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LINKEDIN SUFFERS 'SIGNIFICANT' WAVE OF ACCOUNT HACKS

GUARDRAILS FOR PROMQL USING SEMGREP

BELARUS

OIDC-SCANNER-AWS

AKTO

SUBLIME

LAPSU$ HACKERS TOOK SIM-SWAPPING TO THE NEXT LEVEL

IMPLEMENTATION

GITHUB PAID OUT $1.5 MILLION IN BUG BOUNTIES IN 2022

DARPA ANNOUNCES AI CYBER CHALLENGE

THE STATE OF CLOUD DATA SECURITY IN 2023

UK LAUNCHES £1BILLION FINTECH FUND TO COMPETE WITH SILICON VALLEY

The UK has historically had a funding gap at the late stage. Large companies often shoot to the US to breach $500m values and IPO. The UK’s new fund, which is backed by Mastercard, Barclays, and the London Stock Exchange Group, aims to address the issue of fintech companies struggling to reach scale and pursue public listings.

NETWORK EFFECTS: THE EVOLUTION OF ONLINE COMMUNITIES

This article explores how online communities are going to amplify social network effects and how content, creators, and community all come together to build unique interactions and defensible companies.

IN A TURNING ECONOMY

Things are starting to thaw so it means startups that navigated cost-cutting over the last 3+ quarters are well-positioned to thrive.

PLAYBOOK TO WRITE BETTER B2B CONTENT

Writing gives unclear thoughts nowhere to hide. It’s a simple tool to bring clarity of thought to the challenges you’re facing. Inertia and perfection are the enemy - just get started.

FINTECH IN AI: FIVE LESSONS FOR FOUNDERS

Quick-hitting post about a few things to consider around AI and Fintech. Always love Lightspeed’s take on things.

11 TIME MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS THAT WILL SKYROCKET YOUR PRODUCTIVITY

As founders, you often get “productivity” thrown in your face, a lot. However, this list of frameworks, mental models, and rules keeps things simple and provides a nice reminder to constantly be working smart.

HOW TO COMMUNICATE WHEN TRUST IS LOW

Whether it’s your partner, friend, colleague, or employee, it can be hard to communicate effectively when there’s low trust or you’re worried about conflict. Here’s a handful of tactics to start you in the right direction.

VENTURE CHRONICLES - JULY 2023

This is an exhaustive list of all-things-venture related for July in case you were out of the country, vacationing, or generally under a rock. If you have some plane time, this is a gem of a read.

REIGNITING THE FIRE

A wonderfully open and honest post about being able to reignite that fire in your belly whether personally or professionally as you potentially face that “sophomore slump”.

CONTENT

HOW AI HELPS VIDEO MARKETERS MOVE AT THE SPEED OF CULTURE

5 BEST GOOGLE ADS ALTERNATIVES TO DIVERSIFY & GROW

ADVANCED SCALING WITH FACEBOOK ADS

10 AWESOME LEAD GENERATION LANDING PAGE EXAMPLES

ORGANIZATION SCHEMA: WHAT IT IS & HOW TO IMPLEMENT IT

WHAT THE FREEMIUM!?

ILLINOIS PASSES LAW TO COMPENSATE CHILD INFLUENCERS

HOW WE REDUCED THE SIZE OF OUR JAVASCRIPT BUNDLES BY 33%

Dropbox faced performance issues due to large JavaScript bundles and decided to replace its outdated module bundler during the migration to a new web serving stack. It chose Rollup as the new bundler, which offered features like automatic code-splitting and tree shaking. Despite initial challenges, including resource-intensive builds and bugs in Rollup’s tree-shaking algorithm, the migration was successful. After the rollout, Dropbox observed a 33% reduction in JavaScript bundle sizes, a 15% reduction in total JavaScript script count, and modest improvements in page load times. This change also significantly improved front-end development velocity and reduced maintenance burden.

BUILDING A TWO-WAY DATA BINDING HOOK FOR FORM INPUTS IN REACT

Two-way form input binding is a popular feature offered by JavaScript frameworks like Vue and Svelte. This is an experiment to reproduce the feature in React. It’s also a real-life example of how a seasoned React developer would approach building complex functionality.

