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Retrospectives Antipatterns - Aino Corry #Leadership #Management #Antipattern
tl;dr: If you use retrospectives, or any kind of meeting where people are supposed to discuss and learn from their discussions, you will have experienced less efficient sessions from time to time. There is no wonder in that, and it happens to most people. This article offers solutions to three common, unfortunate situations: (1) Skipping generating insights. (2) Getting lost in things you can't change. (3) Being dominated by a loudmouth. |
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How We Manage Incident Response At Honeycomb
- Fred Herbert #Leadership #Management
tl;dr: This article is broken down into five sections that provide a coherent view of incident response: (1) Dealing with the unknown. (2) Managing limited cognitive bandwidth. (3) Coordination patterns. (4) Maintaining psychological safety. (5) Feeding information back into the organization. |
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Build Internal Tools, Remarkably Fast #Management #Leadership #UsefulTool
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The Art Of Knowing When To Quit
- Jim Nielsen #CareerAdvice
tl;dr: Jim is inspired by the following quote and applies it to engineering: “I deeply respect people who have the courage to quit when they feel they have done what they wanted to do, expressed what they wanted to express, created what they wanted to create… It's called being done with something. And that's a good thing.” |
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“The trick is to fix the problem you have, rather than the problem you want.”
- Bram Cohen
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Image Stacks And iPhone Racks - Building An Internet Scale Meme Search Engine - Matthew Bryant #Search #DeepDive #Architecture
tl;dr: "There’s an ironic duality to most memes: the more niche they are, the more funny they tend to be… This presented an extremely common problem: I could never find the niche memes I wanted to send folks when I needed them most. Mid-conversation, spur-of-the-moment memes were always impossible to find. Scrolling through hundreds of saved images in my phone is not efficient searching as it turns out, so I decided to try to better solve the problem.” |
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Writing Javascript Without A Build System - Julia Evans #JS
tl;dr: “I want to talk about what’s appealing to me about build systems, why I usually still don’t use them, and why I find it frustrating that some frontend Javascript libraries require that you use a build system. I’m writing this because most of the writing I see about JS assumes that you’re using a build system, and it can be hard to navigate for folks like me who write very simple small Javascript projects that don’t require a build system.” |
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A Gentle Introduction To CRDTs #DataStructure
tl;dr: A CRDT is a data structure that is replicated across multiple computers in a network, with the following features: (1) The application can update any replica independently, concurrently and without coordinating with other replicas. (2) An algorithm (itself part of the data type) automatically resolves any inconsistencies that might occur. (3) Although replicas may have different state at any particular point in time, they are guaranteed to eventually converge. The article discusses when you need a CRDT, examples of them, pro and cons, and more. |
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React.js: The Documentary #ReactJS
tl;dr: “React.js: The Documentary brings you the full story behind the early days of React, focusing on the dedicated group of developers who helped bring it to the world stage. This story is told by an all-star cast of developers like Tom Occhino, Christopher Chedeau, Pete Hunt, Sebastian Markbåge, Dan Abramov, and many more.”
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