Programmer Weekly (Issue 160 June 22 2023)

Programmer Weekly - Issue 160

June 22, 2023

Programmer Weekly

Welcome to issue 160 of Programmer Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

Quote of the Week

 

"In programming, if someone tells you “you’re overcomplicating it,” they’re either 10 steps behind you or 10 steps ahead of you." – Andrew Clark

Reading List

Millions of GitHub repositories are potentially vulnerable to RepoJacking, which if exploited may lead to code execution on environments.

The German and French governments offered 30,000 free Interrail tickets to young adults between 18 and 27 to celebrate Franco-German friendship. However, the distribution of the tickets was poorly implemented, and there was a security breach that exposed the data of 245,000 registrants.

The article discusses how imaginary problems are the root of bad software. The author argues that software developers often focus on solving problems that don't actually exist, and this leads to software that is not user-friendly, inefficient, and difficult to maintain. He proposes a number of ways to avoid imaginary problems, such as focusing on the needs of the user, understanding the problem domain, and using iterative development.

Can a modular architecture improve software delivery? Yes! -but with some caveats. This article charts the journey of an enterprise who set out to shift their architecture to a more modular one in order to ease their growing pains. They found that modularity is a multifaceted solution that extends beyond architecture, into business lines of communication, team topologies and effective developer experience. By paying close attention to these factors, the enterprise was able to achieve significant uplifts in the delivery performance of their mobile applications. 

How companies are bringing AI applications to life.

This post will share broadly-applicable techniques (beyond GraphQL) we used to perform this migration. The three strategies we will discuss today are AB Testing, Replay Testing, and Sticky Canaries.

Frontend pull requests often contain common mistakes which can cause nasty bugs, jangled nerves, and wasted time. But they can be easily avoided by following this list of 7 small (but crucial) rules. Read on and learn what to check before creating a new PR.

This article will shed the light on why it's important to design and write CSS defensively, and how we can take it from there.

The first generative AI model for speech to generalize across tasks with state-of-the-art performance.

Watch and Listen

Does Helm's popularity overshadow its actual capabilities? Or is it an underrated gem waiting to be fully appreciated? Tune in for a battle of perspectives.

Learn how to use Supabase in this full course for beginners. Supabase is an open source Firebase alternative for building secure and performant Postgres backends with minimal configuration.

Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

Flowpilot is an open source driver assistance system built on top of openpilot, that can run on most windows/linux and android powered machines. It performs the functions of Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC), Automated Lane Centering (ALC), Forward Collision Warning (FCW), Lane Departure Warning (LDW) and Driver Monitoring (DM) for a growing variety of supported car makes, models, and model years maintened by the community.

An intelligent and versatile general-purpose SQL client and reporting tool for databases which integrates ChatGPT capabilities.

A simple proxy server that can be used for sending free transactional emails through Cloudflare workers. 

Answer Overflow is an open source project designed to bring discord channels to your favorite search engine, enabling users to easily find the info they need, fast.

Open Source Identity and Access Management For Modern Applications and Services.

Advanced gyro-based video stabilization tool for cinematography, drone videography and much more! Bring your cinematic footage to the next level. 

Blazingly fast backends in zig.

GlareDB is a fast SQL database for querying and analyzing distributed data.

Intro to Impossible.js, an Object Oriented JavaScript library for building cross-platform terminal apps.

Developer & translator friendly web-based localization platform.

A Javascript AI getting started stack for weekend projects, including image/text models, vector stores, auth, and deployment configs.

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