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Issue #575
Essential Reading For Engineering Leaders
Tuesday 17th December’s issue is presented by Clerk
Clerk offers everything you need to provide your users a secure experience, tailored to your needs
Pre-Built customizable components (Sign-up, Sign-in, User profile) streamline the authentication process, increasing developer velocity and allow you to match your branding
Flexible authentication solutions: MFA, Social Sign-On, Magic Links, Passkeys, or Custom OAuth Providers
Polished user experience purpose built with developers and end-users in mind
Simplify complex organization and role-based management with multi-tenant support
— Will Larson
tl;dr: “All interesting problems operate across a number of context layers. For a concrete example, let’s think about a problem I’ve run into twice: what are the layers of context for evaluating a team that wants to introduce a new programming language like Erlang or Elixir to your company’s technology stack?" Will shares some layers of context and how to see across them.
Leadership Management
— Jessica Kerr
tl;dr: “A friend pointed out: The “Important & Urgent” quadrant is hard on our brains. In urgency lies stress. The more time we spend there, the more we need rest. Rest is in “Not Important & Not Urgent” quadrant, like video games. In “Important & Not Urgent,” we do the things that matter, without stressing ourselves out. Here, we write. We create. We grow and improve the world. This is the quadrant of impact.”
CareerAdvice
tl;dr: Waitlist is a new sign-up mode and component that lets users register interest and join a waitlist for early access to your product. Manage user access and onboarding all within your Clerk Dashboard. Read our changelog announcement for more details.
Promoted by Clerk
UsefulTool
— Dr Milan Milanović
tl;dr: “This is a reading guide for you as a leader to navigate and upgrade your leadership skills. It is a curated list of the best books on leadership that you can check and read during the holiday season. But it is not just a numbered list of books to read; it is a guide created by considering my selection from many books I’ve read and talked about with many leaders in the field.”
Leadership Management Books
"Do less, be more."
— Tejas Kumar
tl;dr: “This spectrum is how I measure professional relationships and where I stand in those relationships. It outlines seven states moving from a competitive, zero-sum mindset to one of shared identity (which is equally problematic). Tejas shares each state.
CareerAdvice
— Ian Vanagas
tl;dr: “Growth engineers discover and capture these gains through their unique way of thinking and working. Luckily, you don't need to go to growth engineer school to learn their secrets. It all starts by learning to think like they do – here's how.”
Promoted by PostHog
CareerAdvice
— Tim Fisken
tl;dr: “In the sphere of databases, this terror of deleting things leads people to advocate soft deletion: instead of really deleting a record, you add a field which marks the record as deleted, and you treat any record marked in that way as if it were deleted. This is generally a bad idea, and there are a number of better ways of ensuring access to old data.”
Antipattern
tl;dr: “I finally have the feeling that I’m a decent programmer, so I thought it would be fun to write some advice with the idea of “what would have gotten me to this point faster?” I’m not claiming this is great advice for everyone, just that it would have been good advice for me.”
CareerAdvice
— Stefanos Baziotis
tl;dr: “I've collected some misconceptions I've come across over the years (many of them mine), doing my best to clear up any confusions. As a heads up, this article is only about large-scale, mainstream, general-purpose compilers like LLVM, GCC, and ICX.”
Compiler
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