51 / Advantages of monorepos
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Tweet of the Week
I love the phrase "have a good one" because it's just like, whatever you're having — a Monday, an existential crisis, an incredible mushroom trip, a murder fantasy — I hope it's good.
— @roseveleth on Twitter on Twitter
Culture
The Cone Model for Teams' Support Network
Shy Alter shares a model of team structure that relies on many-to-many relations instead of one-to-one.
Software Engineering
That simple script is still someone's bad day
Rachel about shell scripts that work unexpectedly, even with pipe fail enabled. There's a follow-up: You can do a lot with an empty file.
How To Seamlessly Authenticate to Grafana using Tailscale
Xe Iaso explains how to set up Grafana so it derives your identity from the Tailscale session.
Advantages of monorepos
Dan Luu lists 5 advantages of monorepos. He even lists 10 other posts discussing monorepos, so this is a great place to dig deep.
Rust's fearless concurrency in practice
Sylvain Kerkour shares an excerpt from his book demonstrating one Rust's strengths: Fearless concurrency.
Nix Flakes: Exposing and using NixOS Modules
Xe Iaso continues their series of Nix and Nix flakes to talk about NixOS modules, functions that take the current state of a system and return things to add to the state of the system.
Per-project Postgres
Jamey Sharp shares a way to have a per-project Postgres, using direnv.
Surprising Weak-Ref Implementations: Swift, Obj-C, C++, Rust, and Vale
Evan Ovadia compares how different typed languages to weak references and explains the reasons behind Vales implementation.
Cutting Form Floor
How to stop China and the US going to war
Kevin Rudd about the growing tensions between China and the US and what he thinks is necessary to prevent a war in this decade.
Elizabeth Warren's plan to break up Big Everything
Sara Morrison about Elisabeth Warren's new bill:
The Prohibiting Anticompetitive Mergers Act, doesn’t just break up Big Tech: It breaks up Big Everything, and it prevents companies from getting too big in the future.
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