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 #58

vintage gray game console and joystick

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tl;dr: My friend, Wesley Faulkner, tells us his tips for starting a new role:

1) Practical tools to help your visibility and help you put your best foot forward

2) Steps to define and find the right match when looking for the next opportunity

3) How to best position yourself and set yourself up for success in your next role

tl;dr:

1) How to get better at taking your own pulse.

2) How to get better at delegating.

3) How to make your strategy more clear.

4) How to speak less and become a better detective during 1:1s.

5) How to get better at listening - by paying more attention to yourself. And more.

tl;dr: “After getting locked in for almost 2 years due to COVID-19, I wanted to spend time with nature, away from busy city life, and breath fresh air. My parents own a farm, so it felt like a perfect place to spend a few weeks. The only issue is that I don’t have wired internet connectivity in the Farm.” 

tl;dr: “If you have experience writing applications using sockets, all of this information should be obvious to you. It wasn’t obvious to me as an absolute beginner, so I’m trying to make it more explicit in the hopes of shortening another beginner’s time getting their feet wet with sockets.”

tl;dr: “Large data-hungry corporations dominate the digital world but with little, or no respect for your privacy. Migrating to open-source applications with a strong emphasis on security will help stop corporations, governments, and hackers from logging, storing or selling your personal data.” This is a curated list of privacy & security-focused apps, software, and providers 🔐

tl;dr: Gergely dives into:

1) Oncall philosophies across the industry.

2) Companies which pay and those that don’t.

3) How much do companies pay?

4) Companies that don’t pay.

5) Poor on call cultures.

tl;dr: Molly warns us of black hole words, which “are commonplace in a given industry but everyone has a slightly different definition of them. You can have a whole meeting and if you don’t define the word, you just wasted an hour of everyone’s time.” Molly gives us examples, such as “values”, “work-life balance”, “impact” and “fast.”

tl;dr: “That’s a lot of functionality that can be built with labels. As an example, I’ll show how to add labels automatically depending on which area of a codebase has changed. This is what I use in every project I work on as it allows maintainers oversight and awareness of the impacts of changes. It does not depend on the language or types of files - it’s based on the git diff and paths.”