47 / Falsify yourself

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Tweet of the Week

i love how americans are like "if anyone is in michigan let's meet up" where michigan is like the size of my entire country — @thingskatedid on Twitter

Favourites

• Request coalescing in async Rust (fasterthanli.me)

  Amos dives deep into caching responses for concurrent requests in Rust.

• The Code Review Pyramid (morling.dev)

  Gunnar Morling built a great chart of questions to ask in different layers of code reviews.

• My lizard brain is no match for infinite scroll (alexanderell.is)

  Alex Ellis about their inability to resist the temptation of social networks with infinite scrolling.

  When I think about how I feel after 30 minutes of letting my mind wander on a walk versus 30 minutes of scrolling, it’s night and day.

Culture

• Falsify yourself (iamjonas.me)

  Jonas Lundberg about the importance of falsifying your ideas and plans before presenting them to others.

• Pair Programming Antipatterns (tuple.app)

  A great list of things to improve your pair programming skills.

Software Engineering

• Bugs in Hello World (blog.sunfishcode.online)

  sunfishcode about a bug that appears in most Hello World programs: Handling a full disk.

• Some tiny personal programs I've written (jvns.ca)

  Julia Evans writes about tiny programs that solve a specific problem and they're great.

• Still No Consensus On Testing Private Methods (jesseduffield.com)

  Jesse Duffield explains different viewpoints on testing private methods.

• Nix Flakes: Packages and How to Use Them (christine.website)

  Xe Iaso continues their Nix flake series to talk about packaging.

• You Don't Know Gif (blog.darrien.dev)

  Darrien explores the gif binary representation and some edge cases, like a true-color gif.

Cutting Room Floor

• The day Steve Jobs dissed me in a keynote (2010) (sive.rs)

  Derek Sivers about the time in 2003 after the initial iTunes launch, when Apple wanted to add music from independent labels and Steve Jobs blocking their access.

• How Significant Is Russia’s Partial Ban from SWIFT? (newyorker.com)

  Sheelah Kolhatkar about the limited effects of the SWIFT ban.

• How to Build a Bike Generator with Control Panel (lowtechmagazine.com)

  The Low-tech Magazine explains how they built a bike generator that can charge USB-devices, power a lamp or even a workstation.

• Putting ideas into words (paulgraham.com)

  Paul Graham about the importance to write down ideas to really know their flaws.

• You're using email wrong (qtssf.com)

  I wrote a blogpost about an email strategy that puts humans first.

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