66 / Things you’re allowed to do

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Culture

• The Habits of Sustainable Excellence (bstulberg.medium.com)

  Brad Stulberg lists 19 habits for sustainable excellence.

• The Structure and Process Fallacy (medium.com)

  Nick Tune about the structure and process fallacy; thinking a reorg alone will make the company more efficient.

Tech

• What happens when you press a key in your terminal? (jvns.ca)

  Julia Evans about terminal history, escape codes and the quirks of a 40-year old standard.

• Some Thoughts on Zig  (v5.chriskrycho.com)

  Chris Krycho lists reasons people like Zig even with the lack of memory safety.

• Building a Rust Mentality (slightknack.dev)

  Isaac Clayton about designing software with Rust's strengths in mind.

• SOC2: The Screenshots Will Continue Until Security Improves (fly.io)

  Thomas Ptacek tells the story of implementing SOC2 at Fly.io.

• Soft Deletion Probably Isn't Worth It (brandur.org)

  Brandur argues that soft-deletion is mostly complicating things, actually undeleting something happens very rarely.

• A Little Story About the `yes` Unix Command (endler.dev)

  Matthias Endler tries to implement the unix yes command in an efficient way, which is more complicated than you probably thin

• Improving “Extract Function” in Rust Analyzer (dorianlistens.com)

  Dorian Scheidt about a recent change he contributed to rust-analyzer.

• How Did REST Come To Mean The Opposite of REST? (htmx.org)

  This article is about JSON-RPC APIs wrongly being called REST APIs nowadays and what a real REST API actually looks like.

Cutting Room Floor

• Things you're allowed to do (milan.cvitkovic.net)

  Milan Cvitkovic has a cool list of things that you're allowed to do, but didn't know you were or didn't even think about it.

• Magnus Carlsen to give up World Championship title (chess24.com)

  Interesting story happening in the world of chess: Magnus Carlsen won't play another tournament after being world champion for 10 years.

• Oliver Burkeman's last column: the eight secrets to a (fairly) fulfilled life (theguardian.com)

  Oliver Burkeman has eight secrets to a fulfilled life.

• Analyzing iOS 16 Lockdown Mode: Browser Features and Performance (sevarg.net)

  Russell Graves goes into detail on the new lockdown mode coming in iOS 16. TL;DR: you should enable it.