144 / Stop Acting Like You’re Famous

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Toot of the Week

Retiring to spend more time with my emails. — @maxleibman@mastodon.social

Culture

• We've stopped making things anyone wants (coryd.dev)

  Cory Dransfeldt about the current state of company values.

• Stop Acting Like You're Famous (ajkprojects.com)

  Ash gives some important advice for hobby projects.

Software

• Who killed the network switch? (cliffle.com)

  Cliff L. Biffle tells a debugging story with shared memory on embedded systems.

• Some useful types for database-using Rust web apps (boinkor.net)

  Andreas Fuchs shares useful Rust type patterns for working with databases.

• Hardest Problem in Computer Science: Centering Things (tonsky.me)

  Nik about the reason text and icons are often not properly centred, and how to avoid these problems.

Cutting Room Floor

• Blogging anonymously… (gurupanguji.com)

  gurupanguji about the benefits of blogging anonymously.

• 101 Additional Advices (kk.org)

  Kevin Kelly shares another batch of unsolicited advice for his 73th birthday.

• Two lifeforms merge in once-in-a-billion-years evolutionary event (newatlas.com)

  Michael Irving about an observed primary endosymbiosis event—a crucial element in evolution.

• Why the world cannot afford the rich (nature.com)

  Richard G. Wilkinson & Kate E. Pickett explain why more economic equality would benefit everyone.