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Welcome to issue 177 of Programmer Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

Quote of the Week

"The secret to optimization is changing the problem to make it easier to optimize" – John Carmack

Reading List

Authenticated encryption: why you need it and how it works
This article explores a common problem of modern cryptographic ciphers: malleability. It explains this problem with some hands-on examples, and then look in detail at how it is solved through the use of authenticated encryption. It describes in particular two algorithms that provide authenticated encryption: ChaCha20-Poly1305 and AES-GCM, and briefly mention some of their variants.

Not a Kubernetes 101 - Pods, Deployments, and Services As an Attempt To Automate Age-Old Infra Patterns
What if we don't start from Pods, Deployments, and Service, and instead take a step back and look at how things were done in the past, with good old VMs? Can it help us understand Kubernetes faster and deeper?

Learn Wayland by writing a GUI from scratch
Wayland is all the rage these days. Distributions left and right switch to it. Let’s write a (very simple) GUI program with Wayland, without any libraries, this time in C.

Multimodality and Large Multimodal Models (LMMs)
The article by Chip Huyen emphasizes the importance of multimodal systems in AI, highlighting their ability to process various types of data. It is structured into three parts, covering the context, fundamentals, and active research areas for Large Multimodal Models (LMMs), including examples like CLIP and Flaming

An Intro to Real-Time Machine Learning
This post introduces the concept of Real-Time Machine Learning (RTML), explaining its significance and potential applications for real-time data-driven decision-making. H

Quick Reference Guide to Design Patterns in JS.
The post provides a concise overview of various design patterns in JavaScript.

What I Learned about Payment Systems While Working at a Pizza Place
A detailed account of the author's experience working at a pizza place and the lessons he learned about payment systems

The State of WebAssembly 2023
This post shares the results of the third annual State of WebAssembly survey, where we found that Rust and JavaScript usage continues to increase, but there is a growing desire for Zig and Kotlin. The use of wasm as a plugin environment continues to climb, with developers hoping it will deliver of the “write once and run anywhere” promise.

Watch and Listen

How does KERNEL memory allocation work?
In this installment of //Source Dive//, we're deep in the xv6 operating system, trying to understand how physical memory of the system is tracked, distributed, and returned to the kernel. It's a fascinatingly simple algorithm, which can be paradoxically kind of hard to understand!

Cursorless: A spoken language for editing code
If you could design a spoken language from scratch for editing code, how would it look? What would be your nouns? Would they be tokens? Functions? Lines? What would be your verbs, your adjectives, and your adverbs? Learn how a handful of simple abstractions - actions, modifiers, marks, and scopes - empower Cursorless users to create powerful and concise command chains that would leave even the most seasoned vim user drooling on their keyboard.

Bun Tutorial – JavaScript Runtime (Node.js Alternative) [Full Course]
Bun is a cutting-edge toolkit designed to supercharge your JavaScript and TypeScript applications. With its lightning-fast startup times, built-in support for TypeScript and JSX, and a range of powerful features designed to seamlessly replace Node.js, Bun promises to revolutionize your development experience. Whether you're looking to optimize serverless functions or enhance your workflow, this course will empower you to leverage Bun's full potential and seamlessly integrate it into your projects.

Books

Hypermedia Systems
A book on building Hypermedia Driven Applications with htmx and Hyperview.

Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

omnigres
Omnigres makes Postgres a developer-first application platform. You can deploy a single database instance and it can host your entire application, scaling as needed.

Oort
Oort is a "programming game" where you write Rust code to control a fleet of spaceships. Your code is responsible for the engines, weapons, radar, and communications of ships ranging from tiny missiles to massive cruisers.

nostalgist
A JavaScript library used for running emulators of retro consoles inside browsers.

Omnivore
Omnivore is a complete, open source read-it-later solution for people who like reading.

ParadeDB
ParadeDB is an ElasticSearch alternative built on PostgreSQL, engineered for lightning-fast full text, similarity, and hybrid search.

kexp
Understand Kubernetes - the visual way.

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