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Thanks to Tom Larkworthy for putting together this “goldmine of tech resources.” The cool thing is you can play with the data yourself and make your own analysis.

The most favorited articles by the top 10k most active Hacker News members. The list skews toward innovative learning resources and tech career tips, but there is a little of everything.

Data was scraped 2020-09-1 from the public favourites lists. This is an observable notebook with the data attached as a file, so you can fork your own analysis if you don’t like how I did it (e.g. you could find the favorited Ask HN posts).

To calculate the top favourites, I give each member 30 votes to divided over their (max) 30 most recent favourited articles. I sum the votes over all articles. The results are a goldmine of tech resources.

Infracost shows hourly and monthly cost estimates for a Terraform project. This helps developers, DevOps et al. quickly see the cost breakdown and compare different deployment options upfront.

Andrzej Krzywda:

My goal is to help you improve the design of the if/else based codebases. Yes, that probably means creating new method, extracting new object. It might be a bit OOP. If that’s not your taste and you’re fine with if/else then this may not be for you.

He then goes on to refactor a deeply nested Ruby method by extracting some classes that are responsible for their own behavior. This is perhaps a bit rudimentary to long-time OOP folks, but I see a lot of code out there looking like Andrzej’s example method so there’s plenty of people who would benefit from understanding this concept.

Have you seen or used JetBrains Mono yet?

To try the live SSH demo: ssh vtm@netxs.online

The Nerves Keyboard project is a small group of enthusiasts using the IoT tooling from the Nerves project to build a mechanical keyboard that can be programmed and customized with Elixir. The work happens in the open and is currently moving towards the hardware stage. This is a quick getting-started tutorial.

If you use Vimium (a Chrome extension which provides keyboard shortcuts for navigation and control in the spirit of the Vim editor) and you’re on macOS, Vimac is a no-brainer. You can scroll windows with HJKL keys, perform clicks using hint letters, and even perform right (and double) clicks with your keyboard.

There’s a lot of information that you are ignoring from your VCS. SQL is a great way to access it.

After searching for a fast and lightweight universal date formatting library, I’ve decided to create my own! I managed to include the most common features in just 157 bytes. The thing is also more than 2 times faster than Moment’s format and 3,5 times faster than date-fns lightFormat. 😃

Formatting patterns are compliant with Unicode Technical Standard #35.

While only a basic set of features is included with the format function, I added an additional localeFormat for locale-based formatting (such as month names). I’m planning on extending the package in the future to potentially include string escape mechanism and time-zone formatting.

Everyone’s (or at least my) favorite system monitoring tool is still alive and kickin’ with a big 3.0 release. In addition to a new display option to show CPU frequency in CPU meters, optional vim key mapping mode, and many other goodies, the big news is this:

New maintainers - after a prolonged period of inactivity from Hisham, the creator and original maintainer, a team of community maintainers have volunteered to take over a fork at htop.dev and github.com/htop-dev to keep the project going.

Open source FTW!

More good news: Hisham has agreed to join us on Maintainer Spotlight!

The primary objective of this boilerplate is to give you a production ready code that reduces the amount of time you would normally have to spend on system infrastructure’s configuration. It contains a number of services that a typical web application has (frontend, backend api, admin panel, workers) as well as their continuous deployment. Using this boilerplate you can deploy multiple environments, each representing a different stage in your pipeline.

Write your slides in Markdown and play pre-recorded code blocks with codio.

A formalization and continuation of this old Quora question about the most important research papers which all NLP students “should definitely read”.

There are a whole range of ways to package your Python software: Wheels, Pex, RPM/DEB, Conda, executables, Docker images, and more. Which ones should you use? In this overview you’ll learn why they all exist, the pros/cons of each method, and how it deals with things like code distribution and support for multiple applications.

Get started with WebAssembly through this simple hands-on tutorial that assumes only general knowledge in web development. The only tools you’ll need to get a taste of Wasm through runnable code examples are a code editor, any modern browser, and a Docker container with toolchains for C and Rust that comes with the article.