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Toot of the Week

I save a ton of money on bills by not opening my mail.— @nayele18maybe@mstdn.social

Peopleware

• Highly Profitable Engineering Teams (avivbenyosef.com)

  Aviv Ben-Yosef explains strategies to achieve highly profitability in engineering teams.

Software

• Level up your tech career (levelupsoftwareengineering.substack.com)

  Caleb Mellas and Anemari Fiser collected different ways you can level up as an senior engineer.

• Why, how much, and when you should be taking time off as an engineer (careercutler.substack.com)

  Jordan Cutler gives advice on taking time off.

• The bane of my existence: Supporting both async and sync code in Rust (nullderef.com)

  Mario Ortiz Manero explores different options to support both async and sync code in Rust.

• Making my website faster (cliffle.com)

  Cliff L. Biffle explains different techniques they used to optimize their website.

Cutting Room Floor

• Japan's Comfort Food: The Onigiri (one-from-nippon.ghost.io)

  This article explains the origins and technological journey of onigiri.

• What's that touchscreen in my room? (laplab.me)

  Nikita Lapkov explain how they reverse-engineered their energy monitor display.

• manifesto.neue (blog.webb.page)

  This manifest explains why we won’t get our old internet back, and how we can instead build it ourselves.

• How scientists proved that bees can perceive time (greenrosechemistry.com)

  It looks like bees and other insects have a higher intelligence than what assumed; bees can perceive time and act on a 24h schedule. Thanks, Eric!

• On Quality (darrinhenein.com)

  Darrin Henein introduces four pillars to judge design quality. Thanks, Jan!