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Friday 26rd July’s issue is presented by Clerk |
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Managers, Be Explicit About What You Need From Your Team — Wes Kao
tl;dr: Wes discusses each of the following considerations when being explicit about what you need from your team: (1) Don't dive straight into details. (2) Share the overarching goal. (3) Signpost by using keywords that help your team easily make sense of what you’re saying. (4) Use an analogy. (5) Explain your thought process. (6) Reinforce that they are the project owners. (7) Be more specific than you think you have to be.
Leadership Management |
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Pragmatism, Neutrality And Leadership — Charity Majors
tl;dr: Charity discusses how leaders can handle workplace politics. “Are we supposed to speak up or stay silent? Share our own beliefs, or take a studiously neutral stance? What do we do if half of the company is numb and reeling with grief, and the other half is bursting with joy? Nothing at all? That feels inhumane. Is the reality that we live in a world where we can only live, work, and interact with people who already agree with us and our political beliefs? God, I hope not.”
Leadership Management |
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"Absolute certainty is a terribly thing.”
— Bjarne Stroustrup
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How I Use Git Worktrees — Alex Kladov
tl;dr: “There are a bunch of posts on the internet about using git worktree command. As far as I can tell, most of them are primarily about using worktrees as a replacement of, or a supplement to git branches. Instead of switching branches, you just change directories. This is also how I originally had used worktrees, but that didn’t stick, and I abandoned them. But recently worktrees grew on me, though my new use-case is unlike branching.”
Git |
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How Passwordless Authentication Works - A Deep Dive — James Walker
tl;dr: Passwordless authentication is a better option than traditional passwords, improving security and increasing convenience by removing the challenges associated with passwords. James explains how passwordless works using methods like magic links, biometrics, or one-time codes, and the benefits it provides engineering leaders and CTOs.
Promoted by FusionAuth DeepDive |
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Pickup In 3 minutes: Uber’s Implementation Of Live Activity On iOS — Francesco Frison
tl;dr: “From a UX perspective, we quickly recognized the unique challenge posed by Live Activities. Information on this surface is only glanced at for a few seconds at a time, and it extends beyond the boundaries of the main app. Attempting to cram the same information from our app into the Live Activity view would have been a mistake. Users would only look at it briefly, so we categorized the information based on what we believe users’ priorities would be during a trip.”
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Implementing Stripe-like Idempotency Keys In Postgres — Brandur Leach
tl;dr: “In APIs idempotency is a powerful concept. An idempotent endpoint is one that can be called any number of times while guaranteeing that the side effects will occur only once. In a messy world where clients and servers that may occasionally crash or have their connections drop partway through a request, it’s a huge help in making systems more robust to failure. Clients that are uncertain whether a request succeeded or failed can simply keep retrying it until they get a definitive response.”
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