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Hey everyone, hope you had a good week! We've had some snow in the last days, which was a ton of fun ☃️
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15 min · theguardian.com
An edited extract from the Book Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention by Johann Hari about the effects social media and being always-on can have on your attention.
12 min · thecodedmessage.com
Jimmy Hartzell makes a good point on the old debate of colored functions, why they are good and why there should be more colors.
7 min · tonsky.me
Nikita compares Syncthing to Dropbox and talks about the beauty in simple software (without bloat or upselling).
12 min · benadam.me
Ben Adam explains four implications of Amazons operating model (a federation of smaller companies) and why it didn't work for him. Thanks, Lukas!
5 min · platformer.news
Casey Newton about how Signal implementing untraceable payments puts end-to-end encryption at risk, as it conflicts with anti-money laundering and KYC (Know Your Client) laws.
10 min · jacobian.org
Jacob Kaplan-Moss wraps up their series on work sample tests and answer a few questions that came up. If you're in hiring or interested in the topic, make sure to check out the whole series, can't recommend it enough.
2 min · eric-jadi.medium.com
Eric Jadi created a Kubernetes admin tool as a Minecraft mod. Thanks, Eric!
5 min · nginx.org
A blogpost about Unix signals and how nginx upgrades itself on the fly.
2 min · reutsharabani.medium.com
Reut Sharabani collected some great points on writing good code reviews.
8 min · pngquant.org
Kornel about his experience in rewriting libimagequantfrom C to Rust.
4 min · blog.sunfishcode.online
sunfishcode ported Rust's std (partially) to Rustix, a system-call wrapper library, improving readability and taking the first step towards Rust on Linux without libc.
17 min · kaylynn.gay
Kaylynn dives deep into the inner workings of Rust ranges (for example (0..9)) and how they could be improved.
4 min · federicoterzi.com
Federico Terzi wrote a clickbaity title but has collected some useful things for your Rust code (like defer!).
92min · lpalmieri.com
Luca Palmieri in Chapter 10 of their Book from Zero To Production In Rust talks about setting up a web server and session-based authentication in Rust.
8 min · smallcultfollowing.com
Niko Matsakis shares the goals and design ideas of building dyn async traits into Rust (making the amazing #[async_trait] redundant).
I can't believe we have this topic now. Always remember, the so-called Web3 is Bullshit.
16 min · lpalmieri.com
Moxie Marlinspike wrote two dApps and shares their first impression of the so-called web3, noting that most of it is not as decentralised as some want to portrait it.
9 min · skerritt.blog
Bee wrote a response to the post above and defends the so-called web3, saying that the centralised services will go away.
8 min · theatlantic.com
Julie Beck about the history of hobbies and how it can build a personal brand, teach you a skill but can also miss their goal to de-stress and relax.
15 min · constructionphysics.substack.com
Brian Potter explains the choices he'd make to design a house to last for 1000 years (spoiler: unreinforced concrete and lots of steel).
2 min · constructionphysics.substack.com
If you've ever wondered what a Game Boy looked on the inside, this page has CT scans of the original GameBoy, GameBoy Color, GameBoy Advance, Nintendo DSi and the Nintendo Switch, with useful information about various components.