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


@arne.me | 2 years ago

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


@arne.me | 2 years ago

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


@arne.me | 2 years ago

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


@arne.me | 2 years ago

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


@arne.me | 2 years ago

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


@arne.me | 2 years ago

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


@arne.me | 2 years ago

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


@arne.me | 2 years ago

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


@arne.me | 2 years ago

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


@arne.me | 2 years ago

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


@arne.me | 2 years ago

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


@arne.me | 2 years ago

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


@arne.me | 2 years ago

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


@arne.me | 2 years ago

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


@arne.me | 2 years ago

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


@arne.me | 2 years ago

60 / Optimism Shapes Reality

Hey hey, how’s it going? Tweet of The Week The future of web looks bright. Web 1 Web 2 Web 3 Web 5 Web 95 Web 98 Web 2000 Web XP Web Vista Web 7 Web 8 Web 10 Web 11 @elyktrix on Twitter Culture Optimism Shapes Reality 5 min · alexw.substack.com Alexandr Wang talks about setting … | Continue reading


@arne.me | 2 years ago

59 / Programming in the Apocalypse

Hey, how’s it going? Hope you enjoy this weeks curation 🤞 Tweet Of The Week Writing is not a result of thinking. Writing is thinking. — @fortelabs on Twitter Culture 5 Tier Problem Hierarchy 1 min · typeshare.co KimSia Sim divides all problems into five levels and uses th … | Continue reading


@arne.me | 2 years ago

58 / Not My Job

Hey everyone, hope you week has been good! Enjoy this weeks curation ✌ Tweet Of The Week oh you’re a designer? name one layer — @darylginn on Twitter Culture Not My Job 5 min · blog.dbsmasher.com Silvia Botros about the important difference of “filling the gap” and “being glue” a … | Continue reading


@arne.me | 2 years ago

57 / Honesty is a professional behavior

Hi ✌ Tweet Of The Week Get A Good Night’s Sleep by Uninstalling PagerDuty and Throwing Your Phone Into A Lake — @Luna on Twitter Culture Honesty is a professional behavior 9 min · jacobian.org Jacob Kaplan-Moss explains in which cases it’s okay to lie at work. Management @ Planet … | Continue reading


@arne.me | 2 years ago

56 / I Miss Heroku's DevEx

✌ Tweet Of The Week Shout out to everyone who periodically drags everything on their desktop into a folder called “Stuff”. — @seldo on Twitter Culture Models are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of the wise 1 min · jchyip.medium.com Jason Yip about the importance of as … | Continue reading


@arne.me | 2 years ago

55 / An easy mode for Rust

Hi ✌ Tweet Of The Week “It’s only a pointer if it’s from the Provenance region of RAM, otherwise it’s just a sparkling usize.” — @impraxical on Twitter Culture The transmogrifying power of reflection 2 min · cenizal.com CJ Cenizal about the powers of self-reflection. Having Caree … | Continue reading


@arne.me | 2 years ago

54 / Crimes with Go Generics

Hello, how was your week? It’s finally starting to feel like spring in Germany Tweet Of The Week Remember like two weeks ago when Elon was like “tell me how to end world hunger and I’ll do it” and then he bought twitter for $44 billion instead — @rivbutcher on Twitter Culture 11 … | Continue reading


@arne.me | 2 years ago

53 / Generation C

Hey, how was your week? ✌ Tweet Of The Week me: what do you know about atoms? friend: very little me: besides that —@Browtweaten on Twitter Culture Making operational work more visible 7 min · github.com Lorin Hochstein about the “you build it, you run it” method at Netflix and h … | Continue reading


@arne.me | 2 years ago

52 / The Return of the 90s Web

Hey, happy easter, hope your week has been good Tweet Of The Week Enough content creators, now time for content destroyers. — @jackcorrbit on Twitter Culture The Return of the 90s Web 5 min · mxb.dev Max Böck about techniques of the 90s web that are now coming back. Who wants to … | Continue reading


@arne.me | 2 years ago

51 / Advantages of monorepos

Hey hey, how was your week? Tweet Of The Week I love the phrase “have a good one” because it’s just like, whatever you’re having — a Monday, an existential crisis, an incredible mushroom trip, a murder fantasy — I hope it’s good. — @roseveleth on Twitter Culture The Cone Model fo … | Continue reading


@arne.me | 2 years ago

50 / How To Do Less

Hey, how’s it going? ✌ Tweet Of The Week everyone in crypto is either a liar or being lied to — @can on Twitter Culture How To Do Less 10 min · alexturek.com Alex Turek about setting priorities and getting out of the trap of too much to do (and staying out). Software Engineering … | Continue reading


@arne.me | 3 years ago

49 / The opportunity will find you

Hey, how was your week? ✌ Tweet Of The Week me, age 7: I want to be an adult so I can eat as many pickles as I want me, age 30, eating pickles: haha hell yeah — @hauntedlatte on Twitter Favourites Have iPhone Cameras Become Too Smart? 7 min · newyorker.com Kyle Chayka about the i … | Continue reading


@arne.me | 3 years ago

48 / My Favorite npm Commit

Hey, hope your week was great ✨ Tweet of The Week malloc “may” return null in the same way that I “may” get my act together someday and act like a real adult — @zhuowei auf Twitter Culture How to pay professional maintainers 4 min · words.filippo.io Filippo Valsorda shares some a … | Continue reading


