Programmer Weekly (Issue 82 November 25 2021)

Programmer Weekly - Issue 82

November 25, 2021

Programmer Weekly

Welcome to issue 82 of Programmer Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

Quote of the Week

 

"Not all eyes that notice bugs in Open Source code belong to saints who will report or repair them in the interest of the public good." - Martin Fowler

News

The State of the Octoverse explores a year of change with new deep dives into writing code faster, creating documentation and how we build sustainable communities on GitHub. 

Thousands of Firefox cookie databases containing sensitive data are available on request from GitHub repositories, data potentially usable for hijacking authenticated sessions.

Wider availability made possible by safety progress.

Reading List

A great analysis of the current state of the ecosystem. It is a collection of opinions from a pragmatic builder's perspective. It is focused away from economics and the financial mechanisms of the chains themselves. 

An in-depth overview of 20 product prioritization techniques and a periodic table to make sense of them all.

What is a Container? Container vs. VM? Docker vs. Kubernetes. How to organize the learning efficiently?

A Conversation with Margo Seltzer and Mike Olson

Some things I learned supporting infectious disease epidemiologists.

An Idiosyncratic Introduction to Linux Kernel Modules.

This post covers some testing of instruction trace gathering and visualisation capability on the hello binaries of 13 different languages. It’s mainly graphs and a bit of commentary.

A beginners guide to OpenAI's API that eases frontend developers into the world of GPT-3 and gives all the tools needed to start building AI-powered Next.js apps.

How we removed 80% of our code — improving development speed and reducing errors.

Smart contracts are an exciting way to build decentralized applications (dapps) on a blockchain. This tutorial helps you learn and build your first smart contract using Solidity on Ethereum blockchain.

Explore how different container logging patterns in Kubernetes work.

Collaboration on rich text is hard to model with plain-text approaches. We review the challenges and how to construct a CRDT for rich text.

Watch and Listen

Andreas Fredriksson, Principal Engineer at Unity3D, provides a fun and exhaustive case study to prove that context is everything.

A chat with Adam Elmore about his journey to become an AWS freelancer, the value of achieving all 12 AWS certifications, how starting the AWS FM podcast may have changed his perspective on the AWS CDK (as well as other things), and much more.

Git has so much more to offer than just "commit, pull, push"! Its advanced tools can help you become more productive and professional with your code base. We're going to look at concepts like Interactive Rebase, Cherry-Picking, and Submodules to get you one step closer on your journey to mastering Git!

Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

Learn RegEx step by step, from zero to advanced.

Create beautiful illustrations, no design skills needed.

Remix is a full stack web framework that let’s you focus on the user interface and work back through web fundamentals to deliver a fast, slick, and resilient user experience.

An open-source data-lake & dashboard for your dev tools.

The Micronaut framework is a modern, open source, JVM-based, full-stack toolkit for building modular, easily testable microservices and serverless applications.

Runno helps you make runnable code examples that can be embedded in web pages.

An Advanced Programming Language (Compiler + Interpreter + Transpiler)

elfshaker is a low-footprint, high-performance version control system fine-tuned for binaries.

Blueboat is an open-source alternative to Cloudflare Workers. The monolithic engine for serverless web apps.

The React for Voice and Chat: Build Apps for Alexa, Google Assistant, Messenger, Instagram, the Web, and more.

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