65 / Why you can’t dig Switzerland

Published on July 17^th, 2022

Hey everyone — I’ve been sick the whole week, hope yours was better ❤️

Tweet of the Week

real rust programmers just wrap everything in an Arc<Mutex<T>> and use async everywhere so they can pretend they are nodejs programmers — @dildog

As a Leader, You Own Your Communications Bubble (blog.thestoryfunnel.co)
Jarie Bolander has 7 rules to improve your communication bubble as a manager.
Micromanagement vs. micro-tasks: how to set junior employees up for success in remote (slite.com)
Junior engineers generally have a harder time in remote companies, this article has some tips to make it easier.

DNS Esoterica - Why you can't dig Switzerland (shkspr.mobi)
Terence Eden about a weird relic in the modern dig command that prevents querying for the top-level ch domain without the trailing dot.
Property-based Testing (unzip.dev)
Agam More writes about property-based testing, including recommendations for different software stacks.
How I went about learning Rust (eli.thegreenplace.net)
Eli Bendersky has a list of resources that helped him learn Rust.
A Guide to the Go Garbage Collector (go.dev)
There now is an official guide to the Go garbage collector including an optimization guide.
A Previous Sibling Selector (blog.jim-nielsen.com)
Jim Nielsen found a way to style an element depending on the element that comes after in CSS.
Async Rust: What is a runtime? Here is how tokio works under the hood (kerkour.com)
Sylvain Kerkour about different async runtimes in Rust and what to look out for.

These Eat the Rich popsicles depict one-percenters (boingboing.net)
The art collective MSCHF is selling popsicles with rich people’s faces on them, so you can finally eat the rich!
NASA’s Webb Produces the Most Detailed Image of the Early Universe to Date (webbtelescope.org)
Very hard to miss if you’ve been on the internet this week.

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