Issue #13: Git Best Practices

This is issue #13 of Arnes Weekly from Jul 11, 2021

Welcome to this weeks issue! After reading some articles this week about running (which you can find below) I’m now going for a run. 🏃🏻‍♂️

Tweet of The Week

i’ve started investing in stocks… first chicken, then beef, and now vegetable. i know it’s risky, but i know one day it’ll pay off & i’ll be a bouillonaire — @emily_dawnxo for Twitter

Culture

Tweet by @adamhjk (twitter.com/adamhjk) — Adam Jacobs take on the OSS vs. GitHub copilot debate.
Mad Men. Furious Women. (zoescaman.substack.com) — Zoe talks about misogyny the ad industry and how women start to get fed up with it.

Sofware Engineering

Where are we going from here? Software engineering needs formal methods (ntietz.com) — Nicholas Tietz-Sokolsky about the software engineering process and how formal methods improve it.
Commit Often, Perfect Later, Publish Once: Git Best Practices (sethrobertson.github.io) — Seth Robertson has compiled a list of best practices when dealing with git.
Software Estimation Is Hard. Do It Anyway. (jacobian.org) — Jacob Kaplan-Moss on software estimation and why is it important, even when it’s often inaccurate.

Rust

What Can Coerce, and Where, in Rust (possiblerust.com) — Andrew Lilley Brinker goes in depth in his post about coercion in Rust.
What the Error Handling Project Group is Working Towards (blog.rust-lang.org) — Jane Lusby talks about the current state of error handling in Rust and how it will improve in the future.
What is you elevator pitch for Rust? (users.rust-lang.org) — If you ever wondered what all the fuss is about, check out this thread by bexxmodd.

Cutting Room Floor

Do We Really Need to Take 10,000 Steps a Day for Our Health? (nytimes.com) — Gretchen Reynolds about how upping your step count by a few thousand steps might even be better in some cases than doing 10k steps a day.
How I Tricked Myself Into Liking Running (nytimes.com) — Farah Miller has some great tips if you want to get into running.
No More Movies (jayriverlong.github.io) — Jay Riverlong provides 5 reasons why movies are less and less relevant.
Why White People Don’t Use White Emoji (theatlantic.com) — Andrew McGill about why white people should stop using the yellow skin color.

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