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Tweet of the Week

Remember, a strong type system can prevent classes of bugs, but you still have to test to make sure your logic is correct. Rust, but Verify — @jckarter on Twitter

Culture

The practical application of "Rocks, Pebbles, Sand"

17 min · longform.asmartbear.com

Jason Cohen about a strategy to plan software projects.

Spell. It. Out.

3 min · www.codingvc.com

Leo Polovets on being clear in presentation and leave nothing up for interpretation.

Tech

Your Code Doesn’t Have to Be a Mess

3 min · danielsieger.com

Daniel Sieger lists 5 strategies for good code.

You should take more screenshots

2 min · alexwlchan.net

Alex Chan about taking screenshots of projects so you can explore them when it gets hard to get them running again.

A toy remote login server

11 min · jvns.ca

Julia Evans wrote a toy login server and explains the basic technology.

Library Writing Realizations

7 min · cbloomrants.blogspot.com

cbloom has 10 points of advice for writing libraries.

Does Rust need proc-macros 2.0?

6 min · aaronerhardt.github.io

Aaron Erhardt about the current shortcomings of proc-macros in Rust.

Fixing the Next Thousand Deadlocks: Why Buffered Streams Are Broken and How To Make Them Safer

12 min · blog.polybdenum.com

A blog post about some possible problems with Rust's Buffered streams (e.g. because a future in the stream depends on another one).

Cutting Room Floor

Your Kids Are Not Doomed

8 min · nytimes.com

Ezra Klein in an opinion piece about having kids in a world of crisis.

Don't Panic

8 min · randsinrepose.com

Michael Lopp about the FromSoftware "Souls" games and what they teach you.

The Best iPhone

3 min · notes.ghed.in

Rodrigo Ghedin explains why they think the iPhone SE is the best iPhone.