33 / Just a job

Published on November 28, 2021

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Technology I’m thankful for (crawshaw.io)
David Crawshaw about technologies that he's thankful for this turkey day.
Faster software through register based calling (menno.io)
Menno Finlay-Smits explains the new register based calling in Go 1.17 and why it makes your code 5-10 % faster.
Stack-safety for free? (hurryabit.github.io)
Martin Huschenbett introduces an approach for stack-safe recursion using generators.

Just a job (amyhupe.co.uk)
Amy Hupe about the perception of work. Thanks, Jan!
Coding "Homework" (jacobian.org)
Jacob Kaplan-Moss has s some concrete advise on how to structure the coding homework when hiring tech workers.
Your Board of Directors is Probably Going to Fire You (reactionwheel.net)
Jerry Neumann shares some advice when it comes to handling a board of investors as the CEO of a startup.

Batteries included with Emacs (karthinks.com)
Karthik Chikmagalur showcases some builtin features and modes of Emacs.
Only 90s Web Developers Remember This (zachholman.com)
Zach Holman about six technologies from the nineties (remember marquee?).
OOPS writeups (surfingcomplexity.blog)
Lorin Hochstein shows the structure of their OOPS write-ups and shows some examples.
Notes On [the Rust] Module System (matklad.github.io)
Aleksey Kladov shares some thoughts about the Rust module system.
Merge Queues with Bors (kflansburg.com)
Kevin Flansburg explains Bors, the bot that guarantees that the main branch will always compile by pipelining and testing branches.
Modern CSS Reset / Global Styles (joshwcomeau.com)
Josh Comeau has a simple CSS reset and goes into details for each rule. Did you know the *-selector is not slow after all?

Fun with Red Star OS (sizeofcat.ru)
sizeof(cat) boots North Korea's operating system, the apps installed and the general vibe.
Flatpak Is Not the Future (ludocode.com)
Nicholas Fraser about the rust of Flatpak and it's many downsides (first of all, bloat).
The Operator Pattern in Nomad (andydote.co.uk)
Andy Dote applies the Operator Pattern from Kubernetes to Monad.
NixOS: Headless Home Assistant VM (myme.no)
Martin Myrseth set up a Home Assistant VM on NixOS and explains the configuration and pitfalls.
How to Learn Nix (ianthehenry.com)
Ian Henry has a guide on Nix, hoping to improve the documentation by showing misunderstandings and frustrations. I'm not done yet but I remember having some of the same questions when starting to look into this.

Facebook's Dangerous Experiment on Teen Girl (theatlantic.com)
Jonathan Haidt about the damage social media is causing, especially to teen girls.
A Cure for Type 1 Diabetes? For One Man, It Seems to Have Worked. - The New York Times (nytimes.com)
Gina Kolata about a possible cure of Type 1 Diabetes.
NASA's Planetary-Defense Mission Is on Its Way to an Asteroid (theatlantic.com)
Marina Koren about the preparations we take to be able to prevent an asteroid impact on Earth.

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