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Individuals matter (danluu.com, 11 min) — Dan Luu about the non-fungibility (ugh) of people in an organisation and why companies are not Sim City.
10 years of... whatever this has been (apenwarr.ca, 9 min) — apenwarr revisits a ten-year-old article where they predicted the development of blockchain technologies. Thanks, Jan
Scan of the Month (scanofthemonth.com, 3 min) — If you ever wanted to know what a CT scan of a Lego figure looks like, check this out.

A Framework for Good Work Sample Tests: Eight Rules for Fair Tests (jacobian.org, 14 min) — Jacob Kaplan-Moss continues the series on work sample tests and has collected eight rules that make them good and useful.
How to Influence Attitudes on your Team for Better Results (biodigitaljazz.tech, 3 min) — Tim Reynolds explains how the attitude of a single person can impact a teams performance and motivation.
Stop requiring specific technology experience for senior-plus engineers (mikemcquaid.com, 2 min) — Mike McQuaid argues there should be less focus on the expertise on a specific technology when hiring senior(-plus) engineers.
Compensation, rationality and the project/person fit (yosefk.com, 13 min) — Yossi Kreinin about fair compensation and why sometimes people quit even if they're worse off afterwards.

Why Emacs: Redux (batsov.com, 6 min) — Bozhidar Batsov explains their reasons to use Emacs in 2021.
How I helped build a profitable MVP over a weekend (mzrn.sh, 3 min) — Giorgi Mez tells the story of building an MVP in a weekend and how B2B applications often don't need polish.
Backdooring Rust crates for fun and profit (kerkour.com, 7 min) — Sylvain Kerkour does a threat analysis of the Rust crates system.
One of these JPEGs is not like the other (blog.benjojo.co.uk, 5 min) — Ben Cox about the joys of JPEG decoding in software and hardware.

Why staring at screens is making your eyeballs elongate – and how to stop it (theguardian.com, 6 min) — Adam Popescu about myopia and how it's often caused by long screen-time. If you don't read this, at least consider the 20-20-20 model: “Every 20 minutes, look at a distance 20 feet away, for 20 seconds”.
Hacking Ham Radio for Texting (spectrum.ieee.org, 5 min) — Dale Thomas built a texting interface for VHF handheld radios.
Notes on Web3 (society.robinsloan.com, 6 min) — Robin Sloan has some notes that explain why some people like Web3. Thanks, Jan
Porting Doom to an nRF52840-based USB Bluetooth-LE Dongle (next-hack.com, 50 min) — next-hack has a detailed story of how they ported Doom to a USB-Dongle. Make sure to watch he video at the end! Thanks, Eric
@that_mc on Twitter (twitter.com, 2 min) — Mack is a bus operator and rates the bus scene of the movie Shang-Chi in a hilarious way.
How I'm able to take notes in mathematics lectures using LaTeX and Vim (castel.dev, 18 min) — Gilles Castel shares the Vim setup that allows them to keep up with the lecture while writing latex equations.