172 / The Art of Not Sharing

Hi, hope you find something great to read today!

Skeet of the Week

LIFE HACK: Answer your phone "Hello you're on the air" and 99% of the time people will just hang up. — @mistymadonna.bsky.social

Working

• Care work (everythingchanges.us)

  Mandy Brown about people who do the unrewarded but important care work in teams.

Tech

• How NAT traversal works (tailscale.com)

  David Anderson writes an extensive but fascinating article about different ways to connect peers through NATs.

• If Not React, Then What? (infrequently.org)

  Alex Russell about React not being modern, and why you should reach for an SPA in most projects.

Cutting Room Floor

• The Anti-Woke Culture Police Have Some Weird New Obsessions. (lauriepenny.substack.com)

  Penny Red about the "redpilled keyboard beserkers" and how winning an election means you no longer get to be the counterculture.

• The Art of Not Sharing (joanwestenberg.com)

  Joan Westenberg argues that we both consume and share too much personal information, and what to do instead.

• I refuse to be a slave to The Algorithm (codingwithjesse.com)

  Jesse Skinner about the power of the algorithm in social networks.