Tuesday 9th September’s issue is presented by Unblocked | | | Unblocked augments your code with the scattered context in GitHub, Slack, Confluence, Jira, and more, so your team gets the answers they need without having to interrupt a teammate. | | | | | — Shyamal Anadkat | | tl;dr: “Default bias: solve it now. When someone asks to meet, I try to resolve the problem immediately. Put the details, context, pitch, or exact question in the message. If it’s truly important, I’ll just call you. Calendar overhead (emails, scheduling, Zoom links) hides weeks of delay. Many things can be figured out in minutes — right now.” | Leadership Management | | | — Andi Roberts | | tl;dr: “This blog explores how leaders can reframe complaint. We will look at the impact of complaining, why people do it, how leaders can use inquiry to shift the conversation, practical tools that help, and reflection questions to build self-awareness.” | Leadership Management | | | | tl;dr: "With Claude Code + Unblocked MCP, I've finally found the holy grail of engineering productivity: context-aware coding. It's not hallucinating—it's pulling insight from everything I've ever worked on." – Staff Engineer @ Nava Benefits | Promoted by Unblocked | Management Tools | | | — Laura Tacho, Abi Noda | | tl;dr: “We recently held a live discussion on this shift, exploring the “new mandate” for DevProd teams - what they should focus on now to remain relevant and impactful. The conversation touched on topics such as vendor selection, measurement practices, paved paths versus tool sprawl, and the one-to-many opportunities for platform teams to leverage AI at scale.” | Leadership Management | “You haven’t mastered a tool until you understand when it should not be used.” | | | | — Kelsey Hightower |
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| | — David Heinemeier Hansson | | tl;dr: “The best engineering teams take control of their tools. They help develop the frameworks and libraries they depend on, and they do this by running production code on edge — the unreleased next version. That's where progress is made, that's where participation matters most.” | CareerAdvice | | | — Mayur Nagarsheth, Matt Ball | | tl;dr: Code review can be a bottleneck. In this guide Augment Code walks through the steps to turn the Auggie CLI into a PR review bot. Catch obvious issues automatically, reduce reviewer idle time across time zones, and stop defects that creep in through large, rubber-stamped PRs. Start small, iterate rules like code, measure an effective rate, and scale. | Promoted by Augment Code | Management AI Tools | | | — Simon Klee | | tl;dr: “Tiger Style is a coding philosophy focused on safety, performance, and developer experience. Inspired by the practices of TigerBeetle, it focuses on building robust, efficient, and maintainable software through disciplined engineering.” | LanguageDesign | | | — Brian Nguyen | | tl;dr: “The even equity vesting schedule (25% each year for 4 years) is quickly becoming a thing of the past. Many companies are now shifting to front-loaded vesting - often with a 40-30-20-10 (% vesting each year) structure. With it, the era of “rest and vest” comes to an end.” | Compensation | | | | tl;dr: “Uber’s massive 350 PB dual-region data lake, among the largest globally, is meticulously designed for high availability through an active / standby configuration. At Uber, HiveSync plays a critical role in this architecture by ensuring cross-region data consistency, a cornerstone of Uber’s disaster recovery strategy. It diligently manages data replication and synchronization, providing robust protection against potential hardware failures and regional disruptions. This blog post delves into the technical intricacies of HiveSync and its pivotal contribution to safeguarding Uber’s multi-region data ecosystem.” | Architecture | | Most Popular From Last Issue | Managing Engineers More Experienced Than You - Suresh Choudhary | | Notable Links | 500 AI Agents: Curated collection of use cases across industries. | AgentScope: Agent-oriented programming for LLM apps. | Base: SQLite database editor for macOS. | Mangle: Language for deductive DB programming. | Trivy: Find vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, secrets, and more. | |
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