The Daily Index — Thursday, October 31, 2024 · TLDR Index

ARTICLES & TUTORIALS

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HOW TO ROLL YOUR OWN AUTH IN JAVASCRIPT & TYPESCRIPT

Rolling your own session-based auth in JS/TS is useful for understanding core web authentication concepts. This article goes over cookie management, password hashing using Argon2, and framework-agnostic examples for sign up, sign in, and sign out functions.

robinwieruch.de · 13 min

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WHY SPRINTS ARE TAKING THE JOY OUT OF BUILDING SOFTWARE

Sprints are a core element of Scrum, but can be detrimental to software development. Sprints are too rigid, prioritizing processes over individual creativity and customer value. Instead, allow teams to be more flexible about timelines and give engineers more autonomy in their work.

zaidesanton.substack.com · 8 min

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IS PATRICK MACKENZIE'S SALARY NEGOTIATION GUIDE RELEVANT IN TODAY'S MARKET? (HACKER NEWS THREAD)

Patrick Mackenzie's classic blog post on salary negotiation is still relevant today. However, negotiation is becoming more challenging in this market due to companies' cost-minimization strategies and the reduced leverage of candidates. Negotiation is still done best when there are multiple offers to choose from.

news.ycombinator.com

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I ATTENDED GOOGLE'S CREATOR CONVERSATION EVENT, AND IT TURNED INTO A FUNERAL

Google hosted a "Creator Conversation Event" for independent site owners who had been shadowbanned by Google's algorithm updates. At the meeting, Google representatives offered reassurances while subtly deflecting and avoiding addressing the core issue of shadowbanning and the negative impact on these creators' livelihoods.

giantfreakinrobot.com · 7 min

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NEW TO THE WEB PLATFORM IN OCTOBER

The web got updates in October like synchronous iterator helpers, text fragments, and cookies with partitioned storage in Firefox 131. Beta releases of Firefox and Chrome have WebCodecs API support, worker navigator permissions, and CSS highlight inheritance (Chrome-only).

web.dev · 5 min

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THE KARMA CONNECTION IN CHROME WEB STORE

A large-scale scheme involving malicious Chrome extensions disguised as legitimate tools was discovered. Eleven extensions, seemingly developed by a mysterious individual with no online presence, have been found to contain hidden code for affiliate fraud and user tracking.

palant.info · 11 min

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CHAIN-OF-THOUGHT CAN REDUCE PERFORMANCE ON TASKS WHERE THINKING MAKES HUMANS WORSE

Chain-of-thought (CoT) prompting LLMs reduces performance in cases where thinking also negatively affects human performance. Experiments across three task categories where thinking harms human performance (implicit statistical learning, visual recognition, and classification with exceptions) consistently demonstrate that CoT reduces model accuracy. This suggests that model reasoning, like human deliberation, can lead to detrimental outcomes when applied to certain tasks.

arxiv.org · 20 min

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QUALITY MEANS THE FLEXIBILITY TO CHANGE

The ability to easily change code is the true definition of quality in software development as it means a non-committance to irreversible decisions.

blog.jim-nielsen.com · 2 min

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NEW MACBOOK PRO FEATURES M4 FAMILY OF CHIPS AND APPLE INTELLIGENCE

Apple has announced the new MacBook Pro, which features the powerful M4 family of chips, Thunderbolt 5 connectivity, an advanced camera, and Apple Intelligence.

apple.com · 30 min

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AN UPDATE FROM DREW

Dropbox CEO Drew Houston announced a 20% reduction in the company's global workforce due to softening demand, an overly complex organizational structure, and underperformance in some areas.

blog.dropbox.com · 5 min