65 / Why you can’t dig Switzerland

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 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.

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.