42 / Settings are not a design failure

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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.