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Tweet of the Week

machine learning? i think we need some machine forgetting!! — @monadlike

Culture

• What You Miss By Only Checking GitHub (harihareswara.net)

  Sumana Harihareswara about the lamppost fallacy that is only looking at GitHub for open-source projects.

• What I've Learned from Users (paulgraham.com)

  Paul Graham about their learnings working with startup founders for YC.

Rust

• Async destructors, async genericity and completion futures (sabrinajewson.org)

  Sabrina Jewson explores options to add async Drop in Rust and concludes in a proposal.

• Futures Concurrency IV: Join Ergonomics (blog.yoshuawuyts.com)

  Yoshua Wuyts about (async) join ergonomics in Swift and Rust.

• Ten challenges for Rust (ncameron.org)

  Nick Cameron lists ten challenges for Rust, the language and the ecosystem.

• Rust 2024...the year of everywhere? (smallcultfollowing.com)

  Niko Matsakis imagines Rust in 2024 and describes the features they think are available by then.

Tech

• The five-minute feedback fix (github.com)

  Hillel Wayne about formal verification methods and their advantages.

• How I’m a Productive Programmer With a Memory of a Fruit Fly (hynek.me)

  Hynek Schlawack about the benefits of an offline documentation browser and how to make it great.

• OAuth2 explained with cute shapes (engineering.backmarket.com)

  If OAuth2 confuses you, Klemen Sever has an explanation using illustrations.

• Passkeys (imperialviolet.org)

  Adam Langley wrote a guide to integrate passkeys into your website.

• Want cleaner code? Use the rule of six (davidamos.dev)

  David Amos about principles for cleaner code.

Cutting Room Floor

• Apple’s Killing the Password. Here’s Everything You Need to Know (wired.com)

  Matt Burgess explains how Apple passkeys works and why it’s better than passwords.

• 'An Army of Zombies Is Leading Us to Hell': A Russian Who Fled Putin's Draft Speaks Out (theatlantic.com)

  Anna Nemtsova interviews a Moscow IT professional which left (like many others)

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