting Kubernetes for automated deployments of their Cloud Native workloads. There

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Why the Fuss About Serverless? | HackerNoon

Saved on 2018-09-11 · hackernoon.com

To explain this, I’m going to have to recap on some old work with a particular focus on co-evolution.

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Edge Computing at Chick-fil-A - chick-fil-atech - Medium

Saved on 2018-09-11 · medium.com

by Brian Chambers, Caleb Hurd, Sean Drucker, Alex Crane, Morgan McEntire, Jamie Roberts, and Laura Jauch (the Chick-fil-A IOT/Edge team) In a recent post, we shared about how we do bare metal…

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The F-35 Is a $1.4 Trillion National Disaster - War Is Boring - Medium

Saved on 2018-09-11 · medium.com

The F-35 still has a long way to go before it will be ready for combat. That was the parting message of Michael Gilmore, the now-retired Director of Operational Test and Evaluation, in his last…

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Reaching Peak Meeting Efficiency - Learning By Shipping

Saved on 2018-09-11 · medium.learningbyshipping.com

Meetings are either a necessary evil or necessarily evil, depending on who you ask. Meetings are undeniably the most important tool for building a diverse, high-performance team with shared values.

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How To Lead When You Have No Authority - The Startup - Medium

Saved on 2018-09-11 · medium.com

This article provides four strategies that empower you to lead within your organization, whether you have authority or not. You don't have to be in a management role to lead. Learn how to transform your organization from the inside out.

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Operationalizing Node.js for Server Side Rendering - The Airbnb Tech Blog - Medium

Saved on 2018-09-11 · medium.com

At Airbnb, we have spent years steadily migrating all Frontend code to a consistent architecture where entire web pages are written as a hierarchy of React components hydrated with data from our API…

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On being lost - wardleymaps - Medium

Saved on 2018-09-11 · medium.com

This is the story of my journey, from a bumbling and confused CEO lost in the headlights of change to having a vague idea of what I was doing. I say vague because I’m not going to make grand claims…

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Designing very large (JavaScript) applications - Malte Ubl - Medium

Saved on 2018-09-11 · medium.com

This is a mildly edited transcript of my JSConf Australia talk. Watch the whole talk on YouTube. A sequel to this post is available over here. Hello, I used to build very large JavaScript…

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Building Services at Airbnb, Part 2 - The Airbnb Tech Blog - Medium

Saved on 2018-09-11 · medium.com

Airbnb is moving its infrastructure towards SOA. A reliable, performant, and developer-friendly service platform is essential in an architectural evolution. In a previous post, we shared a bird’s-eye…

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Skip User Research Unless You’re Doing It Right — Seriously

Saved on 2018-09-11 · medium.com

What user researcher hasn’t heard a question like that? We implement new tools and leaner processes, but try as we might, we inevitably meet the terminal velocity of our user research — the point at…

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Health Checks and Graceful Degradation in Distributed Systems

Saved on 2018-09-11 · medium.com

Thanks, as always, to Fred Hebert and Sargun Dhillon for reading a draft of this post and offering some invaluable suggestions. In her Velocity keynote, Tamar Bercovici of Box highlighted the…

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Consumer-Driven Contracts: A Service Evolution Pattern

Saved on 2018-09-11 · martinfowler.com

Consumers should drive the definition of service contracts, while limiting to their individual needs. Suppliers should then validate against the union of their consumers' contracts.

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Go Memory Management

Saved on 2018-09-11 · povilasv.me

Deep dive into Go Memory Management. This post gives an overview of Physical memory, Virtual memory, how Operating System interacts with hardware to run apllications.

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Distributed systems theory for the distributed systems engineer | Paper Trail

Saved on 2018-07-10 · the-paper-trail.org

Writing about distributed systems, compilers, virtual machines, databases and research papers from SOSP, ATC, NSDI, OSDI, EuroSys and others

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Consensus Protocols: Paxos | Paper Trail

Saved on 2018-07-10 · the-paper-trail.org

Writing about distributed systems, compilers, virtual machines, databases and research papers from SOSP, ATC, NSDI, OSDI, EuroSys and others

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Consensus Protocols: Three-phase Commit | Paper Trail

Saved on 2018-07-10 · the-paper-trail.org

Writing about distributed systems, compilers, virtual machines, databases and research papers from SOSP, ATC, NSDI, OSDI, EuroSys and others

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Consensus Protocols: Two-Phase Commit | Paper Trail

Saved on 2018-07-10 · the-paper-trail.org

Writing about distributed systems, compilers, virtual machines, databases and research papers from SOSP, ATC, NSDI, OSDI, EuroSys and others

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Notes on Distributed Systems for Young Bloods – Something Similar

Saved on 2018-07-10 · somethingsimilar.com

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A Taxonomy of Tech Debt

Saved on 2018-04-16 · riotgames.com

Bill Clark discusses classifying and managing tech debt at Riot.

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Top Algorithms and Data Structures You Really Need To Know

Saved on 2018-03-19 · medium.com

If you want to become a software engineer, but don’t know where to start, let’s save you the suspense: it’s algorithms and data structures. Once you get the gist of these pillars of programming…

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Best Practices for Building a Microservice Architecture

Saved on 2018-03-19 · vinaysahni.com

A curated a set of pragmatic practices for building a microservice architecture that fits well with modern web and cloud technologies.

