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HOW TO CREATE AN AUTOMATED PROFILE README USING NODE.JS AND GITHUB ACTIONS

GitHub gives you the capability to build a profile README, a Markdown file that lives on your profile that can be used as a quick portfolio to highlight achievements. This article covers how you can take your profile README to the next level with scripting and CI/CR automation. It shows you how to do this using a custom script built with Node.js, the markdown-it library, the GitHub API, RSS Feeds, and GitHub Actions.

BUILDING COMPONENTS FOR CONSUMPTION, NOT COMPLEXITY

Creating and maintaining a design system is challenging but necessary for a great user experience. This article discusses considerations for responsive design within component libraries and suggests structuring components based on the design and development team's specific needs and platforms. The author provides practical insights and recommendations for structuring design systems within design tools like Figma.

THE VALUE OF REPAYING GOOD TECHNICAL DEBT

Good technical debt, as opposed to bad technical debt, is intentional, provides initial benefits, and is controlled through tripwires to prevent excessive interest. Teams often struggle to articulate the business value of repaying technical debt, leading to the misconception that a total system rewrite is the only solution. A simpler approach is proposed: identify hindrances to progress, capture them on sticky notes with dates, and add dots each time they recur.

THE SURPRISING CONNECTION BETWEEN AFTER-HOURS WORK AND DECREASED PRODUCTIVITY

With the results of a survey taken by 10,000 desk workers, Slack’s Workforce Index uncovers some interesting key learnings about workday productivity. The survey found that employees who step away from their computers at the end of the workday register a 20% increase in productivity compared to those who work after hours. Only 25% of workers feel productive in the afternoon and workers who regularly take breaks have 13% higher productivity.

PERSONALIZING THE DOORDASH RETAIL STORE PAGE EXPERIENCE

DoorDash built a personalized shopping experience for its new business vertical stores using machine learning. Its recommendation framework has three main categories of collections: operator-generated, rules-based personalized, and ML-based personalized. The framework includes components like collection generation, collection retrieval, horizontal item ranking, item post-processing, collection ranking, and collection post-processing to offer personalized recommendations effectively.

GITHUB PRODUCTIVITY AT 30 BILLION MESSAGES PER DAY

GitHub is used by 85% of developers and serves nearly 400 million repositories with a guaranteed uptime of 99.9%. GitHub supports 30 billion messages per day and therefore, increasing productivity within the company increases overall productivity for a vast majority of software developers. This article takes a look at the work done by Akshaya Aradhya, senior director of engineering at GitHub, and how she helps her team increase their productivity across the company.

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