ADAPTING TYPOGRAPHY TO USER PREFERENCES WITH CSS

Bringing the user into the design process has been an exciting time for users, designers, and developers. Users can land on their experience and seamlessly begin consuming content with their preferences richly integrated into the design result. This blog post explores using CSS media queries with a variable font to tailor the reading experience even further.

MANAGING DIFFICULT SOFTWARE ENGINEERS

There's a thread that weaves through every project, failure, and challenge. That thread is people. Managing people is complex, intriguing, and ultimately rewarding. This guide is a distillation of lessons learned and a roadmap to help you navigate the choppy waters of managing difficult software engineers.

THE IMPORTANCE OF TEAM TOPOLOGY

Teams need to have an intentional and well-thought-out purpose to thrive. This blog explores two different team topologies strategies. It highlights which topology is most effective in the world today, why it’s effective, and how you can implement it in your organization.

TAGGER

A zero dependency, Vanilla JavaScript tag editor.

PLANE

Plane is an open source JIRA, Linear, and Height alternative. It helps you track your issues, epics, and product roadmaps in the simplest way possible. Plane can be either self-hosted or used through Plane Cloud, which is a hosted solution for Plane.

HOW GOOGLE UNLOCKS AND MEASURES DEVELOPER PRODUCTIVITY

The time of rapid growth is on hold, leaving engineering teams trying to do more with less. No matter where you are, tighter customer budgets are driving greater demand to release differentiating features faster. Unlocking productivity for one of software development’s biggest expenses is more important than ever. Learn how Google measures developer productivity with mixed methods research, logs, and more.

ARE TECH WORKERS BENEFITING FROM TECH LAYOFFS?

Tech workers continue to be some of the most in-demand talent in the labor market today despite reports about tech layoffs dominating the news for the better part of the year. In fact, a recent survey conducted by Indeed to better understand tech worker behavior suggests that tech workers aren’t being affected by recent economic turbulence quite as much as some might think - some might even argue that tech workers are benefiting from tech layoffs.

13 USEFUL REACT LIBRARIES FOR DEVS IN 2023

These React libraries can help boost your development speed.

FRONTEND AND BACKEND DEFINED

Words like frontend, backend, and variations of them like “frontend development” are broadly used, yet there is little shared understanding as to their meaning, leading to inefficient communication at best and plain misunderstandings at worst.

RESEARCHERS DISCOVER NEW VULNERABILITY IN LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science, the CyLab Security and Privacy Institute, and the Center for AI Safety in San Francisco have uncovered a new vulnerability and proposed a simple and effective attack method that causes aligned language models to generate objectionable behaviors at a high success rate.

GOOGLE REPORTEDLY BUILDING A.I. THAT OFFERS LIFE ADVICE

Google is constantly evaluating new projects and technologies. One of Google's AI units is developing at least 21 different tools for life advice, planning, and tutoring. More than 100 people with Ph.D.s have been working on the project. Google has reportedly contracted with Scale AI to test the tools.

CHINA

Foxconn has started production of the iPhone 15 in India. It will start delivering devices a few weeks after shipping from China-based factories begins. Apple is diversifying its supply chain due to tensions between the US and China. The US has taken multiple actions to restrict the flow of key technologies and investments into China.

EX-GOOGLE CEO ERIC SCHMIDT TO LAUNCH AI-SCIENCE MOONSHOT

Former CEO Eric Schmidt is building an organization to tackle scientific challenges with the help of AI. Schmidt has already hired two accomplished scientists for the initiative, which is modeled after OpenAI. Funding for the organization will come mostly from Schmidt's personal wealth, but outside funds will likely be necessary due to the scope of the project. Schmidt intends to offer competitive salaries and resources.

MYSTERY

The LK-99 saga was an unusually swift resolution of a high-profile puzzle and a great example of how claims are verified in the scientific community. Researchers have determined that LK-99 is not a superconductor and clarified its actual properties. This article presents an overview of the research done on LK-99 over the past few weeks. The properties that made LK-99 appear to be a superconductor at first were caused by impurities in the material.

START TESTING WORDPRESS’ NEW INTERACTIVITY API

WordPress' new Interactivity API allows developers to build sites that visitors can interact with and get feedback from without refreshing the page. Developers are now being encouraged to test the API. There is no official documentation for the project yet, but there's a 'Getting Started' guide, which is linked in the article.