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HackerNoon

Saved on 2018-03-19 · hackernoon.com

How hackers start their afternoon. HackerNoon is a free platform with 25k+ contributing writers. 100M+ humans have visited HackerNoon to learn about technology

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Microservices: using resources and business services as extensibility strategy

Saved on 2018-03-19 · thoughtworks.com

In this post, I want to share with you a strategy intended to improve your system’s extensibility — in other words, making your business better able to cope with future change. Of course, not everyone sees the world with the same eyes, so if you disagree with something, please sh

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Titus: Introducing Containers to the Netflix Cloud - ACM Queue

Saved on 2017-11-13 · queue.acm.org

We believe our approach has enabled Netflix to quickly adopt and benefit from containers. Though the details may be Netflix-specific, the approach of providing low-friction container adoption by integrating with existing infrastructure and working with the right early adopters ca

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Testing Strategies in a Microservice Architecture

Saved on 2017-11-09 · martinfowler.com

The microservice architectural style presents challenges for organizing effective testing, this deck outlines the kinds of tests you need and how to mix them.

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What Is Agile? The Four Essential Elements

Saved on 2017-10-23 · forbes.com

Communicating the essence of Agile clearly and simply is central to its success

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Mass Shootings in America, and Why Men (and Boys) Keep Doing This

Saved on 2017-10-15 · byrslf.co

I was 12 years old, sitting in art class in middle school. We were playing with clay and making sculptures. “I have an important announcement to make. All teachers and students need to hear this. I…

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5 Surprising Facts About The First Galaxies In The Universe

Saved on 2017-10-15 · medium.com

One of the most remarkable facts about our Universe is that it hasn’t been around forever. The clumps and clusters of matter we see — planets, stars, gas clouds, galaxies and more — grew out of…

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Software Engineering is different from Programming - AZ.dev - Medium

Saved on 2017-10-15 · medium.com

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Dev dogfooding is not user research

Saved on 2017-10-12 · thoughtworks.com

Using your own product consistently — or dogfooding — is a great technique for validating your work, especially when you fit the description of the target user. But it’s just not enough to create a great product. To do that, you need to talk to users and truly understand their ne

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3 Steps to MSBuild with Docker

Saved on 2017-09-26 · blog.alexellis.io

Build a .NET WebAPI / ASP.NET application with Windows Containers and Docker. There's no need for visual studio perfect for your Continuous Integration.

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Concurrent JavaScript: It can work!

Saved on 2017-09-26 · webkit.org

With the recent addition of SharedArrayBuffer, concurrency is finding its way into the JavaScript language.

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Making Engineering Team Communication Clearer, Faster, Better

Saved on 2017-09-26 · firstround.com

Derek Parham specializes turning engineers into great communicators. Here's the framework he used to do it at both Google and on the Hillary Clinton campaign.

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Steam's turned toxic, and Valve doesn't care | GamesIndustry.biz

Saved on 2017-09-25 · gamesindustry.biz

Steam saved PC gaming. As retailers aggressively reduced the shelf space afforded to PC titles - blaming piracy, but eq…

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Lionhead: The inside story • Eurogamer.net

Saved on 2017-09-25 · eurogamer.net

In October 2008, Microsoft released Lionhead's Fable 2 to critical and commercial acclaim. At a launch party an emotion…

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How To Be More Productive by Working Less

Saved on 2017-06-10 · markmanson.net

Doing "more work" doesn't necessarily mean you'll be more productive, and sometimes, it actually makes you less so.

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Docker in Production: A History of Failure – The HFT Guy

Saved on 2016-11-10 · thehftguy.wordpress.com

Introduction My first encounter with docker goes back to early 2015. Docker was experimented with to find out whether it could benefit us. At the time it wasn’t possible to run a container [i…

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.net - Running Code Analysis (FxCop 12.0 / 14.0) on build agent without ins

Saved on 2016-10-14 · stackoverflow.com

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Dark Scrum

Saved on 2016-10-06 · ronjeffries.com

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Introducing .NET Standard | .NET Blog

Saved on 2016-09-27 · blogs.msdn.microsoft.com

Questions? Check out the .NET Standard FAQ. You can find the latest version of the compatibility matrix here. In my last post, I talked about how we want to make porting to .NET Core easier. In this post, I’ll focus on how we’re making this plan a reality with .NET Standard. We’l

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Kate Heddleston

Saved on 2016-09-27 · kateheddleston.com

It's 2015. Technology companies are feeling enormous pressure to hire more diverse employees. In an effort to increase these diversity metrics, they decide to do the unthinkable: they lower their hiring bar. However, since diversity is still a relatively new thing in the industry

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Amit’s Game Programming Information

Saved on 2016-09-27 · www-cs-students.stanford.edu

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How Facebook ate the $140 billion hardware market | Business Insider

Saved on 2015-06-21 · businessinsider.com

The Open Compute Project started out as a controversial idea inside Facebook and has turned the $141 billion data-center computer-hardware industry on its head

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The Secret History of SEAL Team 6: Quiet Killings and Blurred Lines - NYTim

Saved on 2015-06-07 · nytimes.com

The unit best known for killing Osama bin Laden has been converted into a global manhunting machine with limited outside oversight.

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Troy Hunt: Secret iOS business; what you don’t know about your apps

Saved on 2015-05-26 · troyhunt.com

In the beginning, there was the web and you accessed it though the browser and all was good. Stuff didn’t download until you clicked on something; you expected cookies to be tracking you and you always knew if HTTPS was being used. In general, the casual observer had a pretty goo

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Interfaces are not abstractions

Saved on 2015-05-22 · blog.ploeh.dk

Interfaces are language constructs, whereas abstractions are conceptual. You can model abstractions with interfaces, but the use of interfaces in itself doesn't guarantee that you're programming with abstractions.

