22 / Intentional connection in the digital office
Published on September 12, 2021Hello and welcome to another issue of Tech Weekly! Hope your week was good, enjoy ✌🏻
Tweet of the Week
"I'm sorry, but we had to cut down the scope to make the deadline." — @WdeB
Culture
- Intentional connection in the digital office (seths.blog)
Seth Godin about the difference of online and offline human connection.
- The Mentorship Diamond (mikemcquaid.com)
Mike McQuaid about mentorship and why it is important (in both directions).
Software Engineering
- Coverage Marks (ferrous-systems.com)
Aleksey describes the concept of coverage marks. Pretty cool concept.
- Rust programs written entirely in Rust (blog.sunfishcode.online)
sunfishcode about what it takes to have Rust programs only depend on Rust code (not libc and friends).
- How PCI-Express works and why you should care? #GPU (ovh.com)
A great explanation of PCIe and what to look out for when trying to maximise your GPU performance.
Cutting Room Floor
- mRNA cancer therapy now in human trials after shrinking mouse tumours (independent.co.uk)
Thomas Kingsley about BioNTech moving to human trials for their mRNA-based cancer therapy!
- The 'Dead-Internet Theory' Is Wrong but Feels True (theatlantic.com)
Kaitlyn Tiffany about the conspiracy story that most of the internet today is bots.
- The disastrous voyage of Satoshi, the world’s first cryptocurrency cruise ship (theguardian.com)
Sophie Elmhirst tells the story of the failed plan to sell flats on a cruise ship for a tax-free cryptocurrency dream-society.
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