85 / How to Improve Your Creative Thinking

Published on December 18, 2022

Hey hey, this is going to be the last issue of 2022 — I wish you happy holidays, see you next year 🎇

Toot of the Week

bavaria doesn't exist— @maia@crimew.gay

Staff archetypes (staffeng.com)
Will Larson describes different roles that Staff engineers tend to take.

A simple stack for today's web hacks (neugierig.org)
Evan Martin defines a very simple stack for simple web development without frameworks or complicated configuration.
Using Zig for Advent of Code (huy.rocks)
Huy shows some Zig examples they've come up with for Advent of Code.
Just Use Postgres for Everything (amazingcto.com)
Stephan Schmidt argues that unless you have a good reason not to, you should use Postgres.
What is in a modern code editor? (blog.meain.io)
Abin Simon describes the must-have features of a modern code editor (with examples).

Rust in 2023 (ncameron.org)
Nick Cameron lists the things he wants to see for Rust in 2023.
Working with Rust in (neo)vim (ntietz.com)
Nicholas explains how they use and configured NeoVim to write Rust.
Native Reflection in Rust (jack.wrenn.fyi)
Jack Wrenn introduces deflect, a reflection library for Rust and explains how it work an in which cases it's useful.
Composing an observable Rust application (blog.logrocket.com)
This article explains how you can build custom Layers with the tracing create in Rust.

Berlin is planning a car-free area larger than Manhattan (fastcompany.com)
Adele Peters about Volksentscheid Berlin Autofrei, an organisation that wants a huge area of Berlin to be car-free.
The best things and stuff of 2022 (blog.fogus.me)
Fogus summarises their favourite things of 2023.
How to Improve Your Creative Thinking (every.to)
Alice Albrecht explains a few techniques to improve your creativity and generate ideas.
The secret lives of MI6’s top female spies (ft.com)
Helen Warrell interviews three women in top positions of the MI6 (one of them is Q!)

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