Hey friends, I’ve been sick almost all week so a few more things to read this time ✌🏻
Culture
- The Moral Implications of Being a Moderately Successful Computer Scientist and a Woman (irenezhang.net)
Irene Y. Zhang lists 5 moral fallacies that women in tech have to deal with.
- In the Trenches: What it Means to be an Engineering Manager (blog.digital-horror.com)
Juxhin Eugene shares different aspects of their experience as an engineering manager.
Software
- Try to Fix It One Level Deeper (matklad.github.io)
Alex Kladov explains why most bugs have another level that not only fixes the bug but also improves the codebase around it.
- WebP: The WebPage compression format (purplesyringa.moe)
Alisa Sireneva shares an incredible workaround for GitHub not supporting Brotli compression.
- Something went wrong (molily.de)
Mathias Schäfer explains the current state of the JavaScript crisis, and ways we could solve it.
- The Neverending Story (garrettdimon.com)
Garret Dimon compares the web, which moves with ”glacial speeds“, to new and shiny, but short-lived technologies.
- Reasons I still love the fish shell (jvns.ca)
Julia Evans explains situations and features where fish shines.
- Conditionally Disabling Code with Comptime in Zig (mitchellh.com)
Mitchell Hashimoto shares real-world use-cases for Zig compile and why it's more powerful than that of other languages.
- Good forms (daverupert.com)
Dave Rupert lists traits of good (web) forms.
Cutting Room Floor
- Why aren't smart people happier? (experimental-history.com)
Adam Mastroianni writes an essay about happiness, and how it correlates with intelligence (or does it?).
- ‘Instantly a very different vibe’: the glory and controversy of Linkin Park’s explosive comeback (theguardian.com)
Dave Simpson wraps up what happened last week after the Linkin Park comeback.
