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Could AI CEOs Be the Future? Where Does That Leave Us?
- AI is a powerful tool for productivity, but understanding its output is crucial for effective use.
- Human ownership remains a distinct advantage over AI in roles like CEO and business ownership.
- Two camps exist regarding AI: fear of being replaced and denial of AI's growing power.
- The future of AI is uncertain, with potential impacts on society and workforce dynamics.
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Slow SQL Queries? Boost Your App's Performance with This Technique
- Dealing with slow SQL queries in a React + Spring Boot + Oracle app can be frustrating.
- To boost performance, you can use the NTILE SQL window function to partition query results into manageable chunks.
- By processing these partitions in parallel, you can significantly reduce wait times.
- However, it's important to monitor and manage the number of concurrent requests to avoid straining the database.
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Unlocking the Power of Growth Genie AI: Your Daily Companion for Personal and Professional Growth
- Growth Genie AI is an AI-powered life coach that helps enhance personal and professional growth by creating personalized learning paths tailored to unique needs and goals.
- Growth Genie helps with habit formation by sending daily reminders, tips, and nudges, and also uses AI-powered emotional check-ins to help manage emotional well-being by tracking mood and managing stress.
- Growth Genie acts as a personalized learning assistant that continuously adapts to one's learning style, pace, and goals. It helps optimize daily activities by offering time management techniques, task prioritization tips and goal-setting frameworks.
- Growth Genie acts as an emotional resilience coach by offering emotional intelligence exercises and mindfulness practices, helping you build the capacity to manage stress, adapt to change, and remain focused under pressure.
- Growth Genie AI helps you stay relevant by offering personalized, continuous learning and development for achieving adaptability in a constantly changing world.
- Growth Genie covers both personal and professional development, helping you balance your mental, emotional, and intellectual growth for a fulfilling life.
- Growth Genie delivers bite-sized, actionable insights that are easy to incorporate into even the busiest of schedules, making self-growth convenient and manageable.
- Growth Genie AI is an essential tool that guides individuals through personal and professional growth and emotional resilience, helping individuals thrive in every aspect.
- Incorporating AI tools like Growth Genie into daily life can prove to be transformative and time-efficient for individuals looking for continuous personal growth and success.
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Consolve: Bridging the Gap to Essential Services in Africa
- Consolve is an AI-powered platform that aims to bridge the digital divide in Africa by providing easy access to essential services like healthcare, finance, education, and agriculture for its users.
- Developed in a hackathon, Consolve is built to empower the community and streamlining the access to services to create a digital ecosystem.
- Consolve is targeting areas in Africa where access to essential services like healthcare, finance, and education is difficult due to geographic, technological, or financial barriers.
- Tailwind CSS was used to build a modern, responsive UI, Appwrite was used for authentication, user profiles, and real-time database handling, and OpenAI’s API was used to provide users with personalized service recommendations based on their preferences, location, and prior interactions.
- The most challenging part of developing Consolve was integrating the real-time notification system. To overcome this, Henry, the developer of the project, used a custom hook that manages subscriptions, implemented throttling to limit the frequency of API calls, and used local caching to store previous notifications.
- Collaborative and effective communication with the team are the key takeaways for Henry, which includes balancing quality with speed, taking initiative, and knowing when to ask for help.
- Henry is planning to add more user-centric features like offline capabilities to the app and expand the AI-based recommendation system to offer more personalized suggestions.
- By building Consolve, Henry's desire is to improve the access to essential services for underserved populations. He wants to keep exploring ways to integrate additional services such as transportation and logistics, which would be hugely beneficial for communities in remote areas.
- Henry is a passionate software developer aiming to create solutions that impact people's lives. You can see the project on GitHub or watch the live demo.
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21 Chrome Extensions To Boost Your Productivity
- Chrome extensions are very useful tools when it comes to increasing efficiency and boosting productivity for software developers.
- Some of the best developer Chrome extensions include Stacks, PR-Agent, Daily.dev, HackerTab.dev, and JSON Viewer.
- Stacks is an AI-powered search engine and unified web workspace for saving and organizing bookmarks and online research materials.
- PR-Agent is an AI-powered code review tool for the GitHub environment that offers feature-rich chat interfaces for private and threaded conversations.
