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Friday 19th April’s issue is presented by Kinde |
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How To Share Your Point Of View (Even If You’re Afraid Of Being Wrong) — Wes Kao
tl;dr: Principles on how to feel more confident sharing your point of view: (1) The more controversial the idea, the higher the burden of proof. (2) Update your assumptions about how you add value. (3) Share where your hunch is coming from—because it’s coming from somewhere. (4) Describe why the problem matters, so people understand why you’re speaking up. (5) Don’t rely on your credentials. Your idea should make sense on its own. (6) Use language that accurately reflects your level of certainty. Wes provides examples of each.
CareerAdvice |
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The 37signals Guide To Internal Communication
tl;dr: 30 rules including: (1) Give meaningful discussions a meaningful amount of time to develop and unfold. Rushing to judgement, or demanding immediate responses, only serves to increase the odds of poor decision making. (2) Meetings are the last resort, not the first option. (3) Writing solidifies, chat dissolves. Substantial decisions start and end with an exchange of complete thoughts, not one-line-at-a-time jousts. If it’s important, critical, or fundamental, write it up, don’t chat it down.
Leadership Management |
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An Open Letter To Auth Providers
tl;dr: The first job of any auth company is to protect its customers – before anything else. Somewhere along the way it feels like a lot of auth providers lost sight of the thing that matters: You, their customers.
Promoted by Kinde Management |
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Mentorship, Coaching, Sponsorship: 3 Different Tools For Developing Talent — Jacob Kaplan-Moss
tl;dr: “One of the main responsibilities of a leader / manager is helping their staff develop. Mentorship, coaching, and sponsorship are import tools in the staff development toolbox. Good leaders should be adept in all three, and know when (and when not) to use each. In my work with new managers, I sometimes see confusion about these three different tools, and I see people using them in the wrong circumstances.” Jacob provides a glossary, high-level explanation of what these three things are, how they differ, and where to use them.
Leadership Management |
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“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
— Albert Einstein
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Database Fundamentals — Tony Solomonik
tl;dr: "I tried thinking which database I should choose for my next project, and came to the realization that I don't really know the differences of databases enough. I went to different database websites and saw mostly marketing and words I don't understand. This is when I decided to read the excellent books Database Internals by Alex Petrov and Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann. The books piqued my curiosity enough to write my own little database I called dbeel. This post is basically a short summary of these books, with a focus on the fundamental problems a database engineer thinks about in the shower."
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How I Learned To Stop Writing Brittle Tests And Love Expressive APIs — Titus Winters
tl;dr: “Expressive test APIs are a powerful tool in the fight against brittle, implementation-detail heavy tests. A test written with IsSquare(output) is more expressive (and less brittle) than a test written with details such as JsonEquals(.width = 42, .length = 42), in cases where the size of the square is irrelevant.”
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How We Built Text-to-SQL At Pinterest
tl;dr: “We took the rise in availability of LLMs as an opportunity to explore whether we could assist our data users with this task by developing a Text-to-SQL feature which transforms these analytical questions directly into code.” The authors describe the tools evolution and implementation.
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Hardest Problem in Computer Science: Centering Things — Nikita Prokopov
tl;dr: Nikita discusses the struggles of properly centering text and icons despite the advances of modern CSS. He discusses problems with: (1) font metrics where the bounding box of a text block is not balanced around the cap height. (2) Line heights that complicate centering. (3) Icon fonts that convert icons into text.
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