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Postgres Goodies in Ruby on Rails 7.1

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Understanding the Instrumentation API in Rails

www.akshaykhot.com/rails-instrumentation-api/

Length, Size, and Count in Ruby and Rails: When to Use Which?

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Why embracing complexity is the real challenge in software today – MIT Technology Review

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Working at a Startup vs in Big Tech

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How to Develop a 5-Year Career Plan

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I Am Happy Not To Be A Web Developer Anymore

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Why I Built Zuzalu

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Solve the problem, not a different more difficult problem | Swizec Teller

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Cloud Costs Every Programmer Should Know

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LLMs are Interpretable - Tim Kellogg

timkellogg.me/blog/2023/10/01/interpretability?utm_source=tldrnewsletter

A guide for calculating design system costs - The Design System Guide

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The Negative Impact of Mobile-First Web Design on Desktop

www.nngroup.com/articles/content-dispersion/?utm_source=tldrdesign

What it's like to start a job as CEO — Eric Jorgenson

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UX Research Field Guide | User Interviews

www.userinterviews.com/ux-research-field-guide?utm_source=tldrdesign

Superlinear Returns

paulgraham.com/superlinear.html?utm_source=tldrnewsletter

The Impact of ChatGPT on Programming Education - Programiz Survey

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MMO Architecture: Source of truth, Dataflows, I/O bottlenecks and how to solve them

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Choose Postgres queue technology

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From Template to Atoms.

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Things Every Hacker Once Knew

www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/things-every-hacker-once-knew/

Service objects in Rails: how to find a mess

dmitrytsepelev.dev/service-objects-anti-patterns

We migrated to SQL. Our biggest learning? Don’t use Prisma

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20x faster than pgvector: introducing pg_embedding extension for vector search in Postgres and LangChain - Neon

neon.tech/blog/pg-embedding-extension-for-vector-search

System Design Case Study #2: How GitHub Indexes Code For Blazing Fast Search & Retrieval - Scaleyourapp

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How Duolingo designs product (and why)

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One Easy Way to Optimize React Re-Renders

medium.com/@younusraza909/one-easy-way-to-optimize-react-re-renders-abcb67d0252c

LLMs for Dummies

www.digitalnative.tech/p/llms-for-dummies?utm_source=tldrai

UX SEO: How To Boost Your SEO With UX Design

careerfoundry.com/en/blog/ux-design/ux-seo/?utm_source=tldrdesign

Form accessibility and usability beyond the basics - Pope Tech Blog

blog.pope.tech/2023/09/26/form-accessibility-and-usability-beyond-the-basics/?utm_source=tldrdesign

Never say "no," but rarely say "yes."

longform.asmartbear.com/say-yes/?utm_source=tldrwebdev

Database Migrations

vadimkravcenko.com/shorts/database-migrations/?utm_source=tldrnewsletter

A Crash Course in Redis

blog.bytebytego.com/p/a-crash-course-in-redis?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

A Crash Course in DNS

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The 300% Production Problem | lbr.

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Why aren't there more 80% jobs?

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Career Advice

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AI, Hardware, and Virtual Reality

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8 ways SaaS companies can use AI to get ahead - Canny Blog

canny.io/blog/how-saas-can-use-ai/?utm_source=tldrai

Easy-to-Use is Hard To Build

goodreason.substack.com/p/easy-to-use-is-hard-to-build?utm_source=tldrwebdev

3 actionable steps to maximize impact

engineercodex.substack.com/p/how-to-maximize-impact-to-get-promoted?utm_source=tldrwebdev

Design as craft is over — Dragan Babić

draganbabic.com/blog/design-as-craft-is-over/?utm_source=tldrdesign

Why async Rust? - Without boats, dreams dry up

without.boats/blog/why-async-rust/

Chromium Docs - WebGPU Technical Report

chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/main/docs/security/research/graphics/webgpu_technical_report.md?utm_source=tldrwebdev

Introducing Enhance Music — Begin Blog

begin.com/blog/posts/2023-09-28-introducing-enhance-music

Draggable objects

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Why Is the Frontend Stack So Complicated?

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