Interesting links of the week (05/07 – 05/13, 2018)

Here are some articles and blog posts I’ve run into over the last week that I found interesting.

Technology

• Why Programming Language “Rust” is Getting all the Love
• Why Senior Devs Write Dumb Code and How to Spot a Junior From A Mile Away
• New CSS Features That Are Changing Web Design
• Professor Frisby's Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Programming
• How to Get Buy-in for Reducing Technical Debt
• Microservices: A quick and simple definition
• GitHub Contribution Chart Generator
• Top JavaScript VSCode Extensions for Faster Development
• my struggle to learn react
• Learn Enough JavaScript to Be Dangerous

Non-Technology

• This is why successful people are unhappy in middle age — and what to do about it
• Learning How to Learn: 70 Books Guaranteed To Accelerate Your Learning And Unlock Your Potential
• Learning Is a Learned Behavior. Here’s How to Get Better at It.
• Research: Do People Really Get Promoted to Their Level of Incompetence?
• Three-day no-meeting schedule for engineers
• The true cost of email and IM: You only have 1 hour and 12 minutes of uninterrupted productive time a day
• Putting a value on a story

Random

• Two spaces after period are better than one, except maybe they aren’t, study finds