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Happy holidays and merry christmas to everyone celebrating! 🎄✨

Toot of the Week

genie: please no js dev: more frameworks — @DavidDarnes@mastodon.design

Peopleware

• Bricks of Love: create purpose and engagement with weekly updates (world.hey.com)

  João Alves about purpose, motivation and the magic of weekly updates.

Software

• Emacs From Scratch, Part 1: Foundations (arne.me)

  I started a blog series where I configure Emacs from scratch. This post is the first and sets some foundations we can build upon.

• Rust is growing (flawless.dev)

  Bernard explains how Rust is growing faster than any other language and the effects of that.

• How I Have Fun With Rust (thoughtbot.com)

  Matheus Richard gives great advice for Rust beginners.

• Advice for new software devs who've read all those other advice essays (buttondown.email)

  Hillel Wayne has 13 points of advice for programmers starting out.

Cutting Room Floor

• Holiday Detour (hexeditreality.com)

  Marty Schoch talks about various things he's spending his holiday time one, from local ML to search, magazines and a lot more.

• Just 2023 Things (rknight.me)

  Robb Knight wrote a summary of everything they did this year.

• Reclaiming the Web with a Personal Reader (olano.dev)

  Facundo Olano built their own indie web reader to recover from burnout.

• How To Learn Chess As An Adult (or, how I went from 300 to 1500 ELO in 9 months) (alexcrompton.com)

  Alex Crompton explains that you need tactics more than strategy on lower ELO games and how to learn them.