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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)

  Mat​hia⁠s S​chäf⁠er 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.