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Friday 12th July’s issue is presented by AssemblyAI |
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Leadership For Results And Peace Of Mind — Subbu Allamaraju
tl;dr: “After years of testing various ideas and behaviors, I developed a leadership framework that has proven effective in achieving results, enjoying work, and maintaining peace of mind. While there’s no one-size-fits-all leadership recipe, I’m eager to share a few key behaviors that have helped me and could benefit you.”
Leadership Management |
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Strategy For Directors: Models — Anna Shipman
tl;dr: Anna presents PESTLE and VUCA frameworks for tackling issues subject to external influences and unpredictability. “The value is in bringing the issues into the open and discussing them, as much as the end result. People are often making unconscious assumptions about the future, or the current situation, and these models help surface them.”
Leadership Management |
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What Is Old Is New Again — Gergely Orosz
tl;dr: “The past 18 months have seen major change reshape the tech industry. What does this mean for businesses, dev teams, and what will pragmatic software engineering approaches look like, in the future?”
Trends |
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"Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things."
— Peter Drucker
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How Canva Collects 25 Billion Events Per Day — Long Nguyen
tl;dr: “These use cases are powered by a stream of analytics events at a rate of 25 billion events per day (800 billion events per month), with 99.999% uptime. Our Product Analytics Platform team manages this data pipeline. Their mission is to provide a reliable, ergonomic, and cost-effective way to collect user interaction events and distribute the data to a wide range of destinations for consumption.”
Analytics Architecture |
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6 Hard Lessons We Learned About Automated Testing For GenAI Apps — John Gluck
tl;dr: Testing LLMs is not simple. The probabilistic output makes failures hard to identify while running the models repeatedly tends to become very expensive quickly. In this blog post, QA Wolf engineer John Gluck covers 6 things the team learned about building automated black-box regression tests for genAI applications.
Promoted by QA Wolf Tests |
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Entering Text In The Terminal Is Complicated — Julia Evans
tl;dr: Julia asked her network what was confusing about working in the terminal, and one thing that stood out to me was “editing a command you already typed in”. Julia shares why this is hard and some tips she’s picked up along the way.
Terminal Tips |
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How We Use Friction Logs To Improve Products At Stripe
— Mike Bifulco
tl;dr: “Friction logging is a practice that can be used by engineering teams building products to track and improve upon issues that users experience while using a product. The goal of friction logging is to make a given product better for everyone involved. End users and developers get a product that delivers value more directly, the team building the product gets a more attached, happier user base, and salespeople have an easier time showing value to potential customers.”
Product |
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How Fast Is Javascript? Simulating 20,000,000 Particles — David Gerrells
tl;dr: “The challenge, simulate 1,000,000 particles in plain javascript at 60 fps on a phone using only the cpu... This is not a particularly difficult challenge if you did all the work on a gpu but the rule of the challenge is to use the CPU only or as much as possible and to stay in js land so no wasm.”
Javascript |
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Most Popular From Last Issue |
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Dotenv: A better dotenv – from the creator of dotenv
Ice: Powerful menu bar manager for macOS.
Posting: API client in your terminal.
Quartz: Tools to publish your digital garden.
Tech Interview Handbook: Curated interview preparation materials.
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