The new beginning!

29 Jan 2024    

Figuring out what you want to learn the next 6 years and compressing that to just 6 months. Man that mindset is tough.



General


  1. Mechanism of watch
    https://ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch/

Interesting interactive graphs on how each parts of a mechanism watch work.


  1. Should you add screenshots into your documentations?
    https://thisisimportant.net/posts/screenshots-in-documentation/

  1. Chesterton’s fence mental model
    https://fs.blog/chestertons-fence/

  1. Slides Design
    https://www.seckington.com/the-art-of-slide-design-maximise-signal-minimise-noise/

1 purpose per slide, reduce distraction from that 1 purpose


  1. Effective repeat back to me communication style
    https://roughlywritten.substack.com/p/let-me-repeat-that-back-to-you

  1. Asking what your customers want doesnt work
    https://techbooks.substack.com/p/why-asking-your-customers-what-they

Fund raising


  1. yes means no
    https://jacobbartlett.substack.com/p/yes-actually-means-no-the-curious

Product


  1. Pitivi
    https://www.pitivi.org/

  1. mistral.ai
    https://mistral.ai/news/mixtral-of-experts/

  1. Airdraw
    https://www.airdraw.io/

  1. Fast logos generator
    https://shipfa.st/tools/logo-fast

  1. Wireflow.co
    https://wireflow.co/

Technology


  1. Ios app navigation patterns
    https://frankrausch.com/ios-navigation

  1. LLM need these layers?
    https://www.amazon.science/blog/do-large-language-models-really-need-all-those-layers

  1. Prompt engineering
    https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/prompt-engineering

  1. All code are technical debt
    https://michaelscodingspot.com/slow-development-in-big-companies/

  1. Or not?
    https://gavinhoward.com/2023/12/code-is-not-technical-debt/

  1. Own the problem not the solution
    https://blog.mangoteque.com//blog/2023/11/28/own-the-problem-not-the-solution/

  1. books for cto
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38803092

  1. Merge vs rebase
    https://graphite.dev/blog/why-ban-merge-commits

  1. Data lakehouse
    https://davidgomes.com/understanding-parquet-iceberg-and-data-lakehouses-at-broad/

  1. Hosting posgres on k8s
    https://ryan-schachte.com/blog/ha_postgres_zolando/

  1. 50 algos every engineers should know
    https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/50-algorithms-every/9781803247762/

  1. Simple last longer
    https://newsletter.pnote.eu/p/simple-lasts-longer

  1. Deleted at
    https://brandur.org/soft-deletion

  1. Performance engineering by MIT
    https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-172-performance-engineering-of-software-systems-fall-2018/download/

  1. Dealing with app containing multiple UI library
    https://shoelace.style/