The Daily Index — Thursday, February 1, 2024 · TLDR Index

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A GUIDE TO ENABLING PARTIAL PRE-RENDERING IN NEXT.JS

Partial pre-rendering in Next.js 14 lets you control which parts of a page are pre-rendered. Next.js enables the pre-rendering of pages containing dynamic data during the build time with incremental static regeneration. This article explores how the partial pre-rendering feature works and how it can be used in Next.js applications.

blog.logrocket.com · 9 min

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SOME THOUGHTS ON INTERVIEWING

The current job market has increased competition and longer job search periods compared to a few years ago. Many qualified candidates have opted for alternative paths, such as travel or self-employment, to navigate the challenging job market. This post discusses the exhaustion that can come from conducting interviews, emphasizing the importance of kindness and respect in the hiring process.

jeanhsu.substack.com · 7 min

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BECOMING AN ENGINEERING MANAGER - IS IT FOR YOU?

Senior engineers often face the decision to go into management or continue growing as IC. This post offers a quick 5-question quiz to find out if engineering management is for you. Engineering management is not always necessary in order to progress in one’s career as many companies offer tech lead roles and similar positions as an alternative for ICs.

open.substack.com · 7 min

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RESEARCHERS SAY GENERATIVE AI ISN'T REPLACING DEVS ANY TIME SOON

A study conducted by AI researchers from Princeton and the University of Chicago suggests that LLMs are far from being capable of solving common software engineering problems. The study evaluated the performance of various LLMs on over 2,300 real GitHub issues and found that they could only solve such problems correctly in a very small percentage of cases, with the most advanced models achieving only 4.8% success. LLMs often struggle with the complexity and context of real-world software engineering tasks.

leaddev.com · 3 min

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SPATIAL COMPUTING

The success of interfaces like the Macintosh GUI and iPhone's touchscreen interface is rooted in leveraging human's innate spatial and kinesthetic skills. Apple's new "spatial computer," the Vision Pro, aims to create a 3D spatial world for users, but its interaction model may not be as effective compared to touch interfaces. This could lead to issues with adoption.

hypercritical.co · 5 min

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MODERN JAVASCRIPT LIBRARY STARTER

A walkthrough of how to create and package a library, publish a package, add testing, and automatically publish to the NPM registry. The automatic publish uses a CI/CD pipeline from GitHub actions. The article also explains modern NPM features like Provenance and Secrets.

advancedweb.hu · 7 min

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LINUS TORVALDS FLAMES GOOGLE KERNEL CONTRIBUTOR OVER FILESYSTEM SUGGESTION

Linus Torvalds, the creator of the Linux kernel, sent an angry message to a kernel contributor who works at Google over a filesystem suggestion that he disagrees with.

theregister.com · 5 min

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10 GOOD CODING PRINCIPLES TO IMPROVE CODE QUALITY (X POST)

To increase code quality, one should follow code specs, add documentation and comments, increase robustness, follow design principles, make testing easy, and reduce global dependencies.

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