- Daily.dev and HackerTab.dev are personalized Chrome extensions that deliver the latest tech articles, tutorials, and news on web development and tech trends straight to your browser.
- JSON Viewer is a handy Chrome extension that formats JSON files, while Wappalyzer helps developers to identify the technologies used on any website.
- React Developer Tools let you inspect the component hierarchy of your React applications, and Pesticide is a useful extension for visualizing the box model of complex CSS layouts.
- Other helpful Chrome extensions include Lorem Ipsum Generator for creating placeholder text, WhatFont for identifying the fonts used on any webpage, and Fake Filler for quickly auto-populating form fields with dummy data.
- Session Buddy is a popular session manager for managing tabs, while Checkbot helps you analyze your website for SEO, speed, and security issues.
- Among the other useful Chrome extensions are GoFullPage for taking complete screenshots of web pages, Web Maker for experimenting with web technologies, Dimensions for measuring the distance between elements on a webpage, Clear Cache for clearing your browser's cache, and Web Developer Checklist for ensuring your website adheres to industry standards.
- Vue.js Devtools is designed to help developers build, debug, and optimize applications built using the Vue.js framework, while the EditThisCookie extension provides a simple and powerful interface to manage, edit, and manipulate cookies in your browser.
- In addition, 10015.io offers a collection of online tools aimed at simplifying everyday tasks for developers, designers, and general users.
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State of the product job market, part 2
- There's indeed a shift to hiring more senior PMs.
- Remote PM jobs are shrinking fast (down 35% from peak, and still shrinking).
- More than one in five open PM roles is based in the San Francisco Bay Area (and still growing).
- Bengaluru, India, is now the most popular location outside the U.S. for PM roles.
- The three most common hard skills that hiring managers are looking for from PMs are SQL, Jira, and experience with LLMs.
- Machine-learning engineers and data engineers are the most in-demand tech functions right now.
- The data shows that, yes, new Senior and above PM roles do appear to be growing at a faster rate than other levels.
- Over a fifth of open PM roles globally are OK with remote, but this number is quickly declining—from over 35% of open PM roles two years ago to 22.5% today—nearly a 35% drop.
- The San Francisco Bay Area continues to be the leading location for open product jobs at tech companies.
- Over a fifth of open PM roles globally are OK with remote, but this number is quickly declining—from over 35% of open PM roles two years ago to 22.5% today—nearly a 35% drop.
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How to Quickly Deploy Your Angular/React/Vue Website for Free Using EdgeOne Pages
- EdgeOne Pages is a free static website deployment platform created by Tencent EdgeOne.
- It offers automated build processes, custom domain names, edge acceleration, DDoS protection, and one-click SSL deployment.
- Users can deploy their websites with one click by linking their GitHub accounts.
- The platform provides unlimited free access to all features and offers advanced security and website acceleration for a limited time.
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Supercharge Your Android App: 6 Powerful Performance-Boosting Techniques
- Android app performance can be significantly enhanced by using powerful techniques like streamlined layouts and smart image loading.
- Streamlined layout with ConstraintLayout and flat view hierarchy improves rendering speed and touch response time.
- Efficient image loading can be achieved by decoding images and loading them at exact size needed to prevent memory allocation.
- LeakCanary automates monitoring your app for potential memory leaks and provides detailed reports.
- Choosing the right data structure such as SparseArray over HashMap can significantly impact performance.
- WorkManager provides smart task scheduling by intelligently scheduling tasks based on constraints to minimize battery drain.
- Performance profiling through measuring specific code blocks can identify performance bottlenecks and help optimize the code.
- Continuous measurement and improvement of app performance is the key to great performance.
- Challenge to implement at least one of these techniques in an Android project to measure performance before and after.
- Join the Appstronauts community to continue the discussion, share insights, and collectively push the boundaries of Android development.
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Tool Containerization Best Practices For Embedded Software Development
- Containerization is becoming increasingly prevalent in the embedded software industry, but it still has integration difficulties. Docker is used to encapsulate the relevant development tools in the container image.
- A monocontainer is an approach that utilizes a single container for all the tools necessary instead of separating them.
- Several issues such as scalability, maintainability, troubleshooting, and storage efficiency arises when using the monocontainer approach. Just like traditional Integrated Development Environments, monocontainers have challenging bug localization.
