20 / The Rise Of User-Hostile Software

Welcome to this weeks issue, hope you had a good week! 🙌🏻

Tweet of the Week

If a programmer gets an interview because of a recommendation from a friend, are they being passed by reference? — @CarlaNotarobot on Twitter

Culture

• The Rise Of User-Hostile Software (den.dev)

  Den Delimarsky about user-hostile design choices in modern everyday life, with some examples that really hit home.

• Possible by default (linus.coffee)

  Linus talks about the importance of the correct mindset when thinking about new ideas.

Software Engineering

• Home Lab Beginners guide (haydenjames.io)

  Hayden James about his homelab and what components he recommends when getting started.

• scoped-arena-allocator (devblog.arcana.rs)

  Roman writes about an arena allocator he's written in Rust.

• Hexagonal architecture in Rust (alexis-lozano.com)

Cutting Room Floor

• Why are hyperlinks blue? (blog.mozilla.org)

  Elise Blanchard starts from the beginning of the internet to find who started the trend of blue hyperlinks.

• Electric cars and batteries: how will the world produce enough? (nature.com)

  Davide Castelvecchi about the importance of recycling, especially when it comes to batteries.

• Fighting Like Taliban (scholars-stage.org)

  Tanner Greer about the fighting culture in Afghanistan.

• The Myth of a Superhuman AI (wired.com)

  Kevin Kelly about five misconceptions when talking about a "superhuman" AI.

• Collapse, Renewal and the Rope of History (medium.com)

  Angus Hervey tells us how real-life isn't a moral arc and how it's up to us to make a difference.

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