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‘You can’t say that!’: how to argue, better
6 min · theguardian.com
Adam Grant has practical tipps that can help you argue with people in a more constructive way and see your own biases.
Quality Is Systemic
2 min · jacobian.org
Jacob Kaplan-Moss explains why the reason for bad software is systemic in most cases.
Culture
Your Career Is Just One-Eighth of Your Life
7 min · theatlantic.com
Derek Thompson has 5 points of career advice for you.
Habits and Principles for Peak Performance and Geniune Excellence
3 min · twitter.com/BStulberg
Brad Stulberg has 19 habits and principles for peak performance and genuine excellence.
Be good-argument-driven, not data-driven
8 min · twitchard.github.io
Richard Marmorstein about the dangers of metric-driven software development.
Tech
An opinionated guide on how to reverse engineer software, part 1
5 min · margin.re
Ryan Stortz has a great guide to get started with reverse engineering.
Vulnerability Management for Go
2 min · go.dev
Julie Qiu introduces the Go vulnerability database.
FLAC - Format overview
5 min · xiph.org
An overview of the FLAC audio file format.
Attacking Firecracker: AWS' microVM Monitor Written in Rust
37 min · graplsecurity.com
Valentina Palmiotti about a security vulnerability in Firecracker and how they exploited it. Thanks, Mikkel!
Learning Rust: Async Combinators
4 min · kerkour.com
Sylvain Kerkour introduces a few Rust async combinators (to deal with a stream of values).
How to Use Rust Traits, Generics and Bounds
10 min · rsdlt.github.io
Rodrigo Santiago refactors their old Rust code to use Traits & Generics and shows the difference it makes.
Cutting Room Floor
Your attention span is being robbed!
7 min · unstructed.tech
Mihailo Joksimovic about the modern slot machines that are social media and ways to break out.
Europe Is Sacrificing Its Ancient Forests for Energy
9 min · nytimes.com
Sarah Hurtes and Weiyi Cai about the practice of burning wood as "renewable energy" and why it has to stop. Thanks, Mum!
What does it mean to be smart?
2 min · seths.blog
Seth Godin about alleged smartness in computers.
Ethanol-Mediated Novel Survival Strategy against Drought Stress in Plants
38 min · academic.oup.com
A paper from over 30 scientists about the positive effects of ethanol for plants that don't get enough water. Thanks, Mum!
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