185 / Kill your Feeds

Hey hey, hope your week was a-okay 💅🏻

Toot of the Week

I love the phrase "bear with me" because it either means "be patient" or "the zoo heist was a success" — @DocAtCDI@mastodon.social

Software

• Were multiple return values Go's biggest mistake? (herecomesthemoon.net)

  Mond argues that Go's multiple return values should be a tuple, something you can pass around and work with.

• Why "Normal" Engineers Are the Key to Great Teams (spectrum.ieee.org)

  Charity Majors argues against the myth of the 10x engineer.

AI

• Let’s talk about AI and end-to-end encryption (blog.cryptographyengineering.com)

  Matthew Green about what end-to-end encryption really guarantees and how that conflicts with new AI use-cases.

• Here’s how I use LLMs to help me write code (simonwillison.net)

  Simon Willison explains the tricks they apply to be productive with LLMs.

Politics

• The 'Threat to Democracy' Is Over - by Michael Harriot (contrabandcamp.com)

  Michael Harriot explains why the feared fascism in the USA is already here.

• Trump is a traitor, and Europe is now alone (robertreich.substack.com)

  Claude Malhuret with a French perspective on Trump, and which actions Europe needs to take.

• Boycott Tesla (currentaffairs.org)

  Nathan J. Robinson about the effects of a Tesla boycott.

Cutting Room Floor

• Kill your Feeds - Stop letting algorithms dictate how you think (usher.dev)

  Tom Usher wants you to take back the power to shape what you see on the internet.