Programmer Weekly (Issue 56 May 27 2021)

Programmer Weekly - Issue 56

May 27, 2021

Programmer Weekly

Welcome to issue 56 of Programmer Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

Quote of the Week

 

"There is not now, nor has there ever been, nor will there ever be, any programming language in which it is the least bit difficult to write bad code." - Flon's Law

News

Microsoft introduces its first product features powered by GPT-3.

4MB Game Jam is a one month long game jam about creating a game that fits within four megabytes. The submissions are due by June 24th 2021.

FragAttacks let hackers inject malicious code or commands into encrypted Wi-Fi traffic.

OLCF's Frontier is set to use a hybrid multi-tier storage sub-system with 700PB capacity and up to 75TB/s throughput.

IBM’s AI research division has released a 14-million-sample dataset to develop machine learning models that can help in programming tasks. While there’s a scant chance that machine learning models built on the CodeNet dataset will make human programmers redundant, there’s reason to be hopeful that they will make developers more productive.

We have been witnessing an ever growing amount of supply chain security incidents in the wild. Everything from open source package managers security flaws being exploited to continuous integration systems being compromised to software artifacts being backdoored. And now, those incidents are starting to extend to the place where developers spend most of their time: their integrated development environment, and specifically the Visual Studio Code IDE.

Reading List

An extensive yet simple tutorial/workshop on how to make embedded Linux distribution under 1.44MB.

Discovering who owns John Deere tractors, harvesters, and implements. What farm they are at. How old they are. And how long they are “subscribed” for.

Learn the concepts behind deep-learning side-channels attack, a powerful cryptanalysis technique, by using it to recover AES cryptographic keys from a hardware device.

In this post, we are going through some alternatives that allow you to make third-party APIs behave in a way that their designers didn’t intend to.

This post will walk you through the performance tuning steps that I took to serve 1.2 million JSON "API" requests per second from a 4 vCPU AWS EC2 instance.

In 2011, Chinese spies stole the crown jewels of cybersecurity—stripping protections from firms and government agencies worldwide. Here’s how it happened.

The goals in this post are to (a) explain the basic terminology, concepts, and usage of KGs, (b) highlight recent applications of KGs that have led to a surge in their popularity, and (c) situate KGs in the overall landscape of AI. 

A complete tutorial on how to get HTTPS working on localhost or any local domains. The main part is about manual SSL certificate creation. It is worth to now almost low-level details. 

In this article, you'll learn how to build full stack dApps with React, Ethers.js, Solidity, and Hardhat.

Coordinate concurrent workloads with distributed locks! But how to build one that's cheap, robust and maintenance-free? A proposed algorithm.

The author argues the case for consigning the term "REST API" to history. In its place we should adopt the terms "HTTP API" and "hypermedia API", which better differentiate two distinctive designs for the programmatic interfaces of web services.

Watch and Listen

Learn how use JavaScript and Kaboom.js to create three classic video games. You will create games similar to Space Invaders, Super Mario Bros. and Legend of Zelda. Kaboom.js makes makes it easier and quicker to create games.

There's Developers, and there's Infosec, right? Folks that sling code, and the security people that complain about the coders. Rey Bango talks to Scott about the mindset that developers should consider today - where security is baked into the process from day 0.

A chat with Tracy Chou, CEO of Block Party, about using software to build anti-harassment tools.

Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

Dev Library is a showcase of what developers like you have built with Google technologies. Browse and learn, or submit your own!

A simple git-based remote pair programming tool.

A simple zero-config tool to make locally trusted development certificates with any names you'd like.

Flat explores how to make it easy to work with data in git and GitHub. It builds on the “git scraping” approach pioneered by Simon Willison to offer a simple pattern for bringing working datasets into your repositories and versioning them, because developing against local datasets is faster and easier than working with data over the wire.

TypeScript development tool for Visual Studio Code that helps you automate creating the initial static typing for runtime values.

A configuration management system for network teams.

An easy to use JSON database written with ease of setup and memory management of slack bots in mind.

Create fully functional virtual Kubernetes clusters - Each vcluster runs inside a namespace of the underlying k8s cluster. It's cheaper than creating separate full-blown clusters and it offers better multi-tenancy and isolation than regular namespaces.

An easy-to-use GUI for Helm.

Program for remote control of a computer in a local network.

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