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Happy new year! 🎇

Toot of the Week

[AI enters the room] Artists: Please stop. We love art. Programmers: Please continue. We hate programming. — @olafurw@mastodon.social

Tech

• How To Distort Text With SVG Filters (henry.codes)

  Henry Desroches explains how to apply SVG filters to text for cool effects.

• Recommended File Formats for Digital Preservation (library.duke.edu)

  Duke University Libraries has file format recommendations for digital preservation in 17 categories, each with three levels.

• A closer look at Acorn, our open source precision farming rover (community.twistedfields.com)

  Taylor explains the parts of the open source Garmin robot they’re building.

• Lesser Known Techniques for Attacking AWS Environments (tldrsec.com)

  Scott Piper explains four less known attacks on AWS resources.

• Rust 2023 (by Yosh) (blog.yoshuawuyts.com)

  Yoshua Wuyts reflects upon 2022 for Rust and looks into next year.

• Faster Go code by being mindful of memory (f4t.dev)

  Arthur Busser explains how they sped up their Advent of Code puzzle in Go.

Cutting Room Floor

• Why the super rich are inevitable (pudding.cool)

  An interactive article that explains the yard sale model with concrete examples.

• Sound (ciechanow.ski)

  Bartosz Ciechanowski wrote another one of their incredible interactive articles, this time explaining how sound works.

• Why fusion ignition is being hailed as a major breakthrough in fusion – a nuclear physicist explains (theconversation.com)

  Carolyn Kuranz from the University of Michigan explains the recent fusion ignition breakthrough and when we can expect clean fusion energy to power our homes.

• Caught on Camera, Traced by Phone: The Russian Military Unit That Killed Dozens in Bucha (nytimes.com)

  An investigation from 8 reporters shows evidence that the Bucha massacre was intentional and which people were part of it.

• Hands On With Flipper Zero, the Hacker Tool Blowing Up on TikTok (wired.com)

  Dhruv Mehrotra explains their experience with the Flipper Zero.