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Tweet of the Week
hot tip: to avoid writing bugs, don't write software — @FormalFerris on Twitter
Culture
- First Focus. Then Simplify (cutlefish.substack.com)
John Cutler about the different approaches of simplifying a complex problem vs. focussing on a subset.
- The False Trade-off between Quality and Speed (maruz.medium.com)
Mario Caropreso about the importance of quality in software development.
Tech
- Inside the Pinecone (pinecone.io)
Edo Liberty about the experience of moving a C++ codebase to Rust.
- How to deal with money in software (cs-syd.eu)
Tom Sydney Kerckhove about the right and wrong ways to deal with money in software.
- Fixing Memory Exhaustion Bugs in My Golang Web App (mtlynch.io)
Michael Lynch tells the story of finding the cause(s) of OOM in a Go application.
- Why your website should be under 14kB in size (endtimes.dev)
Nathaniel about the magic 14kB, the size transmitted on the first TCP roundtrip.
- Coping with Copilot (sigarch.org)
Emery Berger about GitHub Copilot in education.
Cutting Room Floor
- "We Kill People Based on Metadata" and Other Metadata Things (darknetlive.com)
A blogpost with software recommendations for dealing with metadata.
- A Shape of Things to Come (robinsloan.com)
Robin Sloan about a weird discovery on Spotify.
- Good conversations have lots of doorknobs (experimentalhistory.substack.com)
Adam Mastroianni about givers and takers and how to have good conversations.
- Using GPT-3 to augment human intelligence (escapingflatland.substack.com)
Henrik Olof Karlsson explains how you can use AI language models (like GPT-3) to find answers that are hard to google.
