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Toot of the Week

You can't UN-invent a technology. You can't put the genie back in the bottle once it's in the hands of the people. Laserdisc WILL have its day — @eevee@queer.party

Software

• Time is not a synchronization primitive (xeiaso.net)

  Xe Iaso about the bad practice of sleeping in tests and how to catch it in Go.

• XML is the future (bitecode.dev)

  This author talks about the right tool for the right job and explains why you probably don’t need a Google-level tech stack for your 100 req/s website.

• Rust fact vs. fiction: 5 Insights from Google's Rust journey in 2022 (opensource.googleblog.com)

  The Google open source blog draws a resume over Rust use at Google in 2022. Thanks, Jacob!

• JavaScript Gom Jabbar (frantic.im)

  Alex Kotliarskyi goes through a package.json as if it’s the Gom Jabbar from Dune.

• Font size is useless; let’s fix it (tonsky.me)

  Nikita talks about inconsistencies with different fonts and explains why you can’t rely on font-size.

Cutting Room Floor

• What Does Intellectual Humility Look Like? (greatergood.berkeley.edu)

  Mark Leary about intellectual humility—what it is, it’s benefits and drawbacks and how to gain more.

• 4 volunteers just entered a virtual "Mars" made by NASA. They won't come back for one year. (cbsnews.com)

  Emily Mae Czachor about a NASA exploration project that aims to simulate challenges that might occur on Mars.

• Sennheiser HD 555 to HD 595 Mod (mikebeauchamp.com)

  Mike Beauchamp explains how you can turn $ 200 headphones into $ 350 headphones with a screwdriver.

• Delete Friction (garrettdimon.com)

  Garrett Dimon tells the story of how a habit of them slowly declined and the steps they took to reverse that.

• The hottest new perk in tech is freedom (vox.com)

  Rani Molla about the return to office big tech has called for and the advantages of being able to hire anywhere.