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Several factors should be considered when enhancing buttons, especially the many ways they can manifest to users. This article includes best practices for covering states, defining button sizes, their typical anatomy, and button types you should consider.
German type foundry Dinamo collaborated with art and design studio BNAG to create a new dot matrix font that works hand-in-hand with its new line of spontaneous metal furniture brackets.
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TLDR runs a collective of newsletters covering software engineering, AI, cybersecurity, marketing (that’s this newsletter!), startups/entrepreneurship and more. Twilio and DataDog have been working with us for years to reach our audience of over 5 million tech-savvy decision makers with highly customized campaigns.
Google has released the November 2023 reviews update, which overlaps with the core algorithm update that is still rolling out. This will be the last time Google announces a reviews update because they will be happening on an ongoing basis moving forward. Google’s “reviews system” covers any topic that is reviewable, including products, services, and businesses.
WordPress 6.4 has been released. It introduces a new batch of writing and design tools that give users more powerful customization capabilities inside the editor. WordPress 6.4 includes a new default template that contains 35 page layouts, lightbox images that expand on user clicks, background images in group blocks, and more. The new version also contains more than 100 performance-related updates and a range of accessibility improvements.
Structuring content topics based on your buyers’ journeys is key to driving sales. This post includes a simple example from Lattice on using retargeting ads with middle- and bottom-of-funnel content to drive conversions.
Your order confirmation page should be used to create delight and increase revenue. Get more from this page by cross-selling, encouraging account creation, promoting an app, or adding a survey.
Most B2B marketers need to change their playbook. Self-served buying journeys are growing, social media is playing a bigger role in decision-making, paid ads are all over the place, and cold emailing has diminishing returns. To thrive in the new landscape, marketers must understand these changes, then refocus their strategy accordingly. The playbook for succeeding in 2024 includes content marketing, social selling, paid ads, and account-based outbound—each of which has a deep dive in the article.
The MUD (Meaningfulness, Uniqueness, Defensibility) framework is a strategic model that helps organizations evaluate and identify their product differentiators. This post shares how CometChat’s new product marketing team applied the MUD framework. A link to the editable framework is available in the post’s comments.
Most guides on scaling skip the earliest stages or are by authors who haven’t done it themselves - this one focuses on how to reach your first million. The first step is finding product-market fit, which can be done by running paid acquisition campaigns and seeing if users are interested. Then, identify your ICP before doing anything else. Only then should you focus on nailing down messaging, pushing users to their ‘aha moment,’ and optimizing down-funnel metrics.
In this podcast, a Harvard Professor discusses a recent paper on how generative AI could be used to simulate focus groups and surveys to determine customer preferences. With the right input, AI reacts in a way that humans would in surveys which creates the possibility of running studies much faster, cheaper, and with bigger samples. It is not recommended to replace all human studies with GPT or other LLMs, but it opens a lot of new possibilities for marketers.
Customer journey audits provide insight into your winning vs. lower-performing channels. This post contains an audit framework and also prioritizes channels based on owned, paid, and earned/shared.
You can now swipe across on a reply and create a Story focused on that response. This is an opportunity for brands to showcase top fans in a new format in-stream.
First, check conversion tracking quality, then review audience manager, use the “compare” feature to observe results trend, break down the highest spend campaigns, and look at change history.
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User management is more than a login box. Clerk’s drop-in authentication and user management [6] keeps your Next.js app secure, removes friction during user onboarding, and gives developers more time to focus on what matters. 🙌 Getting started is ridiculously easy. [5] Clerk's Next.js SDK gives you access to prebuilt components, hooks, and helpers for Next.js Server Components, Route Handlers and Middleware. Install it with npm install @clerk/nextjs [5] and you’re basically ready to go.
React Query is a library for managing asynchronous states in React applications. While simple data fetching can be done without React Query, there are five potential issues when fetching data using the traditional approach with useEffect and useState. These include race conditions, lack of loading and empty states, data and error state not resetting when the category changes, and the useEffect firing twice in StrictMode. This article shows how React Query is able to fix these issues by simplifying data fetching, improving code quality, and handling these issues more efficiently - with code examples.
JQ is a powerful tool for processing JSON data efficiently. This article demonstrates how JQ is used with various practical examples, such as working with JSON responses from APIs, converting data to or from JSON format, managing JSON configuration files, parsing JSON data from websites, analyzing server logs, and monitoring data. It also provides basic examples of JQ operations, including selecting values, filtering arrays, mapping arrays, combining filters, splitting strings, using conditional logic, and handling null values.
Text embeddings are representations of text in high-dimensional spaces for various NLP tasks like search, spam filtering, content moderation, and conversational agents. The preservation of distance is a key feature of embedding spaces. This article goes through the evolution of sequential models in NLP, including fully-recurrent neural networks, long short-term memory, and the transformer architecture, which uses attention mechanisms to better capture the context and dependencies between words in a sequence and has become essential in large language models.
This article talks about the harsh realities of working as a software engineer and provides valuable insights for newcomers to the field. It emphasizes that college education may not adequately prepare students for the practical challenges of the job and encourages them to gain real-world experience and develop a portfolio. The article also underscores the importance of soft skills, as they can often be more valuable than technical skills for career growth and success in the industry.
Microservices themselves are not inherently problematic, but there are issues that stem from a lack of engineering competence and care within companies. It is important to hire competent individuals, provide proper education and mentorship, and maintain a focus on simplicity and code quality. Take ownership of services and don’t let external teams interfere too much.
