Programmer Weekly (Issue 243 February 27 2025)

Author

Rahul Chaudhary
February 27, 2025

Welcome to issue 243 of Programmer Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

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Quote of the Week

"Programmer — an organism that turns coffee into software." - Anonymous

Reading List

The paper introduces SWE-Lancer, a benchmark evaluating the ability of frontier large language models (LLMs) to complete real-world freelance software engineering tasks from Upwork, with a total payout of $1 million. Results show that while LLMs can solve some tasks, they remain far from fully replacing human engineers, with the best model earning only about 40% of the potential earnings.

Understanding How Microservices Coordinate Distributed Transactions.

Checkr VP of Engineering Krista Moroder opens up about the rotation program that’s helped keep her org’s non-regrettable attrition at near-zero.

This blog post introduces a series reviewing Signal's cryptography, motivated by concerns about misleading security advice and the need for accessible explanations of complex security topics. The author aims to demystify cryptography audits and empower readers to critically evaluate messaging app security claims.

This article explains the XOR operator, starting from its basic truth table and exploring various interpretations like exclusive OR, bit comparison, conditional inversion, and addition/subtraction modulo 2. It also covers bitwise XOR on integers, its properties, and uses, including a simple encryption method.

The author's seemingly simple washing machine installation turned into a 4-hour saga due to unforeseen challenges, highlighting the difficulty of accurate software effort estimation when unexpected issues arise. This experience demonstrates how even familiar projects can be derailed by "unknown unknowns" and the ever-shifting landscape of software development.

Sharing our approach and insights employing LLMs to migrate in-house UI component libraries at scale.

In this post, we'll lay the groundwork for evaluating SQL queries and build a query evaluator that can handle basic SELECT statements. While our initial implementation won't support filtering, sorting, grouping, or joins yet, it will give us the foundation to add these features in future posts.

What git config settings should be defaults by now? Here are some settings that even the core developers change.

Watch, Listen

Meta is undertaking a massive project to convert its Android codebase from Java to Kotlin, involving tens of millions of lines of code. The process involves custom tools, addressing nullability issues, and generating idiomatic code for internal frameworks, with engineers Eve and Jocelyn sharing insights on the challenges and solutions in this large-scale migration.

Overview of using Cloudflare Workers and associated services to build fullstack applications.

Learn the basics of Kubernetes and how to deploy on EKS. You'll also learn how Pulumi can help with Infrastructure as Code.

Everything you need to know: What is Kafka, Real Life Kafka Use Cases, How Kafka works, Kafka vs RabbitMQ

Discussing ReScript, a strongly-typed language compiling to JavaScript, and its advantages over TypeScript for JavaScript developers. It explores ReScript's unique approach to type safety, compilation speed, and developer experience compared to TypeScript, highlighting its potential for addressing challenges in large-scale projects.

Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

A curated list of resources about AI agents for Computer Use, including research papers, projects, frameworks, and tools.

An online assembly editor and debugger for the x86-64 architecture.

PgAssistant is an open-source tool designed to help developers understand and optimize their PostgreSQL database performance.

Wireshark for Docker containers.

FlashMLA is an efficient MLA decoding kernel for Hopper GPUs, optimized for variable-length sequences serving.

The TypeScript AI agent framework.

A programming language with static memory management based on λ-calculus.

The modern alternative to LaTeX. Create PDF documents templates using React, JSX, and Tailwind.

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