45 / I have no capslock and I must scream

Hey, hope you’re okay.

Tweet of the Week

why rebase when you can just throw your computer out the window — @NayaJaczorowski on Twitter

Culture

• Support open source that you use by paying the maintainers to talk to your team (simonwillison.net)

  Simon Willison has found a great way to pay open source maintainers if regular sponsorship doesn’t work.

• I have no capslock and I must scream (memex.marginalia.nu)

  This short-story of reducing a product to the point where it’s unusable reads almost as a poem.

• A career ending mistake (bitfieldconsulting.com)

  John Arundel about the importance of planning your career, and different paths (in tech).

Software Engineering

• Nix Flakes: an Introduction (christine.website)

  Xe Iaso has written a great introduction to Nix Flakes.

• Retrofitting Async/Await in Go 1.18 (csgrinding.xyz)

  Bob Fang explores how async/await could look like in Go 1.18 and why it can improve ergonomics.

• How Bitwarden encrypts your data (huy.rocks)

  Huy describes how Bitwarden encryption works and why you don’t have to re-encrypt items when you change the main password.

Cutting Room Floor

• There Is Nothing Dumber Than War (designmom.substack.com)

  Gabrielle Stanley Blair about the “unprovoked, unnecessary, and unreasonable” attack on Ukraine and why you should be furious about it.

• My Smart Home 2021 (jorisroovers.com)

  Joris Roovers describes their Home Assistant setup and the changes they made recently.

• Be anonymous (kg.dev)

  Kash shares some thoughts about different levels of anonymity.

• Find You: Building a stealth AirTag clone (positive.security)

  Fabian Bräunlein shows ways to circumvent Apples security measures to prevent tracking other people using an AirTag.