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Email health is a program’s ability to reliably send high-quality campaigns that avoid the spam folder and deliver on business goals. Common signs that you might have an email health issue include high spam complaints, a sudden drop in clicks, or increased unsubscribe rates. This piece includes a checklist of 12 indicators to ensure your email program health is in tip-top shape.
Loom was acquired for $975M by Atlassian and had been growing >500% YoY. It achieved this by designing an effective growth loop — a mechanism where inputs generate some output, and outputs can be reinvested as inputs. As new users join, they create videos and share them with others, which prompts new signups and restarts the loop. This enables UGC, leverages social sharing to build trust, and turns existing users into acquisition channels. This post briefly covers growth loops from companies like Netflix, Dropbox, and Airtable.
Organizations are adapting to new customer expectations post-pandemic. 56% of US employees report higher customer expectations for service quality. The elevated demands are increasing burnout and leading to a cycle of dissatisfaction and staffing challenges. To navigate these complexities, organizations must prioritize a customer-centric workplace culture and empower employees.
Virtual growth assistants come in handy when resources are lean at a new startup or when budget cuts are hurting mature growth teams. Outsourced workers can take over tasks like partnership outreach, marketing research, scheduling social posts, and more. This article includes tips for hiring virtual assistants as well as a short interview with a Philippines-based marketer.
Spending time optimizing subject lines and send times resulted in minimal long-term gain - the most impactful lever was publishing more consistently and frequently.
Users with effective LinkedIn profiles have a clear message that resonates with their ICP, highlight problems they solve and for whom, and a clear CTA for those interested in their product or service offerings.
A visual covering A/B test ideas for headline writing, value prop formatting, CTA placements, and short vs. long body copy.
A cheeky, playful ad by SURREAL (cereal brand) that’ll stop your stroll down the aisle.
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Elasticsearch was not scaling well for DoorDash’s search engine and lacked customization for the company’s needs in modeling complex data and search ranking, so DoorDash built its own search engine using Apache Lucene, a core search library, and designed its own indexer and searcher to meet its specific requirements. The indexer processes documents into easily searchable formats, while the searcher replicates index data and uses Lucene's search functionality to match queries and rank results.
When Google revealed its File System (GFS), it was a breakthrough in distributed storage. Designed for storing massive files across commodity hardware, GFS stored files in 64MB chunks replicated across machines for redundancy and performance. A central "master" managed metadata (file names, chunk locations, and versions) and coordinated reads/writes. To append data to files, the client would get write permission from the master, send data to multiple chunk servers, and have the designated "primary" server coordinate final writes.
Worker threads provide a way to create independent JavaScript execution threads that run in parallel. This post walks through an example of offloading CPU-intensive tasks to a worker thread in Node.js. Without offloading, tasks can block the event loop and prevent the server from processing other requests. The article shows an example of the server going from processing 7.3k requests to 0 tasks due to a CPU-intensive task.
Paul Graham, the founder of Y Combinator, gives advice to people who want to create the next Google. They should be makers and work on their own passion projects to learn fast. The best ideas come from projects you build for yourself and your friends to use. Something you truly need is a great sign. Great co-founders come from working together on things.
AI tools like Devin claim to replace software engineers. These startups face an uphill battle against established AI coding assistants like GitHub Copilot, so their claims need to be bold to get attention. For decades, there have been attempts to automate away the need for programmers, yet software engineers remain high in demand. The future likely lies in improved versions of existing AI coding assistants, not standalone "AI developers."
Meta’s build systems follow a two-step process. The first step generates instructions for what to build and the second step executes the build. This separation makes them inflexible, as you can't add new files without re-running the first step. "End-to-end" (E2E) systems combine both steps, allowing for dynamic target discovery. In these systems, cloud caching, early cutoff, suspending schedulers, and minimal builds are all features easier to implement correctly.
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Eta is a lightweight and fast embedded JavaScript templating engine that works inside Node, Deno, and the browser. It is written in TypeScript and emphasizes great performance, configurability, and small bundle size.
How you order elements in the `head` tag can have an effect on the perceived performance of the page. Capo.js helps identify which elements are out of order in your `head` tag on a web page.
Garnet is a remote cache store developed by Microsoft Research. It is compatible with standard Redis clients and features a wide range of APIs, custom server-side operations, a robust storage layer, security, and more.
This author built a Zig implementation of an Ethereum virtual machine with the aim of making it faster than the official Go version. A seemingly unrelated change to a benchmarking script made the Zig app slower. This was because commands in bash pipelines run in parallel, so a Zig app, when freshly compiled, has to wait for input from preceding commands. The author limited memory usage at compile time and used buffered reads to make his implementation faster than the official Go version.
An alleged AT&T data breach leaked data on 70 million customers, including sensitive information like SSNs. AT&T maintains the data did not originate from its systems, leaving the source of the breach unclear. The accuracy of the leaked data, which has now been dumped publicly, has been verified.
