Hello, and welcome to a new issue of Links list! It’s been a while, so there are a lot of links this time! Hope you enjoy the selection. Pipelining operators Link to heading An interesting article about the beauty of pipelining, in multiple languages.| Andrea Bergia's Website
Classic slop: it listed real authors with entirely fake books. There's an important follow-up from 404 Media in their subsequent story: Victor Lim, the vice president of marketing and communications …| Simon Willison’s Weblog
Arguably, the most profound thing about the web is the ability to link one page to another.| WebKit
Update, 2025-05-22: TrueNAS was kind enough to reach out and let me know that their support process does not normally incorporate LLMs. They’re talking about what happened internally, and intend to prevent it from happening again through improved documentation and reviewing the support process as a whole. I’m happy to hear it!| aphyr.com
Free-standing function call syntax considered kind of suboptimal.| MOND←TECH MAGAZINE
Turning your API inside-out.| overreacted.io
Today we are going to talk a bit about code design. In particular, I wanna talk about a design smell often called primitive obsession, and a related technique that can help you improve the code quality. Primitive obsession We’ll use the following Java class as the basis of the discussion: class Book { private String isbn; private String title; private int year; } ISBN is the international standard for book identifier - basically, it is a globally unique ID assigned to the book.| andreabergia.com