20 / The Rise Of User-Hostile Software

Welcome to this weeks issue, hope you had a good week! 🙌🏻

Tweet of the Week

If a programmer gets an interview because of a recommendation from a friend, are they being passed by reference? — @CarlaNotarobot on Twitter

Culture

• The Rise Of User-Hostile Software (den.dev) — Den Delimarsky about user-hostile design choices in modern everyday life, with some examples that really hit home.
• How to break out of the thread of doom (leaddev.com) — Tanya Reilly has some advice how to manage miscommunication in a crisis.
• Possible by default (linus.coffee) — Linus talks about the importance of the correct mindset when thinking about new ideas.

Software Engineering

• Home Lab Beginners guide (haydenjames.io) — Hayden James about his homelab and what components he recommends when getting started.
• Models of Generics and Metaprogramming: Go, Rust, Swift, D and More (thume.ca) — Tristan Hume compares different approaches to generics and metaprogramming.
• scoped-arena-allocator (devblog.arcana.rs) — Roman writes about an arena allocator he's written in Rust.
• Async overloading (blog.yoshuawuyts.com) — Yoshua Wuyts explains how async overloading could look in Rust (compare to JS and Swift).
• Hexagonal architecture in Rust (alexis-lozano.com) — Alexis Lozano writes a pokedex using a hexagonal architecture and Rust.

Cutting Room Floor

• Why are hyperlinks blue? (blog.mozilla.org) — Elise Blanchard starts from the beginning of the internet to find who started the trend of blue hyperlinks.
• Linear Clock: Solar (jmw.name) — James Wilson on his linear (imprecise) clock. I love the idea.
• Electric cars and batteries: how will the world produce enough? (nature.com) — Davide Castelvecchi about the importance of recycling, especially when it comes to batteries.
• I give you feedback on your blog post draft but you don't send it to me (mango.pdf.zone) — Alex has great tips about blog posts, definitely worth reading before publishing your next!
• Fighting Like Taliban (scholars-stage.org) — Tanner Greer about the fighting culture in Afghanistan.
• The Hidden Melodies of Subways Around the World (nytimes.com) — Sophie Haigney and Denise Lu about the sounds that are played in subways before the doors are closed.
• The Myth of a Superhuman AI (wired.com) — Kevin Kelly about five misconceptions when talking about a "superhuman" AI.
• Space-Cowboys: What Internet history tells us about the inevitable shortcomings of a tech-bro led Space Race (techpolicy.press) — Corinne Cath and Becca Lewis compare the current space race to the beginnings of the internet and it's dangers.
• Collapse, Renewal and the Rope of History (medium.com/future-crunch) —Angus Hervey tells us how real-life isn't a moral arc and how it's up to us to make a difference.
• How We Live With the Coronavirus Forever (theatlantic.com) — Sarah Zhang compares COVID to other corona viruses and explains how we will learn to live with it.