126 / Spreadsheets and Small Software

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Quote of the Week

“Trying to outsmart a compiler defeats much of the purpose of using one.” —Kernighan and Plauger

Peopleware

• Performance Is Contextual (jacobian.org)

  Jacob Kaplan-Moss about different factors that influence a person’s performance.

Software

• attribution armored code (joeyh.name)

  Joey Hess explains a potential technique to guard your code from being used by LLMs.

• Answers to common (web) accessibility questions (hidde.blog)

  Hidde de Vries answers common accessibility questions in their blog post.

• Why I Tend Not To Use Content Negotiation (htmx.org)

  Carson Gross explains why they don’t use content negotiation to distinguish between hypermedia and JSON APIs.

• Writing Async Runtime Generic Library (sea-ql.org)

  Chris Tsang explains different strategies to write libraries that work with multiple async runtimes in Rust.

• An Interactive Guide to CSS Grid (joshwcomeau.com)

  Josh Comeau built a useful page to explore CSS Grid interactively.

Cutting Room Floor

• Spreadsheets and Small Software (blog.nilenso.com)

  Prabhanshu Gupta about the wonders and dangers of spreadsheets and why they’re writing their own implementation.

• Cut the Intro (robinrendle.com)

  Robin Rendle argues we all should cut to the chase quicker when writing blog posts. Thanks, Jan!