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Dependency Injection is Loose Coupling

Saved on 2015-05-22 · blog.ploeh.dk

The overall purpose of Dependency Injection is to facilitate loose coupling.

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How to Negotiate Nicely Without Being a Pushover - HBR

Saved on 2015-04-19 · hbr.org

Stress “we” over “I.”

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Hacking Habits: How To Make New Behaviors Last For Good - 99U

Saved on 2015-03-31 · 99u.com

Blog :: Want to write everyday? Start exercising? Quit smoking? We look at how to hack our brains' hard-wired habit loops to change our lives for the better.

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ZSFA -- Rails Is A Ghetto (2007-12-31)

Saved on 2015-03-31 · harmful.cat-v.org

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Make the DbContext Ambient with UnitOfWorkScope – Passion for Coding

Saved on 2015-03-17 · coding.abel.nu

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The Trip Treatment

Saved on 2015-02-11 · newyorker.com

Research into psychedelics may hold a key to coping with anxiety, addiction, and existential dread. Michael Pollan on psilocybin.

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One Man’s Quest to Rid Wikipedia of Exactly One Grammatical Mistake

Saved on 2015-02-11 · medium.com

On a Friday in July 2012, two employees of the Wikimedia Foundation gave a talk at Wikimania, their organization’s annual conference. Maryana Pinchuk and Steven Walling addressed a packed room as…

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How to Build a Meaningful Career

Saved on 2015-02-11 · hbr.org

Practical steps you can take toward the larger goal.

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The Likely Cause of Addiction Has Been Discovered, and It Is Not What You Think

Saved on 2015-01-24 · m.huffpost.com

New evidence about addiction isn't just a challenge to us politically. It doesn't just force us to change our minds. It forces us to change our hearts.

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Why can’t the world’s greatest minds solve the mystery of consciousness?

Saved on 2015-01-24 · theguardian.com

The long read: Philosophers and scientists have been at war for decades over the question of what makes human beings more than complex robots

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Can the Internet Be Archived?

Saved on 2015-01-24 · newyorker.com

The Web wasn’t built to preserve its past; the Wayback Machine aims to remedy that. Jill Lepore on the ethereal nature of the Web.

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What I Learned About Life After Interviewing 80 Highly Successful People |

Saved on 2015-01-18 · linkedin.com

"You interrupt too much," people email me. "Let your guests finish talking.

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An Old Fogey’s Analysis of a Teenager’s View on Social Media — The Message

Saved on 2015-01-18 · medium.com

Over the last few days, dozens of people have sent me a link to Andrew Watts’ “A Teenager’s View on Social Media written by an actual teen.” Increasingly, I’m getting uncomfortable and angry by the…

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The scientific evidence against spanking, timeouts, and sleep training

Saved on 2015-01-05 · qz.com

So when you were punished as a kid, did you absolutely, never again take an extra cookie from the cookie jar?

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Xmas or Bust: The Untold Story of ‘National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation’

Saved on 2015-01-05 · rollingstone.com

From freak snowstorms to working with Chevy Chase, the makers of 'Christmas Vacation' reveal the secrets behind a holiday-movie classic.

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The Overprotected Kid - The Atlantic

Saved on 2014-12-24 · theatlantic.com

A preoccupation with safety has stripped childhood of independence, risk-taking, and discovery—without making it safer. A new kind of playground points to a better solution.

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How to Scale Yourself and Get More Done Than You Thought Possible

Saved on 2014-12-24 · zapier.com

The following is a detailed write-up of a popular productivity talk delivered by Scott Hanselman. Visit his blog, hanselman.com, for more productivity tips. "Don't worry, just drop the ball.

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Uber Job Ad Reveals Company Mindset

Saved on 2014-12-20 · linkedin.com

I'm not an Uber-hater. I use the service every couple of months, and I've always had a positive experience.

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What Happened When Marissa Mayer Tried to Be Steve Jobs - NYTimes.com

Saved on 2014-12-18 · nytimes.com

The inside story of how Yahoo’s C.E.O. lost her way.

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The Man Who Made 'Tetris' | Motherboard

Saved on 2014-12-10 · vice.com

Life gets pretty chill after creating 'Tetris' and escaping the KGB.

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The Secret Life of Passwords - NYTimes.com

Saved on 2014-12-10 · nytimes.com

We despise them – yet we imbue them with our hopes and dreams, our dearest memories, our deepest meanings. They unlock much more than our accounts.

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How Netflix is turning viewers into puppets

Saved on 2014-12-09 · salon.com

"House of Cards" gives viewers exactly what Big Data says we want. This won't end well

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The Rise of the Professional Cyber Athlete

Saved on 2014-12-09 · newyorker.com

Ben McGrath profiles Scarlett, the StarCraft competitor who is the most accomplished woman in the young history of e-sports.

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Are Test Coverage Metrics Overrated?

Saved on 2014-12-09 · thoughtworks.com

I know a certain developer whose level of anxiety rises to disproportionate levels when his test coverage report returns a less-than-100% coverage. Whenever this happens, he will fiddle with his tests until he achieves the glorious 100% statistic - after which he will have earned

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Why Use Node.js? A Comprehensive Tutorial with Examples | Toptal

Saved on 2014-11-12 · toptal.com

Node.js can solve I/O scaling. Learn why and when to use Node.js in this tutorial.

