107 / IKEA-Oriented Development

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106 / Anything can be a message queue

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106 / Anything can be a message queue

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105 / Fire and Motion

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104 / Markdown images are an anti-pattern

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103 / User Driven UI

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102 / Stop Using Hamburger Menus

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101 / Why I Adore The Night

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100 / Here Come the Robots

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99 / A love letter to make

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98 / The Most Valuable Programmer

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97 / How To Do Hard Things

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Static OG (Open Graph) Images in Astro

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96 / Neither artificial, nor intelligent

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95 / The Ambiguous Zone

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94 / Culture Viruses

Hey hey, hope your week was good! Toot of the Week a guide to greetings: "hi guys": excludes non-guys "ladies and gentlemen": excludes non-binary people, and men who aren't gentle "hey folks": a bit too predictable "hello fortnite gamers": surprising and equally offensive to eve … | Continue reading


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93 / The Waluigi Effect

Hi ✌ Toot of the Week #Software can be like bananas: Not yet ripe and and already rotten at the same time. — @ewolff@mastodon.social Peopleware Want an unfair advantage in your tech career? Consume content meant for other roles 10 min · matthewgrohman.substack.com Matthew Grohman … | Continue reading


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92 / What's in my software engineering tool belt?

Hey, the last weeks have been very busy, this newsletter will go back to the weekly cycle soon ✌ Toot of the Week but Rust has a garbage collector, it’s called clippy — @luna@tech.lgbt Favourites How Your LED Lights and Screens are Killing You 42 min · sevarg.net Russell Graves a … | Continue reading


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91 / Taco Bell Programming

Hey hey, it's been a while — I was sick and then we got a new baby! Toot of the Week I lost my programming socks in the lisp wars — @efi@chitter.xyz Favourites Taco Bell Programming 2 min · widgetsandshit.com Ted Dziuba about Taco Bell programming: Using simple, proven and borin … | Continue reading


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90 / My Dream Computer

Hey, hope your week was good 🤞 Toot of the Week it's only "AI" if it comes from the san francisco bay area . otherwise it's just sparkling autocomplete — @sam@woem.space Culture What differentiates the highest-performing product teams [Video] 100 min · youtube.com Lenny R … | Continue reading


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89 / Use the Wrong Tool for the Job

Hey hey, how was your week? ✌ Toot of the Week and the brain-genius typed "no one would do anything without a profit motive!" and hit send on a button rendered by an open source front end framework firing off an event handled by an open source programming language that sends a pa … | Continue reading


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87 / The internet wants to be fragmented

Hey hey, how was your week? ✌ Toot of the Week Rebasing is just gaslighting for computers. — @mttaggart@fosstodon.org Favourites “I’m On It” 3 min · mikefisher.substack.com Mike Fisher about their favourite response when given a task. The science of why you have great ideas in th … | Continue reading


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86 / Why the super rich are inevitable

Happy new year! Toot of the Week [AI enters the room] Artists: Please stop. We love art. Programmers: Please continue. We hate programming. — @olafurw@mastodon.social Tech How To Distort Text With SVG Filters 5 min · henry.codes Henry Desroches explains how to apply SVG filters … | Continue reading


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85 / How to Improve Your Creative Thinking

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 Culture Staff archetypes 7 min · staffeng.com Will Larson describes different roles that Staff engineers tend to take. Tec … | Continue reading


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84 / The Riddle of Rest

✌ Toot of the Week rust programmers be like "pretty slow, nearly a microsecond" — @dysfun@treehouse.systems Projects of Friends Fn(), Functional Programming for Golang github.com/kamstrup Kamstrup built a functional programming library for Go, inspired by Clojure and the Java Str … | Continue reading


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83 / Why Twitter Didn’t Go Down

Hey everyone, hope your week has been good Toot of the Week Give a man a fish. Sure, why not? Go around giving strangers weird fish gifts. Who cares — @donni@mastodon.social Rust Memory Safe Languages in Android 13 8 min · security.googleblog.com Jeffrey Vander Stoep about the e … | Continue reading


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82 / Programming is a Pop Culture

✌ Toot of the Week him: will you at least act normal when my folks get here me: flipping a pancake and reading it like a tarot card bad news — @whatsjo@mstdn.social Culture Programming is a Pop Culture 6 min · baldurbjarnason.com Baldur Bjarnason explains why programming has tren … | Continue reading


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81 / That fediverse feeling

Hey hey, how’s it going? Toot of the Week “Then the spaceman took over the bird site so we all started tooting at the elephant place.” “Oh…ok grandpa. Let’s get you back to bed.” — @weiser@mstdn.social Culture Inhumanity of Root Cause Analysis 9 min · verica.io Casey Rosenthal ab … | Continue reading


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80 / Goodbye Twitter, hello Fediverse

Hey hey, I migrated to Mastodon due to the recent events (as did many people), you can find me at @arne@spezi.social. This issue is packed, hope you enjoy reading the stories and articles as much as I did. Toot of the Week The Programmers’ Credo: we do these things not because th … | Continue reading


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79 / The perfect commit

Hopy your week has been good Culture Things your manager might not know 12 min · jvns.ca Julia Evans has 8 things you can do to make everyone’s job a lot easier. Ideal open source 4 min · nedbatchelder.com Ned Batchelder about open source motivation and an ideal situation. How t … | Continue reading


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78 / No, you're not entitled to your opinion

