From the TL;DR in Tech archive, originally sent on Substack. Some links may have died since.

tl;dr in tech by Joe Karlsson - Issue #47

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tl;dr: “Total Cookie Protection works by creating a separate “cookie jar” for each website you visit. Instead of allowing trackers to link up your behavior on multiple sites, they just get to see behavior on individual sites. Any time a website, or third-party content embedded in a website, deposits a cookie in your browser, that cookie is confined to the cookie jar assigned to only that website.”

tl;dr: Generate images from a text prompt.

tl;dr: Tools to help coach are:

1) Outcome shift - help your report shift from the problem to solution.

2) Options exploration - ask clarifying questions that help make options more concrete.

3) Acknowledging strengths - increase confidence by bringing awareness to their gifts.

4) Uncovering limiting beliefs - make unconscious assumptions conscious and shift to productive beliefs.

tl;dr: “This post proposes a systems-based model for diagnosing, detecting, and fixing the fundamental issues that plague engineering teams. It is a distillation of lessons acquired from identifying and implementing high-leverage strategic remedies across multiple products.”

tl;dr: “Add features one at a time - not as a series, but on alternate timelines. With version control, we have this superpower.” Jessica believes this is a superior process for learning new frameworks, programming style, and more.

tl;dr: “As files, datasets and configurations grow, it gets increasingly difficult to navigate them. There are however many tools out there, that can help you to be more productive when dealing with large JSON and YAML files, complicated regular expressions, confusing SQL database relationships, complex development environments and many others.”

tl;dr: Assumptions are:

1) Countries have simple shapes.

2) Everything is a country.

3) Assuming administrative divisions are homogeneous.

4) Addressing schemes follow a simple rule.

5) Time zones follow a logical system. And more.

tl;dr: “If I’m right and conservatively, we have 99% wastage on our PCS, we are wasting 99% of the computer energy consumption too. This is beyond criminal. And to do what? I have no idea, but a quick look at task manager on my PC shows a metric fuckton of bloated crap doing god knows what.”