Tech Weekly: What really happened at Basecamp

Published on May 2, 2021

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What really happened at Basecamp — Casey Newton has a differentiated overview.
Show your costs to boost sales — Thomas McKinlay about radical transparency when it comes to a product's costs.
Why you should put salaries on your job ads — Bailey Kursar talks about competitive vs. fair salaries. “If you’re worried that your current staff will find out they’re underpaid, stop underpaying them.”
99 Additional Bits of Unsolicited Advice — Number 85 will surprise you (just kidding, but the list is great). By Kevin Kelly.

Costs of iterators and Zero Cost Abstractions in Rust — Michael Barber compares benchmarks for iterator patterns in C#, Java and Rust.
Go Modules Cheat Sheet — Handy guide on go modules by André Eriksson.
This is not a standard Go project layout — Russ Cox on the "Standard Go Project Layout".
My current HTML boilerplate — A reference for starting a new web project by Manuel Matuzovic. The HN discussion is also worth checking out.
136 facts every web dev should know before they burn out and turn to landscape painting or nude modelling — Baldur Bjarnason has collected an amazing list, definitely check this out.

LegoMicroscope — A microscope built almost entirely from Lego.
Turning an iPad Pro into the Ultimate Classic Macintosh — Matt Sephton runs System 7 on his iPad Pro.

The REAL Reason McDonalds Ice Cream Machines Are Always Broken — Johnny Harris investigates the reasons for broken McDonalds machines.

GitHub Pages now block FLoC — and you should, too! Add a Permissions-Policy: interest-cohort=() header to your site.
Grand jury subpoena for Signal user data, Central District of California — Signal can provide "Unix timestamps for when each account was created and the date that each account last connected to the Signal service". Nothing else.

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