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Culture
How to pay professional maintainers
Filippo Valsorda shares some advice to companies that want to sponsor individual open-source maintainers.
7 Mental Models For Great Engineering Leadership
Eiso Kant explains where to spend your time at different stages of the company, based on 7 models.
Software Engineering
My Favorite npm Commit
isaacs about their favourite npm commit: Setting the time to the 26th October of 1985 to work around a tar limitation. If that date doesn't ring a bell, it's a reference to the Back To The Future movies.
Introduction to Apple Silicon
The developers behind Asahi Linux explain how Apple Silicon (i.e. M1 and later) works.
Chapter 1. Why You Should Give it a Try
A Nix Pill that explains the raison d'être of Nix.
Full-Bleed Layout Using CSS Grid
Josh Comeau about a good way to implement a full-bleed layout in CSS.
Writing out large arrays in Go: binary.Write is inefficient for large arrays
Daniel Lemire about ways to make Go's binary.Write method faster or more efficient.
What does it mean to listen on a port?
Paul Butler explores the concept of ports on an operating system via a fictional story.
Panics vs cancellation, part 1
Niko Matsakis about panics and cancellation in async Rust.
Cutting Room Floor
War-prompted Disaster Planning
Jeff Kaufman about the steps he takes to be ready for disaster.
Down the mechanical keyboard rabbit hole
Fowlie shares their experience with different mechanical keyboards and layouts.
Smart Home components
Michael Stapelberg about some smart home components he used and how he likes them.
How our free plan stays free
Avery Pennarun explains the pricing model of Tailscale and why the free customers are not the product.
A retrospective look at Mac OS X Snow Leopard
Riccardo Mori compares Mac OS X Snow Leopard to macOS Big Sur from a visual standpoint.
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