A Company of One
This is my notes on the book "Company of One" by Paul Jarvis - one of the best books on how to start and run a 1-person solo agency. If you're looking for a follow up read, this is it.
This is my notes on the book "Company of One" by Paul Jarvis - one of the best books on how to start and run a 1-person solo agency. If you're looking for a follow up read, this is it.
I’ve been using it heavily over the past few days, and honestly, I don’t understand the hype. It doesn’t feel like an upgrade it feels like dealing with an intern who’s too eager to prove themselves and ends up breaking things that were never a problem to begin with.
I’ve recently found myself digging into the state of desktop app development in Rust not as a thought experiment, but because I actually needed to ship something cross-platform and fast. And not some toy CLI or a backend service. I’m talking about real desktop UI: buttons, windows, styling, user interaction, the whole deal.
Let's dive into the slippery world of data races, a problem that creeps up when threads, those tiny units of concurrent work, clash over the same piece of data. Imagine you’re spinning up multiple threads, each one eager to reach the same target variable like kids racing to hit the last cookie in the jar—each wanting to read, modify, and update a shared value. Without proper control, this leads to chaotic and unpredictable outcomes.