Why Accurate Vehicle Specs Matter More Than You Think
tl;dr: Vehicle specs power everything from insurance quotes to resale values, but inaccurate data can lead to costly mistakes. CarsXE delivers real-time, VIN-verified vehicle specifications, ensuring engineers build reliable, high-performing applications with trusted data at scale.featured in #591
How I Learned To Code With My Voice
- Salma Alam-Naylor tl;dr: “But, I did what every good software engineer does when dealing with a difficult bug: I stripped everything down and pieced the tools and functionality back together, one by one. Next, I’ll detail the tools that worked for me, and I’ll follow with some important advice that I wish I’d found or that someone had given me when I was at the start of my journey.”featured in #589
Start Selling To Enterprises With Just A Few Lines Of Code
tl;dr: WorkOS makes enterprise-grade authentication and user management effortless. With just a few lines of code, integrate powerful features like SSO, SCIM, and RBAC in minutes—not months. Designed for B2B SaaS, WorkOS offers modular APIs, a first-in-class dev experience, and onboarding assistant to eliminate complexity for your engineering team. Best of all? User Management is free for up to 1 million MAUs and includes MFA, bot protection, and more.featured in #586
Protect Against Bots, Fraud, And Abuse
tl;dr: Detect, verify, and block harmful behavior in real time. Radar protects your app against AI bots, account abuse, credential theft, and more.featured in #582
How Square Auto-Generated A Go SDK Using Fern
- Jordan Bergero tl;dr: Square has 100s of API endpoints that developers want to call from a Go backend. By partnering with Fern, Square automatically generated a Go client library that's dependency-free, has auto-pagination for lengthy responses, and handles retry requests.featured in #579
Leadership Power Tools: SQL And Statistics
- Matt Blewitt tl;dr: “A common pattern I’ve seen over the years have been folks in engineering leadership positions that are not super comfortable with extracting and interpreting data from stores, be it databases, CSV files in an object store, or even just a spreadsheet. We’re going to cover SQL & DuckDB, then some useful statistical tools: summary stats, distributions, confidence intervals and Bayesian reasoning.”featured in #578
Introducing <Waitlist /> Mode - A Virtual Queue For Your App
tl;dr: Waitlist is a new sign-up mode and component that lets users register interest and join a waitlist for early access to your product. Manage user access and onboarding all within your Clerk Dashboard. Read our changelog announcement for more details.featured in #575
Auto-Translating Videos to 130+ Languages
tl;dr: Ever wished you could dub videos as easily as you translate text? Rask AI's new API handles everything – transcription, translation, dubbing, and even lip-syncing – in a single integration. Tech teams love how simple it is! Want to see it in action? Book a demo this week and grab a $500 welcome bonus, exclusively for Pointer readers. Check out the docs or get your free demo! See Rask AI in action.featured in #572
Why Cohere Chose Fern To Auto-Generate And Maintain Its SDKs
tl;dr: Prior to using Fern, Cohere dealt with a classic SDK challenge. Like most dev-products, their users utilized a variety of languages. This created a design problem: each language had different type systems, primitives, and concurrency models. Read more about how Cohere was able to solve this by leveraging Fern's generators to build and maintain type-safe, idiomatic SDKs across multiple languages.featured in #571
Rough Notes On Learning Wardley Mapping
- Will Larson tl;dr: Wardley Mapping is a strategic planning tool that helps visualize how business components evolve over time, from novel ideas to industry standards. Will shares resources that guide might be useful for leaders.featured in #571