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TLDR WEB DEV 2024-05-17

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01GENERAL

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OBSERVABILITY STACK?

DevOps teams today use an average of 12+ monitoring tools [4] to collect and analyze trillions of data points. Tool sprawl of this scale takes a severe toll [4] on your organization's ability to mitigate IT outages and risks. How do you get back to sanity?

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02ARTICLES & TUTORIALS

WHY DO CPUS HAVE MULTIPLE CACHE LEVELS?

CPUs have multiple cache levels to balance speed and size. The L1 cache is small and fast, primarily for storing frequently used data at the byte level. The L2 cache is larger but slower. It deals with cache lines (groups of bytes) and handles most communication between the CPU core and other components. The L3 cache is even larger and slower, serving as a shared resource for multiple cores and handling less frequent requests.

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5 EASY TIPS TO IMPROVE YOUR PERSONAL WEBSITE PERFORMANCE

Serve static HTML whenever possible instead of relying on server-side rendering to improve your personal website's performance. Optimize images by converting them to next-gen formats and using the `picture` element for browser compatibility. Also, use system fonts to avoid the performance issues of loading custom fonts and try to not have render-blocking resources.

blog.sentry.io11 min read

YOU PROBABLY DON'T NEED TO VALIDATE UTF-8 STRINGS

The design of strings in Rust and Julia are different. Rust enforces UTF-8 validation, while Julia allows invalid UTF-8. Rust treats all code as production-quality, while Julia encourages hacking and prototyping. Julia's flexibility with string encodings is often more practical and efficient.

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03OPINIONS & ADVICE

DESIGN DOCS AT GOOGLE

Design docs outline the implementation strategy and key design decisions for a software project. They help identify potential issues early on, achieve consensus, and ensure cross-cutting concerns are addressed. They're used extensively at Google for every software project and for documentation and knowledge sharing.

industrialempathy.com11 min read

SHOW, DON'T TELL: HOW TO MULTIPLY YOUR CHANCES OF INFLUENCING OTHERS

"Show, don't tell" can be applied to workplace communication and leadership, where visual aids, storytelling, and hands-on demonstrations can make complex information more accessible and compelling. It's a useful technique to get buy-in for projects and also helps make presentations better.

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04LAUNCHES & TOOLS

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JIRA AUTOMATION LIMITS — AND HOW TO GET AROUND THEM

Atlassian is imposing stricter usage limit on Jira Cloud's built-in automation features. How do these limits work? And can you do to keep automating your critical workflows? → Learn how to avoid hitting limits (blog) [10].

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REACT COMPONENTS FOR THE GOOGLE MAPS JAVASCRIPT API

This is a TypeScript/JavaScript library that integrates the Google Maps JavaScript API into React applications. It provides reusable components for maps, markers, and info windows along with hooks to access additional functionalities like geocoding.

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05MISCELLANEOUS

TEST DRIVING CHATGPT-4O

This author tested ChatGPT-4o's ability to solve a math problem using five different approaches. They experimented with text-only prompts, multi-modal prompts with images, and prompts with chain-of-thought prompting. The most successful approach was the text-only prompt with chain-of-thought prompting, which resulted in consistently correct answers. The multi-modal prompts led to incorrect answers because the AI misinterpreted the image details.

sabrina.dev7 min read

AI'S COMMUNICATION REVOLUTION: WE'RE ALL TALKING TO COMPUTERS NOW

AI-centric communication is expected to fuel a new wave of tech companies and products, similar to how social media platforms arose from earlier internet technologies. While most communication today is done with people through technology, eventually people could primarily just communicate with technology (AI) itself. This will impact human behavior and interaction, but in what direction is unclear.

digitalnative.tech13 min read