72 / Why are you so busy?

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Culture

• Why are you so busy? (tomlingham.com)

  Tom Lingham explains what to do when you’re too busy.

• Do we need an office? (zhuk.fi)

  Nikita Zhuk about remote work and how to make it good.

• What distinguishes great software engineers? (pdf) (faculty.washington.edu)

  Paul Luo Li, Amy J. Ko and Andrew Begel surveyed hundreds of software developers

Tech

• How and why stable diffusion works for text to image generation (paepper.com)

  Marc Päpper explains how stable diffusion works.

• 1 week of Stable Diffusion (multimodal.art)

  A nice timeline of the week after the release of stable diffusion.

• DIY out of band management: remote console server (michael.stapelberg.ch)

  Michael Stapelberg built a remote console server for his home router using a separate internet connection.

• Learning Rust: Combinators (kerkour.com)

  Sylvain Kerkour about different combinators in Rust and how to use them.

• Arti 1.0.0 is released: Our Rust Tor implementation is ready for production use. (blog.torproject.org)

  nickm describes the process of writing a Tor client in Rust.

• Rewriting my blog in Rust for fun and profit (jonashietala.se)

  Jonas Hietala rewrote their blog in Rust and describes the process and how it improved.

Cutting Room Floor

• I was on TikTok for 30 days: it is manipulative, addictive, and harmful to privacy (scribe.rip)

  Luiza Jarovsky about the “epitome of the unregulated attention economy”.