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Signing up for accounts is something we’re all familiar with, and none of us enjoy. As an app developer, you can and should make your registration process simpler. This guide by FusionAuth [13] covers:
Sshx is a web-based collaborative terminal. Users can easily share their terminal by running a single command, manipulate terminal windows on an infinite canvas, observe real-time cursor movements of collaborators, and connect to a distributed mesh of servers for optimal performance. The terminal is end-to-end encrypted, with real-time latency estimates and predictive echo for faster local editing.
Lossless-json allows developers to parse JSON without risk of losing numeric information. It works similarly to the native JSON parse and stringify functions except it preserves information of big numbers.
Apple protects its trademark by placing its logo on every internal component of its devices, even if those components are not visible to consumers. This practice allows Apple to enlist the help of Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) in enforcing trademark protection at ports of trade. Apple participates in CBP's e-Recordation Program, which grants it special enforcement privileges and even allows the company to train law enforcement personnel. This system has been criticized for enabling Apple to abuse trademark law to stifle competition and hinder third-party repairs, with CBP seizing legitimate products from competitors and independent repair shops on Apple's behalf.
Lambda layers are a popular solution for managing dependencies in AWS Lambda functions. Layers themselves are nothing more than a zip file, but they have a few interesting properties that prove useful in some cases. Unfortunately, Lambda layers are also difficult to work with as a developer, tricky to deploy safely, and typically don't offer benefits over native package managers. These downsides frequently outweigh the upsides. This article examines Lambda layers and native package managers in detail.
Prop drilling is when you pass props to children components that do not consume the prop, but also only pass down the prop to children components. This article explains prop drilling in detail and ways to avoid prop drilling through component composition and moving states.
A quick tutorial on building a code generator, which is useful when your software interfaces with external systems and depends on information structures provided by that system.
This blog post takes a look at how to build a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) application using Node.js and LangChain. Specifically, it shows how you build a tool for asking technical questions about the content of YouTube videos.
OpenAI recently held its first-ever developer conference. This article presents an analysis of the keynote and its main announcements. The keynote was well-presented and entertaining. The live demos went off without a hitch and leveraged the fact that they were live. All of the new products and features announced were immediately available rather than being available in the coming weeks or months, as is increasingly the case for events like I/O or WWDC.
Reddit is starting to test add-ons built through its Developer Platform. Its first add-ons include tools for mods to more easily monitor and remove comment threads, ban spammers and remove their content, and more. They will only be available to a small number of subreddit mods. The Developer Platform is still in beta - it is unknown when it will be generally available.
Neuralink is planning to release a vision chip that will solve eye conditions that cause blindness within the next few years. The company has received approval to start recruiting humans for its first clinical trials. Its v0.9 chip aims to fix various ailments, including quadriplegia due to cervical spinal cord injury or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Neuralink is still waiting for regulatory approval for its first human tests.
Cruise uses a remote assistance team to help its autonomous fleet in certain situations. The company claims that remote assistance is being used about 2-4% of the time on average in complex urban environments. It says that the number is low enough that there isn't a huge cost benefit to optimizing much further. The remote assistants mostly provide wayfinding intel to the vehicle instead of controlling it remotely and more than 98% of sessions are answered within 3 seconds. It is an industry standard to have humans on call.
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This 2-pager from Datadog [9] covers: → Metrics and commands to monitor Kubernetes resources [9] (cluster, node, job…)
inshellisense provides IDE-style autocomplete for shells. It supports more than 600 command-line tools. inshellisense can run on Windows, Linux, and macOS. It works on bash, zsh, fish, pwsh, and Windows Powershell.
Cami.js is a toolkit for interactive islands and state management in hypermedia-driven web applications. It features reactive web components, tagged templates, store/state management, easy immutable updates, and more. Cami.js doesn't require any build steps and has no client-side router, JSX, or shadow DOM. It was designed for lean teams or solo devs working on multi-page applications.
This post presents the findings of a study that looks at whether GPT-4 can make good predictions. GPT-4's predictions are not well calibrated - its predicted probabilities are often over-confident. Its prediction ability varies depending on the category - for unclear reasons, GPT-4 is well-calibrated for sports questions but horrendously calibrated for personal questions. The model is better at making predictions for politics than for science or technology.
Banks often look like notably disorganized institutions to their customers, which is alarming and surprising for an entity that is supposed to accurately keep track of all of the money. Banks are extremely good at tracking ledgers, but bad at tracking other forms of truth for structural reasons. In extreme cases, banks can feel like they lack object permanence - every interaction can feel like you're starting from the beginning. This article explains how it got to be this way.
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You know Zendesk is the gold standard for customer support software. But did you know that you get free Zendesk access for 6 months if
YouTube's ad blocker detection system may be a violation of privacy in the EU as it may be classified as spyware.
A look at the current capabilities of large language models and what they might be able to do in the near future.
Louisiana has the lowest level of salary transparency, while South Dakota has the highest.
Rivian is now letting other companies buy its commercial electric vans.
This book is a guide to concepts seen in networking written to help readers make sense of the terminology and do a bit of network programming in Python.
This post looks at features that async Rust needs to continue to improve its user experience and a potential change to the language that could take years to plan and prepare for.
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Need more compute power (and choices) to fine-tune your generative AI? Intel® Developer Cloud [5] accelerates your AI development with Intel®-optimized software on the latest Intel® Xeon® processors and GPU compute.