23 / The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Unexpected

Hey, hope your week was good. I added a new category called Favourites, let me know what you think! See you next week 👋🏻

Favourites

• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Unexpected (ferd.ca)

  Fred Hebert about the best ways to handle the unexpected (mostly bugs and undefined behaviour).

• The Builder’s High (2014) (randsinrepose.com)

  Michael Lopp about the joys of building things.

• Dead white man's clothes: How fast fashion is turning parts of Ghana into toxic landfill (abc.net.au)

  Linton Besser about the consequences of fast fashion in the west.

Culture

• Developer, You May Need a Co-Founder in Marketing (microfounder.com)

  Rauno Metsa about the importance of marketing, especially for solo developers.

• I ruin developers’ lives with my code reviews and I'm sorry (habr.com)

  Philipp Ranzhin talks about how he changed they way he treats less experienced developers and why.

• Code runs on people (rachelbythebay.com)

  Rachel argues that it’s too easy to say code just runs on a computer, it’s the people that have to work with it, that matter.

Software Engineering

• Writing class documentation (rant.gulbrandsen.priv.no)

  Arnt Gulbrandsen has some great tipps on how to write good class documentation.

• Ship / Show / Ask (martinfowler.com)

  Martin Fowler has an interesting alternative to the exclusive PR workflow.

• how to update [go] APIs for generics (github.com)

  Russ Cox on the Golang GitHub repository discussions asks about ways to keep backwards-compatibility while introducing generic variants of existing functions.

Cutting Room Floor

• The Sample (thesample.ai)

  Jacob O’Bryant built a newsletter aggregator that learns what you like and sends you newsletters that might interest you. Give it a try! (Referral-link)

• Two new color spaces for color picking - Okhsv and Okhsl (bottosson.github.io)

  Björn Ottosson discusses the history of colors spaces like HSL and HSV and their problems, then proposes a modern alternative.