What I Touched This Week 2020-09-19

I have read the book Specifying Systems: The TLA+ Language and Tools for Hardware and Software Engineers and several other books about painting.

• Daily Painting: Paint Small and Often To Become a More Creative, Productive, and Successful Artist
• Perspective Made Easy
• Pencil Sketching

My picks:

• 8 Cognitive Biases in Software Development
  • What are cognitive biases and how they can pop up in our work, as software developers.
  • Different techniques to prevent these biases, to take more logical decisions.

Technique

• How Algorithms Are Changing What We Read Online

  But, on your phone, you scroll through what’s been selected for you. And that selection likely reflects a ruthless narrowing of editorial values and priorities.

• The land before modern APIs

  When we’re trying to build the future, it’s extremely helpful to look to the past.

Programming

• Your Language Sucks, It Doesn’t Matter

  This post describes the author’s own pet theory of programming languages popularity.

  Languages generally become popular when they bring innovative runtime, or when they have runtime exclusivity. The quality of the language itself is secondary.

• Rust 2020: Testing

  • Use the crate mockall to auto-generate a mocked implementation that I instantiate in my test.
  • But it turns out you can still do this, using the nightly compiler! Enter Mocktopus, a module-level mocking library.

• Rust HTTP Testing with httpmock | Alex Liesenfeld

  According to the comparison matrix the most complete package is currently provided by httpmock.

• C++ vs Rust: an async Thread-per-Core story | by Glauber Costa | Sep, 2020 | Medium

• What killed Haskell, could kill Rust

  An interesting essay about what Rust community should avoid.

Productivity

• 如何让便利贴成为效率工具？

  便利贴的 11 个用法和三个使用技巧

Painting

• Affinity Designer iPad Node tool | Understanding how it works
• Mind-Blowing Realistic Shading Tricks