Tuesday 12th November’s issue is presented by Superblocks |
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Superblocks enables dev teams to outpace their roadmap by making internal app development lightweight and low-effort. Superblocks provides: |
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— Laura Tacho |
tl;dr: (1) Dismissing intuition. (2) Data-driven theater. (3) Trying to be smart instead of making other people smart. (4) Not utilizing experts soon enough. (5) Not realizing that I’m not an engineering leader. |
Leadership Management |
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— Jordan Cutler, Wes Kao |
tl;dr: Wes and Jordan discuss the following frameworks: (1) Reduce cognitive load using phrases like “For example”, “Action Items”, “Action Needed”, “Next Steps,” etc... (2) MP-CB: Main point, context below. (3) Anticipate the objection. (4) CEDAF for delegating tasks. (5) QBQ: Question behind the question. |
CareerAdvice |
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tl;dr: Selecting a component library that looks good is easy - choosing one that sets your team up for success 3-4 months down the road is trickier. Our team prefers Radix and Chakra for their baked-in accessibility and extensibility, but other frameworks like MUI, Shadcn, and Blueprint are great options if you're looking to do less work upfront or have a more specialized use case. |
Promoted by Superblocks |
ReactJS |
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— Lee Byron |
tl;dr: “This is classic advice when operating in a large organization. There’s a problem to be solved, you have a bold solution in mind and everything necessary to take action, but there will be very real costs felt broadly. You think the tradeoff is worth it, but will your team or higher-ups agree?” |
Leadership Management |
“Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.” | | | | – Robert Stevenson |
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tl;dr: “Data is the biggest reason software only moves forward. Once you save state, your code will need to understand that state forever. This is double true for state that leaves your system and becomes distributed. Billing state, emails, and async jobs are a common early introduction to these issues.” |
Data |
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— Brian Morrison |
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tl;dr: Managing permissions in large SaaS applications can be a nightmare. Providing team owners a way to grant functionality to users in a simplified way can be the difference between companies purchasing your software or going with a competitor. Clerk provides you with a way to build this functionality with minimal effort. |
Promoted by Clerk |
Management Guide |
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— Josh Doody |
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tl;dr: “Your salary expectations are one of the few things you know that the company doesn’t. That makes them extremely valuable and sharing them can make your salary negotiations very difficult and even cost you a lot of money.” |
InterviewAdvice |
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— Julia Evans |
tl;dr: “Here’s a table of all 33 ASCII control characters, and what they do on my machine (on Mac OS), more or less. There are about a million caveats, but I’ll talk about what it means and all the problems with this diagram that I know about. |
ASCII |
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— Alex Fattouche, Corey Horton |
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tl;dr: “When initially measured in 2022, DNS data took up approximately 40% of the storage capacity in Cloudflare’s main database cluster (cfdb). This database cluster, consisting of a primary system and multiple replicas, is responsible for storing DNS zones, propagated to our data centers in over 330 cities via our distributed KV store.” |
Database Migration |
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Most Popular From Last Issue |
How To Become A More Effective Engineer — Gergely Orosz, Cindy Sridharan |
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Notable Links |
AI-Chatbot: Hackable AI chatbot built by Vercel. |
BemiDB: Postgres read replica optimized for analytics. |
Docling: Get documents ready for Gen AI. |
IronCalc: Set of tools to work with spreadsheets. |
Maxun: OS no-code web data extraction platform. |
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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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