Let’s try something new this week: Reply to this email and tell me what article you liked the most this week, I’d love to hear from you! As always, enjoy 🐬
Tweet of the Week
If I could explain what having kids is like, it’s basically like being on-call for six years so far. — @vboykis
Culture
- Apps Getting Worse (tbray.org)
Tim Bray thinks apps are getting worse and he has a theory on why.
Software Engineering
- POSH: A Data-Aware Shell (micahlerner.com)
Micah Lerner about a new distributed, data-aware shell.
- Bloom Filters - Much, much more than a space efficient hashmap! (boyter.org)
Ben E. C. Boyter about Bloom filters, popular use cases and their alternatives.
- Writing great alt text: Emotion matters (jakearchibald.com)
Jake Archibald about how to write good alt text.
- So you want to write a GUI framework (cmyr.net)
Colin Rofls about the must-have components in GUI frameworks and some of the complications you'll run into.
Rust
- Rust in Production: Qovery (serokell.io)
Gints Dreimanis about their experience of Rust in production.
- Complex Procedural Rust Macros (getsynth.com)
Andre Bogus about complex procedural macros in Rust and what to look out for.
- Rust GUI Infrastructure (cmyr.net)
Colin Rofls about Druid, the GUI framework he's writing in Rust and what crates and components are useful.
Cutting Room Floor
- Climate change: IPCC report is 'code red for humanity' (bbc.com)
Matt McGrath about the recent IPCC report code and why it's so serious.
- One Bad Apple (hackerfactor.com)
Dr. Neal Krawetz talks about the (likely) technical implementation and alternatives of Apple CSAM.
- Apple’s Mistake (stratechery.com)
Ben Thompson has a more technical view on Apple CSAM than Krawetz, but comes to the same conclusion: It's too invasive.
- The Parallel-Parking Job That Ignited the Internet (curbed.com)
P. E. Moskowitz about a harmless tweet that got a bit too much attention.
- The Simple Life of Humans (hackernoon.com)
Adrian H. Raudaschl about simplicity and why things shouldn't get too simple.
- Minimal Maintenance (lapsuslima.com)
Shannon Mattern about the limits of growth.
- The Ancient Persian way to keep cool (bbc.com)
Kimiya Shokoohi about the bâdgir, or wind catcher, a cost-efficient and green form of cooling.
- The Evolution of Trust (ncase.me)
Nicky Case created an interactive game about trust in a society.
- Messaging and Chat Control (patrick-breyer.de)
Patrick Breyer about the EU's decision to allow providers to search trough all private chats and messages and emails and how it will affect you.
