68 / An app can be a home-cooked meal

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Tweet of the Week

Human: we have a color named after you! Salmon: really? is it silvery blue like my outsides? Human: no, uh– Salmon: wait why is it pink? Human: ... Salmon: WHY IS IT PINK — @mondaypunday

Culture

• João Alves on Twitter (twitter.com)

  João Alves has ten points that define above-average managers.

Tech

• Wi-Fine (wifine.gitlab.io)

  Eloy Degen explains why using Public Wi-Fi networks is (mostly) fine.

• How I Used DALL·E 2 to Generate The Logo for OctoSQL (jacobmartins.com)

  Jacob Martin used the AI image generator DALL•E 2 to create a logo, very interesting journey.

• Why I Love Still PHP and Javascript After 20+ years (the.scapegoat.dev)

  mnl explains why they still love PHP and legacy codebases.

• Lattice-based Cryptography 🧮 (unzip.dev)

  Agam about new encryption algorithms that can withstand attacks from quantum computers.

• Use One Big Server (specbranch.com)

  Nima Badizadegan about the benefits and drawbacks of using one big server instead of the cloud.

• An app can be a home-cooked meal (robinsloan.com)

  Robin Sloan about BoopSnop, a home-made app, built for four people without ads or tracking or feature creep.

• Matt Mueller: Building Modern Web Applications Faster With Bud (goingwithgo.com)

  Preslav Rachev Interviews Matt Mueller on their new web framework, Bud.

• Cut the cutesy errors (alexwlchan.net)

  Alex Chan explains why you shouldn't use cute error messages.

• Cramming 'Papers, Please' Onto Phones (dukope.com)

  Lucas Pope about the rewrite of PAPERS, PLEASE for mobile platforms.

Cutting Room Floor

• The world is ablaze and the oil industry just posted record profits. It’s us or them (theguardian.com)

  Hamilton Nolan des describes how the oil industry won’t go away by itself,

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