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Finding a Video Poker Bug Made These Guys Rich—Then Vegas Made Them Pay | W

Saved on 2014-10-12 · wired.com

Michael Friberg John Kane was on a hell of a winning streak. On July 3, 2009, he walked alone into the high-limit room at the Silverton Casino in Las Vegas and sat down at a video poker machine called the Game King. Six minutes later the purple light on the top of the machine fla

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Drones and Everything After -- NYMag

Saved on 2014-10-12 · nymag.com

The flying, spying, killing machines that are turning humans into superheroes.

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Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years

Saved on 2014-07-18 · norvig.com

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Visualizing Algorithms

Saved on 2014-07-11 · bost.ocks.org

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My startup failed, and this is what it feels like… — Medium

Saved on 2014-06-28 · medium.com

If there is one thing that doing a startup has taught me, it’s that I am much more resilient than I could have ever imagined. Looking back, when I started 99dresses fresh out of high school I was…

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Is coding the new literacy?

Saved on 2014-06-22 · motherjones.com

Why America's schools need to train a generation of hackers.

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What Can Men Do?

Saved on 2014-04-29 · blog.codinghorror.com

(The title references Shanley Kane’s post by the same name. This post represents my views on what men can do.) It’s no secret that programming is an incredibly male dominated field. * Figures vary, but somewhere from 20% to 29% of currently working programmers are female. * L

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Wu-Tang, Atomically «

Saved on 2014-03-28 · grantland.com

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You Need To See This 17-Minute Film Set Entirely On A Teen's Computer Scree

Saved on 2013-12-11 · fastcocreate.com

Find the latest Creativity news from Fast company. See related business and technology articles, photos, slideshows and videos.

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SnowflakeServer

Saved on 2013-08-24 · martinfowler.com

a bliki entry for Snowflake Server

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PhoenixServer

Saved on 2013-08-24 · martinfowler.com

Why you should regularly smash your servers with a baseball bat (figuratively)

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ConfigurationSynchronization

Saved on 2013-08-24 · martinfowler.com

a bliki entry for Configuration Synchronization

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ImmutableServer

Saved on 2013-08-24 · martinfowler.com

Immutable servers cannot have their configuration changed once deployed, instead they are torn down and replaced with a new server based on an updated (version-controlled) definition.

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PHP: a fractal of bad design - fuzzy notepad

Saved on 2013-08-24 · me.veekun.com

(This article has been translated into Spanish (PDF, with some additions) by Jorge Amado Sor

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Does Visual Studio Rot the Mind?

Saved on 2013-08-24 · charlespetzold.com

Does Visual Studio Rot the Mind?

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Beware of Productivity Tools

Saved on 2013-08-24 · blog.ploeh.dk

This article discusses developer productivity tools.

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Event Sourcing

Saved on 2013-08-05 · martinfowler.com

Capture all changes to an application state as a sequence of events.

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Inversion of Control Containers and the Dependency Injection pattern

Saved on 2013-08-05 · martinfowler.com

Explaining the Dependency Injection pattern, by contrasting it with Service Locator. The choice between them is less important than the principle of separating configuration from use.

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Patterns For Large-Scale JavaScript Application Architecture

Saved on 2013-08-05 · addyosmani.com

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Mocks Aren't Stubs

Saved on 2012-11-27 · martinfowler.com

Explaining the difference between Mock Objects and Stubs (together with other forms of Test Double). Also the difference between classical and mockist styles of unit testing.

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Introducing “Razor” – a new view engine for ASP.NET - ScottGu's Blog

Saved on 2012-08-17 · weblogs.asp.net

One of the things my team has been working on has been a new view engine option for ASP.NET. ASP.NET MVC has always supported the concept of “view engines” – which are the …

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Appendix:Australian English terms for people - Wiktionary

Saved on 2012-07-13 · en.wiktionary.org

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great advice from Jesse Thorn on how to Make Your Thing http://t.co/fbx9Yx

Saved on 2012-02-29 · j.mp

Jesse Thorn - Transom

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SQL SERVER – Introduction to SQL Server Encryption and Symmetric Key Encryp

Saved on 2011-10-21 · blog.sqlauthority.com

SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008 provide encryption as a new feature to protect data against hackers’ attacks. Hackers might be able to penetrate the database or tables, but owing to encryption they would not be able to understand the data or make use of it. Nowadays, it has b

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Beyond the PC | The Economist

Saved on 2011-10-21 · economist.com

Mobile digital gadgets are overshadowing the personal computer, says Martin Giles. Their impact will be far-reaching

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Strategy Letter III: Let Me Go Back!

