Week 19 of 2022
Weeklies are my notes of things not big enough for a blog post but worthy of being mentioned and linked to. Find all of my Weeklies at /weeklies.
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Converting Integers to Floats Using Hyperfocus by Mara Bos
If there's one writer, to whose level I'd like to get as a writer, it's Mara Bos. Her deeply technical blog posts are brilliant pieces of technical content but always with a fun and casual style. This post is an exciting adventure into binary representation of numbers and how to convert integers to floats and how to do it in Rust. It's a great read even if you're not into Rust because she explains the binary conversion with such detail while still keeping it easy and light to read instead of a heavy math class. Here's one of my favorite quotes from this blog post that exemplify that style: While I was sitting there, struggling for hours banging virtual rocks together to light a spark to make a campfire, Rustc was just sitting there with a lighter in its pocket. “Hey you never asked,” Rustc laughed, “I figured you were just having fun.”
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Write An Excellent Programming Blog by A. Jesse Jiryu Davis
This is a great article about how to create a programming blog: what to write about, how to find and audience, how to improve and how to maintain a steady pace. I added it as an extra inspirational material to my blog post You should start a blog today but wanted to bring it up on Weeklies as well.
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Another inspiration for blogging. I'm always on the lookout for other people's perspective on the topic since I'm very passionate about blogging and sharing to others why it's a good idea. Chuck has plenty of references to other blog posts and tweets about the topic so it also functions as a great starting point to dive deeper.
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Unbreak.tech is a collection of articles about the problems in our industry when it comes to sexism and misogyny.
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SOS: Sustainable Open Source by Floor Drees
Floor wrote a great article about sustainable open source. She writes about the ecosystem and the problems that the open source community – and by quite direct proxy the entire industry – is facing. By the way, if you're not following Floor, I recommend doing so, she's amazing.
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The 62.5% Font Size Trick by Aleksandr Hovhannisyan
In Twitter, a discussion sparked last week about the 62.5% font-size trick and I had never heard of it so I seeked out for material to learn it better. This post by Aleksandr was one of the best explanations I found. The basic gist is that the browser's default font size is 16px which can be a hard number to multiply so using 62.5% font-size changes it to 10px which is easier for humans to deal with. It doesn't come without its own problems though (that's why Twitter discussion sparked) and I think he makes a good case looking at all the aspects.