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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.