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 #32

blue skies filled of stars

Photo by Billy Huynh on Unsplash

tl;dr: “Mike talks to Eliot Horowitz, founder and CEO of Viam Inc. Viam launched the open beta of its new robotics platform. Viam provides an open-source robot architecture that turns complex functionality into simple APIs, with an integrated cloud service to orchestrate production deployments.”

tl;dr: “This article contains some learnings that have helped me (and others) to become better and more productive as a writer over the past 15 years. I am sharing them in the hope, that you find them useful.” Heinrich covers how to prepare for the topic you want to write about, confusing writing and learning, and much more.

tl;dr: “Programming in Go, is the most in-demand skill; the cybersecurity talent shortage continues to intensify; and Silicon Valley companies continue to offer the highest salaries, even to their remote workers.” And more.

tl;dr: “CSS tips and tricks you won’t see in most of the tutorials,” such as creating the typing effect with no JS, using the drop-shadow filter function, smooth scrolling with one line of CSS and no JS. And more.

tl;dr: Specifically for engineering directors, Will provides book recommendations and answers the following: “how do you foster execution on teams you indirectly manage?” Will cites 3 interesting pieces to consider:

1) Understand what’s happening on indirectly managed teams.

2) Adding things necessary for execution.

3) Remove things getting in the way of execution.

tl;dr: Brie provides 10 personal templates for “more efficient progress towards your goals and make the experience of getting there more satisfying.” Examples include Ongoing Stack Rank (OSR), “It’s Only The Weekend When” Post-It, “What I’m Proud Of” Scrapbook.

tl;dr: “FAANG and other top tech companies have independently converged on a common architecture for production grade recommendation systems.” This architecture is domain / vertical agnostic and can power all sorts of applications - from e-commerce and feeds to search, notifications, etc… Nikhil starts from the basics, explains nuances and describes this universal architecture.

Running an engineering meeting is always challenging. Running an engineering meeting over Zoom when everyone is working from home poses new challenges and exacerbates old ones. Here are 10 tips on…