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Tweet Of The Week
Why would I pay GitHub $100/year for an AI to tell me what code to write when men do it for free?
— @captainsafia on Twitter
Culture
DORA Metrics: the Right Answer to measuring engineering team performance
6 min · jacobian.org
Jacob Kaplan-Moss about "the right way" to measure a team's performance.
Companies Using RFCs or Design Docs and Examples of These
9 min · blog.pragmaticengineer.com
Gergely Orosz shares a lot of different ways to write RFCs, including templates!
Tech
Remote development with Rust on fly.io
70 min · fasterthanli.me
Amos describes how he build a ridiculously over-engineered remote dev environment on fly.io.
Start all of your commands with a comma
2 min · rhodesmill.org
Brandon Rhodes shares one trick to deal with namespace collision for custom scripts: Prefix them with a comma.
Nine Rules for Elegant Rust Library APIs
16 min · towardsdatascience.com
Carl M. Kadie shares 9 great tips for writing Rust libraries.
What is Box<str>
and how is it different from String
in Rust?
13 min · mahdi.blog
Mahdi Dibaiee explains how different types are stored on the stack or heap in Rust.
Making Code Faster
9 min · tbray.org
Tim Bray about benchmarking and profiling best practices in Go.
Cutting Room Floor
The Personal Brand Is Dead
7 min · theatlantic.com
Kaitlyn Tiffany explains why Gen Z would rather be anonymous online.
My 40-liter backpack travel guide
12 min · vitalik.ca
Vitalik Buterin lists all the things they have in their 40-liter backpack.
writing one sentence per line
1 min · sive.rs
Derek Sivers explains the advantages of writing one sentence per line.
Reasons to Tour By Bicycle
2 min · kk.org
Kevin Kelly has a list of benefits for bike tours (in America).
Why Does a Hard Workout Make You Less Hungry?
6 min · nytimes.com
Gretchen Reynolds about the discovery of a new molecule that defines the appetite after a workout.
Prestige Writing
4 min · randsinrepose.com
Michael Lopp about good storytelling and why it is simile to magic.
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