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Welcome to issue 125 of Programmer Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

Quote of the Week

“One of the things I’ve been trying to do is look for simpler or rules underpinning good or bad design. I think one of the most valuable rules is avoid duplication. “Once and only once” is the Extreme Programming phrase.” — Martin Fowler

News

Browsers with built-in VPNs — the new normal?
Microsoft bakes a VPN into Edge and turns it on.

DALL·E Now Available Without Waitlist
New users can start creating straight away. Lessons learned from deployment and improvements to our safety systems make wider availability possible.

Reading List

Posits, a New Kind of Number, Improves the Math of AI
Training the large neural networks behind many modern AI tools requires real computational might: OpenAI’s most advanced language model GPT-3 required a million billion billions of operations to train, and cost about US $5 million in compute time. Some researchers now think they have a better way.

The Thorny Problem of Keeping the Internet’s Time
An obscure software system synchronizes the network’s clocks. Who will keep it running?

Postgres WASM by Snaplet and Supabase
postgres-wasm is a PostgreSQL server that runs inside a browser. It provides a full suite of features, including persisting state to browser, restoring from pg_dump, and logical replication from a remote database.

Running 1000 tests in 1s
Most code doesn't require the amount of test isolation modern test runners apply by default. If you only opt into the amount of isolations you need, you can easily run 1000 tests in 1s.

How to write your own state management library
Ever wondered what happens behind the scenes of the most popular state management libraries? How do they re-render only the relevant components instead of the whole tree? How are they different from the Context API? This article is a deep dive into the inner workings of selectors, subscribers, preventing re-renders, and more.

node_modules: How one character saved 50 GB of disk space
Have you ever worked with JavaScript? Have you been annoyed by the three hundred copies of left-pad in all of the node_modules folders on your disk? Would you prefer if all of your projects shared their node_modules folders instead of each getting their own copy? If you answered these questions with "Hell, yeah!" then this post is for you!

Software engineering practices
A good list of some of the best practices for development teams.

Be Lean, Go Far: leveraging Kubernetes for an elastic right-sized platform
This article will tell you the story of the technical and mindset evolution.

The case for spreading technical leadership in engineering teams
You must either practice pushing out leadership responsibility or recognize that your whole team isn’t practicing leadership.

26 AWS Security Best Practices to Adopt in Production
We share 26 AWS security best practices that are indispensable to follow in order to to prevent unnecessary security situations.

Highlights from Git 2.38
Another new release of Git is here! Take a look at some of our highlights on what's new in Git 2.38.

From Development to Real Users: How to Create a Web Performance Story
Some of the most common questions asked when it comes to work with performance are, How do you convince stakeholders that improving the performance of your project is actually worth the investment? How can you prove that the work is necessary to begin with? Or prove that you have shipped improvements? And what is the impact of certain changes on users in different scenarios? The answer to those questions? Data!

I turned JS into a compiled language (for fun and Wasm)
This is one of those times where I got so fascinated by the idea of a thing that I forgot to ask myself whether it’s a good idea to build the thing. The idea being, transpiling JavaScript to C++ so I can compile that to whatever I need.

Watch and Listen

Expert Software Developers' Approach to Error
Drawing on decades of research with professional software developers, this talk will summarise insights about how experts and high-performing teams use 'error as opportunity' – leading to better software.

Yonatan Zunger // Creator of the WXZ Layers of the System Approach
Discover new ways to think about ethical engineering and technical architecture in this CTO podcast featuring Yonatan Zunger, Creator of WXZ Layers of System Approach and Distinguished Engineer at Twitter. This is your opportunity to hear from someone whose architectural philosophy is inspiring companies like Github

Android's Unlikely Success
How a ragtag team of developers created the world's most popular mobile OS.

How AI Image Generators Work (Stable Diffusion / Dall-E)
AI image generators are massive, but how are they creating such interesting images? Dr Mike Pound explains what's going on.

Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

Make-A-Video
Make-A-Video is a state-of-the-art AI system that generates videos from text.

Imagen Video
Not to be outdone by Meta’s Make-A-Video, Google’s newest AI generator creates HD video from text prompts.

natbot
Drive a browser with GPT-3.

GoogleTest
Google Testing and Mocking Framework.

Reflio
Create a privacy-friendly referral program without breaking the bank.

system-design-resources
These are the best resources for System Design on the Internet.

Telefunc
Remote Functions. Instead of API.

harmony
An experiment with WebAssembly. Create and/or modify local files, on the fly, in your browser. Use git branches and commits to keep track of multiple "workspaces". Jump between files and branches in one click.

RapidRows
RapidRows is an open-source, zero-dependency, single-binary API server that can be configured to run SQL queries, perform scheduled jobs and forward PostgreSQL notifications to websockets.

Alinea
Alinea is a modern content management system.

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