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Welcome to issue 60 of Programmer Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

Quote of the Week

"The question of whether machines can think is about as relevant as the question of whether submarines can swim." - Edsger Dijkstra

News

Mathematicians welcome computer-assisted proof in ‘grand unification’ theory
Proof-assistant software handles an abstract concept at the cutting edge of research, revealing a bigger role for software in mathematics.

Newly discovered Vigilante malware outs software pirates and blocks them
Most malware tries to steal stuff. Vigilante, by contrast, takes aim at piracy.

The 2021 Software Developer Shortage Is Coming
Companies must address the difficulty of hiring and retaining high-skilled employees from an increasingly smaller labor supply.

Epic Games releases free anti-cheat and voice chat services for developers
Epic Games is launching free voice chat and anti-cheat services. It’s part of the Epic Online Services suite, which is available to use across game engines and supports PC, consoles, and phones.

New – AWS Step Functions Workflow Studio – A Low-Code Visual Tool for Building State Machines
AWS Step Functions allow you to build scalable, distributed applications using state machines. Until today, building workflows on Step Functions required you to learn and understand Amazon State Language (ASL). We are launching Workflow Studio, a low-code visual tool that helps you learn Step Functions through a guided interactive interface and allows you to prototype and build workflows faster.

Reading List

Evolution of the Unix System Architecture: An Exploratory Case Study
Unix has evolved for almost five decades, shaping modern operating systems, key software technologies, and development practices. Studying the evolution of this remarkable system from an architectural perspective can provide insights on how to manage the growth of large, complex, and long-lived software systems.

Gently Down the Stream
A gentle introduction to Apache Kafka.

How I Found A Vulnerability To Hack iCloud Accounts and How Apple Reacted To It
This article is about how the author found a vulnerability on Apple forgot password endpoint that allowed me to takeover an iCloud account. The vulnerability is completely patched by Apple security team and it no longer works. Apple Security Team rewarded him $18,000 USD as a part of their bounty program but he refused to receive it.

Representing SHA-256 Hashes As Avatars
How to turn 256 bits of entropy into a beautiful, avatar-friendly circular SVG: the Hashvatar.

What Every Programmer Should Know About SSDs
The goal of this post is to provide an understanding of why SSDs behave the way they do, which can help creating software that is capable of exploiting them.

My Leadership Document — 2021 Edition
Leadership is a loaded word. We attribute a lot to it; we expect a lot from it; we know when we see it, and yet, we don’t have a concise way to describe what it means to be a great leader due to its many facets. In this post, the author summarizes how he views leadership currently, as of June 2021 and describes a few core leadership beliefs that he believes in and behaviors that he lean on and practice.

Fitting a FORTH in 512 bytes

git undo: We can do better

A framework for building Open Graph images

Watch and Listen

Information foraging – the tactics great developers use to find solutions
A chat with Austin Henley, assistant professor of computer science at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. Prof. Henley has been studying the ways in which developers seek out the information they need to solve problems, debug code, or write new applications.

Design-Time Coupling in Microservices
Thomas Betts speaks with Chris Richardson about minimizing design-time coupling in a microservice architecture. Chris begins by defining design-time coupling, and contrasts it with runtime coupling. We then discuss some of the problems that arise from design-time coupling, anti-patterns and symptoms that are warning signs of high coupling, and the trade-offs that architects need to consider in their designs.

What is GitOps, How GitOps works and Why it's so useful
In this video you will learn about the concept of GitOps. What GitOps is, how GitOps works and the benefits of using GitOps in 10 minutes.

Understanding Sorting Algorithms
Learn some of the most popular sorting algorithms! You will learn selection sort, bubble sort, insertion sort, merge sort, and their order of complexities!

Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

LANDrop
Drop any files to any devices on your LAN. No need to use instant messaging for that anymore.

OceanBase
OceanBase is an enterprise distributed relational database with high availability, high performance, horizontal scalability, and compatibility with SQL standards.

plow
A high-performance HTTP benchmarking tool with real-time web UI and terminal displaying.

Ribosome
A simple generic code generation tool.

gron
Make JSON greppable!

Traitor
Automatic Linux privesc via exploitation of low-hanging fruit e.g. gtfobins, polkit, docker socket.

PocketLang
PocketLang is a small, fast and friendly language for scripting and embedding.

Elementz
A React Component library for buliding modern applications easily & quickly.

Devtron
Devtron is an open source software delivery workflow for kubernetes.

xh
Friendly and fast tool for sending HTTP requests.

Upcoming Events

Virtual: Prisma Day 2021
Prisma Day is two day event of talks and workshops by members of the Prisma community, on modern application development and databases.

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