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Friday 11th August’s issue is presented by Clerk |
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Authentication & User Management For The Modern Web
Clerk is the easiest way to add authentication and user management to your app. With prebuilt UI components and feature-rich SDKs & APIs, Clerk is purpose-built for the React, Next.js, and the modern web, and designed to get developers up and running in minutes. |
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Enabling Good Work Habits Through Reflective Goal-Setting — Abi Noda
tl;dr: Abi highlights a study on developers' productivity, revealing that reflective goal-setting leads to improvements. 84% of participants identified concrete goals through reflection, 80% saw positive behavior change, and 92% planned to maintain new habits. The key takeaway is that reflective goal-setting not only enhances awareness and productivity but also encourages lasting behavioral changes, empowering developers to gain control over their work.
CareerAdvice Leadership Management |
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Bottleneck #04: Cost Efficiency — Stefania Stefansdottir, Sofia Tania
tl;dr: This post discusses cost optimization for scale-ups by emphasizing the importance of a cross-functional team to analyze and execute cost-saving measures. It outlines strategies like rightsizing resources, using ephemeral infrastructure, and consolidating tools. A key takeaway is the need for a detailed analysis of cost drivers, such as compute vs storage vs network, to identify specific levers for cost reduction, ensuring alignment with the company's unique needs as it scales. Leadership Management |
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How We Roll – Avatars — Colin Sidoti
tl;dr: This post emphasizes the importance of avatars in authentication, often overlooked in app development. It details how Clerk uses social sign-ins like Google and Facebook to ease avatar selection, offers beautiful default avatars, and integrates avatars into the sign-in flow to enhance user experience.
Promoted by Clerk Management BestPractices |
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My Problem With The Four-Document Model — Hillel Wayne
tl;dr: Hillel critiques the 4doc model for user documentation, highlighting that it's not universal or comprehensive. While effective for tools, it may not suit frameworks and languages. The key takeaway is that relying solely on the 4doc model can limit documentation effectiveness, and a more flexible approach that considers the specific subject being documented is encouraged.
Documentation Management |
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"Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others."
– Jack Welch |
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Some Tactics For Writing In Public — Julia Evans
tl;dr: Julia discusses various strategies and tactics to engage with comments and feedback on her writing, especially in the context of technical blogging. Key points include: (1) Talking about facts leads to fact-based comments and discussions. (2) Sharing personal stories encourages good discussions and helps in understanding the context and different perspectives. (3) Asking technical questions or mentioning uncertainties invites answers and makes the comments section more valuable, among other strategies.
CareerAdvice |
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AI Is Better At Writing Code Than Reading Code. Here’s Why. — Daksh Gupta
tl;dr: Have you ever been handed a new codebase at your job and been completely lost? I have. While LLMs have been generating code for months, the problem of reading, understanding, and navigating existing large codebases remains unsolved. In this article, I explore why.
Promoted by Onboard AI AI UsefulTool |
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How We Improved Our Serverless API 300x — Daniel Bot
tl;dr: ePilot's team improved their serverless API response time by 300x using AWS DynamoDB. They initially faced issues due to a simplistic table design without understanding search patterns and a 10x increase in record data. By redesigning the table and storing more data, they optimized queries, making them 10-20 times faster. The experience emphasized the importance of understanding search patterns and proper design in DynamoDB.
Performance API |
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Putting The “You” In CPU — Lexi Mattick
tl;dr: "Curious exactly what happens when you run a program on your computer? Read this article to learn how multiprocessing works, what system calls really are, how computers manage memory with hardware interrupts, and how Linux loads executables."
DeepDive Guide |
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The Not-App-Building Parts Of Building An App
tl;dr: "A surprising amount of developer time is spent on making apps usable for large companies, a group that has a rigorous and sometimes oddly specific list of requirements... This post is going to break down how developers make apps enterprise-ready and why a disproportionate amount of time is spent on these seemingly niche features." The author discusses critical requirements, notably Authentication, Directory Sync, Authorization and Audit Logging.
Management |
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Candle: Minimalist ML framework for Rust.
Onboard AI: Navigate unfamiliar codebases using AI.
Doculite: Use SQLite as a document database.
Generative Agents: Interactive simulacra of human behavior.
SpacetimeDB: A database and server combined into one.
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