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Hopy your week has been good 😌

Culture

• Things your manager might not know (jvns.ca)

  Julia Evans has 8 things you can do to make everyone’s job a lot easier.

• Ideal open source (nedbatchelder.com)

  Ned Batchelder about open source motivation and an ideal situation.

• How to lead strategically every day (lenareinhard.com)

  Fiona McVitie about what makes a good strategy and how to make it a habit.

Tech

• The Perfect Commit (simonwillison.net)

  Simon Willison has some guidelines for good commits, some of them controversial.

• Generic associated types to be stable in Rust 1.65 (blog.rust-lang.org)

  Jack Huey gives an introduction to GATs in Rust (finally!)

• RC Week 7: Four habits to improve as a programmer (ntietz.com)

  Nicolas has four habits for programmers.

• In defense of linked lists (antirez.com)

  antirez lists reasons why linked lists are useful even when they get bad rep.

Cutting Room Floor

• The Restaurant Industry’s Worst Idea (theatlantic.com)

  Conor Friedersdorf about QR codes and digital menus.

• Dynamic documents as personal software (inkandswitch.com)

  Geoffrey Litt, Max Schoening, Paul Shen