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2022

Using Rust at a startup: A cautionary tale

Link: Using Rust at a startup: A cautionary tale: "The author (not me) says: “Right up front, I should say that Rust is very good at what it’s designed to do, and if your project needs the specific benefits of Rust (a systems language with high performance, super strong typing, no need for garbage collection, etc.) then Rust is a great choice. But I think that Rust is often used in situations where it’s not a great fit, and teams pay the price of Rust’s complexity and overhead without getting much benefit.”"

Why Twitter Didn’t Go Down: From a Real Twitter SRE

Link: Why Twitter Didn’t Go Down: From a Real Twitter SRE: "Twitter supposedly lost around 80% of its work force. What ever the real number is, there are whole teams with out engineers on it now. Yet, the website goes on and the tweets keep coming. This left a lot wondering what exactly was going on with all those engineers and made it seem like it was all just bloat. I’d like to explain my little corner of Twitter (though it wasn’t"

palette.fm

Link: palette.fm: "A new AI colorizer. Colorize anything from old black and white photos 📸, style your artworks 🎨, or give modern images a fresh look 🌶. It's as simple as instagram, free, and no sign-up required!"

Tree views in CSS

Link: Tree views in CSS: "This is really useful! Its amazing what you csn create and do with CSS - “How to create a tree view (collapsible list) using only HTML and CSS.”"