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Hi everyone, how was your week? ✌🏻

Tweet of the Week

continually amused by blockchain proponents who are fundamentally unable to understand that there exist people for whom money is not the #1 motivator — @molly0xFFF

Favourites

• Async Rust in Practice: Performance, Pitfalls, Profiling (scylladb.com)

  Piotr Sarna explains the process of debugging concurrency issues in a Rust library and their solutions.

• Who Uses To-Do Lists? (arunkprasad.com)

  Arun Prasad makes a counter-argument to the "to-do lists don't work" posts by listing some successful or influential people and how they use(d) them.

Culture

• @nathanbarry on Twitter (twitter.com)

  Nathan Barry shares 10 tipps on connecting remote teams. I love the private team stories podcast idea, maybe I'll start something like this.

• Salary Negotiation: Make More Money, Be More Valued (kalzumeus.com)

  Patrick McKenzie teaches you the basics of not-sucking at salary negotiations and the importance of it.

Software Engineering

• How We Saved 70K Cores Across 30 Mission-Critical Services (eng.uber.com)

  Cristian Velazquez about the impact tuning the Go garbage collector GOGC had on services at Uber.

• Hotwire in the real world. (finnian.io)

  Finnian Anderson explains how their team did HTML-over-the-wire using Turbo/Hotwire and Rails and their experience with it.

• A Small Guide for Naming Stuff in Front-end Code (blog.frankmtaylor.com)

  Frank M Taylor has a comprehensive guide on naming things in frontend projects.

Rust

• Rust in 2022 (ncameron.org)

  Nick Cameron (who was on the Rust core team) about the things Rust should focus on in 2022.

• Rust 2030 Christmas list: Inout methods (poignardazur.github.io)

  Olivier Faure about a feature they wish Rust had: inout methods, which inherit the mutability status of self for the return type to get rid of get_x_mut-methods.

• How Bevy uses Rust traits for labeling (deterministic.space)

  Pascal Hertleif explains how the Rust game engine Bevy uses traits to label systems in a type-safe manner.

• Rust Async and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (kevinhoffman.medium.com)

  Kevin Hoffmann about their frustrating experience when getting started with the internals of async Rust.

Cutting Room Floor

• Oh, 2022! (antipope.org)

  Charlie Stross about his predictions of 2022 and how he "clearly wasn't pessimistic enough". Make sure you're in a good mood before reading this, it's a bit grim.

• The Case Against Crypto (stephendiehl.com)

  Stephen Diehl talks about some counterpoints against the cryptocurrency-bubble, namely how they don't solve a real problem, they aren't actually currencies and more.

• Web3 | No Mercy / No Malice (profgalloway.com)

  Scott Galloway about the reality of the so-called web3:

  Web3 has different-colored hair, but the same DNA as earlier web paradigms, which decentralized services at an unprecedented scale to centralize wealth and influence at an unprecedented scale. [...] So far, web3 is web2.01.

• I Quit! (keygen.sh)

  Zeke Gabrielse quit caffeine after 15 years and tells you about the cold-turkey experience and how it turned out.

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