Best of LinkedIn — 2023

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Bootcamp·2y
LinkedIn, But Better
The article discusses the need for a redesign of LinkedIn due to UX frustrations, such as a lack of a 'Saved' option and limited article discoverability. The redesign aims to make the platform more accessible, less cluttered, and personalized. It introduces features like a 'Saved' option, improved networking functions, a home screen for 'Stories,' and a separate tab for articles. The design also focuses on dark mode, consistent icons and components, and a standardized notification format.
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Community Picks·3y
Did You Know? Shift+Ctrl+Alt+Win+L Opens LinkedIn on Windows
In October 2019, Microsoft introduced a new keyboard design that included a dedicated "Office" key. The key is typically positioned between the right Alt and the Emoji key near the space bar. You can press Office+W to open Microsoft Word, Office+X to open Excel or Office+L to open the LinkedIn website.
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Quastor Daily·3y
How LinkedIn Serves 5 Million User Profiles per Second
LinkedIn has over 930 million users in 200 countries. At peak load, the site is serving nearly 5 million user profile pages a second. To manage the increase in traffic, LinkedIn incorporated Couchbase into their stack as a caching layer. They’ve been able to serve 99% of requests with this caching system.
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Codemotion·3y
Why do Programmers Hate LinkedIn?
LinkedIn, the social network designed to create professional connections and job opportunities, is often criticized by developers. In this article, we will explore the reasons why some programmers may dislike LinkedIn, trying to shed light on the phenomenon of “why programmers hate LinkedIn” Why LinkedIn is not working for developers LinkedIn needs little introduction.
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Machine Learning News·3y
Top AI Chrome Extensions To Hack Your Life And Save Time (April 2023)
Top AI Chrome Extensions To Hack Your Life And Save Time (April 2023) MarkTechPost Wiseone Wiseone is a browser add-on that provides a fresh approach to reading and discovering web content. With the Vento Chrome Extension, you can record videos on a stress-free website that lets you go back and fix problems.
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Community Picks·3y
I Created an OpenSource Portfolio Template for Developers 🚀
I created an OpenSource Portfolio Website Template for Developers. The project is made with HTML, CSS, some JavaScript, and SASS to write CSS. Don't worry if you don't know any, I have provided the instructions on how to use Dopefolio and set up your own Portfolio using it in the README.
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freeCodeCamp·3y
How to Learn to Code & Get a Developer Job in 2023 [Full Book]
How to Learn to Code & Get a Developer Job in 2023 is the full book – for free – right here on freeCodeCamp.org. More than a million people visit this website each day to learn about math, programming, and computer science. The book is for anyone who is considering a career in software development.
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Redis·3y
9 Ways to Future Proof Your Software Developer Career
The good news is that the job market will continue to favor software developers in 2023. You can make yourself more valuable to your company and to other employers. Consider these nine concrete ways to future-proof your software development career and add in-demand skills to your resume.
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Medium·3y
Free tech programs that can help you land roles
Free tech programs that can help you land roles are now providing free training and programs to encourage more people to pursue careers in cybersecurity. Grace: I want to emphasize that I am not against paid programs and materials, and I encourage individuals to take advantage of them if they can.
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KDnuggets·3y
5 ChatGPT Features to Boost your Daily Work
ChatGPT has completely changed the way to develop code. Most software developers and data professionals still do not use ChatGPT to improve — and ease — their work. You can use them in your day-to-day work and enhance your code quality using it.
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Community Picks·3y
My side project got acquired within 1 week — 3 lessons I've learned about marketing & virality
The Viral Post Generator for Linkedin attracted 2M+ users within one week and got acquired for a very high price. The idea came up when I did some scraping for LinkedIn posts and filtered them according to high engagement in order to "reverse engineer" them. The common denominator that jumped out from all the viral posts was clear.
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The Verge·3y
LinkedIn gets a free verified badge that lets you prove where you work
Microsoft-owned LinkedIn is rolling out a free verification system that will allow users to prove their identity and where they work. The verification options include the ability to use CLEAR to prove your identity, verification of your workplace through an email address, and Microsoft’s Entra verified ID platform to obtain digital workplace IDs for free.
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InfoQ·2y
Why LinkedIn chose gRPC+Protobuf over REST+JSON: Q&A with Karthik Ramgopal and Min Chen
LinkedIn explains why they chose gRPC and Protocol Buffers over REST and JSON for inter-service communication in their microservices platform. They observed significant latency improvements and are advising Rest.li users to migrate to gRPC.
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Hacker Noon·3y
116 Stories To Learn About Web Scraping
The amount of data available on the internet nowadays is practically limitless, with much of it no more than a few clicks away. Learn how to scrape the web using scripts written in node.js to automate scraping data off of the website and using it for whatever purpose.
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Quastor Daily·3y
How PayPal Scaled Kafka to 1.3 Trillion Messages a Day
How PayPal Scaled Kafka to 1.3 Trillion Messages a Day, how Ryan Peterman went from an L3 at Facebook to an L6 in under 3 years (tripling his compensation) How PayPal improved Kafka cluster management with a config service, custom libraries, access control lists and more Collecting metrics on the Kafka cluster.
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Quastor Daily·3y
How LinkedIn Reduced Latency with JSON
How LinkedIn Reduced Latency with Protobuf and how it's used at LinkedIn. How SMS Fraud works and how to guard against it, things DBs don’t do and more. How Beacons Connects Millions of Accounts Across Various Social Platforms with a Single API.
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Product Hunt·3y
Communities - Meet your new Professional Network, now with Communities
Communities is Entre's new feature within their professional networking app. It combines the best aspects and functionality of linkedin, slack and zoom to provide an all-in-one user experience for tech professionals and entrepreneurs. Grow traffic and awareness with packages starting at $1k Support is great.
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InfoQ·3y
LinkedIn Improves Development Productivity by 10x by Implementing a Messaging Client-Side SDK
LinkedIn significantly improved development productivity by implementing a client-side Messenger SDK. The SDK reduces code maintenance costs and abstracts away thousands of lines of code into shared libraries. It has brought feature parity, modernized codebases, and increased developer productivity.
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Hacker News·3y
Want an unfair advantage in your tech career? Consume content meant for other roles
Consume content meant for people in roles you work with can provide a competitive advantage in the tech world. You can access it anytime, with no need to schedule a meeting, and you can even automate the process by subscribing to newsletters, channels, and podcasts. A little understanding and honesty can go a long way.
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UX Planet·3y
How to Attract Freelance Design Clients in 2023?
LinkedIn has seen significant growth this year, particularly for those embarking on content creation. Arpit Chandak is a Freelance Graphic Designer aiming to offer services to startups for branding needs. For high-quality, well-paying clients, Behance is the go-to.
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