’sup? ✌ Culture What “Work” Looks Like 2 min · blog.jim-nielsen.com Jim Nielsen about what work looks like and why work away from a computer can be real work as a tech worker. What a Healthy Team Looks Like 7 min · hpdailyrant.medium.com Hà Phan has seven qualities of healthy tea … | Continue reading


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77 / Take a Break You Idiot

Hey everyone, I’ve been sick for the last two weeks, that’s why there was no issue last week. But I’m back now with a packed issue! Hope you enjoy ❤️ Tweet of the Week Should’ve been a cat. Sleep for 16 hours a day, cause chaos for the other 8. Scream loudly whenever I’m hungry. … | Continue reading


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76 / An end to doomerism

Welcome back to Arne’s Weekly! I had an amazing time in Barcelona, hope you’re doing well too ✌ Tweet of the Week i used to be young and cool and now when it rains i say things like “this is good. we needed this” — @elykreimendahl on Twitter Favourites Electric Bike, Stupid Love … | Continue reading


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75 / The five-minute feedback fix

✌ How’s it going? Tweet of the Week machine learning? i think we need some machine forgetting!! — @monadliker on Twitter Culture What You Miss By Only Checking GitHub 7 min · harihareswara.net Sumana Harihareswara about the lamppost fallacy that is only looking at GitHub for open … | Continue reading


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74 / The Patron Saint of Yak Shaves

Hey hey, starting with this issue I’ll count the number of clicks. No personal data whatsoever is recorded, just the issue number and the url. If you run into any issues with this, please let me know by replying to this email. As always, enjoy todays curation! ✌ Culture Excuse me … | Continue reading


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73 / Quality Is Systemic

Hey hey ✌ Tweet of the Week had 7 concurrent users today guess it’s time for kubernetes — @roxkstar74 on Twitter Favourites ‘You can’t say that!’: how to argue, better 6 min · theguardian.com Adam Grant has practical tipps that can help you argue with people in a more constructiv … | Continue reading


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72 / Why are you so busy?

Hey hey, how’s it going? Tweet of the Week the rust compiler gives me more emotional support than any significant other i have ever had — @damaredayo Culture Why are you so busy? 5 min · tomlingham.com Tom Lingham explains what to do when you’re too busy. Do we need an office? 1 … | Continue reading


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71 / Coping with Copilot

✌ Tweet of the Week hot tip: to avoid writing bugs, don’t write software — @FormalFerris on Twitter Culture First Focus. Then Simplify 3 min · cutlefish.substack.com John Cutler about the different approaches of simplifying a complex problem vs. focussing on a subset. The False T … | Continue reading


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70 / Death to Dependencies

Tweet of the Week while we’re adding locale support to rustc, we should make it so it turns off the borrow checker when you run it with LANG=C — vana vlqc on Twitter Culture Death to Dependencies 15 min · youtube.com Jim Benson about (remote) team collaboration and what harm silo … | Continue reading


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69 / How I Hacked my Car

Hello, hope you enjoy the curation 🤌 Tweet of the Week “Running a successful open source project is just Good Will Hunting in reverse, where you start out as a respected genius and end up being a janitor who gets into fights.” Quote attributed to @cra, and I don’t think I … | Continue reading


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68 / An app can be a home-cooked meal

Hey everyone, hope you enjoy this weeks curation ✌ 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 — Matthew Broussard on Twitter Culture Joã … | Continue reading


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67 / Your Code Doesn’t Have to Be a Mess

Hey hey, how was your week? ✌ Tweet of the Week Remember, a strong type system can prevent classes of bugs, but you still have to test to make sure your logic is correct. Rust, but Verify — @jckarter on Twitter Culture The practical application of “Rocks, Pebbles, Sand” 17 min · … | Continue reading


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66 / Things you’re allowed to do

Tweet of the Week not-wanting-people-to-get-mad-at-me-driven development — @mycoliza on Twitter Culture The Habits of Sustainable Excellence 6 min · bstulberg.medium.com Brad Stulberg lists 19 habits for sustainable excellence. The Structure and Process Fallacy 3 min · medium.com … | Continue reading


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65 / Why you can’t dig Switzerland

Hey everyone — I’ve been sick the whole week, hope yours was better ❤️ Tweet of the week real rust programmers just wrap everything in an Arc and use async everywhere so they can pretend they are nodejs programmers — @dildog on Twitter Culture As a Leader, You Own Your Communicat … | Continue reading


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64 / Absurd Trolley Problems

Hey, hope you find something to read below Tweet of the week Nobody will remember: Your salary Your fancy title How ‘busy’ you where How stressed you were How many hours you worked People will remember: The giant monoliths you have erected to your own majesty Poems about the mon … | Continue reading


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63 / The Death Spiral Of Bullshit

Hey hey, hope you find something of interest below 🤞 Tweet Of The Week All humans implicitly understand the value of “a good stick” from a young age — @no_goblins on Twitter Culture The 8 Jobs of Management 1 min · swyx.io Shawn Wang summarises a chart by John Cutler into … | Continue reading


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62 / Making Code Faster

Hey hey, how’s it going? ✌ Tweet Of The Week 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 Culture DORA Metrics: the Right Answer to measuring engineering team performance 6 min · jacobian.org Jacob Ka … | Continue reading


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61 / Shipping to Production

Hey, how’s it going? It’s super hot in Germany today (37 °C or 99 °F) so I’m going to get ice cream soon Tweet Of The Week I heard some JavaScript developers saying that hydration is pure overhead, so I decided to stop drinking water. — @markdalgleish on Twitter Culture Overthin … | Continue reading


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