This week starts a new year for me after a long relaxing vacation. I don’t remember anything I was working on before the holidays, but I will be fine. Looking forward to this exciting year 💪! (especially with the US election…)
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Career Growth Frameworks in Software Engineering: A Review
A long (20-min long!) summary of popular ideas on engineers’ career growth frameworks. Of all the ideas, the most important is that the cultural values and the growth framework should be aligned.
The one-salary experiment, ten years in
This company iwantmyname challenges the assumption that pay differences must exist for hiring and retention. Instead, they opted to pay everyone the same, regardless of role, experience, or cost of living and have done it for ten years now.
Words I Wish You’d Stop Using, system fonts only
In short, the term “minority” disregards the power struggle aspect of the label and dehumanizes those groups. Use “minoritized people” to acknowledge that people aren’t born minorities, but made into them.
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What does it mean for a machine to “understand”?
This article is about AI but applies to other fields as well. Defining a problem is often the hardest part of the complex problems. Creating codified and testable definitions will orient the discussions. Nothing is worse than the moving goalposts.
Act locally, connect globally with IoT and edge computing
Edge computing, or local computing under limited connectivity and bandwidth, will open up new use cases in the coming decade. Current use cases summarized by Amazon’s CTO.
Why We Don’t See Many Public GraphQL APIs
GraphQL’s flexibility is a challenge when the consumers are not familiar with the convention of the API since each provider can handle edge-cases (errors, timeouts, and so on) differently.
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