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Hi everyone, how was your week? ✌🏻

Toot of the Week

It's called the Metaverse because it has mostly been Met with Averse reactions— @schratze@todon.nl

Software

• The seven programming ur-languages (madhadron.com)

  madhadron introduces you to 7 ur-languages with unique characteristics and examples that build on them which are in-use today.

• What is Type-Level Programming? (blog.sulami.xyz)

  Robin Schroer explains the benefits of type-level programming.

• How To Design Software Architecture For Startups (appventuretime.blog)

  Christoph Burnicki shares their experience and recommendations designing a software architecture for a startup.

• Go with PHP (gowithphp.com)

  Mohamed Said argues that PHP is a good language to build with (even in 2023).

• Modern iOS Navigation Patterns (frankrausch.com)

  Frank Rausch gives an overview of modern iOS navigation patterns.

• Where Is the Spring Framework for Go? (preslav.me)

  Preslav Rachev is longing for a full web framework for Go and I can’t say I disagree.

• The .zip TLD sucks and it needs to be immediately revoked. (financialstatement.zip)

  Karen makes a point on the dangers of the new .zip and .mov domains.

• See this page fetch itself, byte by byte, over TLS (subtls.pages.dev)

  George MacKerron built a website that explains how TLS works, by fetching itself.

Design

• Stop Using Hamburger Menus (bt.ht)

  Brad Taunt provides an alternative to hamburger menus.

• Every blend mode explained (sketch.com)

  Gabrielle van Welie explains different blend modes and gives real-world examples for some of them.

AI

• Why Chatbots Are Not the Future (wattenberger.com)

  Amelia Wattenberger explains why chatbots are a terrible interface for LLMs and what to do instead.

• Google "We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI" (semianalysis.com)

  Dylan Patel and Afzal Ahmad share a leaked document by a Google researcher about the “stable diffusion” moment of LLMs.

• Delimiters won’t save you from prompt injection (simonwillison.net)

  Simon Willison explains why delimiters (the technique recommended by OpenAI) is not an effective protection against prompt injection.

• ChatFished: How to Lose Friends and Alienate People With A.I. (nytimes.com)

  Emma Goldberg wrote all her digital communication using ChatGPT for one week and shares her experience.

Cutting Room Floor

• The four-day workweek is just the start: Experts say it should be even shorter (businessinsider.com)

  Shubham Agarwal has had a four-day workweek for 5 years and shares their experience and recent studies about the benefits.

• In Norway, the Electric Vehicle Future Has Already Arrived (nytimes.com)

  Jack Ewing explains the effects of 80 % of new-car sales being electric in Norway, proving critics of electric cars wrong.

• Testing a new encrypted messaging app's extraordinary claims (crnkovic.dev)

  crnkovic takes a closer look at Converso, an app which claims being able to send end-to-end encrypted messages without servers or metadata. Spoiler: There’s servers, metadata and you can get everyone’s private key. Thanks, Gord!