41 / Contemplating calendars

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Favourites

• Contemplating calendars (devonzuegel.com)

  Devon Zuegel has an interesting way to use their calendar and seems to get way more out of it than the average person.

Culture

• The complexity of knowledge and skill transfer (danluu.com)

  Dan Luu about the importance of experience in the software engineering field.

• @lilykonings on Twitter (twitter.com)

  Lily Konings has five questions to ask your future manager back in your interview.

• Technical Feasibility (biodigitaljazz.tech)

  Tim Reynolds describes the job of a tech lead, arguing that feasibility should be the central theme.

• The Biggest Mistake I See Engineers Make (web.archive.org)

  Zach Lloyd about the problem with engineers working on a big or important project without involving their team.

Software Engineering

• Go is about to get a whole lot faster (dominictobias.medium.com)

  Dominic Tobias ported a library to new generics and the benchmarks show a 2-3x increase.

• Tutorial: Getting started with generics (go.dev)

  The official Go tutorial to get started with generics, one of the most exciting (and controversal) features ever for the language.

• I'm porting tsc to Go (kdy1.dev)

  DongYoon Kang explains why he chose to rewrite the TypeScript Type Checker in Go instead of Rust.

• Hosting my static sites with nginx (jvns.ca)

  Julia Evans explains her infrastructure and deployment setup for the websites they host.

• The Curse of NixOS (blog.wesleyac.com)

  Wesley Aptekar-Cassels about NixOS and it’s flaws, but also why he can’t go back.

• Prefer to change the code rather than write a workaround (catern.com)

  Spencer Baugh makes the point that unless you have a valid excuse (which you most likely don’t have), you should fix code instead of working around it.

Cutting Room Floor

• A Science Experiment: published! (berthub.eu)

  Bert Hubert has a list of tips to get your paper published in a journal as an outsider.

• Yet Another Hot Take on “Folders versus Tags” (eleanorkonik.com)

  Eleanor Konik prefers folders to tags in his slip-box.

• Buy Things, Not Experiences (write.as)

  Harold Lee in an argument against the trend to “buy experiences, not things”.

• nft-to-silly-jpeg (github.com)

  Kevin Wong created a browser extension that replaces the term “nft” with “silly jpeg” and I’m here for it.