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Toot of the Week
#Software can be like bananas: Not yet ripe and and already rotten at the same time. — @ewolff@mastodon.social
Peopleware
- Want an unfair advantage in your tech career? Consume content meant for other roles (matthewgrohman.substack.com)
Matthew Grohman about the advantages of understanding other roles (including a list of resources!)
Software
- I don't want to log in to your website (robinrendle.com)
Robin Rendle about sketchy sales tactics and the value in simple and honest websites.
- Things DBs Don't Do - But Should (thenile.dev)
Gwen Shapira has a list of feature requests for the a modern database.
Rust
- I built a startup in Rust, I would do it again. (cloak.software)
This article describes the advantage of using Rust in a startup.
- When Zig is safer and faster than Rust (zackoverflow.dev)
zack compares unsafe Rust to Zig and explains why Zig was working better for them.
- Living with Rust Long-Term (video) (youtu.be)
Jon Gjengset about the things you need to be aware of when building a project in Rust for a long time.
- Tricks of the Trait: Enabling Ergonomic Extractors (video) (youtu.be)
Rob Ede explains how you can accept functions with different kinds of arguments in a handler in Rust.
AI
- The Waluigi Effect (lesswrong.com)
Cleo Nardo about the inner workings of the Waluigi Effect and other jailbreak methods for LLMs.
- AI is making it easier to create more noise, when all I want is good search (rachsmith.com)
Rach Smith describes an AI use-case that trumps content generation: Search.
- Large language models are having their Stable Diffusion moment (simonwillison.net)
Simon Willison appt the current state and future of LLMs.
Cutting Room Floor
- There’s no such thing as a tree (phylogenetically) (2021) (eukaryotewritesblog.com)
Georgia Ray explains why most trees developed individually and other weird botanic quirks. Thanks, Eric!
- How the Biggest Fraud in German History Unravelled (newyorker.com)
Ben Taub tells the story of Jan Marsalek in the Wirecard scandal and how the fraud was exposed. Thanks, Lukas!
