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Welcome to issue 134 of Programmer Weekly. Everyone's obsessed with ChatGPT and trying it for all kinds of things. You will find few cool ChatGPT related links in this week's issue. Enjoy it!

Quote of the Week

"Programs, like people, get old. We can’t prevent ageing, but we can understand its causes, limit its effects and reverse some of the damage." - Mario Fusco

Reading List

ChatGPT helped me design a brand new programming language
The author forced ChatGPT to be their assistant in designing a brand-new programming language. It understood complex custom constructs and was able to build and interpret programs with it. Crazy.

Real-World Engineering Challenges #7: Choosing Technologies
Choosing frameworks, languages and architecture approaches at Trello, Birdie, MetalBear and Motive.

I Taught ChatGPT to Invent a Language
In which ChatGPT and the author invent a fictional language spoken by slime-people.

Investing in Internal Documentation
David Nunez, an early hire at Stripe and Uber, shares his step-by-step playbook for establishing good internal documentation habits at your startup. He unpacks his tested tactics for creating a culture of documentation, setting the quality bar and keeping things organized.

The architecture of Mastodon
Let's take a high-level look at the architecture of a single Mastodon instance and how different instances communicate. Specifically, we'll be looking at how the Mastodon network-of-instances might scale.

Building A Virtual Machine inside ChatGPT
Unless you have been living under a rock, you have heard of this new ChatGPT assistant made by OpenAI. You might be aware of its capabilities for solving IQ tests, tackling leetcode problems or to helping people write LateX. It is an amazing resource for people to retrieve all kinds of information and solve tedious tasks, like copy-writing! But did you know, that you can run a whole virtual machine inside of ChatGPT?

When to use gRPC vs GraphQL
We dig into two of the most popular API protocols to see where they work best.

OWASP Top 10 CI/CD Security Risks
This document helps defenders identify focus areas for securing their CI/CD ecosystem. It is the result of extensive research into attack vectors associated with CI/CD, and the analysis of high profile breaches and security flaws.

From Zero to 50 Million Uploads per Day: Scaling Media at Canva
The evolution of media persistence during hypergrowth at Canva.

Why and How eBay Pivoted to OpenTelemetry
In this post, we discuss some of the problems we ran into, especially for metrics scraping, and how we evolved our own solution. We will also discuss in detail about how we have been navigating the evolving open-source landscape with regards to licensing and how we intend to align with OpenTelemetry as an initiative.

Ready-to-go sample data pipelines with Dataflow
This post is for all data practitioners, who are interested in learning about bootstrapping, standardization and automation of batch data pipelines at Netflix.

ChatGPT passes the 2022 AP Computer Science A free response section
For fun, I had ChatGPT take the free response section of the 2022 AP Computer Science A exam. (The exam also has a multiple-choice section, but the College Board doesn't publish this.) It scored 32/36.

Natural Language Processing Demystified
A free, comprehensive course to turn you into an NLP expert.

Watch and Listen

Swift Programming Tutorial – Full Course for Beginners
In this video, we will go through every modern aspect of Swift as a programming language including, variables, constants, functions, structures, classes, protocols. extensions, asynchronous programming, generics and much more. This video will lay the foundation for learning Swift for those who are not familiar with Swift already.

Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

chat-gpt-google-extension
A browser extension to display ChatGPT response alongside Google Search results.

extism
Extend anything with WebAssembly.

Monoid
Monoid is an open-source suite of tools for automating data privacy.

commitgpt
Automatically generate commit messages using ChatGPT.

Garage
An open-source distributed object storage service.

modern-errors
Handle errors in a simple, stable, consistent way.

sniffnet
Cross-platform application to monitor your network traffic with ease.

Benthos
Benthos is a high performance and resilient stream processor, able to connect various sources and sinks in a range of brokering patterns and perform hydration, enrichments, transformations and filters on payloads.

pg_tle
Framework for building trusted language extensions for PostgreSQL.

aoc-gpt
Solve Advent of Code puzzles with GPT-3.

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