Issue #229

12 May 2021


Issue #229
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#Leadership
 
tl;dr: After several years as a public speaker, Anjuan helps us create a playbook for creating a personal brand and the "potholes" that can throw you off. Most tactics center around public speaking, Simmons also dives into developing a social brand.
The Art Of Self-organizing Engineering Teams
- Tom Sommer
#Management #Leadership
 
tl;dr: "Purpose, mastery, and autonomy are helpful concepts to enable self-organization. They allow us to guide and create alignment, set up effective processes and workflows, and provide the ability to adjust and change as needed." Tom outlines each in this post. 
 
#Scala

tl;dr: "Today, I am speaking up. It took me three years to gain my voice back, I will not be silenced or intimidated again. I am not trying to convince anyone of anything." I simply want to share my story and make peace with my traumatizing experience." Yifan discusses her abuse by an individual within the Scala community. 

#Leadership
 
tl;dr: 1) Acknowledge the contributions of the previous leader. 2) Create space for forgiveness. It will allow people to let go of the past and make room for a new vision and direction. 3) Seek to understand your employees’ experience. Ask them what they want and need going forward. 
#Salary
 
tl;dr: The European software engineering market is split into three distinct groups that have little overlap: (1) Companies benchmarking against local competition, (2) those benchmarking against all local companies, (3) Big Tech: companies benchmarking against all regional. 

"Programming is not about typing, it's about thinking."

– Rich Hickey

 
Write Simply
- Paul Graham
#CareerAdvice
 
tl;dr: "The main reason I write simply is that it offends me not to. When I write a sentence that seems too complicated, or that uses unnecessarily intellectual words, it doesn't seem fancy to me. It seems clumsy."

How I Beat the Berlin Rental Market With A Python Script
- Gian Segato

#Python

tl;dr: Gian runs us though an analytics tool that evaluates units in the Berlin rental market. The output analyzes each unit compared in price to its neighbor, the likeliness of a price increase for that unit, and the unit selling out within 6 hours.

Announcing Rust 1.52.1
- Felix Klock, Mark Rousskov 
#Rust
 
tl;dr: "The Rust team has prepared a new release, 1.52.1, working around a bug in incremental compilation which was made into a compiler error in 1.52.0. We recommend all Rust users, including those currently using stable versions prior to 1.52.0, upgrade to 1.52.1 or disable incremental compilation."
#ReactJS
 
tl;dr: A good and bad way to approach 21 best practices, such as JSX ShortHand, ternary operators, object literals and more.
Bootstrap 5
- Mark Otto
#Bootstrap
 
tl;dr: New offcanvas component, accordion, updated forms, and more.
 
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