Friday 13th June’s issue is presented by Terminal |
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Employers and candidates both want to know: how do remote software engineer salaries compare across global markets? |
Terminal’s Remote Software Engineer Salary Report includes data from 260K+ candidates across Latin America, Canada and Europe. |
Employers can better inform hiring decisions and candidates can understand their earning potential. |
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— Abi Noda, Laura Tacho |
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tl;dr: “A lot of engineering leaders are feeling the pressure: execs have been sold on massive productivity gains, and so many have inflated expectations. It’s on engineering leaders to ground these conversations in reality, by focusing on what the tools are actually being used for, the impact they’re having so far, and what it’ll take to enable teams to get more out of AI. Here’s Laura with a practical guide to help.” |
Leadership Management |
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tl;dr: “When you step into management, whether you dutifully trained for that promotion or were thrust into it, the collective wisdom around your new role can be distilled into one directive: “Don’t micromanage.” It’s the golden rule of management — if you want to be a good manager. But has this well-meaning advice created an anti-pattern for brand-new managers and seasoned leaders alike?” |
Leadership Management |
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tl;dr: Terminal’s Remote Software Engineer Salary Report includes data from 260K+ candidates across Latin America, Canada and Europe. Employers can better inform hiring decisions and candidates can understand their earning potential. |
Promoted by Terminal |
Compensation Leadership Management |
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— Charity Majors |
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tl;dr: “Every job I’ve ever taken, I knew within the first week whether it was right for me or not. That might be overstating things a bit (memory can be like that). But I definitely had a strong visceral reaction to the company within days after starting, and the rest of my tenure played out more or less congruent with that reaction.” Charity learned to trust her intuition over time, and believes this matters even more for managers. |
CareerAdvice |
“Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.” | | | | — Tom Peters |
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— Will Larson |
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tl;dr: Will’s requirements are: (1) Has support for 2-3 Mac laptops. (2) Has support for a Windows gaming desktop with a dedicated GPU. (3) Has a dedicated microphone. (4) Has good enough lighting. (5) Is not too messy. (6) Can switch between any laptop and desktop with a single Thunderbolt cable. |
Productivity |
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tl;dr: 4,639 MCP servers have already been launched — yet most still authenticate with static API keys, meaning they're not OAuth 2.1 compliant despite MCP mandating it. As AI agents and automated clients scale, that's no longer optional. But it doesn't have to be hard. Scalekit offers a drop-in OAuth layer that issues scoped, short-lived tokens to secure MCP servers without rearchitecting your stack. |
Promoted by Scalekit |
AI Tools Security |
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— David Crawshaw |
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tl;dr: “This is the second part of my ongoing self-education in how to adapt my programming experience to a world with computers that talk. The first part, How I program with LLMs, covered ways LLMs can be adapted into our existing tools (basically, autocomplete) and how careful prompting can replace traditional web search. Now I want to talk about the harder, and more rewarding act of using agents to program.” |
Productivity AI |
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tl;dr: Security researcher discovered they could bruteforce Google users' phone numbers using the no-JS username recovery form. By exploiting IPv6 ranges to bypass rate limits and obtaining display names via Looker Studio, they could determine full phone numbers in minutes for many countries. |
Hack Security |
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— Hristo Bogoev |
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tl;dr: “Instead of grinding through another dry tutorial, you can learn SQL by solving crimes, escaping islands, or competing with other programmers. These 5 SQL games actually make database learning fun - and they work better than traditional methods.” |
SQL |
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Null Pointer |
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Most Popular From Last Issue |
The Prompt Engineering Playbook For Programmers — Addy Osmani |
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Notable Links |
Container: Linux containers using light virtual machines on a Mac. |
Kan: OS project management alternative to Trello. |
Rowboat: AI-powered multi-agent builder. |
S3mini: Typescript client for S3-compatible object storage. |
S5cmd: S3 and local filesystem execution tool. |
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How did you like this issue of Pointer? 1 = Didn't enjoy it all // 5 = Really enjoyed it | | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
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