Hey everyone, hope you’re doing good! ✌🏻
Tweet of the Week
security engineer: we're going to start moving towards zero trust developer: oh cool. how does that work security engineer: [narrows eyes] why do you ask — @ctrlshifti
Culture
- Settings are not a design failure (linear.app)
Adrien Griveau explains how to "make settings sexy again" and the importance of settings to create a comfortable environment
- The unreasonable effectiveness of one-on-ones (benkuhn.net)
Ben Kuhn did regular one-on-ones with their partner to talk about the projects she's working on and shares the topics they talked about and what made the biggest impact.
Software Engineering
- Yes, I can connect to a DB in CSS (leemeichin.com)
mrlee wrote a page that can open an SQLite db and query it from CSS. Thanks, Eric!
- Building host implementations for WebAssembly interfaces (radu-matei.com)
Radu Matti about
wit-binding-wasmtime, a Bytecode Alliance project that generates bindings for your WASM host and module and how to use it. - Diving Deep: implied bounds and variance (lcnr.de)
lcnr goes in depth to explain lifetime elusion with implied bounds and variance in Rust.
- Async Rust vs RTOS showdown! (tweedegolf.nl)
Dion compares Embassy (Rust) with FreeRTOS (C) on a microcontroller.
Cutting Room Floor
- The Worst Day of Mark Zuckerberg’s Reign (nymag.com)
Kevin T. Dugan about the day ~~Facebook~~ Meta stock lost 25 % and the reasons why. Thanks, Jan!
- The last design you'll ever make (interactionmagic.com)
George Cave about two things that make your physical product last as long as possible: Design for re-assembly and accessible documentation.
- The five Levels of Hype (johannesklingebiel.de)
Johannes Klingbebiel about the phenomenon of "hype".
- Beware the FOMO Bullies of Technology (theatlantic.com)
Charlie Warzel about the FOMO that techbros try to create for the so-called "web3" and the often-shared David Letterman clip (YouTube) where he interviews Bill Gates about the internet.
