Programmer Weekly (Issue 59 June 17 2021)

Programmer Weekly - Issue 59

June 17, 2021

Programmer Weekly

Welcome to issue 59 of Programmer Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

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Quote of the Week

 

Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight - Bill Gates

News

The inventor of the World Wide Web is taking advantage of the latest of the internet’s creations by auctioning off his original code and donating the proceeds to charity. The NFT will include the original browser, a letter, and more.

Microsoft’s new Windows 11 operating system has leaked. Screenshots show off the new Start menu and taskbar design.

The group of hackers who stole a wealth of data from game publishing giant Electronic Arts broke into the company in part by tricking an employee over Slack to provide a login token. The group stole the source code for FIFA 21 and related matchmaking tools, as well as the source code for the Frostbite engine that powers games like Battlefield and other internal game development tools. 

Google has ended the Simplified URL experiment in the company's Chrome browser that would display only the root domain of the site and not the full URL when enabled.

Most of Amazon's properties including Amazon.com, WholeFoods.com and Zappos.com are preventing Google's tracking system FLoC.

Reading List

An NFT (non-fungible token) is a fascinating new technology that represents ownership of an asset digitally. In this tutorial, we’ll cover some important background information, set up third-party services, and finally code and deploy our very own NFT to the Ropsten Testnet.

How I built a click farm to “bypass” Cloudflare’s CAPTCHA killer with some cheap USB security keys, an Arduino, and a bit of python.

A post about what types can be used for other than checking code properties. It will involve a good chunk of dynamic typing, and yes it's in Rust. There are some wild ideas in it, so fasten your seatbelt and get ready for a ride!

How to get root on Linux with a seven-year-old bug.

A step by step guide to migrate your Postgres databases in production environments with zero downtime.

Reed-Solomon is a cool way to protect messages against damage or partial arrival. This post will help you understand and use any R-S codes you have to work with. In addition, you’ll learn what R-S can and can not do, and how it relates to other error correcting systems. Finally, with this understanding, the more math heavy explanations might become more accessible.

To understand what quantum computers can do — and what they can’t — avoid falling for overly simple explanations.

Watch and Listen

What is DevOps in the context of software engineering? You will learn what DevOps is, continuous integration, continuous deployment strategies, and application performance management. Many DevOps practices are commonly used in programming and web development, it is important to understand key terms and technologies. 

Steve Cosenza discusses why Twitter's multi-tenant API platform was built with Scala, GraphQL, and how Twitter uses SLOs for monitoring and alerting in production.

We know standups can get stale, but they are the lifeblood of a high-performing agile team.  Learn how to make your standups great again!

A chat about the business and technical case for using serverless at NorthOne, what the adoption process looked like, how they used serverless to build their event driven architecture, the challenges they faced, and much more.

We put our finger the pulse of what's drawing the kids into the wide world of code.

Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

A collection of modern/faster/saner alternatives to common unix commands.

The Best Way To Browse 6K+ Quality AWS GitHub Repositories.

Audio and video casting system with support for custom applications. 

Tailwind CSS Components.

Recreating a fully functional version of iOS 4 in SwiftUI. 

Firebase Extension to automatically push Firestore documents to Typesense for full-text search with typo tolerance, faceting, and more.

Utopia is an integrated design and development environment for React. It uses React code as the source of truth, and lets you make real time changes to components by editing it and using a suite of design tools. 

Monika is a command line application to monitor every part of your web app using a simple JSON configuration file. Get alert not only when your site is down but also when it's slow.

Programmatically get data from Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD, Adobe Photoshop, and Adobe Illustrator. All in an open-source Node.js SDK.

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