30 / It’s all gravy

Hi, how is your weekend going? This issue is a bit slimmer and has no favorites section as we’ve spent the weekend visiting family (I‘m writing this from the car on the way back). Hope you enjoy nonetheless!

Culture

• Stop Looking For Mentors (staysaasy.com)

  Stay SaaSy says it‘s better to look for people that can answer your questions instead of a mentor.

• It's all gravy (chris.manson.ie)

  Chris Manson on Open Source development and how contributors who are already going "above and beyond" should not feel pressured in any way.

Software Engineering

• netaddr.IP: a new IP address type for Go (tailscale.com)

  Brad Fitzpatrick explains the difference approaches of replacing Go‘s net.IP, making it more performant and comparable.

• Do-nothing scripting: the key to gradual automation (blog.danslimmon.com)

  Dan Slimmon has great advice for automating complex tasks.

• ‘Trojan Source’ Bug Threatens the Security of All Code (krebsonsecurity.com)

  KrebsOnSecurity about a way to use Unicode to smuggle unwanted code changes into projects.

• Making Emacs popular again (lwn.net)

  Jake Edge summarizes the internal discussion of making Emacs more approachable.

• How do you tell if a problem is caused by DNS? (jvns.ca)

  Julia Evans has some ways to debug problems to figure out if items caused by DNS or not.

• Signatures: The secret behind modern end-to-end encryption (kerkour.com)

  Sylvain Kerkour explains modern end-to-end-encryption.

• Practical Nix Flakes (serokell.io)

  Alexander Bantyev wrote one of the few good introductions to Nix Flakes.

• s3-credentials: a tool for creating credentials for S3 buckets (simonwillison.net)

  Simon Willison build a tool I‘ll definitely use in the future: Create S3 credentials with one command.

Cutting Room Floor

• The Data Behind New York's Increasingly Dirty Electricity Peaks (stevegattuso.me)

  Steve Gattuso shows the data on New York electricity and how dirty it gets on peaks.

• Alt-J: ‘Feeling unsafe is something that’s quite foreign for men’ (theguardian.com)

  Leonie Cooper interviews alt-J who have a new album coming up in February.

• Modifying my Gaggia Classic Espresso machine (calbryant.uk)

  Cal Bryant explains how he modded his coffee machine to achieve consistent perfect coffee.

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