76 / An end to doomerism

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“,