The Daily Index — Friday, May 23, 2025 · TLDR Index

PROGRAMMING, DESIGN & DATA SCIENCE

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ON 1,145 PULL REQUESTS PER DAY

Stripe did an average of 1,145 pull requests per day in 2024 while having less than a minute of API unreliability for the entire year. The company is likely in the top 1% in software delivery performance. It has a very demanding but advanced engineering culture with a relentless focus on continuously shipping value for users. Shipping safely at this velocity and scale implies heavy investment in automated tests, deployments, rollbacks, observability, code ownership, and other areas.

saile.it · 3 min

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ENGINEERS AND AI: RAMBLINGS OF A SMALL STARTUP FOUNDER

While everyone seems to want to replace software engineers, AI just isn't there yet. Not everyone can just dive into a problem with little context and get started - it takes time to understand the problem and ask relevant questions to determine requirements. There is value in being able to say 'I don't know how to do this', but this is less and less likely to happen now that people are falling back to AI for answers when all else fails. People learn by doing something hard - struggle is part of improvement.

labadal.com · 9 min

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META IS ABOUT TO START RATING MORE WORKERS AS 'BELOW EXPECTATIONS,' INTERNAL MEMO SHOWS

Meta's managers have been instructed to rank more employees as 'below expectations' in performance ratings. This could set the stage for more performance-based cuts. The review process is set to begin on June 16. Conversations between managers and employees on performance are scheduled for between July and August.

finance.yahoo.com · 3 min

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APPLE SMART GLASSES LAUNCHING IN 2026

Apple's smart glasses are expected to include cameras, microphones, and AI capabilities.

macrumors.com · 2 min

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XIAOMI ANNOUNCES CUSTOM CHIP TO RIVAL APPLE SILICON

Xiaomi's Xring O1 is a custom 3nm chip that will be initially launched in three devices, including the new 14-inch Xiaomi Tablet 7 Ultra.

macrumors.com · 1 min

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DEVELOPERS SPEND MOST OF THEIR TIME FIGURING THE SYSTEM OUT

Developers should be occupying their energy with solving actual problems - to get there, they need to learn how not to read code.

lepiter.io · 5 min

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HOW DIRECT TLS CAN SPEED UP YOUR CONNECTIONS

If you're using Postgres 17+ on both the server and client, you can just start with a TLS handshake, making requests much faster.

marc-bowes.com · 6 min

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ONLYFANS OWNER IN TALKS TO SELL TO INVESTOR GROUP AT ABOUT $8 BILLION VALUE

The group is led by the Forest Road Company, a Los Angeles-based investment firm.

links.tldrnewsletter.com · 1 min

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JONY IVE'S FUTURISTIC OPENAI DEVICE LIKE A NECK-WORN IPOD SHUFFLE

According to Apple supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, the device OpenAI is working on with Apple's former design chief Jony Ive will be slightly larger than Humane's discontinued AI Pin but as compact and elegant as an iPod Shuffle.

macrumors.com · 2 min