Saved on 2011-08-12 · joelonsoftware.com

When you’re trying to get people to switch from a competitor to your product, you need to understand barriers to entry, and you need to understand them a lot better than you think, or people …

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Fog Creek Professional Ladder

Saved on 2011-08-11 · joelonsoftware.com

The Fog Creek Professional Ladder determines your base salary. It is recalculated every August, and new base salaries go into effect September 1st (you’ll see it on the September 15 paycheck)…

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Evidence-Based Scheduling

Saved on 2011-08-10 · joelonsoftware.com

Software developers don’t really like to make schedules. Usually, they try to get away without one. “It’ll be done when it’s done!” they say, expecting that such a brave, funny zinger will reduce t…

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Designing for People Who Have Better Things To Do With Their Lives, Part Tw

Saved on 2011-08-10 · joelonsoftware.com

When the Macintosh was new, Bruce “Tog” Tognazzini wrote a column in Apple’s developer magazine on UI. In his column, people wrote in with lots of interesting UI design problems, …

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The Law of Leaky Abstractions - Joel on Software

Saved on 2011-08-10 · joelonsoftware.com

There’s a key piece of magic in the engineering of the Internet which you rely on every single day. It happens in the TCP protocol, one of the fundamental building blocks of the Internet. TCP…

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Strategy Letter II: Chicken and Egg Problems - Joel on Software

Saved on 2011-08-09 · joelonsoftware.com

The idea of advertising is to lie without getting caught. Most companies, when they run an advertising campaign, simply take the most unfortunate truth about their company, turn it upside down (&#8…

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Designing for People Who Have Better Things To Do With Their Lives, Part Th

Saved on 2011-08-09 · joelonsoftware.com

One of the early principles of GUI interfaces was that you shouldn’t ask people to remember things that the computer could remember. The classic example is the Open File dialog box, which sho…

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Painless Software Schedules - Joel on Software

Saved on 2011-08-09 · joelonsoftware.com

Last October, the Northeast US was plastered with ads for something called Acela, a new express train running from Boston to Washington. With TV ads, billboards, and posters everywhere, you’d…

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Where do These People Get Their (Unoriginal) Ideas? - Joel on Software

Saved on 2011-08-09 · joelonsoftware.com

Maybe I should call this article “why I should stop reading Upside Magazine”. I really have been trying to stop, but they send it to me for free, and I really needed bathroom reading ma…

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Designing for People Who Have Better Things To Do With Their Lives - Joel o

Saved on 2011-08-09 · joelonsoftware.com

When you design user interfaces, it’s a good idea to keep two principles in mind: Users don’t have the manual, and if they did, they wouldn’t read it. In fact, users can’t r…

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Daily Builds Are Your Friend - Joel on Software

Saved on 2011-08-09 · joelonsoftware.com

In 1982, my family took delivery of the very first IBM-PC in Israel. We actually went down to the warehouse and waited while our PC was delivered from the port. Somehow, I convinced my dad to get t…

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Making Wrong Code Look Wrong - Joel on Software

Saved on 2011-08-09 · joelonsoftware.com

Way back in September 1983, I started my first real job, working at Oranim, a big bread factory in Israel that made something like 100,000 loaves of bread every night in six giant ovens the size of…

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Painless Bug Tracking - Joel on Software

Saved on 2011-08-09 · joelonsoftware.com

TRS-80 Level-I BASIC could only store two string variables, A$ and B$. Similarly, I was born with only two bug-storing-slots in my brain. At any given time, I can only remember two bugs. If you ask…

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The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code - Joel on Software

Saved on 2011-08-03 · joelonsoftware.com

Have you ever heard of SEMA? It’s a fairly esoteric system for measuring how good a software team is. No, wait! Don’t follow that link! It will take you about six years just to understa…

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Recruiting the Top 1 Percent - Joel Spolsky - Fog Creek Software - Internsh

Saved on 2011-08-03 · inc.com

There's a better way to find and hire the very best employees.

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Beating the Averages

Saved on 2011-08-03 · paulgraham.com

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Security Report: Windows vs Linux • The Register

Saved on 2011-05-24 · theregister.co.uk

An independent assessment

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The Anatomy of a Search Engine

Saved on 2011-04-12 · infolab.stanford.edu

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Create a Language Compiler for the .NET Framework Using C#

Saved on 2011-02-23 · msdn.microsoft.com

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Gamasutra - News - Analysis: The Psychology of Immersion in Video Games

Saved on 2010-08-27 · gamedeveloper.com

Game discussion often revolves around "immersion," but what exactly does that mean? Psychologist and gamer Jamie Madigan takes a look at the complex psychological concepts behind immersion in games.

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What's at the Other End of 8.8.8.8?

Saved on 2026-02-26 · blog.nono.io

8.8.8.8 is Google’s “free, global DNS resolution service”, so popular that it’s been lampooned by XKCD. It has a wonderfully straightforward front-end: the IP address 8.8.8.8. But that begs the question: what’s on the back-end? Do the authoritative nameservers receive queries fro

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Stay away from my trash! - tldraw: Infinite Canvas SDK for React

Saved on 2026-02-26 · tldraw.dev

The tldraw SDK provides tools, services, and APIs to build beautiful whiteboards and infinite canvas applications with real-time collaboration and a powerful React-based canvas.

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Sandwich Bill of Materials

Saved on 2026-02-26 · nesbitt.io

SBOM 1.0: A specification for sandwich supply chain transparency.

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An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me

Saved on 2026-02-26 · theshamblog.com

Summary: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into acceptin…

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AI makes interfaces disposable | Chris Loy

Saved on 2026-02-26 · chrisloy.dev

I recently became a parent for the first time, as my wife and I welcomed a beautiful baby boy into our lives in January of this year.

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How I got promoted to staff engineer twice

Saved on 2026-02-24 · seangoedecke.com

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How strong engineers break the rules and get away with it

Saved on 2026-02-24 · seangoedecke.com

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It's not your codebase

Saved on 2026-02-23 · seangoedecke.com

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How good engineers write bad code at big companies

Saved on 2026-02-23 · seangoedecke.com

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What can strong engineers do that weak engineers can't?

