25 / Work Is a False Idol

Greetings from rainy Germany, hope you’re enjoying your weekend 🛋

Tweet of The Week

“Electron is Docker for GUI” is an entirely correct take that I was nonetheless not emotionally prepared for — @Lucretiel on Twitter quoting @NireBryce

Favourites

• Rust for the Polyglot Programmer (chiark.greenend.org.uk) — If you’re an experienced programmer that want’s got get their feet wet with Rust, check this out.
• Things unlearned (scattered-thoughts.net) — Jamie Brandon about ideas that they wasted time on or got in the way of success.
• Work Is a False Idol (nytimes.com) — Cassady Rosenblum about the Lying flat movement and people embracing the freedom of rest.
• How an eccentric engineer invented the CT scan 50 years ago (fastcompany.com) — Edmund S. Higgins about the origins of computer tomography, invented by Godfrey Hounsfield at EMI.
• Briefing a Delegate (jacobian.org) — Jacob Kaplan-Moss on the most important things when it comes to delegation.

Culture

• How Big Tech Runs Tech Projects and the Curious Absence of Scrum (blog.pragmaticengineer.com) — Gergely Orosz about project management techniques and how Scrum can get in the way of shipping.
• The 10 commandments of salary negotiation (lennysnewsletter.com) — Niya Dragova has a guide on the salary negotiation game.
• We deserve better than Confluence and Notion (blog.luap.info) — Paul why often used enterprise documentation software doesn’t cut it.

Software Engineering

• Reading Code is a Skill (trishagee.com) — Trisha Gee about the aspect of reading code and how readable code is subjective.
• Self-Parking Car in 500 Lines of Code (trekhleb.dev) — Oleksii Trekhleb built a self-parking car using a genetic algorithm and explains how (make sure to check out the Evolution Simulator).
• Practical Makefiles, by example (nuclear.mutantstargoat.com) — John Tsiombikas has some practical advice on writing Makefiles.
• Cloudflare’s Disruption (stratechery.com) — Ben Thompson on Cloudflare R2, its zero egress costs and the modular cloud.
• Common Newbie Mistakes and Bad Practices in Rust: Bad Habits (adventures.michaelfbryan.com) — Michael-F-Bryan has collected some common pitfalls for people starting with Rust (esp. coming from C/C++).
• Factorio’s Belt Bug (pubby.games) — Patrick Bene about an interesting bug in the Factorio game and possible fixes.

Cutting Room Floor

• An ultimate guide to memory palaces (metacognitive.me) — Sergiy about memory palaces and good ways to get started.
• Inside Facebook’s Push to Defend Its Image - The New York Times (nytimes.com) — Ryan Mac and Sheera Frenkel explain the methods used by Facebook to improve the companies image, including hiding information.
• Parallel Play Isn’t Just for Kids (nytimes.com) — Sophie Vershbow explains why spending time in the presence of other people while doing your own thing is a great thing, not just for children.
• I Tried 30 Mustards This Summer. This Is What I Learned. (insidehook.com) — If you’re a mustard person, Jason Diamond has got you covered.
• Dude, Where’s My Stuff? (am.jpmorgan.com) — Michael Cembalest explains the “global supply chain mess” with tons of graphs.
• The greatest resume I’ve ever seen (cloudirregular.substack.com) — Forrest Brazeal about their friend which went from plumber to DevOps engineer.

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