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Linked - 8 Essential Qualities That Define Great Leadership

Company leaders are facing a crisis. Nearly one-third of employees don’t trust management. In addition to this, employers now have to cater to the needs of the millennial generation. On average, after graduating from college, a millennial will change jobs four times before t...

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• Quoting William B. Irvine

Linked - A Guide to the Good Life - The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy

A plan for a living The rise of Stoicism Philosophy takes an interest in life The first stoics Roman Stoicism Stoic psychological techniques Negative visualisation. What’s the worst that can happen? The dichotomy of co...

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• Quoting Amazon

Linked - Amazon Leadership principles

We use our Leadership Principles every day, whether we’re discussing ideas for new projects or deciding on the best way to solve a problem. It’s just one of the things that makes Amazon peculiar. Customer Obsession Leaders start with the customer and work backwards. The...

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• Quoting Boz

Linked - Ask for Advice Not Permission

One of the most common anti-patterns I see that can create conflict in an otherwise collaborative environment is people asking for permission instead of advice. This is such an insidious practice that it not only sounds reasonable, it actually sounds like the right thing ...

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• Quoting Vimeo

Linked - TDD where did it all go wrong?

Frustrations with TDD Didn’t refactoring promise change without breaking tests? If we change the implementation details, non of our tests should break. More test code than implementation code. Programming Anarchy and Lean Software Development drop tests first. Du...

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• Quoting Inc

Linked - The 9 Traits That Define Great Leadership

To motivate your team to achieve the highest levels of performance (and create an extraordinary organization in the process), here are the qualities you should model every day. 1. Awareness There is a difference between management and employees, bosses and workers. Leaders...

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• Quoting Kate Matsudaira

Linked - The Evolution of Management

These are the biggest transitions that occur when moving from individual contributor (IC) to entry-level manager: Let go of the immediate/quick sense of gratification that comes from doing/building/creating. Accolades and recognition become less frequent as you move up...

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Blog - Time Management

I didn’t have enough time to do this Is probably the most frequently conveyed message in every organisation around the world. When I hear it I try reframe it. I also recall doing this on a job interview that was a mock 1:2:1 with a engineer. I think it strongly aided m...

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Blog - Grit by Angela Duckworth

About The Author She presently studies self-control and grit as a distinguished professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, the same university in which she studied. Her book, Grit, distils what she has learned about the importance of effort to the attainment...

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Linked - How I split stories

I’ve been trying to pin down what goes on in my head when I’m trying to break down a piece of work into manageable chunks.

I’ve been trying to pin down what goes on in my head when I’m trying to break down a piece of work into manageable chunks.

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Blog - Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

Introduction ‘Meditations’ is one of a kind book, which is basically a compilation of the private journal entries of Roman emperor, Marcus Aurelius, who was one of the pioneer leaders of Stoicism and a very staunch Stoic himself. In this book, he has shared his advice on h...

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• Quoting Michael Keeling

Linked - Mob Programming Patterns

Mob programming is an approach to creating software in which the whole team works together on the same thing at the same time. At the heart of every effective mob there is a group of people working from a place of mutual respect to deliver the best software they can, as fast...

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Blog - Plant the Seed - Growth and Investment Philosophy

Rather, invest in the best greenhouse, and the most appropriate compost/soil, and then water as frequently as needed and let them grow.

After you plant a seed in the ground, you don’t dig it up every week to see how it is doing.

William Coyne, Head of R&D at 3M

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Blog - Start with Why by Simon Sinek

‘Start with Why’ is an inspirational book by Simon Sinek that centers on asking yourself deep, meaningful questions that help you understand your purpose in life and exactly why you wish to actualize it. It talks about how you can achieve truly remarkable things by simply fo...

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Blog - The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason

Introduction The Richest Man in Babylon, written by George S. Clason, is an insightful guide which provides readers with invaluable financial advice which is applicable today. The advice is given in the form of stories and parables of ancient Babylon. Despite being publishe...

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• Quoting GitHub

Linked - Reframing your perception of what a one-on-one can accomplish

A well-structured one-on-one meeting with your manager isn’t just a check-in, it’s an opportunity to shape your work environment and career trajectory. You wouldn’t build a system without evaluating its constraints, dependencies, and long-term maintainability. Why approach y...