Saved on 2026-02-23 · seangoedecke.com

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make.ts

Saved on 2026-02-06 · matklad.github.io

Up Enter Up Up Enter Up Up Up Enter

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The Codeless Code: Case 123 Order and Chaos

Saved on 2026-02-02 · thecodelesscode.com

An illustrated collection of (sometimes violent) fables, concerning the Art and Philosophy of software development

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ISP Column - January 2026

Saved on 2026-02-02 · potaroo.net

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Software engineers should be a little bit cynical

Saved on 2026-02-02 · seangoedecke.com

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The Death of Software Development

Saved on 2026-02-02 · mike.tech

The job of software developer is dead. You might still be coding, but the profession as you knew it is gone.

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Is that allowed? Authentication and authorization in Model Context Protocol - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2026-02-02 · stackoverflow.blog

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8 lessons from tech leadership on scaling teams and AI - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2026-02-02 · stackoverflow.blog

What we learned from the first year of Leaders of Code.

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If you're a Zoomer, this one's for you: Everything Gen Z needs to know about the 2025 tech landscape - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2026-02-02 · stackoverflow.blog

Here's the lowdown on all the tech from 2025 that you, dear Zoomer, should know about.

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Welcome to Gas Town

Saved on 2026-01-30 · steve-yegge.medium.com

Happy New Year, and Welcome to Gas Town!

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The Trust Collapse: Why Manager Credibility Dropped from 46% to 29% in Two Years

Saved on 2026-01-19 · medium.com

Trust in managers plummeted 17 points in two years. Discover why leadership credibility collapsed & how to rebuild authentic authority.

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Code Is Cheap Now. Software Isn’t.

Saved on 2026-01-16 · chrisgregori.dev

The barrier to entry for building software has collapsed. The barrier to building something that matters hasn’t moved an inch.

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The Strange Case of Engineers Who Dismiss AI

Saved on 2026-01-16 · terriblesoftware.org

Some engineers dismiss AI coding tools as ‘garbage’ without trying modern versions. Their outdated opinions are costing them.

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How to Master the Art of the Perspective Shift (Advice From Yoda)

Saved on 2026-01-16 · nik.art

Want to know how you can design a perspective shift for yourself right when you need it? These wise tips from Master Yoda will teach you.

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Giving Up Is Also Giving | nik.art

Saved on 2026-01-16 · nik.art

Sometimes, it’s harder to not do something than to keep going. We don’t want to lose that piece of our identity. But what might we gain if we let go? Time? Money? Inner peace? Giving up isn’t always an act of generosity, but it is always an act of giving. It takes energy to say [

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johnousterhout/aposd-vs-clean-code: A discussion between John Ousterhout and Robert Martin about differences between John's book "A Philosophy of Software Design" and Bob's book "Clean Code".

Saved on 2026-01-15 · github.com

A discussion between John Ousterhout and Robert Martin about differences between John's book "A Philosophy of Software Design" and Bob's book "Clean Code". - johnousterh...

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Life Happens at 1x Speed

Saved on 2026-01-15 · terriblesoftware.org

Why I stopped consuming content at 2x speed, and the simple rule that changed how I listen to everything.

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The Suck Is Why We're Here | nik.art

Saved on 2026-01-15 · nik.art

On a catchup call, I told my friend Nick Wignall how someone had trained an AI model to write blog posts in my style. It was a pure research exercise on their part. The idea was to train the tool on my past work, then give it the headlines and opening paragraphs of my 2025 […]

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Danny O'Brien's Oblomovka » Blog Archive » AI Psychosis, AI Apotheosis

Saved on 2026-01-15 · oblomovka.com

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Vibe-Coded Is the New "Made in China" | Gabriel Afonso

Saved on 2026-01-14 · gabriel-afonso.com

Why does admitting a project is vibe-coded trigger instant skepticism? A look at what the label signals, why the distrust makes sense, and what chess surviving Deep Blue tells us about where this might be heading.

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The Next Two Years of Software Engineering

Saved on 2026-01-12 · addyosmani.com

Exploring five critical questions shaping software engineering through 2026, with contrasting scenarios for each. These lenses help prepare for the evolving ...

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Attention Is Bayesian Inference

Saved on 2026-01-09 · medium.com

My journey from building cricket bots to building “wind tunnels” with my collaborators — and finding the answer hidden in geometry.

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Documents: The architect’s programming language - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2026-01-09 · stackoverflow.blog

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I Wish People Were More Public

Saved on 2026-01-09 · borretti.me

On sharing more of yourself.

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A Year Of Vibes

Saved on 2026-01-09 · lucumr.pocoo.org

A personal recap of 2025 and a year of a new style of engineering.

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Kernighan's lever

Saved on 2026-01-09 · linusakesson.net

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AI vs Gen Z: How AI has changed the career pathway for junior developers - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2026-01-09 · stackoverflow.blog

For promising Gen Z students, a career as a software developer seemed like the golden ticket to career stability and success. But in the age of AI, the career promise for Gen Z software developers is gone.

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Whether AI is a bubble or revolution, how does software survive? - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2026-01-09 · stackoverflow.blog

Money is pouring into the AI industry. Will software survive the disruption it causes?

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The Great Unracking: Saying goodbye to the servers at our physical datacenter - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2026-01-09 · stackoverflow.blog

So long and thanks for all the bits!

