Programmer Weekly (Issue 125 October 6 2022)

Programmer Weekly - Issue 125

October 06, 2022

Programmer Weekly

Welcome to issue 125 of Programmer Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

Quote of the Week

 

“One of the things I’ve been trying to do is look for simpler or rules underpinning good or bad design. I think one of the most valuable rules is avoid duplication. “Once and only once” is the Extreme Programming phrase.” — Martin Fowler

News

Microsoft bakes a VPN into Edge and turns it on.

New users can start creating straight away. Lessons learned from deployment and improvements to our safety systems make wider availability possible.

Reading List

Training the large neural networks behind many modern AI tools requires real computational might: OpenAI’s most advanced language model GPT-3 required a million billion billions of operations to train, and cost about US $5 million in compute time. Some researchers now think they have a better way.

An obscure software system synchronizes the network’s clocks. Who will keep it running?

postgres-wasm is a PostgreSQL server that runs inside a browser. It provides a full suite of features, including persisting state to browser, restoring from pg_dump, and logical replication from a remote database.

Most code doesn't require the amount of test isolation modern test runners apply by default. If you only opt into the amount of isolations you need, you can easily run 1000 tests in 1s.

Ever wondered what happens behind the scenes of the most popular state management libraries? How do they re-render only the relevant components instead of the whole tree? How are they different from the Context API? This article is a deep dive into the inner workings of selectors, subscribers, preventing re-renders, and more. 

Have you ever worked with JavaScript? Have you been annoyed by the three hundred copies of left-pad in all of the node_modules folders on your disk? Would you prefer if all of your projects shared their node_modules folders instead of each getting their own copy? If you answered these questions with "Hell, yeah!" then this post is for you!

A good list of some of the best practices for development teams.

This article will tell you the story of the technical and mindset evolution.

You must either practice pushing out leadership responsibility or recognize that your whole team isn’t practicing leadership.

We share 26 AWS security best practices that are indispensable to follow in order to to prevent unnecessary security situations.

Another new release of Git is here! Take a look at some of our highlights on what's new in Git 2.38.

Some of the most common questions asked when it comes to work with performance are, How do you convince stakeholders that improving the performance of your project is actually worth the investment? How can you prove that the work is necessary to begin with? Or prove that you have shipped improvements? And what is the impact of certain changes on users in different scenarios? The answer to those questions? Data!

This is one of those times where I got so fascinated by the idea of a thing that I forgot to ask myself whether it’s a good idea to build the thing. The idea being, transpiling JavaScript to C++ so I can compile that to whatever I need.

Watch and Listen

Drawing on decades of research with professional software developers, this talk will summarise insights about how experts and high-performing teams use 'error as opportunity' – leading to better software.

Discover new ways to think about ethical engineering and technical architecture in this CTO podcast featuring Yonatan Zunger, Creator of WXZ Layers of System Approach and Distinguished Engineer at Twitter.  This is your opportunity to hear from someone whose architectural philosophy is inspiring companies like Github

How a ragtag team of developers created the world's most popular mobile OS.

AI image generators are massive, but how are they creating such interesting images? Dr Mike Pound explains what's going on. 

Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

Make-A-Video is a state-of-the-art AI system that generates videos from text.

Not to be outdone by Meta’s Make-A-Video, Google’s newest AI generator creates HD video from text prompts.

Drive a browser with GPT-3.

Google Testing and Mocking Framework.

Create a privacy-friendly referral program without breaking the bank.

These are the best resources for System Design on the Internet.

Remote Functions. Instead of API. 

An experiment with WebAssembly. Create and/or modify local files, on the fly, in your browser. Use git branches and commits to keep track of multiple "workspaces". Jump between files and branches in one click.

RapidRows is an open-source, zero-dependency, single-binary API server that can be configured to run SQL queries, perform scheduled jobs and forward PostgreSQL notifications to websockets.

Alinea is a modern content management system.

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