- The ideal solution to these issues is a dedicated tool image, which allows the separation of tools into individual containers. Troubleshooting becomes simpler, and the build process is more efficient. Dedicated tool images are easily adaptable and storage-efficient.
- DEM (Development Environment Manager) and axem Open Tool Dockerfiles are also mentioned as tools to streamline the process of using dedicated tool images.
- Transitioning from monocontainers to dedicated tool images marks a significant leap in efficient embedded software development, enabling developers to excel in the evolving field of embedded software.
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Convert Figma to Code with AI
- Builder.io has developed an AI-powered Figma to code tool to help designers and developers bring their projects to life more efficiently.
- Visual Copilot leverages AI models and an open source compiler to transform flat designs into code hierarchies refined by an LLM for framework and styling preferences.
- Visual Copilot allows one-click conversion of Figma designs in React, Vue, Svelte, Angular, Qwik, Solid, React Native or HTML code in real-time.
- It is designed to work with a choice of styling library including plain CSS code, Tailwind, Emotion, Styled Components.
- Visual Copilot features automatic responsiveness and adjustment of components to fit all screen sizes, with the component mapping feature to create a direct link between the design & code component.
- After code generation, you can refine with custom prompts, hard coded content to use props, and integrate the generated code with your existing codebase.
- Visual Copilot works with multiple frameworks, ensuring the generated code is clean, readable, and customised according to preferences.
- Builder.io Visual Copilot promises to accelerate the process of converting Figma designs to code, ensuring a seamless transition from design to code and promoting an efficient web development workflow.
- Getting started with Visual Copilot is straightforward open the Visual Copilot Figma plugin, select a layer, click the Generate code button, copy the generated code and customize accordingly.
- Visual Copilot can be used in multiple scenarios such as material UI login cards, feature sections and more.
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The Don Norman Playbook
- Don Norman, the father of user-centered design, emphasizes the importance of designing with people, not just for them and believes that great design is an ongoing process of prototyping, testing, and refining. He stresses the need for AI systems to be transparent and understandable, avoiding creating black-box systems that make decisions without users understanding how or why those decisions were made. Norman teaches that great design is about creating products and systems that respect, guide, and empower the people who use them.
- Don Norman stresses on creating a human-centered design process. He believes that the design of the iPhone was about how people could intuitively interact with their devices, making it easy and enjoyable for all. He stresses that even the smallest details matter in creating a seamless user experience.
- Don Norman’s approach stresses iterative design and his process of continual iteration is what has made the Dyson brand stand out in a market filled with traditional vacuum cleaners. According to Don Norman, constraints can be helpful in guiding the user’s behavior and making interactions clearer, making products more user-friendly.
- Don Norman’s design teachings are crucial regarding affordances and signifiers. For example, doors labeled as 'push' or 'pull' often indicate a failure in design. A well-designed door should naturally communicate how to use it without any written instructions.
- Don Norman advocates for AI systems to be designed with a focus on augmenting human capabilities, not replacing them. For AI to be trusted, it must offer clear explanations and justifications for its actions, ensuring that users can maintain control and trust over AI-driven outcomes.
- Don Norman teaches that design isn’t just about aesthetics; it’s about solving real problems people face, and his hospital signage systems helped reduce confusion for patients and families navigating complex hospital layouts, leading to improved experiences and reduced stress.
- Don Norman believes that AI should be seen as a tool that aids human decision-making rather than something that replaces human expertise. He advocates for AI to handle repetitive, data-heavy tasks while leaving more nuanced, complex problem-solving to humans.
- Don Norman’s comments that “Apple gets simplicity wrong” are going viral. However, he believes that the design of the iPhone revolutionized the market because of its human-centered intuitiveness that made it easy and enjoyable for all age groups.
- Don Norman's design teachings are like having a masterclass in empathy, simplicity and functionality. He teaches that great design is about creating products and systems that respect, guide, and empower the people who use them.
- Don Norman views AI with a cautious but optimistic perspective, often emphasizing the importance of keeping technology human-centered and advocates for AI systems that support and collaborate with people, enhancing our abilities rather than making us feel redundant.
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Building consistency: Why it matters
- Consistency is important because it makes us feel safe and confident in our actions, building trust in relationships, and we tend to favour those with reliable behaviours.