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Blog - Using GitHub CoPilot

I’ve been doing a bit of small scale personal development over recent weeks including building out some simple one-use case tools. I’ve found CoPilot and AI generally brilliant for this work. I’m at a point in my career where I’ve been professionally hands-off for about 7 y...

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• Quoting Ned Batchelder

Linked - Human sorting improved

I wrote about this long ago (Human sorting), but have continued to tweak the code and needed to add it to a project recently. Here’s the latest: import re def human_key(s: str) -> tuple[list[str | int], str]:   &nb...

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• Quoting Reddit User

Linked - Is Raycast still European-owned

I thought this was an interesting position, coinciding with a piece on the Tech Meme Ride Home podcast.

Hi! I’m curious about Raycast’s ownership. I know it was founded in London, but does anyone know if it’s still primarily European-owned or if the majority ownership has shifted to American investors? I’m trying to reduce my reliance on American-owned products.

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Mixtape - Monthly Mixtape - April 2025

What I’ve been listening to this month. Sweetness - Jimmy Eat World orange show speedway - Lizzy McAlpine Never Let You Go - Third Eye Blind Voulez-Vous danser (2015 Remastered Version) - Ace of Base Red Alert (Jaxx Radio Mix) - Basement Jaxx Been Swank - The...

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Release - Thechels.uk Version 1.6.0

What’s Changed

  • Feat: Add stock by @github-actions in #517
  • Feat: Bias towards action. by @github-actions in #519
  • Feat: Focus on user needs by @github-actions in #521
  • Bump lycheeverse/lychee-action from 2.3.0 to 2.4.0 by @dependabot in #524

Full Changelog: 1.5.0…1.6.0

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• Quoting Matt Edgar

Linked - A plea for pragmatic ambition

The bait, switch, and twist It goes like this. First the bait: an invitation to contribute to a multi-year strategy or plan. The service team marshal their best ideas. From their experience of performing live service at scale, they know these things would really s...

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• Quoting Jacob Kaplan-Moss

Linked - How to report a security issue in an open source project

So you’ve found a security issue in an open source project – or maybe just a weird problem that you think might be a security problem. What should you do next?

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• Quoting Simon Willison

Linked - Incomplete JSON Pretty Printer

Every now and then a log file or a tool I’m using will spit out a bunch of JSON that terminates unexpectedly, meaning I can’t copy it into a text editor and pretty-print it to see what’s going on.

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Blog - Missing Vowels - Football Player Name Game Archive

One from the archives, I used to run a twitter bot that would tweet a footballer’s name with the vowels, spaces and hyphens removed and then tweet the answer a few minutes later. The bit of python to do this was stripped = str.maketrans(dict.fromkeys('aeiouAEIOU -')) hidde...

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• Quoting GitHub

Linked - Add Styled Alerts To GitHub Markdown Documents

The GFM (GitHub Flavoured Markdown) variant of markdown adds some nice features to our GitHub-rendered markdown documents. One such feature that has been around for a couple years, but which I only just learned about, are these styled alerts. There are five of them each wit...

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Blog - Check Your Public IP Address

If you visit https://checkip.amazonaws.com/, a plain text page will render that displays your current public IP address.

Alternatively, you can cURL this endpoint from the command line:

curl https://checkip.amazonaws.com/

Either way, you’ll get your IP address.

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// Published 2025-03-26, with 44 words.

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• Quoting Jim Nielsen

Linked - Great piece from Chase McCoy

The rise of graph and database-like features in popular tools like Notion or Obsidian is a sign that the simple filesystem has failed us. And that failure has pushed us towards other solutions which require sacrificing ownership of our data. If an average consumer want...

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Linked - SignalGate Is Bad But OPSEC Is Not Even the Worst Part Of It

Remember that when Trump held his notorious meeting with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki in 2019 he confiscated his translator’s notes and ordered him not to divulge anything that had been discussed. Remember that Trump got impeached over an extortion plot recorded in the gove...

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Blog - Trigger A Workflow Via An API Call

Set up a GitHub Actions workflow to run when triggered by an API call. This is done with the workflow_dispatch event. First, we add workflow_dispatch to our workflow as a triggering event: ```yaml on: workflow_dispatch: ``` Second, we create a fine-grained personal Git...