62 / Making Code Faster

Published on June 26, 2022

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Why would I pay GitHub $100/year for an AI to tell me what code to write when men do it for free? — @captainsafia on Twitter

DORA Metrics: the Right Answer to measuring engineering team performance (jacobian.org)
Jacob Kaplan-Moss about "the right way" to measure a team's performance.
Companies Using RFCs or Design Docs and Examples of These (blog.pragmaticengineer.com)
Gergely Orosz shares a lot of different ways to write RFCs, including templates!

Remote development with Rust on fly.io (fasterthanli.me)
Amos describes how he build a ridiculously over-engineered remote dev environment on fly.io.
Start all of your commands with a comma (rhodesmill.org)
Brandon Rhodes shares one trick to deal with namespace collision for custom scripts: Prefix them with a comma.
Nine Rules for Elegant Rust Library APIs (towardsdatascience.com)
Carl M. Kadie shares 9 great tips for writing Rust libraries.
What is `Box<str>` and how is it different from `String` in Rust? (mahdi.blog)
Mahdi Dibaiee explains how different types are stored on the stack or heap in Rust.
Making Code Faster (tbray.org)
Tim Bray about benchmarking and profiling best practices in Go.

The Personal Brand Is Dead (theatlantic.com)
Kaitlyn Tiffany explains why Gen Z would rather be anonymous online.
My 40-liter backpack travel guide (vitalik.ca)
Vitalik Buterin lists all the things they have in their 40-liter backpack.
writing one sentence per line (sive.rs)
Derek Sivers explains the advantages of writing one sentence per line.
Reasons to Tour By Bicycle (kk.org)
Kevin Kelly has a list of benefits for bike tours (in America).
Why Does a Hard Workout Make You Less Hungry? (nytimes.com)
Gretchen Reynolds about the discovery of a new molecule that defines the appetite after a workout.
Prestige Writing (randsinrepose.com)
Michael Lopp about good storytelling and why it is simile to magic.

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