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Toot of the Week

it's only "AI" if it comes from the san francisco bay area. otherwise it's just sparkling autocomplete — @sam@woem.space

Culture

• What differentiates the highest-performing product teams (Video) (youtu.be)

  Lenny Rachitsky has John Cutler on their podcast where they talk about efficient product teams, culture and more.

Software & Hardware

• my dream computer (bluelander.bearblog.dev)

  m·bluelander about a computer that only exists in their dreams.

• Reverse engineering the MacBook clamshell mode (alinpanaitiu.com)

  Alin Panaitiu dives deep in an attempt to reverse-engineer the Clamshell mode on macOS.

• Vim Weekly Tips #18: Ctags (lazybear.io)

  Hyde shows how to make symbol lookup work in Vim.

• Our Surprisingly Simple Navigation Hover Effect (cloudfour.com)

  Tyler Sticka shows a simple but useful hover effect.

• Zero to Nix (zero-to-nix.com)

  A great guide to Nix — if you’ve been interested but held back because of a lack of documentation, dig in!

• Six fun things to do with Rust operator overloading (wishawa.github.io)

  Wisha Wanichwecharungruang did some fun things with rust operators, one of them being cout << "Hello".

• The Git source code audit, viewed as a Rust programmer (litchipi.github.io)

  Litchi pi goes through some vulnerabilities found in the Git codebase and explains if and how rust would protect against them.

• Mocktail: The Mock Generator You’ve Been Looking For (traefik.io)

  Ludovic Fernandez explains the shortcomings they experienced using existing mock libraries and introduces a new tool to generate mocks in Go.

• 10 Things I Hate About Go (Video) (youtu.be)

  Boldly Go (who uses and likes Go) explains their top 10 things they hate about Go.

Cutting Room Floor

• Apple: The Only Big Tech Giant Going Against the Job Cuts Tide (blog.pragmaticengineer.com)

  Gergely Orosz about Apple’s hiring strategy and how it’s worked out in the past years.

• How antidepressants help bacteria resist antibiotics (nature.com)

  Liam Drew about a recent study that shows how antidepressants trigger an “SOS response” in bacteria that helps build up resistance.

• The Billions-Dollar VR/AR Headset Question (daringfireball.net)

  John Gruber about the future of AR/VR headsets, why they might not be ready just yet and how Apple could pull it off.