44 / A Rust match made in hell

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Tweet of the Week

I love all the Winter Olympic events, sliding downhill on a piece of wood, sliding downhill on 2 pieces of wood, sliding downhill IN a piece of wood. All amazing. — @TheAndrewNadeau on Twitter

Favourites

• Building an iPod for 2022 (ellie.wtf)

  Ellie Huxtable bought an iPod Video 5.5, replaced the HDD and front plate and flashed a custom operating system. I love this, in fact I have an iPod Video lying around here just waiting for something like this!

• A Rust match made in hell (fasterthanli.me)

  Amos about a footgun in Rust that took him about a week to fix.

Culture

• That Wild Ask A Manager Story (jacobian.org)

  Jacob Kaplan-Moss about the things to do to prevent fraud in the hiring process.

• Interview Questions to Ask Your Interviewer (daveceddia.com)

  Mark Erikson has a list of 32 questions you can ask your interviewer.

Software Engineering

• The foundations of end-to-end encryption: Domain separation (with code example in Rust) (kerkour.com)

  Sylvain Kerkour explains domain separation for end-to-end encryption.

• Announcing Tokio Metrics 0.1 (tokio.rs)

  Carl Lerche & Jack Wrenn announce Tokio Metrics, a tool that provides instrumentation for the Tokio scheduler at runtime (Tokio Console is the local debugging equivalent).

• File-driven testing in Go (eli.thegreenplace.net)

  Eli Bendersky about file-driven testing, where you have a .input and a .golden file and programatically compare them in your tests.

• How does UTF-8 turn “😂” into “F09F9882”? (sethmlarson.dev)

  Seth Michael Larson explains the UTF-8 code point layout with diagrams.

Cutting Room Floor

• Why you can't rebuild Wikipedia with crypto (platformer.news)

  Casey Newton interviews Molly White, the creator of Web3 Is Going Just Great about the so-called web3, cryptocurrencies and Wikipedia.

• Building a PiSight (rknight.me)

  Robb Knight built a Pi Zero into an old iSight camera. What a great way to upcycle!

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