17 / Use Spreadsheets Everywhere

Welcome to this weeks issue, enjoy it! 🙌🏻

Tweet of the Week

What's the Big O Notation of deleting all of your code and starting over again? — @CarlaNotarobot

Culture

• Big tech companies are at war with employees over remote work (arstechnica.com)

  Samuel Axon about the workers in tech companies who don’t see a reason to come back to the office.

• Employers bow to tech workers in hottest job market in decades (latimes.com)

  Brittany Meiling explains how the shortage in software engineers shifts the power to the workers.

• Why Don’t Tech Companies Pay Their Engineers to Stay? (marker.medium.com)

  Matthew Dean about the phenomenon that leaving your (tech) job often leads in a pay day, even though you accumulated domain knowledge and are valuable to your current employer.

Software Engineering

• A GPSD time warp (lwn.net)

  Jake Edge talks about the issue in GPSD that might break quite a few systems on October 24 if NTP servers aren’t updated.

• Better coordination, or better software? (jessitron.com)

  Jessica Joy Kerr about the benefits of the extra work put in small interfaces between services.

• Go, Rust "net" library affected by critical IP address validation vulnerability (bleepingcomputer.com)

  Go and Rust binaries might be vulnerable to SSRF and RFI. Go has a patch in the 1.17 beta, Rust has the fix in 1.53.0 and higher.

• Simple Systems Have Less Downtime (gkogan.co)

  Greg Kogan has some great examples on simple systems and explains how they are superior.

• Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2021 (insights.stackoverflow.com)

  Spoiler: Rust is #1 on most-loved languages (Go is #10), but check it out for yourself!

• How does Go calculate len()..? (tpaschalis.github.io)

  Paschalis explains all the internals of using len` in Go.

• HTTP/2: The Sequel is Always Worse (portswigger.net)

  James Kettle about HTTP2 and it’s security shortcomings.

Cutting Room Floor

• Apple's Plan to "Think Different" About Encryption Opens a Backdoor to Your Private Life (eff.org)

  India McKinney and Erica Portnoy explain why the changes Apple wants to introduce to iCloud and iMessage are a slippery slope and make it less secure.

• Use Spreadsheets Everywhere! (simplethread.com)

  Justin Etheredge makes a point for spreadsheets but also explains the cutoff point and how crucial it is not to miss it.

• Safari isn't protecting the web, it's killing it (httptoolkit.tech)

  Tim Perry argues that Safari being a behind on modern web technologies is killing the web. I have to add that I disagree with the conclusion as the author doesn’t talk about all the privacy features Safari prioritises, plus not-supporting-the-latest-features is not “killing the web”.

• Technology may be wreaking havoc on our morality (vox.com)

  Sigal Samuel about how the addictive features in social networks and apps are actually “human downgrading”.

• ‘It has to be known what was done to us’: Natick couple harassed by eBay tell their story for the first time (bostonglobe.com)

  Aaron Pressman tells the story of David and Ina Steiner who have been harassed and stalked by eBay employees and are now suing.