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Alistair Gray gave a great talk at Write The Docs Portland, going into detail about our investment in Internal Docs at Stripe. He breaks down our thoughts about issues of fragmentation, discoverability, and document quality - and how we’ve tried to build great tools to improve the state of internal docs at Stripe across all of these axes. In Q&A, he touches on an important theme which is essentially “how do we convince engineers to use the tooling we build.” The answer really boils down to “ruthlessly build what engineers want” while maintaining our core primitives (eg, ownership, doc quality) that we know are vital to the health of Stripe’s knowledge base all-up. Let me know if y’all have any questions - happy to expand more on these themes! https://lnkd.in/em4QRFmH

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🌟 Excited to share this insightful blog post by my talented friend Laura Liu Cruickshanks on the essentials of Product-Led Growth! A must-read for anyone passionate about product innovation and growth! Check it out here: [A Beginner's Guide to Navigating Product-Led Growth](https://lnkd.in/dpBDCS9s) #ProductLedGrowth #Innovation #GrowthStrategy #Pendo #MustRead

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Planning to expand your dev team in NYC? These 4 shocking stats about NYC tech talent trends could save you time and money.. Here's a sneak peek: - 70% of developers want hybrid work. - Only 40% of tech companies offer it. If you're a hybrid company, put that near the top of your job description to attract better talent! #nycjobs #techhiring #staffingreport #hybridwork #techtalent #nyctech

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Getting Web2 developers into Web3 is super hard. We wanted to solve that at Coinbase by building an SDK that can help any web2 developer build a crypto app in less than 5 minutes. Our SDK makes it super easy to add Web3 support to any app (e.g NFTs, payments, etc) I've been working with a super talented team at Coinbase (including weekly syncs with our CEO Brian Armstrong) to ship these APIs. We're making progress every week ~ and we just added typescript support. Try out the APIs here: https://lnkd.in/ger5wN_Y We're still looking for user research participants to evaluate the SDK in typescript or ruby, so reach out(comment on this post, or post in platform-apis discord channel) if you're interested. Participants are well compensated for their time. Join our discord if you have any questions or feedback : https://lnkd.in/eekYf8u2 #crypto, #web3, #developer

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Legend-State Over Redux? I recently connected with Jay Meistrich, the mind behind Legend State, and I've began using it on some projects. The speed and simplicity of Legend State has left me thoroughly impressed. No more dealing with reducers, dispatchers, etc. - just dive in and try it out! I love where this is going! Try it out! https://lnkd.in/gCpv_gS5 #LegendState #Impressed #Simplicity #StateManagement #Javascript

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After a year of work my book Building A Startup - A Primer For The Individual Contributor is finally available! https://lnkd.in/erThxvpP If you’re working in or around startups as an IC or technical leader this book is for you. It’s based on 20 years of startup work and will help set you up for success to do more with less, move faster and more correct, and spend more time building features and product people love and less time banging your head at roadblocks and bottlenecks.

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Awesome to see how our Pinterest Engineering friends take advantage of an almost *700x performance difference* between Honeycomb and their Develocity (fka Gradle) dashboards to find outlier users, old machine types, or use of specific JDKs. 🔥 We love seeing our customers use Honeycomb in all parts of their development process, leveraging our support for custom metadata (monotonically increasing, unbounded build identifiers are a perfect stealth example of high-cardinality data) and 💥speed💥 to deliver better experiences for their users. https://lnkd.in/eGcKeUvY

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We're in the pets phase of LLMs right now, but the cattle phase is coming and it'll change everything. Yes, again. What do you mean "pets" and "cattle"? Servers used to be our pets. We bought, named, cared for, and persisted them individually. If we wanted a new one, it was a big commitment. If one went down, it was a big loss. But then servers became cattle. Today we manage them as a group of commodity assets. We want one, we clone it. If one goes down, we replace it with another. This change delivered an era of distributed, high availability applications with limited downtime. Cheap storage, containers, cloud, clusters all met riding on top of Moore's law. And machine learning changed too. Computer vision was first. We went from small, neural networks running on CPUs via Matlab to a larger networks running in on GPUs via C++. AlexNet kicked off the deep learning revolution, eventually Transformers in NLP, and then ChatGPT. So, today we call our LLMs by name but this is just the start. There will be more LLMs variations than there are people on Earth.