This author built a tech job board based on Hacker News threads using Node.js and the ChatGPT API. They found that ChatGPT was good at converting unstructured job post text into structured JSON data. The input size for the OpenAI API calls was optimized to stay within token limits and concurrent requests were made to speed up the entire process. They then used Node.js, TypeScript, and SQLite to track and store data. Most work in building AI apps is in building the infrastructure around it and handling error cases.
The median active developer merges 2 PRs per week. 48% of active developers are responsible for 80% of PRs merged since 2023.
jnv is designed for navigating JSON, offering an interactive JSON viewer and jq filter editor.
Bjarne Stroustrup, the creator of C++, disagrees with the White House's recommendation to avoid C++ due to memory safety concerns, as the language has improved its safety over time.
Java 22 has been officially released.
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→ WorkOS supports both the foundational auth you need as well as more complex enterprise features [4] like single sign-on (SSO). → It provides flexible and easy-to-use APIs, helping companies like Vercel, Loom, and Webflow offer enterprise-grade auth [4].
Apple is reportedly actively negotiating with Google to bring Gemini's generative AI technology to iOS. The company is aiming to release AI features to customers later this year. These features will likely be powered by a mix of first- and third-party AI models. While Apple has been testing its own in-house models, its AI tech is said to be less advanced than the competition.
Nvidia announced a new generation of artificial intelligence chips and software for running AI models during its developer's conference on Monday. The new Blackwell AI graphics processors are expected to ship later this year. NIM is a software that makes it easier to deploy AI. Nvidia aims to make all models runnable with all of its GPUs through NIM. NIM will make it easier to use older Nvidia GPUs for inference, allowing companies to continue using the GPUs they already own.
Suno's AI model creates music from text prompts. The model creates all the music itself while using OpenAI's ChatGPT to generate lyrics and titles. Suno's newest model is still a few weeks from public release. A link to an example of a track generated by the AI model is available in the article.
The Pyxis Ocean MC Shipping Kamsarmax vessel features a pair of 123-feet-tall solid 'wings' on top of its deck to harness wind power for propulsion assistance. After six months of operation, results from its journeys show that the technology offers a promising way to reduce existing vessels' emissions. The ship reportedly saved an average of 3.3 tons of fuel each day - it saved over 12 tons a day during optimal weather conditions. One potential issue with the adoption of the technology is the extra 125 feet of height added by the wings as they could complicate docking in many locations.
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React Print is a UI kit for building and generating PDFs and print documents. It contains simple and reusable components and templates for creating invoices, documents, and brochures. React Print gives developers complete control over their layouts, including margins, headers, footers, and more. It allows developers to integrate dynamic data into PDFs.
There will likely still be a market for software developers in the foreseeable future. However, the nature of work will change and the tools the industry uses may be very different from what it uses now. This article presents several frameworks on how to think about the future of software development in the context of recent AI developments.
AR/VR/MR technology still hasn't reached the mass market yet - it is still at the beginning of the S-Curve. The components in the Vision Pro are still years away from fitting into a Quest 3's size, weight, and price. The Vision Pro is effectively a very polished prototype or a developer kit rather than a consumer product. While it is an impressive piece of technology, there's not much that people can do with it. The future of computing probably isn't more or bigger screens. It may take a few years before the technology really takes off.
Sam Altman recently appeared on a podcast where he discussed OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, the board saga, Elon Musk, and more. This page contains a transcript of the podcast. Each line includes timestamps with links to take readers to specific parts of the video. A link to the full two-hour video of the interview is available.
MrBeast is filming a game show for Amazon Prime Video that involves over 1,000 contestants, a $5,000,000 prize, and many other world records.
Starting in May, fully remote Dell employees won't be eligible for promotion, a policy update that represents a dramatic reversal from Dell's prior stance on work from home.
A guide to setting up Firefox from scratch that covers how to back up logins and passwords, essential extensions, recommended preference settings, and more.
TikTok's new creator monetization platform, Creator Rewards, will use search value and other metrics to determine payout.
More empowering software should increase the demand for human creativity, let more people in, and let those people work better and faster.
California Forever, a group comprised of VC giant Marc Andreessen, LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman, Laurene Powell Jobs, and other tech giants, purchased over 60,000 acres of land about 60 miles northeast of San Francisco with the hope of creating a whole new city in the middle of the county.
The release of Claude 3 has been quite popular, but the prompting style for these models is slightly different. Anthropic has collected a set of user prompts that work well for a wide variety of tasks and topics.
Apple researchers have developed methods for training large language models on both text and images, leading to state-of-the-art performance in multimodal AI tasks.
Built on top of Stable Video, Stable Video 3D can generate 3D models from a single image. It outperforms Stable Zero 123 and other methods. Weights are available for research purposes and commercial use with a Stability AI membership.
Next token prediction is a simple objective that leads to complex behaviors. This work found that a single self attention layer trained with gradient descent broke the problem down into hard retrieval and soft composition, which enabled in-context learning and strong overall performance.
YOLOX-ViT introduces a new approach to object detection in underwater robotics by integrating visual transformers and knowledge distillation.