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Tweet of the Week

every morning is a beautiful day to mute a new word about crypto — @ow

Favourites

• Technology I’m thankful for (crawshaw.io)

  David Crawshaw about technologies that he’s thankful for this turkey day.

• Faster software through register based calling (menno.io)

  Menno Finlay-Smits explains the new register based calling in Go 1.17 and why it makes your code 5-10 % faster.

• Stack-safety for free? (hurryabit.github.io)

  Martin Huschenbett introduces an approach for stack-safe recursion using generators.

Culture

• Just a job (amyhupe.co.uk)

  Amy Hupe about the perception of work. Thanks, Jan!

• Coding "Homework" (jacobian.org)

  Jacob Kaplan-Moss has s some concrete advise on how to structure the coding homework when hiring tech workers.

• Your Board of Directors is Probably Going to Fire You (reactionwheel.net)

  Jerry Neumann shares some advice when it comes to handling a board of investors as the CEO of a startup.

Software Engineering

• Batteries included with Emacs (karthinks.com)

  Karthik Chikmagalur showcases some builtin features and modes of Emacs.

• Only 90s Web Developers Remember This (zachholman.com)

  Zach Holman about six technologies from the nineties (remember marquee?).

• OOPS writeups (surfingcomplexity.blog)

  Lorin Hochstein shows the structure of their OOPS write-ups and shows some examples.

• Notes On [the Rust] Module System (matklad.github.io)

  Aleksey Kladov shares some thoughts about the Rust module system.

• Merge Queues with Bors (kflansburg.com)

  Kevin Flansburg explains Bors, the bot that guarantees that the main branch will always compile by pipelining and testing branches.

• Modern CSS Reset / Global Styles (joshwcomeau.com)

  Josh Comeau has a simple CSS reset and goes into details for each rule. Did you know the *-selector is not slow after all?

Linux

• Fun with Red Star OS (sizeofcat.ru)

  sizeof(cat) boots North Korea’s operating system, the apps installed and the general vibe.

• Flatpak Is Not the Future (ludocode.com)

  Nicholas Fraser about the rust of Flatpak and it’s many downsides (first of all, bloat).

• The Operator Pattern in Nomad (andydote.co.uk)

  Andy Dote applies the Operator Pattern from Kubernetes to Monad.

• NixOS: Headless Home Assistant VM (myme.no)

  Martin Myrseth set up a Home Assistant VM on NixOS and explains the configuration and pitfalls.

• How to Learn Nix (ianthehenry.com)

  Ian Henry has a guide on Nix, hoping to improve the documentation by showing misunderstandings and frustrations. I’m not done yet but I remember having some of the same questions when starting to look into this.

Cutting Room Floor

• Facebook's Dangerous Experiment on Teen Girl (theatlantic.com)

  Jonathan Haidt about the damage social media is causing, especially to teen girls.

• A Cure for Type 1 Diabetes? For One Man, It Seems to Have Worked. - The New York Times (nytimes.com)

  Gina Kolata about a possible cure of Type 1 Diabetes.

• NASA's Planetary-Defense Mission Is on Its Way to an Asteroid (theatlantic.com)

  Marina Koren about the preparations we take to be able to prevent an asteroid impact on Earth.