28 / Willingness to look stupid

Hello from sunny Germany, enjoy this weeks collection. ✌🏻

Tweet of the Week

idea: Computer but good — @barrelshifter

Favourites

• Willingness to look stupid (danluu.com)

  Dan Luu in an amazing post about the advantages of “looking stupid”. If you only read one story today, this is it.

• Software developers have stopped caring about reliability (drewdevault.com)

  Drew DeVault about the current state of software and how we can improve.

Culture

• The First 90 Days (conordewey.com)

  Conor Dewey about the 30-60-90 day framework when starting at a company.

• How to get useful answers to your questions (jvns.ca)

  Julia Evans has a guide on asking useful questions.

• The Sabotage List (randsinrepose.com)

  Michael Lopp has a list of project’s at the back of every notebook and tells you why.

Software Engineering

• Scott Mabin (mabez.dev)

  Another update on Rust on Expressif chips (like the ESP32c3).

• New HTTP standards for caching on the modern web (httptoolkit.tech)

  Tim Perry introduces the new cache headers, namely Cache-Status and <Target>-Cache-Control. You can use them today with some providers!

• Herding elephants: Lessons learned from sharding Postgres at Notion (notion.so)

  Garrett Fidalgo explains the strategy of sharding the Notion Postgres monolith and what they’d do differently today.

Cutting Room Floor

• @fasterthanlime on Twitter (twitter.com)

  Amos shares some insight from a locked account about the unreacted Google antitrust filling. “I have to say that either Google is screwed or society is screwed, we’ll find out which.”

• Composability is the only game in town – Roam, shipping containers, Lego and Twitter. (piszek.com)

  Artur Piszek about the perks of composability.

• Review: ‘The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity’ (theatlantic.com)

  William Deresiewicz reviews a book with vastly different views on early humanity.