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What's better to write about on the blog than yak shaving your blog. chodounsky.com/2024/02/16/soc…

Adobe Fuck you, you snakes. Who charges people for canceling a subscription?

I follow over 700 authors and bloggers via RSS feeds and go through around new 250 articles each day. At the end of the week I publish my curated newsletters with only the top 5 articles that I liked the most. It's heaps of work but it's worth it. I find interesting content so

The latest Leadership in Tech newsletter dropped out on Monday. I covered: * assertions * future-proofing your career in AI * how to be a proactive employee * strategic thinking principles and * the function of strategy. Check it out at: leadershipintech.com/newsletters/20…

It's amazing to see how to search at scale. I'm happy with mostly Postgres full-text search but this is on another level. discord.com/blog/how-disco…

@levelsio As someone who’s done it a couple times, there are worse things in life than being stuck in 20 hours of weekly meetings where you say “yeah let’s push this to Q3 2026” and having to fly business class to Tokyo once a quarter for $5M TC.

Insights from Sean Goedecke on how to be more effective as a senior engineer by making side bets. 10-20% of your time should be spent on something that you find importand for the company. But it is not in your backlog or roadmap. If it works, tell everyone. If it fails, move

How to scale your startup by Moly Graham. Lessons on effective delegation and more. Here insights comes from her time at Google (from 25 to 125 in just 9 months). And 4 years at Facebook (from 500 employees serving 80 million users to 5,500 employees and over 1.1 billion users).

Strategy is: * Identifying the most critical challenge in a situation. * Addressing this challenge with some kind of coherent approach. * Having coordinating actions focused on overcoming this challenge . Strategy is not: * A catchphrase (“Whatever it takes.”). * A vision

I designed Dropbox's storage system and modeled its durability. Durability numbers (11 9's etc) are meaningless because competent providers don't lose data because of disk failures, they lose data because of bugs and operator error. Yes S3 has lost data. No it wasn't because

New issue of Leadership in Tech is out with practical guide to working with your manager. Apart from that you'll learn to have more productive 1:1s and build stronger engineering culture. Check it out: leadershipintech.com/newsletters/20…

How do you get to staff engineer? You can’t just “level up” by doing good work. You have to change how you operate. Nitin Dhar shares his tips in medium.com/one-to-n/getti…

A neat history of Microsoft developer tools over the last 50 years by Rico Mariani. ricomariani.medium.com/fifty-years-of…

I remember Google's big keynotes feeling like a cheap copy of Apple's. That age is over. What a tour de force. Incredible bandwidth and breadth. youtu.be/VHI200c5ngE?si…