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When generating content for LinkedIn using AI, it's crucial to tailor the prompts for conciseness and engagement. The goal is to create posts that fully encapsulate the idea within LinkedIn's character limit, avoiding truncation and maximizing impact.
Key optimizations include instructing the AI to generate short, focused content (around 2500 characters), structured in 3-5 paragraphs.
Working on the landing project, which is focused on creating a compelling user experience, we've recently enhanced our testing strategy to ensure the reliability of our GitHub API integrations.
The goal was to catch potential issues arising from changes to the GitHub API, preventing silent failures in our application. We've implemented a suite of integration tests that validate the structure of
This article discusses a common issue in applications using GitHub OAuth for authentication: inadvertently overwriting a user's existing token with one that has fewer permissions. We'll explore how to ensure the application preserves the user's original, broader-scoped token when requesting narrower scopes during subsequent logins.
Many applications use GitHub
When auditing file system operations within an application, a common challenge arises when dealing with generic or placeholder file paths. These paths, often used during testing or initial setup, can trigger false positive alerts in audit logs, obscuring genuine security concerns. A recent update addresses this issue, enhancing the accuracy and reliability of our auditing process.
Sometimes, during development, placeholder values can inadvertently slip into the final application. This post discusses how we addressed such an issue in our vlog index page, specifically focusing on unresolved :app_name placeholders.
Unresolved placeholders are problematic because they present a poor user experience and can sometimes expose internal
We've all been there: a quick fix for an apparent issue, like an unresolved placeholder in a user-facing section. But what happens when the fix itself introduces more complexity than it resolves?
Recently, we addressed an issue where the :app_name placeholder wasn't being correctly rendered on the /earn hero section of our application.
When dealing with multi-tenant applications, handling tenant removal gracefully is crucial for user experience and data integrity. This post discusses a strategy for tenant dissolution with a focus on minimizing disruption and providing users with options.
In a multi-tenant system, deleting a tenant can have significant implications for its users.
Managing resource quotas across multiple tenants can be challenging, especially when the need for manual overrides arises. This post explores how we refactored our token usage service to implement a tenant-centric quota system with support for manual adjustments.
Previously, our token quota management was user-based. This created inefficiencies when the context already provided
Maintaining data consistency across distributed systems and applications often requires careful management of caches. Stale data in caches can lead to unexpected behavior and inconsistencies. We recently implemented several enhancements to our application's caching strategy, focusing on proactive invalidation to ensure data accuracy and prevent outdated information from impacting
During a recent update, we encountered an issue where partial failures during data synchronization could lead to data loss. This post details the problem and the solution implemented to ensure data integrity.
Our application relies on synchronizing data from an external source. The synchronization process involves fetching and updating various data points.
