Programmer Weekly (Issue 86 December 23 2021)

Programmer Weekly - Issue 86

December 23, 2021

Programmer Weekly

Welcome to issue 86 of Programmer Weekly. This will be the final issue of 2021. We will be back on January 6th, 2022 after the holiday break. Wish you all a Happy New Year and have a wonderful holiday.

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Quote of the Week

 

"The key is to acknowledge from the start that you have no idea how this will grow. When you accept that you don't know everything, you begin to design the system defensively... You should spend most of your time thinking about interfaces rather than implementations." - Nicholas Zakas

Reading List

Signal released end-to-end encrypted group calls a year ago, and since then we’ve scaled from support for 5 participants all the way to 40. There is no off-the-shelf software that would allow us to support calls of that size while ensuring that all communication is end-to-end encrypted, so we built our own open-source Signal Calling Service to do the job. This post will describe how it works in more detail.

It's interesting, we talked to over 50 companies about their authorization systems and more than half of them are using microservices in some shape or form. We found that no one seems to agree on best practices for authorization in service-oriented backends and dug into this further.

Earlier this year, Citizen Lab managed to capture an NSO iMessage-based zero-click exploit being used to target a Saudi activist. In this two-part blog post series, we will describe for the first time how an in-the-wild zero-click iMessage exploit works.

Load per project environmental settings and runtimes while ridding yourself of multiple runtime managers (rvm, nvm, etc.)

In this interactive notebook, we instrument the Realtime Database client and create a number of repeatable in-browser experiments to understand the wire protocol. We then confirm our understanding by bringing up our own Fake Realtime Database Server and connecting it to an unmodified SDK.

You can’t buy integration, but that’s OK; it’s worth the investment to build it yourself. After all, it may be the most strategic software in your portfolio.

A set of APIs which allow developers to take untrusted HTML input and sanitize it for safe insertion into a document’s DOM.

HTTP/3 is here, and it’s a big deal for web performance. See just how much faster it makes websites!

Watch and Listen

A talk by Bjarne Stroustrup at CPP con 2021.

Where does the JVM take threads from? How much does a thread cost? How do the threads interact and is my CPU any different from the distributed system? Why do we create thread pools and how to control them? How many (and what) threads are there in the typical app? You will find answers to those questions in this presentation.

Learn about the history of the Internet. In this course, you will learn how the Internet was created, who created it, and how it works. Along the way, you will meet many of the innovators who developed the Internet and Web technologies that we use today.

Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

The “Quite OK Image Format” for fast, lossless image compression.

A tool for finding memory leaks in web apps.

Easily run Windows software on Linux with Bottles!

Cover your tracks during Linux Exploitation / Penetration Testing by leaving zero traces on system logs and filesystem timestamps.

Lightning-fast DataFrame library for Rust and Python.

Craft PNG files that appear completely different in Apple software.

Lit is a simple library for building fast, lightweight web components. 

Easily query, script, and visualize data from every database, file, and API.

A standalone extension to develop, test, and execute puppeteer scripts from the browser's developer tools.

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