66 / Things you’re allowed to do

Published on July 24, 2022

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The Habits of Sustainable Excellence (bstulberg.medium.com)
Brad Stulberg lists 19 habits for sustainable excellence.
The Structure and Process Fallacy (medium.com)
Nick Tune about the structure and process fallacy; thinking a reorg alone will make the company more efficient.

What happens when you press a key in your terminal? (jvns.ca)
Julia Evans about terminal history, escape codes and the quirks of a 40-year old standard.
Some Thoughts on Zig (v5.chriskrycho.com)
Chris Krycho lists reasons people like Zig even with the lack of memory safety.
Building a Rust Mentality (slightknack.dev)
Isaac Clayton about designing software with Rust's strengths in mind.
SOC2: The Screenshots Will Continue Until Security Improves (fly.io)
Thomas Ptacek tells the story of implementing SOC2 at Fly.io.
Soft Deletion Probably Isn't Worth It (brandur.org)
Brandur argues that soft-deletion is mostly complicating things, actually undeleting something happens very rarely.
A Little Story About the `yes` Unix Command (endler.dev)
Matthias Endler tries to implement the unix yes command in an efficient way, which is more complicated than you probably thin
Improving “Extract Function” in Rust Analyzer (dorianlistens.com)
Dorian Scheidt about a recent change he contributed to rust-analyzer.
How Did REST Come To Mean The Opposite of REST? (htmx.org)
This article is about JSON-RPC APIs wrongly being called REST APIs nowadays and what a real REST API actually looks like.

Things you're allowed to do (milan.cvitkovic.net)
Milan Cvitkovic has a cool list of things that you're allowed to do, but didn't know you were or didn't even think about it.
Magnus Carlsen to give up World Championship title (chess24.com)
Interesting story happening in the world of chess: Magnus Carlsen won't play another tournament after being world champion for 10 years.
Oliver Burkeman's last column: the eight secrets to a (fairly) fulfilled life (theguardian.com)
Oliver Burkeman has eight secrets to a fulfilled life.
Analyzing iOS 16 Lockdown Mode: Browser Features and Performance (sevarg.net)
Russell Graves goes into detail on the new lockdown mode coming in iOS 16. TL;DR: you should enable it.

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