85 / How to Improve Your Creative Thinking

Hey hey, this is going to be the last issue of 2022 — I wish you happy holidays, see you next year 🎇

Toot of the Week

bavaria doesn't exist— @maia@crimew.gay

Culture

• Staff archetypes (staffeng.com)

  Will Larson describes different roles that Staff engineers tend to take.

Tech

• A simple stack for today's web hacks (neugierig.org)

  Evan Martin defines a very simple stack for simple web development without frameworks or complicated configuration.

• Using Zig for Advent of Code (huy.rocks)

  Huy shows some Zig examples they’ve come up with for Advent of Code.

• Just Use Postgres for Everything (amazingcto.com)

  Stephan Schmidt argues that unless you have a good reason not to, you should use Postgres.

• What is in a modern code editor? (blog.meain.io)

  Abin Simon describes the must-have features of a modern code editor (with examples).

Rust

• Rust in 2023 (ncameron.org)

  Nick Cameron lists the things he wants to see for Rust in 2023.

• Working with Rust in (neo)vim (ntietz.com)

  Nicholas explains how they use and configured NeoVim to write Rust.

• Native Reflection in Rust (jack.wrenn.fyi)

  Jack Wrenn introduces deflect, a reflection library for Rust and explains how it work an in which cases it’s useful.

• Composing an observable Rust application (blog.logrocket.com)

  This article explains how you can build custom Layers with the tracing create in Rust.

Cutting Room Floor

• Berlin is planning a car-free area larger than Manhattan (fastcompany.com)

  Adele Peters about Volksentscheid Berlin Autofrei, an organisation that wants a huge area of Berlin to be car-free.

• The best things and stuff of 2022 (blog.fogus.me)

  Fogus summarises their favourite things of 2023.

• How to Improve Your Creative Thinking (every.to)

  Alice Albrecht explains a few techniques to improve your creativity and generate ideas.

• The secret lives of MI6’s top female spies (ft.com)

  Helen Warrell interviews three women in top positions of the MI6 (one of them is Q!)