Issue #386

3 February 2023


Issue #386
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Setting Engineering Org Values
- Will Larson
#Leadership #Management

tl;dr: Will discusses the following questions and the values he's found most effective: "What kinds of problems do values solve? Should engineering orgs have values at all? When does it make sense to establish values out? What makes values useful? How are engineering values distinct from a technology strategy? How should you roll out values?"
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tl;dr: "Corporate legibility is the art of making tasks, and their outcomes, easier to understand for those not directly involved. I’ll help you understand why this is an important thing to be aware of and how to use it to help your career."
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Start Coding At The Point Of Least Certainty
- Swizec Teller
#CareerAdvice
 
tl;dr: "You know you can build a platform for monkeys to stand on. Plenty exist. You know you can build a flaming hoop for them to jump through. Plenty exist. You even know you can get a monkey. But can you train the monkey to jump through the hoop? Without the trained monkey, you have no spectacle. Nobody's gonna come watch a bunch of monkeys standing around a fire."
 
“The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.”

- Alan Kay
 
Tag Systems
- Daniel Stenberg
#SystemDesign 

tl;dr: "I’ve tried to write a blog post on tag systems for years now... The problem is that there’s just so much to them, so many different approaches and models and concerns that trying to be comprehensive and rigorous is an exercise in madness... So screw it. These are my non-comprehensive, poorly-researched thoughts on tag systems. This is not about implementation of tag systems, just their design."
Python’s “Disappointing” Superpowers
- Luke Plant
#Python #StaticTypes

tl;dr: "I’m worried that a de-facto move away from dynamic stuff in the Python ecosystem, possibly motivated by those who use Python only because they have to, and just want to make it more like the C# or Java they are comfortable with, could leave us with the very worst of all worlds."
Rust’s Ugly Syntax
- Alex Kladov
#Rust

tl;dr: "People complain about Rust syntax. I think that most of the time when people think they have an issue with Rust’s syntax, they actually object to Rust’s semantics. In this slightly whimsical post, I’ll try to disentangle the two."
#Networks
 
tl;dr: "For better or worse, it turns out that the "simple" in SMTP is not as much of a lie as "lightweight" in LDAP, and you don't often need a lot of ceremony just to fire off a simple message or two for testing or notifications from a barebones system. This article describes a few methods for doing so."
 
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Notable GitHub Repos
APITable
API-oriented low-code platform for collaborative apps. 
 
BioGPT
GPT for biomedical text generation and mining.
 
Penpot
The OS design & prototyping platform. 
 
Ruff
An extremely fast Python linter, written in Rust.
 
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