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Interesting article on how and how much income people earn from social media: https://www.highsnobiety.com/p/how-much-do-influencers-make/

Useful introduction to basic Awk usage:

A thorough introduction to Rake, including a good discussion of why you might want an internal DSL on top of Ruby rather than a custom language like Make:

GitLab is building a nifty editor to enable you to commit changes across multiple files within your browser:

Build Server Protocol, taking the ideas from the Language Server Protocol and extending it to builds:

Really cute video demo of the hypertext documentation in Symbolics Lisp Machines: https://youtu.be/7DxYj32cvoE The speaker carefully explains why links are a good thing! It also lists history in a pane (rather than a back button) and has a stronger notion of navigating hierarchies.

https://build.rs/ is a handy Rust pattern for compile-time code generation. E.g. https://rust-lang-nursery.github.io/rust-bindgen/tutorial-3.html It's a small standalone program that prints lines of Rust code! It reminds me of much more dynamic languages.

An ingenious way of adding commenting to a static blog (e.g. Jekyll): a service that opens PRs to add comments to your content! https://staticman.net/

Lessons from Building Static Analysis Tools at Google: https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2018/4/226371-lessons-from-building-static-analysis-tools-at-google/fulltext An excellent 'view from the trenches' of static analysis at Google's scale. Thread.

With hindsight, the app craze with early smartphones was much like .com mania. There was a belief you could get rich by just building something on this new platform. Today, it is necessary but not sufficient for successful businesses to be available on both platforms.

Nice introduction to Rust that even shows how it compiles down to assembly!

I really like that Mastodon doesn't rewrite your links. I've never got much value out of "N users clicked your links" data and it means you can read the full URL before clicking.

Medium's approach of allowing comments, but hiding them by default, seems like a good behaviour. You can still have a conversation in the context of the post, but they don't distract from the primary content.

eslint is an incredible boon to the JS community. Rather than advising new JS developers to read books like The Good Parts, I just encourage them to use eslint with the default checks enabled.

"GitHub makes it easier for large, loosely coordinated groups of programmers—in corporations, for instance—to use git. It has a well-designed web interface. If you don’t think that’s worth $7.5 billion, you’ve never read the git manual."