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Welcome to issue 136 of Programmer Weekly. This is the final issue of 2022. We will be back on January 5th, 2023 after the holiday break. Wish you all a Happy New Year and have a wonderful holiday.

Quote of the Week

"Almost without exception, the best products are developed by teams with desire to solve a problem; not a company's need to fulfil a strategy." - Jeff Weiner

News

OpenAI releases Point-E, an AI that generates 3D models
The next breakthrough to take the AI world by storm might be 3D model generators. This week, OpenAI open sourced Point-E, a machine learning system that creates a 3D object given a text prompt. According to a paper published alongside the code base, Point-E can produce 3D models in one to two minutes on a single Nvidia V100 GPU.

Leaked a secret? Check your GitHub alerts…for free
GitHub now allows you to track any leaked secrets in your public repository, for free. With secret scanning alerts, you can track and action on leaked secrets directly within GitHub.

NIST Retires SHA-1 Cryptographic Algorithm
The venerable cryptographic hash function has vulnerabilities that make its further use inadvisable.

Reading List

Automatically Rotating GitHub Tokens (So You Don’t Have To)
GitHub personal access tokens (PATs) are like a key: a very, very large key that opens a very, very wide door. Long-lived tokens that have all the access of a developer’s account won’t just cause a leak—it’ll be a flood. GitHub’s built-in token is useful, but has limitations of its own: it can’t access repo-external resources and it won’t trigger downstream actions (by design). Given the limitations with these two blessed authentication paths, what do you do when these methods don’t work for your use case? We encountered this problem in some of our workflows, and solved it by building a system to rotate tokens automatically. Here’s how we did it, and how you can use it too.

What every SRE should know about GNU/Linux shell related internals
Despite the era of containers, virtualization, and the rising number of UI of all kinds, SREs often spend a significant part of their time in GNU/Linux shells. It could be debugging, testing, developing, or preparing the new infrastructure. But it is common nowadays how little people know about the internals of their shells, terminals, and relations between processes. All are taken primarily for granted without really thinking about such aspects. This series of posts show you some indeed neat parts of pipes, file descriptors, shells, terminals, processes, jobs, and signals.

What's unsolved in generative AI?
Generative models are the talk of the town, but there are challenges (and opportunities) in this new paradigm.

Monorepo Build Tools
This article compares some of the most popular monorepo build tools on the market and see how they stack up against each other.

Devpod: Improving Developer Productivity at Uber with Remote Development
In this post, we share how we improved the daily edit-build-run developer experience using DevPods, our remote development environment. We will start with some of the initial challenges, the pain points we addressed with Devpod, our architecture, and some of our recent successes in terms of adoption and cost reduction. We will finally leave you with some thoughts around the future of remote development at Uber.

Talking About Large Language Models
This paper advocates the practice of repeatedly stepping back to remind ourselves of how LLMs, and the systems of which they form a part, actually work. The hope is that increased scientific precision will encourage more philosophical nuance in the discourse around artificial intelligence, both within the field and in the public sphere

WebAssembly: Docker without containers!
Hands-on exploration of using Docker to run WebAssembly applications.

Consistent hashing explained

Github Copilot Internals

How to contribute to LLVM

Watch and Listen

“Serverless” Databases
A talk about your options for database when you're working with serverless.

Build Your Own SaaS - PagerDuty Clone
Learn how to build your own SaaS app. You will create your own PagerDuty clone using PostgreSQL, Stripe, Twilio, SMTP, and Retool. You will build a dashboard that lets you know if your app goes down, and then notifies you through email and SMS.

Patterns and Anti-Patterns for Successful Software Delivery in Enterprises
Jon Smart, author of the book Sooner Safer Happier: Patterns and Antipatterns for Business Agility, discusses patterns and anti-patterns for the success of enterprise software projects.

Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

Riffusion
Stable Diffusion fine-tuned to generate music.

IvorySQL
IvorySQL is advanced, fully featured, open source Oracle compatible PostgreSQL.

forma
An efficient vector-graphics renderer.

apk.sh
It makes reverse engineering Android apps easier, automating some repetitive tasks like pulling, decoding, rebuilding and patching an APK.

Min
A fast, minimal browser that protects your privacy.

Marmot
A distributed SQLite replicator built on top of NATS.

awesome-slo
Curated list of resources on SLOs.

aiac
Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure-as-Code Generator.

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