27 / Speed matters

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Favourites

IoT Hacking and Rickrolling My High School District

whitehoodhacker.net

A story of a small team rickrolling their entire High School District (of over 11 thousand students).

Speed matters

scattered-thoughts.net

Jamie Brandon writes that the most important thing to focus on improving is how fast you can work.

How I got my startup to #1 on both Product Hunt and Hacker News by accident

levels.io

Pieter Levels about the NomadList project and its history.

Culture

What is your labor worth? Tech compensation in 2021

jacobian.org

Jacob Kaplan-Moss about tech compensation and how to find out if you're underpaid.

Growth vs. Efficiency

jayriverlong.github.io

Jay Riverlong on a trade-off that you can find everywhere.

How to Evaluate Startup Offers

faingezicht.com

Avy Faingezicht has a beginners guide on startup offers (shares, cash, etc.).

Software Engineering

Neural Networks from Scratch - an interactive guide

aegeorge42.github.io

Allison George created an interactive guide to learn Neural Networks.

NixOS in the Cloud, step-by-step: part 1

justinas.org

Justinas Stankevičius has a tutorial to set up NixOS on a Digital Ocean virtual machine. Make sure to check out part 2 as well!

Rust

Rust and GCC, two different ways

lwn.net

Jonathan Corbet about the different approaches to use gcc as a Rust compiler (instead of the currently-supported LLVM).

Making slow Rust code fast

patrickfreed.github.io

Patrick Freed explains how he improved the performance of his Rust crate, using benchmarks and flame graphs to find slow paths.

Cutting Room Floor

The planet survived six hours without Facebook. Let's make it longer next time

theregister.com

Rupert Goodwins about the Facebook downtime and how Facebook has no essential service.

Invisible asymptotes

eugenewei.com

Eugene Wei about invisible asymptotes (i.e. reasons for growth stagnation) at various Silicon Valley companies and how to detect them.

Solar-powered aircraft flown for nearly three weeks without landing

eandt.theiet.org

Jack Loughran about the Airbus aircraft that could potentially stay airborne for up to six months.

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