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Friday 9th January’s issue is presented by Flatfile |
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Elevate Your Business's Data Import Process
New year, clean data! Imagine a world where onboarding customer data is simple and frictionless. Solve your data file import inefficiencies with Flatfile.
Whether it’s a simple use case like an embedded import button in your app or a collaborative workflow that requires multiple levels of review, get the control of a homegrown import tool without having to build & maintain it yourself. |
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Software Quality — Abi Noda
tl;dr: "Google‘s Engineering Productivity Research team subscribes to the belief that no single metric captures developer productivity. Instead, they break developer productivity down into three dimensions: speed, ease, and quality. Anytime they’re measuring one of the three dimensions (for example, how long it takes for code reviews to be completed), they also measure the other two to surface potential tradeoffs." Quality is broken down into 4 areas - Process, Code, System and Product, which Abi dives into.
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Almost Everyone I’ve Met Would Be Well-Served Thinking More About What To Focus On — Henrik Karlsson
tl;dr: Henrik discusses the concepts of “Exploring” and “Exploiting” to help find focus. When you “Explore”, you look for what makes you feel alive. When you “Exploit”, you trip everything but your top 1-3 priorities. Breaking inaccurate mental models is critical, and can happen in two ways: “(1) Find people who understand things better than you and read what they have to say. Read with the intention of answering your questions. If you can’t find the answers, email them. (2) Perform experiments. State your assumptions and find ways to test if they are false. Most of the time, the slot machine of an experiment yields nothing. But that’s ok. A few will rearrange the world around you."
CareerAdvice |
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The Missing Piece In Enterprise Integration Architectures
tl;dr: There's a critical part of today’s data integration equation that traditional tools don’t solve: How can businesses easily and safely import a wide variety of data files and types? Find out how you can add the missing piece to your data stack. Get the guide.
Promoted by Flatfile Guide Architecture |
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Legacy Seam — Martin Fowler
tl;dr: "When working with a legacy system it is valuable to identify and create seams: places where we can alter the behavior of the system without editing source code. Once we've found a seam, we can use it to break dependencies to simplify testing, insert probes to gain observability, and redirect program flow to new modules as part of legacy displacement." Martin shows practical examples of how to approach this.
CareerAdvice |
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“Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.”
– Steve Jobs |
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Weird Things Engineers Believe About Web Development
tl;dr: (1) Web browser engineers know web development really well. (2) The people who make Web specifications know web development really well. (3) Web developers know web development really well. (4) Browsers aren’t made to run SPAs. (5) MPAs will replace SPAs. (6) All sites should work without JavaScript. (7) Web development shouldn’t need a build step.
WebDev |
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Enhance Your Authentication: Exploring the Simplicity and Security of Passwordless Login with Next.js and Clerk! — Nick Parsons
tl;dr: Discover the simplicity of passwordless authentication with magic links—enhanced security, streamlined user experience, and compliance benefits. Clerk's Next.js App Router tutorial simplifies implementation for accessible authentication.
Promoted by Clerk Management Passwords |
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Do We Think Of Git Commits As Diffs, Snapshots, And/ Or Histories? — Julia Evans
tl;dr: "I’ve been extremely slowly trying to figure how to explain every core concept in Git (commits! branches! remotes! the staging area!) and commits have been surprisingly tricky. Understanding how git commits are implemented feels pretty straightforward to me, but it’s been much harder to figure out how other people think about commits. So like I’ve been doing a lot recently, I went on Mastodon and started asking some questions."
Git |
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GPT In 500 Lines Of SQL
tl;dr: "Before a text can be fed to a neural network, it needs to be converted into a list of numbers. GPT2 uses a variation of the algorithm called Byte pair encoding to do precisely that. Its tokenizer uses a dictionary of 50257 code points - in AI parlance, 'tokens' - that correspond to different byte sequences in UTF-8, plus the 'end of text' as a separate token. This dictionary was built by statistical analysis performed like this: Start with a simple encoding of 256 tokens: one token per byte. Perform the collapse 50000 times over."
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2023 JavaScript Rising Stars — Michael Rambeau
tl;dr: "Welcome to the 8th edition of the JavaScript Rising Stars, the place to see the trends about the JS ecosystem in 2023. Let's see how a set of UI components you copy-paste took the world by storm!"
Trends JavaScript |
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Better Commits: A CLI for writing better commits.
Csvlens: Command line csv viewer.
GitUI: Blazing fast terminal-ui for Git.
Open Interpreter: A natural language interface for computers.
Twenty: Modern alternative to Salesforce.
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