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The AI ick - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2026-01-09 · stackoverflow.blog

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Making your code base better will make your code coverage worse - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2026-01-09 · stackoverflow.blog

Maintaining a minimum of 80% code coverage affects code decisions and not always for the better.

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At AWS re:Invent, the news was agents, but the focus was developers - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2026-01-09 · stackoverflow.blog

Four days, 60,000 developers, and AI-generated perfume. The re:Invent that was.

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When AI writes almost all code, what happens to software engineering?

Saved on 2026-01-09 · newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com

No longer a hypothetical question, this is a mega-trend set to hit the tech industry

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A brief history of Times New Roman | Typography for Lawyers

Saved on 2026-01-08 · typographyforlawyers.com

Typography for Lawyers

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Developers, Your Job Is Not To Write Code

Saved on 2025-12-31 · matthogg.fyi

The advice I've consistently given to developers who want to grow might seem counter-intuitive, but it's always held true for me—the first step to being a great developer is recognizing that your job is not to write code.

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How To Care About Your Job When It Doesn't Care About You

Saved on 2025-12-31 · matthogg.fyi

We all want to do awesome things and make an impact at work. However, what we call “work” is a relationship between employer and employee that's inherently and persistently designed to benefit the former over the latter. How do we meaningfully contribute, earn a living, and maybe

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Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools

Saved on 2025-12-22 · lr0.org

This post was discussed in HackerNews, Lobsters, and r/coding. You can check also my response to some comments.

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4 billion if statements

Saved on 2025-12-22 · andreasjhkarlsson.github.io

I recently stumbled upon this screenshot while researching social media on the train. Of course, it was followed by a cascade of spiteful comments, criticizing this fresh programmer’s attempt to solve a classical problem in computer science. The modulus operation.

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If You’re Going to Vibe Code, Why Not Do It in C?

Saved on 2025-12-22 · stephenramsay.net

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AI Trade Arena

Saved on 2025-12-22 · aitradearena.com

10 Smart Performance Hacks For Faster Python Code | The PyCharm Blog

Saved on 2025-12-22 · blog.jetbrains.com

Learn practical optimization hacks, from data structures to built-in modules, that boost speed, reduce overhead, and keep your Python code clean.

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What AI is Really For - Christopher Butler

Saved on 2025-12-22 · chrbutler.com

After three years of immersion in AI, I have come to a relatively simple conclusion: it’s a useful technology that is very likely overhyped to the

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So You Want To Speak At Software Conferences? : dylanbeattie.net

Saved on 2025-12-22 · dylanbeattie.net

An article from dylanbeattie.net

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Making RSS More Fun

Saved on 2025-12-22 · matduggan.com

I wrote a browser extension to try and make finding random, independent websites more fun.

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Essential ingredients for enterprise AI success - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2025-12-22 · stackoverflow.blog

Here, we’ve distilled the survey findings, laid out action items for leadership, and dug into recommendations around agentic AI for the enterprise. Spoiler alert: It all comes back to data quality.

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We stopped roadmap work for a week and fixed 189 bugs

Saved on 2025-12-22 · lalitm.com

How quarterly fixit weeks help teams tackle small annoyances that never bubble up to the priority list.

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A Unified Theory Of Ego, Empathy, And Humility At Work

Saved on 2025-12-22 · matthogg.fyi

In our daily lives empathy and humility are obvious virtues we aspire to. They keep our egos in check. Less obvious is that they're practical skills in the workplace, too. I think, for developers and technical leaders in particular, that the absence of ego is the best way to furt

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How Stack Overflow’s MCP Server is helping HP modernize the software development lifecycle - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2025-12-22 · stackoverflow.blog

HP‘s Distinguished Technologist Evan Scheessele shares how better knowledge access is allowing HP to experiment and modernize their software development lifecycle with the help of the Stack Internal MCP Server.

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Trillions Spent and Big Software Projects Are Still Failing

Saved on 2025-12-22 · spectrum.ieee.org

Why do software failures persist despite soaring IT budgets? Dive into the complexities that keep success elusive.

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Most Technical Problems Are Really People Problems

Saved on 2025-12-22 · blog.joeschrag.com

Someone pointed out that Jeff Atwood wrote this same thing in 2008. Jeff references Bruce Eckel from 2007 , and Bruce references Gerald...

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How to Create a Weapon System in Unreal Engine 5

Saved on 2025-12-10 · trueoutlaw.medium.com

This tutorial covers how to create a weapon inventory system with the ability to switch between different weapons.

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A Brutal Look at Balanced Parentheses, Computing Machines, and Pushdown Automata

Saved on 2025-11-20 · raganwald.com

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Needy Programs

Saved on 2025-11-20 · tonsky.me

We used to use software; now software started to use us

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The Country That Broke Kotlin

Saved on 2025-11-17 · sam-cooper.medium.com

Logic vs language: how a Turkish alphabet bug played a years-long game of hide-and-seek inside the Kotlin compiler

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Why your boss isn't worried about AI

Saved on 2025-11-17 · boydkane.com

Can't you just turn it off?.

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Mathematical proof debunks the idea that the universe is a computer simulation

Saved on 2025-11-17 · phys.org

It's a plot device beloved by science fiction: our entire universe might be a simulation running on some advanced civilization's supercomputer. But new research from UBC Okanagan has mathematically proven ...

