Friday 25th April’s issue is presented by CarsXE | | | | | | | — Lizzie Matusov | | tl;dr: “Researchers conducted a 10-day field experiment with 260 elite software engineers. Participants were randomly assigned to 52 globally distributed five-person teams on a crowdsourcing platform. Each team collaborated asynchronously to solve a real-world software problem — designing an algorithm to optimize medical kits for spaceflight. The researchers analyzed communication patterns and outcomes to identify which behaviors predicted the most success outcomes.” | Leadership Management | | | — Mike Fisher | | tl;dr: “So if you too believe that curiosity is important in great individuals and leaders, how do you identify that trait? One way, as my coach friend did, is to see what questions someone asks. If during an interview if the person asks no questions, are they really curious? I’m not even interviewing for your role and I’m curious about how you find the culture of your company, what techniques have you found to be successful, what excited you about joining your company? I could go on and on.” | Leadership Management Hiring | | | | tl;dr: Discover how engineering teams are integrating CarsXE’s VIN API to power smarter vehicle apps. From decoding to image access and history data, learn how dev teams improve reliability, scale async workflows, and ship auto-tech features faster. | Promoted by CarsXE | API Tools | | | — Jason Fried | | tl;dr: “Dismissing an idea is so easy because it doesn’t involve any work. You can scoff at it. You can ignore it. You can puff some smoke at it. That’s easy. The hard thing to do is protect it, think about it, let it marinate, explore it, riff on it, and try it. The right idea could start out life as the wrong idea.” | CareerAdvice | “It is not usually until you’ve built and used a version of the program that you understand the issues well enough to get the design right.” | | | | — Rob Pike |
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| | — Sean Goedecke | | tl;dr: “Personally, I feel like I get a lot of value from AI. I think many of the people who don’t feel this way are “holding it wrong”: i.e. they’re not using language models in the most helpful ways. In this post, I’m going to list a bunch of ways I regularly use AI in my day-to-day as a staff engineer.” | Productivity AI | | | — Brian Morrison | | tl;dr: In this article, you’ll explore how to implement multi-tenancy in a Supabase application using Clerk, comparing manual RLS policies and row-based access control with Clerk’s simplified B2B toolkit—including organizations, role-based access, and a fully managed user interface—to streamline development and scale tenant-aware applications with less custom code. | Promoted by Clerk | Tools Security | | | | tl;dr: “In today’s fast-paced business environment, efficiently managing operational tasks is vital for maintaining workflows. Uber, with its large network of suppliers worldwide, faces considerable challenges in processing a high volume of invoices daily. Invoice processing is a critical function for Uber’s financial operations, directly impacting the efficiency and accuracy of our accounts payable processes. This blog explores how we used GenAI to solve this problem, setting a new standard in financial operations management.” | AI Architecture | | | — Dave Peck | | tl;dr: Python 3.14 will introduce t-strings, a safer alternative to f-strings when handling user input. Unlike f-strings which immediately become strings, t-strings create Template objects that must be processed before use preventing security issues and enabling flexible string processing. | Python | | | — Jirat Pasuksmit | | tl;dr: “Recently, we created the ‘Human-in-the-loop LLM-based agents framework’, or HULA. HULA reads a Jira work item, creates a plan, writes code, and even raises a pull request. And it does all of this while keeping the engineer in the driver’s seat. So far, HULA has merged ~900 pull requests for Atlassian software engineers, saving their time and allowing them to focus on other important tasks.” | AI Architecture | | Most Popular From Last Issue | Managing Underperformers — Jack Danger | | Notable Links | Index: OS browser agent for complex tasks. | Moose: OS framework for building analytical backends. | Nerdlog: Multi-host TUI log viewer. | PDF Craft: Convert PDFs into other formats. | Sapphire: Next‑gen package manager for macOS. | |
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