Tuesday 1st July’s issue is presented by Postman |
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Your APIs are blocking AI adoption while AI-related traffic surged 73% in 2024. Get APIs AI-ready in 90 days with Postman's playbook. |
📘Your 3 month journey: |
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— James Stanier |
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tl;dr: “I had a conversation with a colleague the other week who is interested in moving into management. It was during this conversation that I realized just how different my advice is now compared to even a few years ago, so I thought it would be worth writing down and sharing more broadly.” |
Leadership Management |
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— Dave Bailey |
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tl;dr: At first, this person seems like a dream hire - brilliant, fast, and capable in ways that feel rare. They know the domain inside out, hit deadlines with ease, and deliver results no one else can. You start relying on them more and more, and wondering how you ever got by without them. Then, things start to unravel. Team members go quiet around them. You hear feedback: “They’re difficult. they don’t listen, I don’t want to upset them.” Dave shares how to manage such personalities. |
Leadership Management |
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tl;dr: Your APIs are blocking AI adoption while AI-related traffic surged 73% in 2024. Get APIs AI-ready in 90 days with Postman's playbook. Your 3 month journey: Days 1-30: Transform chaotic API docs into machine-readable standards. Days 31-60: Build intelligent infrastructure that scales with AI automation requirements. Days 61-90: Deploy AI agents that manage enable AI collaboration at scale. |
Promoted by Postman |
Leadership Management AI |
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— Kent Beck |
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tl;dr: “I recently came to a good stopping spot on an ambitious project to build a B+ Tree library using augmented coding. The result is BPlusTree3 - a performance-competitive, maybe-production-ready implementation in Rust & Python. I sat down with a friend to tell my story and reflect on what it reveals about the future of programming in the GenAI era.” |
CareerAdvice AI |
“Before you say you can’t do something, try it.” | | | | — Sakichi Toyoda |
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— David Singleton |
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tl;dr: “If I imagine a ladder of our evolving relationship with coding agents, we’ve climbed to a new rung. We’ve moved from “smarter autocomplete” and “over the shoulder helper” to genuine “delegate-to” relationships - they’re like eager and determined interns.” David shares how he’s using AI agents. |
Agents AI |
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— Shreyas Iyer |
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tl;dr: “Most companies don't stagnate because they can't write code fast enough. They stagnate because managing their infrastructure and operations becomes exhausting and increasingly difficult. Teams get trapped maintaining systems instead of building what's next." Shreyas Iyer, CTO, Antimetal, shares his vision for "intent-driven" infrastructure, enabled by AI. |
Promoted by Antimetal |
Infrastructure AI |
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tl;dr: After you complete this article, you will have a solid understanding of: (1) How is a table you create in a database stored behind the scenes? (2) What are pages and heap files, and how do they work? (3) What are indexes and clustered indexes, and how do they provide optimization? (4) How do databases work internally? |
Database |
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— Michael Lynch |
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tl;dr: “I’m looking for a new programming language to learn this year, and Gleam looks like the most fun. It’s an Elixir-like language that supports static typing. I read the language tour, and it made sense to me, but I need to build something before I can judge a programming language well. I’m sharing some notes on my first few hours using Gleam in case they’re helpful to others learning Gleam or to the team developing the language.” |
LanguageDesign |
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— Michael Bang |
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tl;dr: “Mise is the logical conclusion to a lot of the meta-tooling that exists around language-specific version and package managers like asdf, nvm, uv, pyenv etc. It makes it exceptionally easy to install, use, and manage software. It also allows you to manage environment variables and declare tasks (run commands).” |
Tools |
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Most Popular From Last Issue |
Challenging Projects Every Programmer Should Try — Austin Henley |
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Notable Links |
DuckPlot: Connecting DuckDB to observable plot. |
Graphite: Toolbox for 2D content creation. |
Magnitude: AI browser automation framework. |
Nxtscape: OS agentic browser. |
VibeTunnel: Your Mac terminal in any browser. |
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