Weekly newsletter about leadership, technology, books and anything else we felt compelled to share with others
Year 3 - Edition 28
A Fistful of Links is a weekly newsletter about leadership, technology, books, and anything else we felt compelled to share with others, brought to you by Og Maciel and Mirek Długosz.
Seek the Challengers
By Shripriya Mahesh
People like that—I call them challengers—can often be the smartest people in the room. They question because they want to understand the logic and thinking behind ingrained cultural habits. They want to use their time well, and they want to make a big impact.
Kite Launches AI-Powered JavaScript Completions — Code Faster with Kite
By The Kite Team -
- Submitted by Twinkle Pardeshi
The JavaScript ecosystem continually invents new frameworks and design patterns. These inventions make it a vibrant place to be, but it also creates the need to learn an ever-changing set of code patterns and APIs. Kite’s deep learning models have learned all of these patterns, understand the context of your code, so Kite can predict chunks of code and put them in your completions.
Marc is one of the most notable and influential figures in the history of the internet. We were lucky to have a wide ranging conversation with him on how he spends his time, how he tries to set goals for himself, how he reads so much, what keeps him so plugged in after all of these years and what he wants people to build.
The decision-making principles in this article aren’t pulled out of thin air. They’re the result of many years of experience and experimentation. They draw upon the combined expertise of some of history’s deepest thinkers. They summarize the core insights and skills from influential books on decision-making.
From 1 to 10,000 test cases in under an hour: A beginner's guide to property-based testing
By Carolyn Stransky and Fredrik Fornwall
Throughout this guide, we'll cover the fundamentals of property-based testing. We'll walk you through practical examples and how to structure your tests. Finally, you'll learn how to use property-based testing to find bugs in your code and what existing libraries are out there.