59 / Programming in the Apocalypse

Hey, how’s it going? Hope you enjoy this weeks curation 🤞🏻

Tweet of the Week

Writing is not a result of thinking. Writing is thinking. — @fortelabs

Culture

• 5 Tier Problem Hierarchy (typeshare.co)

  KimSia Sim divides all problems into five levels and uses them to allocate their energy.

• What Is Negative Engineering? (future.com)

  Jeremiah Lowin about designing for failure and resilience and how it can impact your productivity.

Tech

• Programming in the Apocalypse (matduggan.com)

  Mathew Duggan paints the picture of a software engineer in 2050, dealing with missing parts (due to floods and other catastrophes), spotty internet and other issues caused by the climate crisis.

• (async) Rust doesn't have to be hard (itsallaboutthebit.com)

  Piotr Sarnacki answers to a blogpost which argues that Rust is (too) hard and explains why it’s actually not that hard in most cases for application developers.

• The Story of Heroku (leerob.io)

  Lee Robinson tells the story of early Heroku, which was a pioneer in DX, and introduces some modern alternatives.

• The Radiating Circles of DX Architecture (dx.tips)

  Shawn Wang introduces methods to create an end-to-end developer journey. If you care about DX, this is a must-read.

• The curse of strong typing (fasterthanli.me)

  Amos dives deep (as usual) into Rust type issues he’s encountered and how to get out of them.

• How fast are Linux pipes anyway? (mazzo.li)

  Francesco optimises a write and read program to achieve a throughput of over 60 GiB/s over a pipe.

• How to Store an SSH Key on a Yubikey (xeiaso.net)

  Xe shares how to store an SSH key on a YubiKey.

• Interactive Typography Tutorial (learnui.design)

  A well-made interactive page to learn typography design. It even works on mobile!

Cutting Room Floor

• Hard Drive Apologizes to Elon Musk for Dunking on Him Too Hard (hard-drive.net)

  The Hard Drive team summarises the hilarious Twitter conversation with the evil rocket man.

• Installing a payphone in my house (bert.org)

  Bertrand Fan bought an old payphone and installed it in his office, then connected it to an old phone in the kids room.