Programmer Weekly (Issue 93 February 17 2022)

Programmer Weekly - Issue 93

February 17, 2022

Programmer Weekly

Welcome to issue 93 of Programmer Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

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Quote of the Week

 

"In the end, regardless of where you are on the development hierarchy, keep coding. It’s where you’re most valuable." - The Developer's Code

News

The Google-backed firm taught a reinforcement learning algorithm to control the fiery plasma inside a tokamak nuclear fusion reactor.

JFrog Security disclosed CVE-2021-44521 remote code execution vulnerability in Apache Cassandra NoSQL database. Learn who is impacted and how to fix it.

With a tensor language prototype, “speed and correctness do not have to compete ... they can go together, hand-in-hand.”

From Firefox to Safari: all major browsers can now render graphics.

Reading List

Many military radars interfere with open source satellite imagery when they're turned on. A new tool lets anyone monitor when and where these radars are deployed.

Interactive article explaining how GPS works.

This post goes into the implementation level details and map out how PostgreSQL row storage really works.

The Top 10 (new) Web Hacking Techniques of 2021 is the latest iteration of an annual community-powered effort to identify the most significant web security research released in the last year.

A story of how we encountered a critical error for a customer use case and the root cause analysis that followed.

I wrote a working Minecraft server in Bash! wait, why did I do that.

A deep dive with five Technical Program Managers (TPM) on what the role is, how it evolved, and how engineers and managers can benefit from working with TPMs.

When developing real-time web applications, WebSockets might be the first thing that comes to your mind. However, Server Sent Events (SSE) are a simpler alternative that is often superior.

Watch and Listen

Lua is a lightweight dynamic scripting language often embedded into other programs like World of Warcraft and Roblox. It's minimal syntax makes it easier to learn than Python, while being much more performant than other interpreted languages. 

In this blockchain development course, you will learn how to query on the blockchain and build open APIs. This course will teach you how to build your own distributed applications using The Graph. It's like Lego blocks for composing your own protocols. You'll learn how to build your own APIs that query Ethereum, IPFS, and other data sources.

A chat about workflows as code with Temporal, self-provisioning runtimes, the intersection of cloud and serverless, the need for developer experience roles, and so much more.

Git doesn't actually perform magic, but it's pretty neat. Dr Max Wilson takes us through the various elements that make Git such a useful tool. 

Books

Algorithmica is an open-access web book dedicated to the art and science of computing.

Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

ValidKube combines the best open-source tools to help ensure Kubernetes YAML best practices, hygiene & security.

JLess is a command-line JSON viewer designed for reading, exploring, and searching through JSON data.

A web framework for building 3D/AR/VR experiences.

Single-file distributable web server.

Melody is a language that compiles to regular expressions and aims to be more easily readable and maintainable.

Tiny snake game made in x86_64 assembly for Linux.

Self-hosted Git Server with Built-in CI/CD.

An efficient awk-like language.

A Powershell module to run threat hunting playbooks on data from Azure and O365 for Cloud Forensics purposes.

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