A good overview of the protections that Rust offers compared to out in the wild C code based on the audit of the git source code. In short: if you write idiomatic Rust, you get a lot of protection.

A reasonable enough rationale to choose Java in this article. Am I missing out if I never built a serious backend on the current Spring/Boot JVM (and never seen a team outside of the consulting space use it)?

I read this thorough survey of monospace fonts by Tim Bray and found out in the end that I’ve already been using the fonts that he recommends (Jetbrains Mono and Inconsolata) for a while now.