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Too often, we are told to highlight our weaknesses as a means for growth. From job interviews, to performance reviews, to our own self-reflection, we shine the light on what we do poorly. Building our careers isn't about doing everything well - instead, it's about doing what we already know we're good at to the best of our ability, and using the knowledge of our weakness to employ our strengths. Join Mary Thomas to learn why identifying and leaning into our strengths becomes our weakness Superpower.

From monolith to multi-app join us as we explore more in this Symfony demo: Once upon a time, great people created a great Symfony demo, to be used as a living code example and help us all learn: Bigfoot. Since then, the DevRel team at Platform.sh has forked this repo and created a really fun escape game to showcase Blackfire. And we thought it would be good to have a dedicated frontend for our game, instead of reusing the Bigfoot design.

It’s easy to assume that our users are experts when writing documentation. But technical writing without diagrams, code examples, videos, screenshots and more can ostracise a large chunk of users who are simply searching for help when using your product. When writing technical documentation, empathy allows us to imagine ourselves as the reader: a junior developer who just started on the job, a sales manager who needs more information for a client deck, a member of the customer success team helping a client on a video call.

Redacting PII (DLP): Speedscale can be configured to redact personally identifiable (PII) or other sensitive information (PII) from traffic via it's data loss prevention (DLP) features. This redaction happens before data leaves your network, preventing the Speedscale service from seeing the data at all. However, the overall shape or structure of the data is retained in order to facilitate useful testing against systems.

In this episode of The Confident Commit, Rob Zuber sits down with Cate Huston, Engineering Director at DuckDuckGo and author of "The Engineering Leader," for a deep dive into career ownership and sustainable engineering leadership. Cate challenges the common misconception that career growth equals promotion, introducing the concept of being the "directly responsible individual" for your own career and the crucial difference between "buying" versus "renting" your skills in the marketplace.