155 / Give Away Your Legos

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Toot of the Week

Http needs a status code for grudging acceptance. We have 202 Accepted. We need 222 Tolerated. For when the client is doing it wrong, but you’ve decided to be the bigger person and deal with it anyway. — @jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io

Work

• ‘Give Away Your Legos’ and Other Commandments for Scaling Startups (review.firstround.com)

  Molly Graham shares the emotions that people have during growth phases, and how to deal with them. Thanks, Dom!

Software

• Let’s Consign CAP to the Cabinet of Curiosities (brooker.co.za)

  Marc Brooker explains why the CAP theorem is not applicable to modern cloud systems.

• How not to use box shadows (dgerrells.com)

  David Gerrells built a ray tracer with CSS box shadow. Yes, really.

• How I Use Git Worktrees (matklad.github.io)

  Alex Kladov shares their workflow for git worktrees.

• Tiger Style! (ratfactor.com)

  Dave Gauer summarises some points by Joran Greef’s talk with the same title.

• "We ran out of columns" - The best, worst codebase (jimmyhmiller.github.io)

  Jimmy Miller describes the horrors (and beauty) of the worst codebase they worked in.

Cutting Room Floor

• Dungeons & Dragons taught me how to write alt text (ericwbailey.website)

  Eric Bailey draws parallels between describing a scene in Dungeons & Dragons and working alt text.

• How People Are Making Friendship Work *Right Now* (annehelen.substack.com)

  Anne Helen Petersen is working on a book about friendships and shares a glimpse of some of the themes emerging.

• Everything wrong with tech in 2023 (in no particular order) (joanwestenberg.com)

  Joan Westenberg lists 50 things that were wrong with tech 2023 (and still are in 2024).

• Study Finds Consumers Are Actively Turned Off by Products That Use AI (futurism.com)

  Victor Tangermann about a new study showing that mentioning AI makes consumers less likely to buy a product.