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
Culture
- 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.
Tech
- DNS Esoterica - Why you can't dig Switzerland (shkspr.mobi)
Terence Eden about a weird relic in the modern
digcommand that prevents querying for the top-levelchdomain 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.
Cutting Room Floor
- 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.
