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Tweet of The Week
I love all the Winter Olympic events, sliding downhill on a piece of wood, sliding downhill on 2 pieces of wood, sliding downhill IN a piece of wood. All amazing. — @TheAndrewNadeau on Twitter
Favourites
Building an iPod for 2022
5 min · ellie.wtf
Ellie Huxtable bought an iPod Video 5.5, replaced the HDD and front plate and flashed a custom operating system. I love this, in fact I have an iPod Video lying around here just waiting for something like this!
A Rust match made in hell
25 min · fasterthanli.me
Amos about a footgun in Rust that took him about a week to fix.
Culture
That Wild Ask A Manager Story
2 min · jacobian.org
Jacob Kaplan-Moss about the things to do to prevent fraud in the hiring process.
Interview Questions to Ask Your Interviewer
3 min · daveceddia.com
Mark Erikson has a list of 32 questions you can ask your interviewer.
Software Engineering
The foundations of end-to-end encryption: Domain separation (with code example in Rust)
2 min · kerkour.com
Sylvain Kerkour explains domain separation for end-to-end encryption.
Announcing Tokio Metrics 0.1
2 min · tokio.rs
Carl Lerche & Jack Wrenn announce Tokio Metrics, a tool that provides instrumentation for the Tokio scheduler at runtime (Tokio Console is the local debugging equivalent).
File-driven testing in Go
3 min · eli.thegreenplace.net
Eli Bendersky about file-driven testing, where you have a .input
and a .golden
file and programatically compare them in your tests.
How does UTF-8 turn “😂” into “F09F9882”?
6 min · sethmlarson.dev
Seth Michael Larson explains the UTF-8 code point layout with diagrams.
Cutting Room Floor
Why you can't rebuild Wikipedia with crypto
11 min · platformer.news
Casey Newton interviews Molly White, the creator of Web3 Is Going Just Great about the so-called web3, cryptocurrencies and Wikipedia.
Building a PiSight
1 min · rknight.me
Robb Knight built a Pi Zero into an old iSight camera. What a great way to upcycle!
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