Issue #424

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Get It Done

— Andrew Bosworth

tl;dr: “I relate strongly to the instinct many of us have to do things ourselves rather than involve others. We don’t want to bother them. If we’re being honest, we don’t want to have to. We may worry how it reflects on us. We may worry it means we are failing. But my experience in leadership tells me the exact opposite is true. Someone who tells me when things are going poorly is someone I am going to trust relative to someone who struggles in silence.”

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Linking Modular Architecture To Development Teams

— Matthew Foster

tl;dr: “This article charts the journey of an enterprise who set out to shift their architecture to a more modular one in order to ease their growing pains. They found that modularity is a multifaceted solution that extends beyond architecture, into business lines of communication, team topologies and effective developer experience. By paying close attention to these factors, the enterprise was able to achieve significant uplifts in the delivery performance of their mobile applications.”

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Tindall On Software Delays

tl;dr: “Bill Tindall was instrumental to the Apollo missions and considered by many at Nasa and MIT to be an excellent leader. He authored over a thousand widely circulated memos, called Tindallgrams. I stumbled over one of these, which highlights the three perspectives needed for good engineering and management: (1) Trust the people doing the work. (2) See the problem for yourself and accept reality. (2) Attend to the big picture. (4) Work with interactions and trade-offs.”

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“Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.”

— Alan Cooper

IKEA-Oriented Development

tl;dr: "Every codebase is a home. Repos carry scars, arguments, memories, secrets, decorations, and sometimes graffiti. Programmers are homeowners. They perform repairs, rearrange things, and embark on redesigns. To frugally furnish a codebase, imitate Ikea: (1) Packaging is the Product. (2) Pre-Packaged Dependencies. (3) Composable & Disposable. The author plays out the analogy.

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10 Best AI Chrome Extensions For Developers

— Eli McGarvie

tl;dr: (1) ChatGPT for Google: works with Google to provide developers with tailored search results designed to meet specific needs. (2) Fireflies.ai: AI-powered meeting assistant to help developers save time and stay organized. (3) Compose AI: create written content as part of work. And more.

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Understanding DeepMind's Sorting Algorithm

— Justine Tunney

tl;dr: DeepMind applied deep learning insights to develop a compact sorting algorithm. Their kernel function, move37, is a building block for sort3. This algorithm optimizes comparisons and swaps, achieving efficient sorting and the code examples demonstrate its evolution leading to branchless instructions and improved performance.

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Plain Text Journaling

tl;dr: “I cobbled together a journaling system with {neo,}vim, coreutils and dateutils. This system is loosely based on Ryder Caroll’s Bullet Journal method.” The author gives us a demo.

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Notable GitHub Repos

Chat2DB: General-purpose SQL client and reporting tool for databases.

OpenObserve: Cloud native observability platform.

Vercel AI SDK: Build AI-powered apps with React, Svelte, and Vue.

Zluda: CUDA on Intel GPUs.

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