EN 78: "Spring's here"
Happy spring! This time of the year is one of the bests in London. After the dark, cold and rainy end of the year, we get some beautiful respite.
As you can already tell, I haven’t been focusing on the newsletter much. In fact, I haven’t even learnt or done anything software related outside of work. No Rust, no Python or anything. Part of me wants to come back to studying an hour a day and also set a writing schedule, another part has no desire or passion to do it. It’s disconcerting.
I’ve been doing other things instead, like working out with an emphasis on rehabilitating my lower back injury, practicing the guitar more often, reading books and playing video games (currently playing Split Fiction, an incredible game, and The House in Fata Morgana) and finally, learning to dance salsa!
There’s also the state of the world and all the different fronts happening at the moment. An example of where my mind’s at is the last email, which I’d like to continue exploring, and also the interesting links. These are strange times, more than usual.
Interesting links
The world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better (Max Roser). With all the bad news happening, it’s tempting to default to think that the world is awful, but the reality is more nuance than that, the three statements are true at the same time.
"So this is how liberty dies… " Making sense of Trump's first three weeks (Christina Pagel). An exceptional job categorising Trump’s actions into the features of authoritarian states and showing that the administration’s chaos is not accidental and follows the authoritarian playbook.
How the Destroyers of Academic Freedom Masquerade Themselves as Its Victims (Gábor Halmai, Andrew Ryder).
A 10x Faster TypeScript. TypeScript will migrate to Go in version 7.0, which will “drastically improve editor startup, reduce most build times by 10x, and substantially reduce memory usage”. Exciting news.