Welcome back to Arne’s Weekly! I had an amazing time in Barcelona, hope you’re doing well too ✌🏻
Tweet of the Week
i used to be young and cool and now when it rains i say things like “this is good. we needed this” — @elykreimendahl
Favourites
- Electric Bike, Stupid Love of My Life (craigmod.com)
Craig Mod writes an ode to electric bikes so compelling that I want to buy one now.
- An end to doomerism (bigthink.com)
Dr. Hannah Ritchie about pessimism and why realistic optimism is more productive.
- How does the Russo-Ukrainian War end? (snyder.substack.com)
Timothy Snyder about a possible ending of the war that they argue is way more
Culture
- OOPS! Learning from the incident you didn't have (learningfromincidents.io)
An article about learning from surprises instead of incidents.
- Aging programmer (world.hey.com)
Jorge Manrubia about his experience as a 40-year old programmer.
- Microsoft exec: My 2-step rule for having hard conversations at work (cnbc.com)
Morgan Smith about Chris Capossela's system for hard conversations.
Tech
- Go runtime: 4 years later (go.dev)
Michael Knyszek lists past improvements of the Go runtime and introduces the new soft memory limit configuration.
- JMAP: It’s like IMAP But Not Really (unencumberedbyfacts.com)
Jason Munro about the JMAP protocol and why it's so much better than IMAP.
- New integer types I'd like to see (foonathan.net)
Jonathan about new integer types that could make some problems go away (e.g. by being symmetric).
- Turns are Better than Radians (computerenhance.com)
Casey Muratori argues that you shouldn't use radians in code.
Rust
- Why Async Rust (blog.yoshuawuyts.com)
Yoshua Wuyts about the benefits of the async architecture in Rust.
- My first time using Rust "for real" (blog.vivekpanyam.com)
Vivek Panyam shares the perspective of an experienced C++ engineer using Rust.
- Hard Mode Rust (matklad.github.io)
Aleksey Kladov writes a ray-tracer in Rust without dynamic memory allocation.
- A quick reference guide for the Pythonista in the process of becoming a Rustacean (github.com)
Bruno Rocha has an extensive guide to learn Rust coming from Python.
Cutting Room Floor
- My Trip to Space Filled Me With ‘Overwhelming Sadness’ (variety.com)
William Shatner became the oldest living person to travel into space, but experienced the "Overview Effect".
- The rise of the crypto influencer and the fall of truth (protos.com)
This article exposes some of the shady tactics of ”crypto influencers“,
