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Welcome to issue 140 of Programmer Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

Quote of the Week

If McDonald's were run like a software company, one out of every hundred Big Macs would give you food poisoning, and the response would be, “We're sorry, here is a coupon for two more”. - Mark Minasi

News

Pioneering Apple Lisa goes “open source” thanks to Computer History Museum
Lisa OS 3.1's 1984 source Pascal code now available under a non-commercial license.

Reading List

Git Commands You Probably Do Not Need
In this post I’ll present a few git commands and operations I run or have run on occasion, in no particular order, that the majority of git users out there might not ever need.

The Ultimate Guide To Software Architecture Documentation
This guide shows you how to write, structure, visualize and manage software architecture documentation in a lean way using appropriate documentation tools.

Stateful Postgres Storage Using Kubernetes
How can Kubernetes be the foundation of a stateful database? Ben Blattberg takes us through the basics of Persistent Volumes, Volume Claims, and Postgres storage.

What We Learned from Building GovSlack
Let's talk about the challenges we faced and the experiences we gained when we built the infrastructure to run Slack on AWS GovCloud (US).

We invested 10% to pay back tech debt; Here's what happened
Why and how we continuously invested the team bandwidth to pay back tech debt and what were the results?

Reverse Engineering a Neural Network's Clever Solution to Binary Addition
While training small neural networks to perform binary addition, a surprising solution emerged that allows the network to solve the problem very effectively. This post explores the mechanism behind that solution and how it relates to analog electronics.

How Memory Safety Approaches Speed Up and Slow Down Development Velocity
A few weeks ago I wrote the first part of our little expedition, which explored the various memory safety approaches. Today, let's talk about how they might help or harm development velocity!

Zero to Nix
An unofficial, opinionated, gentle introduction to Nix.

Watch and Listen

Neural Networks: Zero to Hero
A course by Andrej Karpathy on building neural networks, from scratch, in code.

What's inside a .EXE File?
What is inside the Windows Executable or the executables for other operating systems? I take a look at the past from the days of DOS until the present and crack open a few EXE files to get a look inside. Explored also is programming without a compiler, linker, or any kind of processing code before execution. Is programming in raw machine code possible?

Container Queries Explained
Learn what container queries are, use cases for them, new units of measurement, and possible issues with container queries.

Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

git-sim
Visually simulate Git operations in your own repos with a single terminal command.

sre-checklist
A checklist of anyone practicing Site Reliability Engineering.

vikunja
The open-source, self-hostable to-do app. Organize everything, on all platforms.

odigos
Instant distributed traces without code changes. Boost existing monitoring tools with higher-quality data.

tuning_playbook
A playbook for systematically maximizing the performance of deep learning models.

codeium
Free, ultrafast Copilot alternative for Vim and Neovim.

Anyfront
Deploy any front-end web application on any cloud platform with minimal configuration.

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