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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
3 min · 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
2 min · 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
12 min · bitfieldconsulting.com
John Arundel about the importance of planning your career, and different paths (in tech).
Software Engineering
Nix Flakes: an Introduction
22 min · christine.website
Xe Iaso has written a great introduction to Nix Flakes.
Retrofitting Async/Await in Go 1.18
3 min · 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
3 min · 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
6 min · 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
12 min · jorisroovers.com
Joris Roovers describes their Home Assistant setup and the changes they made recently.
Be anonymous
4 min · kg.dev
Kash shares some thoughts about different levels of anonymity.
Find You: Building a stealth AirTag clone
11 min · positive.security
Fabian Bräunlein shows ways to circumvent Apples security measures to prevent tracking other people using an AirTag.
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