158 / Demanding and Supportive

Hi, hope your week has been good.

Toot of the Week

My biggest millennial trait is that I loved Calvin and Hobbes as a kid, and didn't notice that I turned into Calvin's dad — @geekysteven@beige.party

Working

• Demanding and Supportive (rkg.blog)

  Ravi Gupta shares an anecdote to explain how leaders can be both demanding and supportive.

• I've Built My First Successful Side Project, and I Hate It (switowski.com)

  Sebastian explains the reasons they almost burnt out from their side project.

Software

• Why Use Emacs? (ismailefe.org)

  İsmail Efe Top explains the limitations and benefits of using Emacs.

• Making a Chess Engine in Zig (johns.codes)

  John Murray wrote a basic chess engine in Zig and shares their experience.

• Micro-libraries need to die already (bvisness.me)

  Ben Visness makes a case against tiny libraries like is-number.

• Toasts are Bad UX (maxschmitt.me)

  Max Schmitt says the only thing worse than a toast is no feedback at all.

• Stripe's monorepo developer environment (blog.nelhage.com)

  Nelson Elhage describes how Stripe improved developer productivity by using a monorepo, custom tooling, and devboxes.

AI

• We're Being Erased From History (justine.lol)

  Justine Tunney explains why AI stripping (human) author information is a bad thing.

• I've got the genAI blues (computerworld.com)

  Steven Vaughan-Nichols thinks we might already be at peak AI and explains why.

• The AI photo editing era is here, and it’s every person for themselves (theverge.com)

  Allison Johnson about the new AI photo editing features in the Pixel 9, and why imperfection can feel more personal.

Cutting Room Floor

• Personal Identity (lmnt.me)

  Louie Mantia about the most important accessibility feature: accepting everyone’s identities.

• How the Harris Campaign Beat Trump at Being Online (newyorker.com)

  Kyle Chayka about the social media strategy of the Harris campaign.