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Tweet of the Week

Get A Good Night’s Sleep by Uninstalling PagerDuty and Throwing Your Phone Into A Lake — @Luna on Twitter

Culture

• Honesty is a professional behavior (jacobian.org)

  Jacob Kaplan-Moss explains in which cases it’s okay to lie at work.

• Management @ PlanetScale (gist.github.com)

  Sam Lambert, the CEO of PlanetScale talks about the management values at his company.

Tech

• Firefox Addons for 2022 (smcleod.net)

  Sam McLeod has some great recommendations for Firefox adding that improve privacy and make your life easier.

• Math on GitHub: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (nschloe.github.io)

  Nico Schlömer about all the little details in GitHub’s new math support.

• The Surprising Truth About Pixels and Accessibility (joshwcomeau.com)

  Josh Comeau explains when to use rem, px or em in CSS with a great mental model.

• Rust Ergonomics: Default and From (elijahcaine.me)

  Elijah Caine M. Voigt about Rust ergonomics and why it’s better to be explicit than „sprinkle magic automatically“.

• Rust: A Critical Retrospective (bunniestudios.com)

  Bunnie reflects on using Rust for an OS they’ve been writing, especially the supply chain attack surface.

• Golang Diaries: Generics (tbray.org)

  Tim Bray describes some footguns when working with Go generics.

Cutting Room Floor

• The wonder material graphene may have found its killer app (economist.com)

  Graphene can make concrete 30 % stronger, allowing the use of less material, especially cement and therefore producing greener concrete. But that’s not the only promising use-case for the relatively new material.

• The Crypto Crash Feels Amazing (theatlantic.com)

  Ian Bogost describes the feelings of an outsider to the crypto bubble, including relief and schadenfreude.

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