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Hey hey, how was your week? ✌🏻

Toot of the Week

I got fuck-all done today but I also have a couple of incredibly smooth yaks — @jkottke@saturation.social

Peopleware

• Proof You Can Do Hard Things (blog.nateliason.com)

  Nat Eliason gives a better answer to why you should learn calculus in school.

• Alignment > Autonomy (buildrightside.com)

  Jean-Michel about the importance of alignment and the false assumption that autonomy is more important.

• What makes developers productive? (jeremymikkola.com)

  Jeremy Mikkola has ten metrics which indicate developer productivity better than lines of code written.

Software

• This will be easy (bitecode.dev)

  A story about doing an HTTP Post request—a simple task, made complicated by real-life constraints.

• I don't know how I feel about email (xeiaso.net)

  Xe Iaso writes a satire post about email—one that might remind you of arguments against a certain social network.

• Software engineers hate code (dancowell.com)

  Dan Cowell writes a humorous article about software engineers‘ hate for (other people) code and the resulting effects.

• How We Generate JavaScript and Python SDKs From Our Canonical Rust SDK (postgresml.org)

  Silas Marvin explains how they used Rust macros to generate JavaScript and Python implementations based on the Rust SDK.

• Stop Overengineering (blog.matt-rickard.com)

  Matt Rickard lists 10 negative effects of overengineering.

• Why Rust is a great fit for embedded software - 2023 update (tweedegolf.nl)

  Henk talks about the state of embedded Rust.

Cutting Room Floor

• When Work Didn't Follow You Home (calnewport.com)

  Cal Newport about a recent article by Dan Kois interviewing Gen X people about what they did after work.

• A 17th-century font in a 21st-century thesis (linyangchen.com)

  Lin Yangchen found an 17th-century font and, after quite some research and then some careful manual adaptions, used it in their thesis.