Programmer Weekly (Issue 78 October 28 2021)

Programmer Weekly - Issue 78

October 28, 2021

Programmer Weekly

Welcome to issue 78 of Programmer Weekly. There is a unique opportunity to join the early team of a high growth venture backed B2B fintech startup. They are hiring Software Engineers and their tech stack is predominantly Javascript (React/NodeJS) on AWS cloud infrastructure. Los Angeles and Phoenix area candidates preferred, but remote will be considered. If you or someone you know is interested, email me a resume and mention the candidate's location.

Quote of the Week

 

"One man's crappy software is another man's full time job" - Jessica Gaston

News

.NET 6 will now include Hot Reload across multiple platforms.

Since last year’s GitHub Universe, we’ve shipped more than 20,000 improvements to GitHub for developers, open source communities, and enterprise teams. Here’s a comprehensive overview of what we’re announcing at Universe this week.

Fake npm Roblox API package discovered by Sonatype uncovers first known ransomware maliciously placed in typosquatted open source package. 

Reading List

In this article, we'll discuss how the git init command originated and how it has changed each year for the past 16 years since Git's inception in April 2005. Then we will examine snapshots from Git's code every year from 2005 to 2021 to get a feel for how the git init command and the object database have evolved, from a code perspective, over the past 16 years.

A Guide to Tesla’s Configurable Floating Point Formats & Arithmetic.

Ottr is a serverless Public Key Infrastructure framework that handles end-to-end certificate rotations without the use of an agent. The purpose of the post is to provide an overview on Ottr with sample reference architecture, logical and network flows, and highlight the benefits of the solution. 

Kangaroo is a new flash cache that enables more efficient caching of tiny objects (objects that are ~100 bytes or less) and overcomes the challenges presented by existing flash cache designs. Kangaroo combines log-structured and set-associative caches to reduce both DRAM and flash-write overheads.

A survey of how companies deal with incidents today, and a peek into the best practices of the future.

Down the rabbit hole: my brief odyssey into the esoteric world of the tight-knit time zone data maintenance community who quietly keep the world’s computers from avoiding DST-related-meltdowns.

Have you ever wondered to what extent your code expresses the business rules it supports?

Watch and Listen

Carl Anderson shares the journey Trainline has been on leading up to Google introducing Core Web Vitals as a ranking signal, discussing web performance.

Learn React by building an e-Commerce application with Class Components. You will learn component basics, rendering various items in components, parent-to-child component communication, lifecycle methods, forms, REST-API calls with JSON server and basic routing.

The landscape of tech is changing. Developer culture isn’t what it used to be—and neither is how we consume software. We ask: Do we still need strong copyleft licenses?

Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

Quickly cleanup or remove objects in any image.

A React-based framework for building data-intensive applications in no time.

The most advanced open-source music visualizer.

Multi-Joint dynamics with Contact. A general purpose physics simulator.

Distributed cache and in-memory key/value data store. It can be used both as an embedded Go library and as a language-independent service.

Recipe Markup Language.

Fast and secure standalone server for resizing and converting remote images.

Kubernate is a Kubernetes YAML generator that can be used as an alternative to other popular tools like Helm. Kubernate is distributed as a library and as a CLI, both working together to achieve one goal: Kubernetes as Code.

Crane is a easy-to-use and beautiful desktop application helps you build manage your docker images.

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