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Emergent introspective awareness in large language models \\ Anthropic

Saved on 2025-11-17 · anthropic.com

Research from Anthropic on the ability of large language models to introspect

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AI agents will succeed because one tool is better than ten - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2025-11-17 · stackoverflow.blog

AI agents can chat, use tools, and write new code all from one interface. That's why they'll last.

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LLMs Can Get Brain Rot

Saved on 2025-11-17 · llm-brain-rot.github.io

Exploring the phenomenon of 'brain rot' in large language models and its implications for AI cognition.

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Is Life a Form of Computation?

Saved on 2025-11-17 · thereader.mitpress.mit.edu

Alan Turing and John von Neumann saw it early: the logic of life and the logic of code may be one and the same.

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Is Software The UFOlogy of Engineering Disciplines?

Saved on 2025-11-17 · codemanship.wordpress.com

One area where software development lags far behind other technical design disciplines like electronic and mechanical engineering is in standards of evidence. To illustrate what I mean, I want to t…

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The AI ick - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2025-11-17 · stackoverflow.blog

How we feel about AI-generated content, what AI detectors tell us, and why human creativity matters. Also, what is art?

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How to Make Tools in UE4

Saved on 2025-11-06 · lxjk.github.io

This article is based on Unreal 4.17 code base, tested in Unreal 4.23. This is a step by step tutorial to write tools for your Unreal project. I would assume you are familiar with Unreal already. This is NOT a tutorial for SLATE code, that deserves a tutorial

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Stroustrup: FAQ

Saved on 2025-11-05 · stroustrup.com

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A History of Large Language Models

Saved on 2025-11-01 · gregorygundersen.com

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I'm in Vibe Coding Hell

Saved on 2025-11-01 · blog.boot.dev

When I started thinking about the problems with coding education in 2019, “tutorial hell” was enemy number one. You’d know you were living in it if you:

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Why Self-host?

Saved on 2025-11-01 · romanzipp.com

Let me make the argument why you should start self-hosting more of your personal services.

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The web has a new system for making AI companies pay up

Saved on 2025-09-25 · theverge.com

The mission is to keep the web sustainable.

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AI vs Gen Z: How AI has changed the career pathway for junior developers - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2025-09-25 · stackoverflow.blog

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Blueprints vs. C++: How They Fit Together and Why You Should Use Both

Saved on 2025-09-24 · awforsythe.com

It's not an either/or decision. Learn what makes C++ and Blueprints different, what they have in common, and how to use them together effectively.

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Performance guideline for Blueprints and making sense of Blueprint VM.

Saved on 2025-09-22 · intaxwashere.github.io

In this post I’ll go through common myths about Blueprint performance bottlenecks and explain real logic behind it’s virtual machine.

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Never Enough Space! Redesigning the inventory system for Unexplored 2

Saved on 2025-09-17 · gamedeveloper.com

Two weeks after the release of Unexplored 2 we’ve redesigned the inventory system as players found it to be too restrictive and too diminishing of the fun of finding treasure during their adventures. In this post Joris Dormans looks back at this pivot.

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Intuitive Inventory Systems in VR Games

Saved on 2025-09-17 · gamedeveloper.com

We took a look at the various inventory systems used in popular VR games and share our observations.

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Poisoning Well

Saved on 2025-09-15 · heydonworks.com

An experimental strategy for contaminating Large Language Models

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Computers are for Girls | datagubbe.se

Saved on 2025-09-15 · datagubbe.se

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Using Claude Code to modernize a 25-year-old kernel driver – Dmitry Brant

Saved on 2025-09-15 · dmitrybrant.com

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Unionize or die

Saved on 2025-09-13 · drewdevault.com

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Overcoming Imposter Syndrome and Finally Starting Your Job Search - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2025-09-07 · stackoverflow.blog

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The good times in tech are over

Saved on 2025-09-07 · seangoedecke.com

For most of the last decade, being a software engineer has been a lot of fun. Every company offered lots of perks, layoffs and firings were almost unheard of…

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Game engines and shader stuttering: Unreal Engine's solution to the problem

Saved on 2025-09-05 · unrealengine.com

Take a dive into Pipeline State Object (PSO) precaching and find out how this technique has evolved to the point that it now prevents most kinds of shader compilation stutters.

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Rendering a Game in Real-Time with AI

Saved on 2025-09-04 · blog.jeffschomay.com

Discover the process of transforming an ASCII game into real-time AI-rendered graphics with fal.ai

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Uncertain⟨T⟩

Saved on 2025-09-04 · nshipster.com

GPS coordinates aren’t exact. Sensor readings have noise. User behavior is probabilistic. Yet we write code that pretends uncertainty doesn’t exist, forcing messy real-world data through clean Boolean logic.

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Open Source is one person

Saved on 2025-09-04 · opensourcesecurity.io

The Register recently published a story titled Putin on the code: DoD reportedly relies on utility written by Russian dev. They should be ashamed of this story. This poor open source developer is getting beat up now to score some internet points. It’s very upsetting. But anyway,

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Moving the public Stack Overflow sites to the cloud: Part 1 - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2025-09-04 · stackoverflow.blog

Stack Overflow, born on the bare metal racks of a data center, ascends to the cloud.

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The Bubble That Knows It's a Bubble

Saved on 2025-08-30 · craigmccaskill.com

The four words that precede every crash: “This time is different.”

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Documents: The architect’s programming language - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2025-08-30 · stackoverflow.blog

Founded in 2008, Stack Overflow’s public platform is used by nearly everyone who codes to learn, share their knowledge, collaborate, and build their careers.

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