45 / I have no capslock and I must scream
Published on February 27, 2022Hey, hope you're okay.
Tweet of the Week
why rebase when you can just throw your computer out the window — @NayaJaczorowski on Twitter
Culture
- Support open source that you use by paying the maintainers to talk to your team (simonwillison.net)
Simon Willison has found a great way to pay open source maintainers if regular sponsorship doesn't work.
- I have no capslock and I must scream (memex.marginalia.nu)
This short-story of reducing a product to the point where it's unusable reads almost as a poem.
- A career ending mistake (bitfieldconsulting.com)
John Arundel about the importance of planning your career, and different paths (in tech).
Software Engineering
- Nix Flakes: an Introduction (christine.website)
Xe Iaso has written a great introduction to Nix Flakes.
- Retrofitting Async/Await in Go 1.18 (csgrinding.xyz)
Bob Fang explores how async/await could look like in Go 1.18 and why it can improve ergonomics.
- How Bitwarden encrypts your data (huy.rocks)
Huy describes how Bitwarden encryption works and why you don't have to re-encrypt items when you change the main password.
Cutting Room Floor
- There Is Nothing Dumber Than War (designmom.substack.com)
Gabrielle Stanley Blair about the "unprovoked, unnecessary, and unreasonable" attack on Ukraine and why you should be furious about it.
- My Smart Home 2021 (jorisroovers.com)
Joris Roovers describes their Home Assistant setup and the changes they made recently.
- Be anonymous (kg.dev)
Kash shares some thoughts about different levels of anonymity.
- Find You: Building a stealth AirTag clone (positive.security)
Fabian Bräunlein shows ways to circumvent Apples security measures to prevent tracking other people using an AirTag.
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