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Welcome to issue 210 of Programmer Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

Quote of the Week 

"Programming languages should be designed not by piling feature on top of feature, but by removing the weaknesses and restrictions that make additional features appear necessary." - Anonymous


Reading List

Postgres is all you need, even for vectors
Exploring the versatility of Postgres for vector storage and querying with pgvector.

Home-Cooked Software and Barefoot Developers
The emerging golden age of home-cooked software, barefoot developers, and why the local-first community should help build it.

Deep Dive on MySQL's Replication Protocol
MySQL's replication protocol has a lot of depth and complexity. In this blog post, we take a deep dive into how replication events are sent from a primary to a replica.

How to Get the Most out of Postgres Memory Settings
Best practices for configuring Postgres to maximize RAM use without risking process termination.

MicroMac, a Macintosh for under £5
The author built a Raspberry Pi Pico-based emulator called "MicroMac" that runs the Macintosh 128K operating system and applications like MacDraw and MacWrite. It involved creating an emulator for the 68000 CPU and various hardware components of the original Macintosh, as well as implementing video output and USB input on the Pico board.

UUIDv7 in 22 languages
UUIDv7 is a 128-bit unique identifier like it's older siblings, such as the widely used UUIDv4. But unlike v4, UUIDv7 is time-sortable with 1 ms precision. By combining the timestamp and the random parts, UUIDv7 becomes an excellent choice for record identifiers in databases, including distributed ones. Let's briefly explore the UUIDv7 structure and move on to the zero-dependency implementations in 22 languages.

Making my first embedded Linux system
This post is the documentation of the author's journey to building his first Linux system. 

Making a bignum library for fun
How do computer handle really, really big numbers? Let's find out.

Generative AI Is Not Going To Build Your Engineering Team For You
It’s easy to generate code, but not so easy to generate good code.

What do GenZ software engineers really think?
Young software engineers discuss values, what frustrates them about working in tech, and what they really think of older colleagues. Responses to our exclusive survey.

How to deliver the best search results: inside a full text search engine
Through an exploration of Meilisearch's inner workings, we'll uncover how modern search engines deliver accurate results at the speed of your keystrokes.

GitHub Actions: Cache Chaos
How to configure GitHub Actions to use sane caching!


Watch and Listen

Learn Mistral AI
Learn how to use the Mistral AI to build intelligent apps, all the way from simple chat completions to advanced use-cases like RAG and function calling.

The past, present, and future of local-first
We have come a long way since my colleagues and I published the local-first essay five years ago. In this talk I'll review where the local-first idea came from, where we are now, and what I hope the local-first community can work towards in the future.


Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

Dozzle
Realtime log viewer for docker containers.

Moodist
Ambient sounds for focus and calm.

Revideo
Create Videos with Code. 

Huly
All-in-One Project Management Platform (alternative to Linear, Jira, Slack, Notion, Motion).

mistral.rs
Blazingly fast LLM inference.
 
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