Issue #188

A Reading Club For Software Developers

Pointer.io A Reading Club For Software Developers - Sign Up Here 5 Engineering Manager Archetypes - Pat Kua #Management   tl;dr: Engineering managers' roles tend to vary considerably. Pat analyses and outlines 5 archetypes, scoring each against 4 key skills - technical, team, process and product.  Why Are CEOs Failing Software Engineers? - Gandalf Hudlow #Management #ManagementProcess   tl;dr: Financial and business are common, well established forms of management. Creative management is less established. Software engineering is dominated by business management but should fall under creative management, as it's a designed to unlock new value. We are guided through basic tenets of creative management. Board Diversity - Fred Wilson #Leadership #Management   tl;dr: Diversity often happens in boards when a company is ready to go public. Fred outlines a plan to tackle that at the early stage of a company.  Develop Empathy - Dan Moore #CareerAdvice   tl;dr: Users don't care about "elegance of code or "how much you love to develop." They are "just trying to finish a task and get on with their life," developing empathy for their experience is important.  The End Of OS X - Ben Thompson #Apple   tl;dr: The next version of macOS is 11.0, which "feels more like a son of iOS" than a sibling to it's predecessor. Ben hypes that this could be a shift to leverage iPhone customers to the Mac Apple store. “Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.” – Oscar Wilde Best Practices For Managing And Storing Secrets Including API Keys And Other Credentials - Mackenzie Jackson #BestPractice #API   tl;dr: "Secrets management doesn’t have a one-size-fits-all approach so this list considers multiple perspectives so you can be informed in deciding to, or not to, implement strategies." How Async Should Have Been - Nikita Sobolev #Python #Async   tl;dr: Here the author provides his thoughts about the feature along with an outline of a new solution. What To Consider When Visualizing Data For Colorblind Readers - Lisa Charlotte Rost #Front-end #WebAccessibilityDesign   tl;dr: "Most of the advice here will make your charts easier to read. Not just for people with a color vision deficiency, or the older ones, or the ones that read your chart in low light – for everyone." How To Implement Search By Color When All You Have Is A Good Coffee - Mike Alche #Search #PostgreSQL #NextJS   tl;dr: How search was implemented on a Next.JS app using PostgreSQL and third party library called "color thief."  Elevator.js - Tim Holman #JavaScript   tl;dr: "Elevator.js fixes those awkward "scroll to top" moments the old fashioned way." Pointer.io unsubscribe from this list