Programmer Weekly

Welcome to issue 84 of Programmer Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

Quote of the Week

"Testing can show the presence of errors, but not their absence." - E. W. Dijkstra

News

Rust takes a major step forward as Linux's second official language

Linux is getting more Rust in it by the day.

JetBrains launches cross-platform UI framework for Kotlin

Compose Multiplatform 1.0 allows developers to build user interfaces for the desktop, Android, and web from a single codebase.

Reading List

Jumping the air gap: 15 years of nation‑state effort

ESET researchers studied all the malicious frameworks ever reported publicly that have been used to attack air-gapped networks and are releasing a side-by-side comparison of their most important TTPs.

Storm in the stratosphere: how the cloud will be reshuffled

A theory that cloud vendors will focus on the lowest layer of the infrastructure stack and startups will take over the software layer.

Scaling the Practice of Architecture, Conversationally

Architecture need not be a monologue; delivered top-down from the minds and mouths of a centralised few. This article describes another way to do architecture; as a series of conversations, driven by a decentralised and empowering decision-making technique, and supported by four learning and alignment mechanisms: Decision Records, Advisory Forum, Team-sourced Principles, and a Technology Radar.

Simple Raspberry Pi powered SMS Gateway

Make your projects send SMS with a simple REST API.

Upgrading MySQL at Shopify

Learn how the Database Platform team performed the most recent MySQL upgrade at Shopify and how this changed our upgrade guidelines moving forward.

Don't Make My Mistakes

Common Infrastructure Errors I've Made.

Kubernetes at Home With K3s

Tips on Adding JSON Output to Your CLI App

Every Simple Language Will Eventually End Up Turing Complete

Watch and Listen

Can you code on a phone?

Learn tips and tricks for writing code on a mobile device.

More More More! Why the Most Resilient Companies Want More Incidents

John Egan discusses how companies of any scale can improve their understandability by lowering their barriers to incident reporting and simplifying their processes for documenting postmortems.

Bootstrap CSS Framework

Learn Bootstrap 5 in this full course for beginners. Bootstrap is the most popular CSS framework. It allows web developers to quickly design and customize responsive mobile-first sites.

GitHub Actions: The Full Course

Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

NoiseCraft

A Browser-Based Visual Programming Language for Sound & Music.

Distrobox

Use any linux distribution inside your terminal. 

Kryptology

Coinbase's advanced cryptography library.

Acra

Database protection suite with field level encryption and intrusion detection.

SSRProxy.js

A Server-Side Rendering Proxy focused on customization and flexibility!

Guacamole

Apache Guacamole is a clientless remote desktop gateway. It supports standard protocols like VNC, RDP, and SSH.

Zinc

A lightweight alternative to elasticsearch that requires minimal resources.

when

Timezones from the command line

Karpenter

Kubernetes Node Autoscaling: built for flexibility, performance, and scalability.

neko

A self hosted virtual browser that runs in docker and uses WebRTC.

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