44 / A Rust match made in hell
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Tweet of the Week
I love all the Winter Olympic events, sliding downhill on a piece of wood, sliding downhill on 2 pieces of wood, sliding downhill IN a piece of wood. All amazing.
— @TheAndrewNadeau on Twitter on Twitter
Favourites
Building an iPod for 2022
Ellie Huxtable bought an iPod Video 5.5, replaced the HDD and front plate and flashed a custom operating system. I love this, in fact I have an iPod Video lying around here just waiting for something like this!
A Rust match made in hell
Amos about a footgun in Rust that took him about a week to fix.
Culture
That Wild Ask A Manager Story
Jacob Kaplan-Moss about the things to do to prevent fraud in the hiring process.
Interview Questions to Ask Your Interviewer
Mark Erikson has a list of 32 questions you can ask your interviewer.
Software Engineering
The foundations of end-to-end encryption: Domain separation (with code example in Rust)
Sylvain Kerkour explains domain separation for end-to-end encryption.
Announcing Tokio Metrics 0.1
Carl Lerche & Jack Wrenn announce Tokio Metrics, a tool that provides instrumentation for the Tokio scheduler at runtime (Tokio Console is the local debugging equivalent).
File-driven testing in Go
Eli Bendersky about file-driven testing, where you have a .input and a .golden file and programatically compare them in your tests.
How does UTF-8 turn “😂” into “F09F9882”?
Seth Michael Larson explains the UTF-8 code point layout with diagrams.
Cutting Room Floor
Why you can't rebuild Wikipedia with crypto
Casey Newton interviews Molly White, the creator of Web3 Is Going Just Great about the so-called web3, cryptocurrencies and Wikipedia.
Building a PiSight
Robb Knight built a Pi Zero into an old iSight camera. What a great way to upcycle!
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