Tuesday 18th February’s issue is presented by Knock |
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Building product notifications gets complicated fast. Knock abstracts away the complexity and gives you: |
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— Mitchell Hashimoto |
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tl;dr: "“I've learned that when I break down my large tasks in chunks that result in seeing tangible forward progress, I tend to finish my work and retain my excitement throughout the project. People are all motivated and driven in different ways, so this may not work for you, but as a broad generalization I've not found an engineer who doesn't get excited by a good demo. And the goal is to always give yourself a good demo.” " |
Management CareerAdvice |
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tl;dr: “At Pinterest, we have built different quantitative models to understand why metrics move the way they do. This blog outlines the three pragmatic approaches that form the basis of the root-cause analysis (RCA) platform at Pinterest. As you will see, all three approaches try to narrow down the search space for root causes in different ways.” |
Leadership Management |
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— Jeff Everhart |
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tl;dr: In this report, we'll look at how product and engineering teams at companies like Vercel, Webflow and Zapier have built their product notification infrastructure in 2024 and outline predictions for 2025. |
Promoted by Knock |
Infrastructure |
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— Sean Goedecke |
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tl;dr: “It’s a strange time to be a software engineer. Large language models are very good at writing code and rapidly getting better. Multiple multi-billion dollar attempts are currently being made to develop a pure-AI software engineer. The rough strategy - put a reasoning model in a loop with tools - is well-known and (in my view) seems likely to work. What should we software engineers do to prepare for what’s coming down the line?” |
CareerAdvice |
"The leader has to be practical and a realist yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist." | | | | - Eric Hoffer |
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— Rob Pike |
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tl;dr: "Corporate websites seem so slow these days... What's going on? Everything related to e-commerce websites has gotten slow and sluggish on mobile, on fast desktops, on fast Internet connections... They are just slow." Rob explains why. |
Trends |
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tl;dr: Vehicle specs power everything from insurance quotes to resale values, but inaccurate data can lead to costly mistakes. CarsXE delivers real-time, VIN-verified vehicle specifications, ensuring engineers build reliable, high-performing applications with trusted data at scale. |
Promoted by CarsXE |
UsefulTool |
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— Neil Macy |
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tl;dr: “I had the morning off work today. So I did what anyone would do, and started playing around with my Terminal setup. There are some things that have bugged me for a while, and some things that I've meant to try out for a while, and this seemed like a good chance to play around.” |
Teminal |
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— Julia Evans |
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tl;dr: "I was talking to a friend about how to add a directory to your PATH today. It’s something that feels “obvious” to me since I’ve been using the terminal for a long time, but when I searched for instructions for how to do it, I actually couldn’t find something that explained all of the steps. So I wanted to try to write down some more complete directions and mention some of the gotchas I’ve run into over the years.” |
Tips |
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— Tulika Bhatt |
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tl;dr: “Capturing these moments and turning them into a personalized journey is no simple feat. It requires a state-of-the-art system that can track and process these impressions while maintaining a detailed history of each profile’s exposure. This nuanced integration of data and technology empowers us to offer bespoke content recommendations.” |
Data |
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Most Popular From Last Issue |
Software Quality — Abi Noda |
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Notable Links |
CodeViz: Visualize & navigate your codebase. |
Emittery: Simple and modern async event emitter. |
Inko: Language for building concurrent software. |
MegaParse: Parser for every type of documents. |
OmniParser: Screen Parsing tool for pure vision based GUI agent. |
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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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