Tags: web-review, amazon, programming, supply-chain, tech, web, jq, python, apple, hr, management, generics, json, rust, type-systems, pandemic, community, browser, surveillance, burnout
Let’s go for my web review for the week 2021-34.
Tags: amazon, supply-chain
That middle man nobody seems to want or need apart from the selfish end consumer… And the small shops growing their brand. That’s all the irony of the situation.
Tags: tech, apple, surveillance
Excellent analysis of the situation. How do you like your neo feudal overlords now?
https://edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/all-seeing-i
Tags: tech, web, browser
I use it all the time, it’s a real life saver with most websites being annoyingly designed these days.
https://frankgroeneveld.nl/2021/08/24/most-underused-browser-feature/
Tags: tech, rust, community, management
Nice description of the community management in the Rust community.
https://blog.m-ou.se/rust-is-not-a-company/
Tags: tech, python
Definitely worth it indeed. Couple of interesting tricks in this article.
https://mathspp.com/blog/pydonts/boost-your-productivity-with-the-repl
Tags: tech, json, jq
Definitely a nice tool, but I often struggle to use it (honestly I suspect it tries to do a bit too much). This is a good cheatsheet to go back to for learning.
https://earthly.dev/blog/jq-select/
Tags: tech, programming, generics
Good (and long) exploration of the field, going into the different variants provided by various languages.
https://thume.ca/2019/07/14/a-tour-of-metaprogramming-models-for-generics/
Tags: tech, programming, type-systems
This is a good summary of why I like my type system to be “tight”, strong and statically checked.
https://doma.dev/blog/why-type-systems-matter/
Tags: hr, tech, burnout, pandemic
Good cautionary tale about burnout in general, the big wave of it induced by the pandemic… and the likely huge resignation wave coming up in some places.
https://mayakaczorowski.com/blogs/burnout
Bye for now!