Programmer Weekly (Issue 138 January 12 2023)

Programmer Weekly - Issue 138

January 12, 2023

Programmer Weekly

Welcome to issue 138 of Programmer Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

Quote of the Week

 

"If you are choosing a JavaScript library purely based on popularity, I think you deserve what you get." - Tom Dale

News

There was a security breach at CircleCI and so if you use it, be sure to rotate any secrets stored in CircleCI.

Reading List

Horizontal scaling is the art and science of distributing data across multiple servers without compromising data integrity, transaction safety and query performance. Read on for a roundup of the features and capabilities of PostgreSQL that you can use to scale out your database deployment.

How to Deal with Large Changes.

Andy Pavlo is back with his analysis of the database world in 2022, including VC funding, blockchains, and Larry Ellison.

And What The Week Can Look Like.

Your company’s most pointless meetings may not be the type you expect!

Unison is a pure functional programming language that comes with a few revolutionary ideas. Let’s have a closer look.

Building an Internet Scale Meme Search Engine.

Whether you're just starting out in the field or you're a seasoned professional looking to refresh your knowledge, we hope our illustrations will be a valuable resource on your journey to understanding Machine Learning.

In this post I'm going to show, using a series of programming language implementations, why languages shouldn't be classified as compiled or interpreted. Before I do that, I need to start by clarifying the difference between a programming language specification and an implementation of that specification

5 years after NYCTrainSign collapsed, I investigate why the company failed and end up writing an exploit to take over their fleet. 

A post about how platform teams carry the full responsibilities of an internal startup.

Watch and Listen

Hear how Intuit is using AI to help its dev teams ship faster.

Learn how to create games with Unreal Engine 5 in this full course for beginners. This course will give you a solid foundation and will enable you to be able to develop any sort of game in Unreal Engine 5.

How the Brain Team at Google Research developed Phenaki, a model that can generate realistic videos from sequences of text prompts. Watch this video to learn more about Phenaki and how it was created, and watch some interesting results with the authors’ commentary and insights!

Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

Apex is an interface definition language (IDL) for modeling software. Generate source code, documentation, integration, everything automatically.

A toolkit for writing command-line user interfaces. 

A new framework for creating desktop apps from websites, using system installed browsers and NodeJS.

Transform gist into your personal key/value data store.

Dioxus is a portable, performant, and ergonomic framework for building cross-platform user interfaces in Rust.

Create and search books index, create your private library.

Rune is a programming language developed to test ideas for improving security and efficiency.

A highly customizable macOS status bar replacement.

Privaxy is the next generation tracker and advertisement blocker. It blocks ads and trackers by MITMing HTTP(s) traffic.

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