55 / An easy mode for Rust

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Tweet of the Week

"It's only a pointer if it's from the Provenance region of RAM, otherwise it's just a sparkling usize." — @impraxical on Twitter

Culture

• The transmogrifying power of reflection (cenizal.com)

  CJ Cenizal about the powers of self-reflection.

• Having Career Conversations (softwareonthebrain.com)

  Joe Lynch about career conversations and how to build trust.

Rust

• An O(1) Generic Blog Post About Rust (peterkos.me)

  Peter Kos about const generics in Rust, with a bit of background on implementation history.

• Building a static site generator in 100 lines of Rust (kerkour.com)

  Sylvain Kerkour built a SSG in 100 lines of Rust and explains how.

• Creating an Easy Mode for Rust (tim.mcnamara.nz)

  Tim McNamara has a few suggestions for flattening the Rust learning curve.

• Rust is hard, yes, but does it matter? (jmmv.dev)

  Julio Merino argues that in a typical software project using Rust isn’t really harder than other languages.

Tech

• Moving a macOS window by clicking anywhere on it (like on Linux) (mmazzarolo.com)

  Matteo shares a neat trick to improve the ability to move windows on macOS.

• Changing Tires at 100mph: A Guide to Zero Downtime Migrations (kiranrao.ca)

  Kiran Rao shares a great guide to zero-downtime migrations.

• I won free load testing (fasterthanli.me)

  Amos describes the experience and countermeasure of the recent DDOS attacks on his website.

Cutting Room Floor

• 'We Can Only Be Enemies' (theatlantic.com)

  Peter Pomerantsev about the bizarre story of a Ukrainian family living with Russian soldiers talking about their views and values.

• Hot Banana (what-if.xkcd.com)

  Randall Munroe about radioactive bananas and how many it’d take to power a house.

• Mechanical Watch (ciechanow.ski)

  If you ever wondered how a mechanical watch works, Bartosz Ciechanowski has yet another interactive blog post that‘s got you covered.

• making friends on the internet (jon.bo)

  Jonathan Borichevskiy explains how to make friends on the internet.