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Culture
- What "Work" Looks Like (blog.jim-nielsen.com)
Jim Nielsen about what work looks like and why work away from a computer can be real work as a tech worker.
- What a Healthy Team Looks Like (hpdailyrant.medium.com)
Hà Phan has seven qualities of healthy teams.
- Conway's Law (martinfowler.com)
Martin Fowler about Conway's Law, how an organisation structure is reflected in the systems it designs.
- How to communicate effectively as a developer (karlsutt.com)
Karl Sutt has some great tactical advice for writing as an engineer.
Tech
- user-defined iteration using range over func values (github.com)
Russ Cox proposed an iterator in Go.
- Do we need a "Rust Standard"? (blog.m-ou.se)
Mara Bos about a possible Rust specification and standard (similar to C or C++).
- Shell Script Best Practices (sharats.me)
Shrikant has an opinionated guide to shell scripts.
- How Meta, Google, Github and others leverage HTTP conditional requests to build robust REST APIs (quadratic.fm)
Ilija Eftimov has case studies in how tech giants support If-Modified-Since and other HTTP preconditions.
- What if the team hates my functional code? (jrsinclair.com)
James Sinclair explains why you should write your code for the right audience, just like a writer.
- H.264 is magic: a technical walkthrough of a remarkable technology. (sidbala.com)
Sid Bala explains why H264 is as good as it is.
- Passkeys as a tool for user retention (matduggan.com)
Mathew Duggan explains why vendor lock-in is an issue with the new Passkeys standard.
Cutting Room Floor
- No, you're not entitled to your opinion (theconversation.com)
Patrick Stokes explains why not everyone is entitled to an opinion.
- Elon Musk’s planned Twitter layoffs are imminent (washingtonpost.com)
Faiz Siddiqui, Elizabeth Dwoskin and Gerrit De Vynck explain what’s going on at Twitter in the recent days.
- Welcome to hell, Elon (theverge.com)
Nilay Patel explains the trouble Elon will get into with his goals to allow all free speech on Twitter.
