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Projects of Friends

Fn(), Functional Programming for Golang

github.com/kamstrup

Kamstrup built a functional programming library for Go, inspired by Clojure and the Java Streams API. It allows you to write code like this:

// Get all users without a name.
fn.ArrayOf(users).Where(fn.Not((*User).HasName))

Toot of the Week

rust programmers be like "pretty slow, nearly a microsecond" — @dysfun@treehouse.systems

Culture

• Overcoming Negativity (salman.io)

  Salman has a list of tactics to overcome negative thoughts about yourself or your work.

• Challenging the status quo at work? (workweek.com)

  Hebba Youssef has some tipps to help you challenge decisions or the status quo

• The Riddle of Rest (moretothat.com)

  Lawrence Yeo defines true rest, and why it’s sometimes hard to achieve it even if you, for example, gaze at a still lake.

Rust

• Our Experience Porting the YJIT Ruby Compiler to Rust (shopify.engineering)

  Maxime Chevalier-Boisvert about their experience of porting a C99 project to Rust.

• Self-referential types for fun and profit (morestina.net)

  The author shows how to create self-referential types manually in Rust and why

• Lenses and Prisms (rust-unofficial.github.io)

  This article shows the Rust design patterns Lenses and Prisms and how they work.

• My negative views on Rust (chrisdone.com)

  Chris Done describes what they don’t like about Rust.

Tech

• Reinventing How We Use Computers (ploum.net)

  Ploum has a vision for a “Forever Computer”, which makes you rethink your digital life.

• Washing Machine Cycle Notifications (malachisoord.com)

  Malachi Soord used Home Assistant to get a notification when the washing machine

• Sneaky hackers reverse defense mitigations when detected (bleepingcomputer.com)

  Bill Toulas about an ongoing attack on mobile carrier networks where the hackers even revert mitigation measures if not implemented fast enough.

• Tips for analyzing logs (jvns.ca)

  Julia Evans collected some tips on Mastodon for analyzing logs.

• Goodbye to the C++ Implementation of Zig (ziglang.org)

  Andrew Kelley explains different strategies for compiler bootstrapping and how Zig uses WebAssembly.

• New in Go 1.20: wrapping multiple errors (lukas.zapletalovi.com)

  Lukáš Zapletal about the implications of multiple errors in Go 1.20.

Cutting Room Floor

• Ideas That Changed My Life (collabfund.com)

  Morgan Housel lists 7 ideas that changed her life, in retrospect.

• Germans Have Seen the Future, and It’s a Heat Pump (nytimes.com)

  Melissa Eddy and Patrick Junker about Germany’s shift from gas to heat pumps.

• Elephants born without tusks in ‘evolutionary response’ to violent poachers (telegraph.co.uk)

  Will Brown about new research that shows how elephant’s evolutionary response

• How to become a truly excellent gift giver (vox.com)

  Eliza Brooke has written an article full of concrete tips for great gifts.