@arne.me | 3 years ago

47 / Falsify yourself

Hey everyone and welcome to all the new subscribers, hope you like it here! ❤️ Tweet of the Week i love how americans are like “if anyone is in michigan let’s meet up” where michigan is like the size of my entire country — @thingskatedid on Twitter Favourites Request coalescing i … | Continue reading


@arne.me | 3 years ago

You're Using Email Wrong

If you don't like email, try a different strategy. | Continue reading


@arne.me | 3 years ago

You’re Using Email Wrong

If you don’t like email, try a different strategy. | Continue reading


@arne.me | 3 years ago

46 / Editing stuff in prod

Hey hey, how’s it going? Tweet of the Week I remember when email was useful. Now it’s all Confirm your email address for Slorp Thank you for creating a Slorp account Slorp is now BONTO! BONTO!’s terms and conditions have changed. BONTO! misses you. BONTO! is shutting down. — @Smi … | Continue reading


@arne.me | 3 years ago

45 / I have no capslock and I must scream

Hey, hope you’re okay. Tweet of The Week why rebase when you can just throw your computer out the window — @NayaJaczorowski on Twitter Culture Support open source that you use by paying the maintainers to talk to your team 3 min · simonwillison.net Simon Willison has found a grea … | Continue reading


@arne.me | 3 years ago

Plex on NixOS

In this post I describe how I set up Plex on NixOS, including a virtual file system for Backblaze B2 and Nginx for HTTPS. | Continue reading


@arne.me | 3 years ago

Plex on NixOS

In this post I describe how I set up Plex on NixOS, including a virtual file system for Backblaze B2 and Nginx for HTTPS. | Continue reading


@arne.me | 3 years ago

44 / A Rust match made in hell

Hey, how was you week? ✌ Tweet of The Week I love all the Winter Olympic events, sliding downhill on a piece of wood, sliding downhill on 2 pieces of wood, sliding downhill IN a piece of wood. All amazing. — @TheAndrewNadeau on Twitter Favourites Building an iPod for 2022 5 min · … | Continue reading


@arne.me | 3 years ago

Hello World

My first blogpost (not really). | Continue reading


@arne.me | 3 years ago

43 / Why You Should Start a Blog Right Now

Hey hey, how was your week? ✌ Tweet of The Week Extremely niche #msdos — @voxel on Twitter Favourites Some mistakes Rust doesn’t catch 39 min · fasterthanli.me Amos writes another great post about the safeties built into Rust in comparison with other languages and then goes into … | Continue reading


@arne.me | 3 years ago

42 / Settings are not a design failure

Hey everyone, hope you’re doing good! ✌ Tweet of The Week security engineer: we’re going to start moving towards zero trust developer: oh cool. how does that work security engineer: [narrows eyes] why do you ask — @ctrlshifti on Twitter Culture Settings are not a design failure 3 … | Continue reading


@arne.me | 3 years ago

41 / Contemplating calendars

Hey, how’s it going? ✌ Tweet of The Week truly blessed day — @tmandry on Twitter Favourites Contemplating calendars 5 min · devonzuegel.com Devon Zuegel has an interesting way to use their calendar and seems to get way more out of it than the average person. Culture The complexit … | Continue reading


@arne.me | 3 years ago

40 / The Web of 2042

Hi hi ✌ Tweet of The Week Here’s a great chess tip for beginners, I never knew the reason behind that rule!! — @KungFuChessOrg on Twitter Books This week I read How to Take Smart Notes by Söhnke Ahrens (2017), and I really enjoyed it. The author explains the Zettelkasten system … | Continue reading


@arne.me | 3 years ago

39 / Who Uses To-Do Lists?

Hi everyone, how was your week? ✌ Tweet of The Week continually amused by blockchain proponents who are fundamentally unable to understand that there exist people for whom money is not the #1 motivator — @molly0xFFF on Twitter Favourites Async Rust in Practice: Performance, Pitfa … | Continue reading


@arne.me | 3 years ago

38 / Function Colors Are Rusty

Hey everyone, hope you had a good week! We’ve had some snow in the last days, which was a ton of fun ☃️ Tweet of The Week Eleanor Rigby Loved NFTs and was shocked when one day she logged on “All my apes gone” — @DialHForHagai on Twitter Favourites Your attention didn’t collapse. … | Continue reading


@arne.me | 3 years ago

37 / Preventing Log4j with Capabilities

Welcome back and a happy new year! Tweet of The Week Ah, nice to be on holiday, at Christmas, where I can forget about what happ… — @mgdm on Twitter Favourites Generics facilitators in Go 2 min · rakyll.org Jaana Dogan introduces a workaround for Go’s lack of parameterised metho … | Continue reading


@arne.me | 3 years ago

36 / Why not Rust?

Hey everyone, thanks for your feedback on the changes last week, I did some more tweaking this week. This is the last issue of Arne’s Weekly for this year, I’ll be back on Jan 2. Happy holidays! Tweet of the Week Omicron presents a tremendous challenge: do you go out and risk ge … | Continue reading


@arne.me | 3 years ago

35 / Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds

Hi, how are you? I’m trying something new with the layout of this newsletter, let me know what you think✌ Tweet of the week Keanu Reeves’ reaction to this question about NFTs is priceless. [Video] — Carnage4Life on Twitter Favourites Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds James Clear · … | Continue reading


@arne.me | 3 years ago