The Daily Index — Monday, April 15, 2024 · TLDR Index

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USETRANSITION – REACT

A new official React doc that explains how to animate a progress element using the new useTransition hook, which lets you update state without blocking UI.

react.dev · 12 min

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YOUR BACKGROUND IMAGES MIGHT BE CAUSING CLS

Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) measures webpage instability caused by unexpected movements of elements. Background images can make CLS worse, since CLS calculations consider all page elements. To make sure that CLS isn't affected negatively by background images, developers should include width and height attributes on images and iframes.

blog.sentry.io · 10 min

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THE PROBLEM WITH TRYING TO SELL DEVELOPER TOOLING IS THAT DEVELOPERS HAVE NO PURCHASING AUTHORITY

Selling developer tools is challenging because developers typically lack the authority to make purchasing decisions. Successful tech companies often bypass IT and target revenue-generating business units. Simply making a tool popular doesn't guarantee profitability, especially with open-source software.

twitter.com · 3 min

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TEN YEARS AND COUNTING: MY AFFAIR WITH MICROSERVICES

Allegro, a major e-commerce platform, successfully transformed its monolithic application into a microservices architecture. Along the way, it shifted away from physical servers to a cloud-based infrastructure, which led to a much better developer experience. It also made large investments in tooling and infrastructure to reduce manual work for its engineers. Allegro made sure to allow room for experimentation, but also kept teams accountable for their architectural decisions.

blog.allegro.tech · 26 min

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WHY I LOST FAITH IN KAGI

Paid search engine Kagi has spread itself too thin with multiple niche projects. The product is also starting to become over-reliant on AI, which leads to inaccuracy and bias that goes against what Kagi was in the beginning.

d-shoot.net · 13 min

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NEXT.JS 14.2

Next.js 14.2 offers faster local development with Turbopack improvements, along with clearer error messages and improved overlay design. It also has less memory usage during builds.

nextjs.org · 6 min

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THE GUIDE TO STOCK OPTIONS CONVERSATIONS

Employees at startups should learn to understand their stock options as they are not an intuitive thing to understand. This article goes over the basics of stock options and how employees should gauge potential upside (or downside). Engineering managers should make sure that employees get additional stock option grants as they grow within the company.

zaidesanton.substack.com · 9 min

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HOW I GOT INTO DEEP LEARNING

This author decided to learn deep learning after running an education company for 8 years. They focused on the fundamentals with resources like "The Deep Learning Book", taught as they learned, and implemented foundational papers. They eventually developed their own tools in the data extraction space, which led to a job offer from a research lab.

vikas.sh · 8 min

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DEBUNKING DEVIN: "FIRST AI SOFTWARE ENGINEER" UPWORK LIE EXPOSED! (YOUTUBE VIDEO)

Devin AI, the “first AI Software Engineer,” was misrepresented - for example, in one of its demos, Devin is shown fixing errors in the source of a GitHub repository, but the errors it's fixing are bugs that Devin itself created.

youtube.com

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THE BEST MANAGER I'VE HAD

The author's best manager was amazing because of their transparent communication (especially about career growth), technical competency, high but fair performance bar, credibility, and focus on impactful work instead of internal politics.

developing.dev · 3 min

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HARMFUL 5G FAST LANES ARE COMING. THE FCC NEEDS TO STOP THEM

The FCC's proposed net neutrality rules would allow mobile internet providers to create "5G fast lanes" where certain apps get preferential treatment.

cyberlaw.stanford.edu · 6 min

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BROWSER SECURITY BUGS THAT AREN'T: JAVASCRIPT IN PDF

The potential to embed JavaScript in PDFs is often thought of as a security vulnerability, but in reality, it's intended by PDF rendering software.

textslashplain.com · 2 min

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THE ARC PRODUCT-MARKET FIT FRAMEWORK

The problems startups solve are either hair-on-fire problems, “unchangeable” pain points, or non-problems that are solved by unbelievable visions (like the iPhone).

sequoiacap.com · 12 min