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 | 2 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 | 2 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 | 2 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 | 2 years ago

You're Using Email Wrong

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


@arne.me | 2 years ago

You’re Using Email Wrong

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


@arne.me | 2 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 | 2 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 | 2 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 | 2 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 | 2 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 | 2 years ago

Hello World

My first blogpost (not really). | Continue reading


@arne.me | 2 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 | 2 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 | 2 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 | 2 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 | 2 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 | 2 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 | 2 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 | 2 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 | 2 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 | 2 years ago

34 / Inspiring Resilience

Hope you’re doing okay ✌ Tweet of the Week If you wondering what’s Tech Twitter been up to lately. — @tweevtran Favourites 100 years of whatever this will be (apenwarr.ca, 6 min) — apenwarr about distributed systems in the real world and how they all eventually go awry if they’re … | Continue reading


@arne.me | 2 years ago

33 / Just a job

Hi hi, please enjoy this weeks curation Tweet of the Week every morning is a beautiful day to mute a new word about crypto — @ow on Twitter Favourites Technology I’m thankful for (crawshaw.io, 5 min) — David Crawshaw about technologies that he’s thankful for this turkey day. Fas … | Continue reading


@arne.me | 2 years ago

32 / Individuals matter

Hey, hope you’re doing okay ✌ Tweet of The Week Families don’t typically fire their members. Families don’t interview for new members. Families don’t have promotions, KPIs and OKRs. Your company is not “just one big family.” Implying otherwise is deceitful and manipulative. This … | Continue reading


@arne.me | 3 years ago

31 / Don’t be spooky

Hey, hope your week has been good. Enjoy this weeks issue ✌ Tweet of The Week cows are very calm considering the whole floor is food — @KeetPotato on Twitter Favourites The 37-Year-Olds Are Afraid of the 23-Year-Olds Who Work for Them (nytimes.com, 10 min) — Emma Goldberg about t … | Continue reading


@arne.me | 3 years ago

30 / It‘s all gravy

Hi, how is your weekend going? This issue is a bit slimmer and has no favorites section as we’ve spent the weekend visiting family (I‘m writing this from the car on the way back). Hope you enjoy nonetheless! Tweet of the Week Ok so hear me out…what if we just refused to change th … | Continue reading


@arne.me | 3 years ago

I’m Writing an App

A human, interested in software development, automation and sustainability | Continue reading


@arne.me | 4 years ago

Automate #2: Checklists with Things

How to use checklists in TaskPaper-Format with Things. | Continue reading


@arne.me | 5 years ago

Automate #1: Spotify Podcast Mirror

How I created an Automator application, which records the latest episode of a Spotify podcast, fills out metadata and generates a file for metadata for a podcast client to subscribe to. | Continue reading


@arne.me | 5 years ago

Announcing the Automate Series

The start of a series of blog posts, all related to one of my yearly themes: automation. | Continue reading


@arne.me | 5 years ago

I18n in Node.js

Node.js uses ICU (International Components for Unicode) for i18n and only includes English data by default. | Continue reading


@arne.me | 6 years ago

On Hexagonal Architecture

Why a hexagonal architecture can be better than traditional MVC-style architecture, with a real-world example. | Continue reading


@arne.me | 6 years ago

.vim-project

This post explains how to get project-specific Vim settings. | Continue reading


@arne.me | 10 years ago

Deploy Octopress, the right way

This post explains how to deploy an Octopress page via Git | Continue reading


@arne.me | 11 years ago