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Toot of the Week

Don't forget tonight, weather permitting, the Moon will be visible from Earth. The last time this happened was last night. — @dgar@aus.social

Articles I've written

• 30 Bits of Advice for 30 Years (arne.me)

  This article contains some advice I’ve collected in my life so far.

• We Need to Bring Back Webrings (arne.me)

  I built a webring for personal websites called Fire Chicken Webring and explain why.

• Archive Your Old Projects (arne.me)

  In this post I describe how I wish I had archived all my old projects and my approach going forward.

Software

• Some notes on nix flakes (jvns.ca)

  Julia Evans shares their experience with Nix flakes.

• Rust without crates.io (thomask.sdf.org)

  Thomas Karpiniec explores using Debian packages instead of crates.io for Rust.

• Signals vs. Servers (blog.adamchalmers.com)

  Adam Chalmers about the problems of reloading a program with SIGHUP and the benefits of using HTTP instead.

• Push Ifs Up And Fors Down (matklad.github.io)

  Alex Kladov shares two programming rule of thumbs for better readability and better performance.

Cutting Room Floor

• We don’t do DST at this company (blog.backslasher.net)

  Nitzan tells the story where a company had to update all the clocks on every switch to DST to keep the old time.

• How to Build Trust (jacobian.org)

  Jacob Kaplan-Moss shares advice for managers to build trust (and what to avoid).

• How do I know if I'm doing it right? (katydecorah.com)

  Katy DeCorah about steps that can help you verify your direction when learning a new skill.