82 / Programming is a Pop Culture

✌🏻

Toot of the Week

him: will you at least act normal when my folks get here me: _flipping a pancake and reading it like a tarot card_ bad news — @whatsjo@mstdn.social

Culture

• Programming is a Pop Culture (baldurbjarnason.com)

  Baldur Bjarnason explains why programming has trends, just like the fashion industry.

• Holding two opposing ideas in my mind (alfredlua.substack.com)

  Alfred Lua about the necessity to endure the cognitive dissonance of two conflicting ideas.

Tech

• Little Languages Are The Future Of Programming (chreke.com)

  chreke about the advantages of “little languages”.

• What is a Capability? (blog.sunfishcode.online)

  Dan Gohman explains WASM capabilities.

• Flux: Refinement Types for Rust (liquid-rust.github.io)

  Ranjit Jhala introduces a new Rust library that adds refinements (e.g. pre-conditions or post-conditions).

• CVE-2022-41924 - RCE in Tailscale, DNS Rebinding, and You (emily.id.au)

  Emily Trau used 7 issues in Tailscale to get access to a node (all of them are fixed, but you should update your Windows client).

• Always use [closed, open) intervals (fhur.me)

  Fernando about the dangers of [closed, closed] intervals and why you should always use [closed, open).

• An Interactive Guide to Flexbox (joshwcomeau.com)

  Josh Comeau has built a great interactive guide to CSS Flexbox.

• Dialogs, modality and popovers seem similar. How are they different? (hidde.blog)

  Hidde de Vries about modality on a website, inert state and the new popover element.

Cutting Room Floor

• Mirror (bastianallgeier.com)

  Bastian Allgeier about online personas and negativity on Twitter, err the Birdsite.