For me it was a vivid reminder why I decided to quit. Nothing like thinking "I wish I was part of the layoff round cuts" to give you clarity regarding where you actually stand.
I've been obsessed with making it easier to handle tab overload in the browser without requiring any sort of active "tab management".
I have a working extension that replaces the "new tab" page with a clean view of all open tabs, along with simple ways to search and select which tab to switch to, including search over bookmarks and history. There are also some simple tools to allow for creating and reorganizing tab groups.
For a small group of people, it revolutionizes the browser experience. I'm still trying to decide if there is a widely-useful product there, or if it's just a niche use case.
This is a fun read, and, unlike a lot of material on the Labs, goes back a lot further than 1947.
As a software engineer, my favorite book on the topic is "Unix: A History and a Memoir" by Brian Kernighan. It tells many of the same stories that are told elsewhere about the modern history of the Labs, but through the first-person perspective of someone who was there, for whom the characters are not just historical figures, but friends.
This post reflects an insidious anti pattern in the practice of setting OKRs: "shipping the roadmap" is not the objective, it is a means to achieving some other underlying objective.
With a well written objective / key result (ex: "grow DAU by 30%"), you can abandon your entire roadmap two weeks into the quarter and still hit your OKRs. They enable you to respond to new information and lessons learned, rather than locking the whole team into a rigid plan for the entire quarter.
You might like my extension: https://tabomagic.com. Bookmarks are hidden by default, but as soon as you type something into the search bar, all matching bookmarks show.
I built a chrome extension to optimize this workflow, because the address bar search in Chrome is terrible (as in: it requires you to @-mention what kind of thing you're searching for.)
Ctrl-T opens a new tab page, <tab> highlights the search bar, and then I get instantaneous search over open tabs, bookmarks, and history. Everything stays 100% local.
Every hiring manager with any experience should anticipate that candidates are likely to negotiate.
Therefore, any offer should be backed by logic of the form "we want to hire this candidate for $Y or less. We will make an initial of $X (X < Y), so that we have room to negotiate upwards when they ask."
> Google codebase is arguably one of the most curated, and iterated on datasets in existence
I spent 12 years of my career in the Google codebase.
This assertion is technically correct in that google3 has been around for 20 years, and all code gets reviewed, but the implication that Google's codebase is a high-quality training set is not consistent with my experience.
