Hi, how is your weekend going? This issue is a bit slimmer and has no favorites section as we’ve spent the weekend visiting family (I‘m writing this from the car on the way back). Hope you enjoy nonetheless!
Culture
- Stop Looking For Mentors (staysaasy.com)
Stay SaaSy says it‘s better to look for people that can answer your questions instead of a mentor.
- It's all gravy (chris.manson.ie)
Chris Manson on Open Source development and how contributors who are already going "above and beyond" should not feel pressured in any way.
Software Engineering
- netaddr.IP: a new IP address type for Go (tailscale.com)
Brad Fitzpatrick explains the difference approaches of replacing Go‘s
net.IP, making it more performant and comparable. - Do-nothing scripting: the key to gradual automation (blog.danslimmon.com)
Dan Slimmon has great advice for automating complex tasks.
- ‘Trojan Source’ Bug Threatens the Security of All Code (krebsonsecurity.com)
KrebsOnSecurity about a way to use Unicode to smuggle unwanted code changes into projects.
- Making Emacs popular again (lwn.net)
Jake Edge summarizes the internal discussion of making Emacs more approachable.
- How do you tell if a problem is caused by DNS? (jvns.ca)
Julia Evans has some ways to debug problems to figure out if items caused by DNS or not.
- Signatures: The secret behind modern end-to-end encryption (kerkour.com)
Sylvain Kerkour explains modern end-to-end-encryption.
- Practical Nix Flakes (serokell.io)
Alexander Bantyev wrote one of the few good introductions to Nix Flakes.
- s3-credentials: a tool for creating credentials for S3 buckets (simonwillison.net)
Simon Willison build a tool I‘ll definitely use in the future: Create S3 credentials with one command.
Cutting Room Floor
- The Data Behind New York's Increasingly Dirty Electricity Peaks (stevegattuso.me)
Steve Gattuso shows the data on New York electricity and how dirty it gets on peaks.
- Alt-J: ‘Feeling unsafe is something that’s quite foreign for men’ (theguardian.com)
Leonie Cooper interviews alt-J who have a new album coming up in February.
- Modifying my Gaggia Classic Espresso machine (calbryant.uk)
Cal Bryant explains how he modded his coffee machine to achieve consistent perfect coffee.
