How Naval Ravikant’s Vision of the One-Person Business Became Reality Sooner…
The age of solopreneurship. My biggest takeaway is the example for identifying a Burning Problem.
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Are You Accumulating Career Debt?
“Comfort” and “yes” debts are the most dangerous of the three career debts. They prevent you from doing focus work, learning new marketable skills, and strengthening resume. Despite immensely growing as an engineering leader, I sadly accumulated career debt on the technical hands-on front in the last couple of years. Thankfully, I’ve been making up for it and paying back my debt in the last few months through deliberate learning and practice. If that resonates with you, do it before it’s too late.
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Updated and Ongoing Supply Chain Attack Targets CrowdStrike ...
An interesting example of software supply chain cyber attacks. Remember CrowdStrike?
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Measuring developer productivity was hard enough. Now engineering managers have to contend with measuring the impact of AI on dev productivity. Laura provides a list of key metrics (based on trends across big tech) that should be a good starting point for most orgs. Essentially, establish a baseline and later measure the same metrics again after introducing AI in dev workflows.
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Making Sense of React Server Components • Josh W. Comeau
The definitive guide to React Server Components. Just read this to avoid a 4-hour course on React 19 ;)
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How Linear Implemented Multi-Region Support For Customers
A good case study on keeping multi-region routing/complexity in a separate layer, effectively hiding it from both users and developers. Smart!
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EP180: Python vs Java
More than the main topic, loved the distinction between Load Balancers vs API Gateways vs Reverse Proxy.
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How DoorDash uses AI Models to Understand Restaurant Menus
What strikes me is the simplicity of the architecture. Interesting use of OCR + LLM to extract + structurize highly inconsistent restaurant menu data. Until multimodal LLMs came along that could do both tasks at once. Human-in-the-loop using their guardrails model is also intriguing.
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Help Us Raise $200k to Free JavaScript from Oracle | Deno
An important fight for the freedom of JS devs!
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How Grab Built An Authentication System for 180+ Million Users
Other than Grab’s specific context, the article provides a good primer on modern authentication and authorization. tl;dr Dex is a cool & open source OIDC-based authentication platform.