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Flexibility with time and work-life balance = Freedom. This is why I love building apps for the Shopify ecosystem at Lightward. Work needs to be done, but it can be done at any time and never at the expense of health. See our company priorities at https://lnkd.in/gNDWuts9. Every employee's first priority is their own health. What a simple but amazing imperative. The bet here is that the cumulative effect is additive, not subtractive: that the health of all individuals blooms into the health of the whole. For me, as the father of 4-year-old twins, this freedom means never missing a swimming lesson, a soccer game, or a chance to have an impromptu dance party in the kitchen 🕺💃👯. It will also mean working at the cabin this summer, while my kids attend day camp nearby and then getting to build memories in the evenings and weekends. What does freedom look like for you in your workplace? Share your stories below! 💬 Thank you to Lightward Isaac Bowen Abe Lopez Shopify

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🚀 Exciting news! The Hipporello Service Desk for Notion is now live! 🌟 📺 Watch the video to see how you can turn Notion into a powerful service desk: https://lnkd.in/gtg8rP-m

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I’ve worked in various industries in different positions for 15+ years, including: • Digital editor when Facebook became mainstream. • Graphic designer for traditional mediums. • Front-end dev with top NYC creative agencies. • Web3 dev who survived the bear market. I’ve had so much fun during this time, and there isn’t much I would change about my journey. However, I burnt out badly twice. The burnout exhausted me, taking away more fun I could’ve enjoyed. If I could go back, here are a few mistakes I made—and what I would have done differently to avoid burnout: 1️⃣ Lack of boundaries I failed to set clear work-life boundaries, leading to overwork and anxiety. The pandemic and remote work made it worse. I should have set specific work and rest hours and a designated work area to ensure proper recovery. 2️⃣ Failed to manage expectations I didn’t communicate effectively with employers and clients, which led to unrealistic goals and deadlines. I should have taken the initiative to discuss workloads and responsibilities with stakeholders regularly. 3️⃣ Objectify myself at work I measured my worth only by my job performance and output. Taking breaks even made me feel guilty and lazy. I should value myself beyond work and reserve time for personal passions. － By addressing these issues, I could have avoided burnout and enjoyed my career journey more. If you’re early in your career or feeling tired, remember to: • Set boundaries • Manage expectations • Value yourself beyond work Good luck with a sustainable and happy career ✨ Read this post and more on my Typeshare Social Blog: https://lnkd.in/gNtEeGar

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Strategic alignment across product and field is complex and not easy to get right, but it's a pleasure to work alongside Brett Crane, Trevor Jett (Childers), and Jarod Greene. It's wonderful to be in conversation with them, sharing what we have learned, in this webinar: https://lnkd.in/gc-qp7Hk

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Hey friends - have you used Kafka and can share pain points & feelings on usability? I have a friend working on a project to improve the dev-friendliness and would love to chat (just 15-30 mins) if you're open to it -- comment below :)

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This is something I really want to celebrate! Both the outcome with a seriously improved, modern and great looking new app, as well as the people who made it happen! It’s been a truly massive undertaking during which many teams and individuals have been put to the test. I’m immensely proud of our teams and how everyone has stepped up and delivered time and time again during this journey. I have two main takeaways from this project: 1. Always strive to make sure everyone involved understands the why. Deep understanding of the desired result from a particular change enables many more brain cells to think through the implications, potential problems and opportunities. Even the most brilliant minds will have trouble understanding every aspect, implication, or even opportunity stemming from a change or introduction of something new. 2. Technical architecture needs to be an integral part of the change process in any project of this size. I firmly believe that we would not have succeeded in delivering a successful outcome at the speed at which this was delivered without a very well thought out technical architecture that support such a high pace of change while still also supporting consistency and stability across the experience. To everyone involved in this project: Thank you! I feel privileged to be working with so many brilliant minds.

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