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Tweet of the Week
every morning is a beautiful day to mute a new word about crypto
ā @ow on Twitter
Favourites
Technology Iām thankful for
David Crawshaw about technologies that he's thankful for this turkey day.
Faster software through register based calling
Menno Finlay-Smits explains the new register based calling in Go 1.17 and why it makes your code 5-10 % faster.
Stack-safety for free?
Martin Huschenbett introduces an approach for stack-safe recursion using generators.
Culture
Just a job
Amy Hupe about the perception of work. Thanks, Jan!
Coding "Homework"
Jacob Kaplan-Moss has s some concrete advise on how to structure the coding homework when hiring tech workers.
Your Board of Directors is Probably Going to Fire You
Jerry Neumann shares some advice when it comes to handling a board of investors as the CEO of a startup.
Software Engineering
Batteries included with Emacs
Karthik Chikmagalur showcases some builtin features and modes of Emacs.
Only 90s Web Developers Remember This
Zach Holman about six technologies from the nineties (remember marquee?).
OOPS writeups
Lorin Hochstein shows the structure of their OOPS write-ups and shows some examples.
Notes On [the Rust] Module System
Aleksey Kladov shares some thoughts about the Rust module system.
Merge Queues with Bors
Kevin Flansburg explains Bors, the bot that guarantees that the main branch will always compile by pipelining and testing branches.
Modern CSS Reset / Global Styles
Josh Comeau has a simple CSS reset and goes into details for each rule. Did you know the *-selector is not slow after all?
Linux
Fun with Red Star OS
sizeof(cat) boots North Korea's operating system, the apps installed and the general vibe.
Flatpak Is Not the Future
Nicholas Fraser about the rust of Flatpak and it's many downsides (first of all, bloat).
The Operator Pattern in Nomad
Andy Dote applies the Operator Pattern from Kubernetes to Monad.
NixOS: Headless Home Assistant VM
Martin Myrseth set up a Home Assistant VM on NixOS and explains the configuration and pitfalls.
How to Learn Nix
Ian Henry has a guide on Nix, hoping to improve the documentation by showing misunderstandings and frustrations. I'm not done yet but I remember having some of the same questions when starting to look into this.
Cutting Room Floor
Facebook's Dangerous Experiment on Teen Girl
Jonathan Haidt about the damage social media is causing, especially to teen girls.
A Cure for Type 1 Diabetes? For One Man, It Seems to Have Worked. - The New York Times
Gina Kolata about a possible cure of Type 1 Diabetes.
NASA's Planetary-Defense Mission Is on Its Way to an Asteroid
Marina Koren about the preparations we take to be able to prevent an asteroid impact on Earth.
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