Wednesday Links: $0.01, layoffs, and Zuckerberg emails
12 Nov 2025 #mondaylinksHey there.
I just realized I already had 4 links and I didn’t want to wait for next Friday to share them. So here they are.
These first two are just for laughs:
#1. Imagine waking up to an invoice for $0.01 from your cloud provider. Yep, that happened. Here’s the full story (10min).
#2. Now imagine sharing a name with the creator of a major social media platform. You won’t believe how many emails you would receive if your name were Mark Zuckerberg (2min).
On a more thoughtful and serious note…
#3. Everybody blames AI for the recent layoffs, especially the ones at Amazon. But there’s a real reason (1min) and of course, nothing to do with AI.
#4. My best interview was just one call and one open source contribution. That happens rarely. But what if open source contributions were like service duty? (2min).
And in case you missed it, I wrote on my blog about the scariest lines of code I’ve written (2min) and my reactions to r/csharp homepage (4min).
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See you next time,
Cesar
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