24 / Start using tools again

Hey, how was your week? Enjoy todays issue ☕️

Tweet of the Week

two seconds into googling a javascript issue and i witness `<div class="list-item">` and i want to stop programming for the day — @eevee on Twitter

Favourites

• A terminal case of Linux (fasterthanli.me)

  Amos again with a great post starting with color handling in terminals and ending deep in assembly code.

• Start using tools again (h2x.sh)

  I love this post as it perfectly explains the direction I’m going towards myself: Simple, working tools without arbitrary constraints.

Culture

• People- vs Results-Oriented Management: Both Work! (jacobian.org)

  Jacob Kaplan-Moss about different management styles and why having both is beneficial.

• @ShaanVP on Twitter (mobile.twitter.com)

  Shaan Puri has relationship advice for business and life.

Software Engineering

• As A Solo Developer, I Decided To Offer Phone Support, And This Is What Happened (plumshell.com)

  Non Umemoto explains the benefits of offering phone support as a solo developer.

• The First Rule of Machine Learning: Start without Machine Learning (eugeneyan.com)

  Eugene Yan about the general principle of starting with heuristics and manual logic before going to ML.

• What is Rust? - Rustacean Principles (rustacean-principles.netlify.app)

  A website that lists the values of Rust and “how to Rustacean”.

• New tool: an nginx playground (jvns.ca)

  Julia Evans built an NGINX playground and explains why and how.

Cutting Room Floor

• The Facebook files (wsj.com)

  Wall Street Journal reporters have five articles about Facebook and how it’s not in control of their platform.

• This study shows how people reason their way through echo chambers — and what might guide them out (niemanlab.org)

  Shraddha Chakradhar about a study on echo chambers and what could fix them.

• Small vehicles of Tokyo (medium.com)

  Dan Hill collected a fascinating catalogue of small vehicles in the (sometimes) narrow streets of Tokyo.