Hey, hope you’re well. Enjoy this weeks selection ✌🏻
Tweet of the Week
Want to get ahead in life? Start _genuinely_ rooting for others to succeed. It's as simple as that. — @sahilbloom
Favourites
- IoT Hacking and Rickrolling My High School District (whitehoodhacker.net)
A story of a small team rickrolling their entire High School District (of over 11 thousand students).
- Speed matters (scattered-thoughts.net)
Jamie Brandon writes that the most important thing to focus on improving is how fast you can work.
- How I got my startup to #1 on both Product Hunt and Hacker News by accident (levels.io)
Pieter Levels about the NomadList project and its history.
Culture
- What is your labor worth? Tech compensation in 2021 (jacobian.org)
Jacob Kaplan-Moss about tech compensation and how to find out if you're underpaid.
- Growth vs. Efficiency (jayriverlong.github.io)
Jay Riverlong on a trade-off that you can find everywhere.
- How to Evaluate Startup Offers (faingezicht.com)
Avy Faingezicht has a beginners guide on startup offers (shares, cash, etc.).
Software Engineering
- Neural Networks from Scratch - an interactive guide (aegeorge42.github.io)
Allison George created an interactive guide to learn Neural Networks.
- NixOS in the Cloud, step-by-step: part 1 (justinas.org)
Justinas Stankevičius has a tutorial to set up NixOS on a Digital Ocean virtual machine. Make sure to check out part 2 as well!
Rust
- Rust and GCC, two different ways (lwn.net)
Jonathan Corbet about the different approaches to use gcc as a Rust compiler (instead of the currently-supported LLVM).
- Making slow Rust code fast (patrickfreed.github.io)
Patrick Freed explains how he improved the performance of his Rust crate, using benchmarks and flame graphs to find slow paths.
Cutting Room Floor
- The planet survived six hours without Facebook. Let's make it longer next time (theregister.com)
Rupert Goodwins about the Facebook downtime and how Facebook has no essential service.
- Invisible asymptotes (eugenewei.com)
Eugene Wei about invisible asymptotes (i.e. reasons for growth stagnation) at various Silicon Valley companies and how to detect them.
- Solar-powered aircraft flown for nearly three weeks without landing (eandt.theiet.org)
Jack Loughran about the Airbus aircraft that could potentially stay airborne for up to six months.