- Resistance to consistency is often met, particularly from executive teams, as it is hard to quantify and measure, so we equate it with intensity.
- To build consistency, we need to think about it differently and concentrate on creating the processes and routines that lead to results rather than focusing solely on goals.
- Consistency is a habit; just like a habit, it takes time to establish and see the results.
- We can measure consistency by running a standup or a retro, taking feedback during these meetings and drawing conclusions based on the descriptive and related language used.
- We can also run an internal satisfaction survey, as we would when trying to understand better how external users perceive our product, to measure consistency.
- Resistance to consistency comes from trying to change something hard to measure and change behaviour, and we tend to default to previous decisions that worked well when faced with a problem.
- By making consistency more of an emotional conversation than a practical one, it can become a little more exciting.
- Remember, consistency doesn't happen overnight. It takes time to build and maintain consistency.
- With clear processes and routines that lead to results (systems) in place, it is possible to build and maintain consistency.
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Overcoming the Multitasking Myth: A Developer's Story
- Only 2.5% of the whole human population are good at multitasking.
- Focusing on one thing at a time results in goal achievement.
- The author had goals to learn Front-End Web Development, start a YouTube channel, learn social media and improve their writing skills.
- Despite knowing they were terrible at multitasking, they worked on everything with the same energy and focus.
- Juggling multiple, equally important goals simultaneously was ineffective and led to burnout.
- After a period of reflection, they developed a new, flexible schedule- dedicating set times to each of their goals within a week- which helped them regain focus and avoid burnout.
- Prioritizing tasks and focusing on one significant task at a time is vital to achieving goals.
- Multitasking is not an efficient or effective way of working and should be avoided.
- Josh Billings said, "Be like a postage stamp, stick to one thing until you get there."
- Set clear priorities, dedicate your energy, time and resources to your primary goal, and tackle other tasks one by one as you make progress.
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Boost Team Collaboration Efficiency: 10 Best Visual Collaboration Tools of 2024 You Should Have
- Visual collaboration tools have become popular in the cloud-based environment, enabling offices, hybrid and remote workers to collaborate effectively. There are many visual collaboration tools present in the market like Boardmix, ClickUp, Conceptboard, Canva, Mural, Creately, Lucidspark, Stormboard, Google Jamboard, and Freehand by InVision. Each one is unique in its own way and provides various features that make teamwork and communication simple and effective. In this article, we introduce 10 highly-rated visual collaboration tools suitable for any industry that elevate teamwork and communication to a new level.
- Boardmix is an online whiteboard that brings teams together, providing them with a collaborative space, with over 2000 templates and anonymous voting. Users can brainstorm, manage and discuss projects, execute plans, and develop mind maps with the ClickUp whiteboard. Conceptboard allows its users to create powerful, collaborative boards filled with various features and is suitable for all industries, internal or remote teams, and any company size. Canva is renowned for its incredible design options and offers excellent visual collaboration features through collaborative whiteboards.
- Mural and Lucidspark offer real-time cursors, various canvas options, permission controls with multiple settings, set timers to stay on schedule, and integrate with communication and project management applications. Creately makes collaboration simpler and more efficient with its ultra-fast preview synchronization. Stormboard is a digital workspace platform designed for businesses and enterprises, and offers powerful export capabilities and AI-powered collaborator. Google Jamboard is part of the Google ecosystem and is available on different platforms, including the special Jamboard device, for educators and in-house teams. Freehand by InVision boasts powerful features and ease of use that enhance your collaboration and productivity while helping visualize workflows.
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Coldplay concert: MBA student seeks job referrals on Mumbai concert ticket thread, gets offers
- An MBA student leveraged the buzz around Coldplay's upcoming concert in Mumbai to seek job referrals in a ticket-related discussion on X (formerly Twitter).
- Saumil Tripathi, founder of Grapevine, shared the student's creative approach, where he asked professionals for referrals amidst the ticket frenzy. Surprisingly, his request garnered responses, including one from a Razorpay employee, who invited him to direct message for a referral.
- This unconventional networking tactic highlights the innovative ways individuals are expanding their professional networks, demonstrating the power of creativity and opportunism in job searching. Coldplay's concert is scheduled for January 2025.
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