Tuesday 26nd November’s issue is presented by Budibase |
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Budibase saves engineers 100s of hours building apps and automating internal workflows. |
It's open source, connects to any data source, offers free SSO, and is loved by over 200,000 engineers worldwide. |
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— Christian Scheb |
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tl;dr: “There’s this interview with Elon Musk, showing around the SpaceX rocket production facility in Texas. There’s a lot of talk about rockets and stuff, though in between he’s giving some fascinating insights into the design process and the principles he’s following. The “5 Step Process” as he calls it. Wanted to write it up for myself, so I though I can share it here as well.” |
Leadership Management |
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— Péter Szász |
tl;dr: “Here's an idea: what if Impostor Syndrome isn't always bad? That nagging feeling that you might miss something to be successful can actually make you a better manager - if you learn to use it right.” |
Leadership Management |
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tl;dr: Budibase saves engineers 100s of hours building internal tools and automating workflows. It's open source, connects to any data source, offers free SSO, and is loved by over 200,000 engineers worldwide. Transform your workflows with Budibase. |
Promoted by Budibase |
InternalTools |
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— Kent Beck |
tl;dr: Kent shares a personal journey of understanding emotions using an established framework. He views emotions as envelopes containing important messages, encouraging readers to decode these messages instead of suppressing emotions, giving a "cheat sheet" that defines what kind of message each emotion brings, e.g., Fear as a call to focus, Anger as a call to enforce boundaries, and Guilt as a call to change. This self-understanding helps navigate life's challenges and fosters personal growth. |
CareerAdvice |
“Pressure is a privilege, it only comes to those who earn it” | | | | – Billie Jean King |
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tl;dr: “Canva celebrated the milestone of 200M monthly active users (MAUs). Our customers have over 30 billion designs on Canva and create almost 300 new designs every second. With this growth rate, the ability for Canva Community members to effectively search for and find their designs, as well as those shared to them by team members, is becoming an increasingly challenging and essential problem to solve.” |
ML Search |
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— Edsger Dijkstra |
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tl;dr: "The above has been triggered by a recent incident, when, in an emotional outburst, one of my mathematical colleagues at the University -not a computing scientist- accused a number of younger computing scientists of 'pedantry' because -as they do by habit- they started numbering at zero." |
LanguageDesign |
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— Benji Mora |
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tl;dr: “I like to mess with my dotfiles and every so often, I find out about a new way to do things and I spend more time than I should learning how to use it. A few years ago I learned about includeIf for including specific files if some condition was met for git.” |
Git |
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— Austin Henley |
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tl;dr: "“Programming by example is a technique where users provide examples of the outcome they want, and the system generates code that can perform it. For example, in Excel, you can demonstrate how you want a column formatted through an example or two, and Excel will learn a pattern and apply it to the rest. But what if there was a programming language that only allows programming by example? Can we integrate AI into traditional programming languages?” |
AI LLM |
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Notable Event |
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Most Popular From Last Issue |
How To Give A Senior Leader Feedback (Without Getting Fired) - Wes Kao |
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Notable Links |
0DE5: Educational videos to dive deeper into computing. |
Docling: Get documents ready for Gen AI. |
Garak: LLM vulnerability scanner. |
WebVM: Virtual machine for the web. |
Windows: Windows inside a Docker container. |
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How did you like this issue of Pointer? 1 = Didn't enjoy it all // 5 = Really enjoyed it | | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
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