62 / Making Code Faster

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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 (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 (blog.pragmaticengineer.com)

  Gergely Orosz shares a lot of different ways to write RFCs, including templates!

Tech

• Remote development with Rust on fly.io (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 (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 (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? (mahdi.blog)

  Mahdi Dibaiee explains how different types are stored on the stack or heap in Rust.

• Making Code Faster (tbray.org)

  Tim Bray about benchmarking and profiling best practices in Go.

Cutting Room Floor

• The Personal Brand Is Dead (theatlantic.com)

  Kaitlyn Tiffany explains why Gen Z would rather be anonymous online.

• My 40-liter backpack travel guide (vitalik.ca)

  Vitalik Buterin lists all the things they have in their 40-liter backpack.

• writing one sentence per line (sive.rs)

  Derek Sivers explains the advantages of writing one sentence per line.

• Reasons to Tour By Bicycle (kk.org)

  Kevin Kelly has a list of benefits for bike tours (in America).

• Why Does a Hard Workout Make You Less Hungry? (nytimes.com)

  Gretchen Reynolds about the discovery of a new molecule that defines the appetite after a workout.

• Prestige Writing (randsinrepose.com)

  Michael Lopp about good storytelling and why it is simile to magic.