92 / What’s in my software engineering tool belt?
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Toot of the Week
but Rust has a garbage collector, it’s called clippy
— @luna@tech.lgbt
Favourites
How Your LED Lights and Screens are Killing You
Russell Graves about the effects of blue light on your sleep and cancer risk and what to do about it.
36 Ways to Live Differently
Chris Guillebeau had a list of 36 things to change in your life for the better.
Seed-Planting Drones Are Reforesting Canada With Lightning Speed
Emily Nonko about a new tech that uses drones to reforest big areas.
ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web
Ted Chiang describes the analogy of viewing large language models like GPT-3 (and therefore ChatGPT) like a blurry view of the web, similar to compressed images.
Culture
The difference between good and great engineers
Darragh Curran has six traits that distinguish good from great engineers.
Tech
What's in my software engineering tool belt?
Nicholas shares the contents of their software engineering tool belt.
On replacing my MacBook Air M1 with a Thinkpad T480
Max Rozen explains how they upgraded their Thinkpad and made it a real alternative to their MacBook.
All your comparable types
Robert Griesemer about changes to comparable types in Go 1.20.
Reverse Engineering A Mysterious UDP Stream in My Hotel
Gokberk Yaltirakli shows the process of reverse engineering a multicast UDP stream in a hotel.
I love building a startup in Rust. I wouldn't pick it again.
Andrew Israel explains why they wouldn't recommend using Rust for an early startup.
ROFL with a LOL: rewriting an NGINX module in Rust
Sam Howson tells the story of CloudFlare rewriting a NGINX module from C to Rust for safety.
All you may need is HTML
Fabien Sanglard explains how they generate their website with a custom SSG and little CSS.
Cutting Room Floor
AI is Useful for Capitalists but Probably Terrible for Anyone Else
Matthew Eric Bassett about the future with AI and whom it'll benefit.
How heat pumps of the 1800s are becoming the technology of the future
Chris Baraniuk about the bright future of heat pumps.
World’s Largest Four-Day Work Week Trial Finds Few Are Going Back
Irina Anghel and Arianne Cohen describe the results of the UK trial for four-day weeks.
Matthew Walker's "Why We Sleep" Is Riddled with Scientific and Factual Errors
Alexey Guzey wrote an essay listing the errors in "Why We Sleep".
Gameplay Loop
Lukas Pope about the progress and challenges of his upcoming Playdate game: Mars after Midnight.
How to expand solar power without using precious land
Steven Battersby about the recent rise of agrivoltaics (solar panels above farm grounds) and floatovoltaics (solar panels floating on water).
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