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Quote of the Week

"The cleaner and nicer the program, the faster it's going to run. And if it doesn't, it'll be easy to make it fast." - Joshua Bloch

News

Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2021
Read on for more great insights about the attitudes, tools, and environments that are shaping the art and practice of software today.

Replit launched replit.web
Replit enables coders to build apps quickly. With nothing but a browser, a developer can spin up a server, store data in Repl DB, and authenticate users using Repl Auth. However, until today, users had to string together all these components to build an app. This is why we're excited to announce replit.web, a Python framework focused on making apps quickly. Building an app with user auth and persistence has never been easier.

FSF-funded call for white papers on philosophical and legal questions around Copilot
To get the answers the community needs, and to identify the best opportunities for defending user freedom in this space, the FSF is announcing a funded call for white papers to address Copilot, copyright, machine learning, and free software. We will read the submitted white papers, and we will publish ones that we think help elucidate the problem. We will provide a monetary reward of $500 for the papers we publish.

Empty npm package '-' has over 700,000 downloads — here's why
A mysterious, one-letter npm package named "-" sitting on the registry since 2020 has received over 700,000 downloads. What's more? The package contains no functional code, so what makes it score so many downloads?

JFrog Detects Malicious PyPI Packages Stealing Credit Cards and Injecting Code
JFrog finds a new supply chain attack targeting python developers using the PyPI repository.

Reading List

NSA Kubernetes Hardening Guidance
This guidance describes the security challenges associated with setting up and securing a Kubernetes cluster. It includes hardening strategies to avoid common misconfigurations and guide system administrators and developers of National Security Systems on how to deploy Kubernetes with example configurations for the recommended hardening measures and mitigations

How Dwarf Fortress is built
700,000 lines of code, 20 years, and one developer.

How to write really slow Rust code
How I tried to port Lisp code to Rust and managed to get a much slower program... and how to fix that!

Feature Parity
Replicate existing functionality of a legacy system using a new technology stack.

Can GitHub Copilot Crack a Facebook Coding Interview?
Here’s how GitHub Copilot performs with coding interviews.

How do Chrome extensions impact browser performance?
This report investigates how 1000 of the most popular Chrome extensions impact browser performance and end-user experience.

Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Phone Numbers
Given how ubiquitous phone numbers are and how long they've been around, it's surprising how many false assumptions programmers continue to make about them.

How to improve your Docker containers security [cheat sheet included]
A set of the best recommendations regarding Docker containers configuration at build and runtime to improve your containers' security.

Building an Automated Screenshot Service on Netlify in ~140 Lines of Code

How to Help Developers Work in The Flow

5000x faster CRDTs: An Adventure in Optimization

Running My Own Email Server

Watch and Listen

Full-Time Open Source With Andrew Kelley
Andrew Kelly, creator of Zig shares the back story behind the creation of Zig: Why he created it, how he created it, leaving his job to work on it full time and why he is confident he can build a language that is better and more popular than C.

Graph Algorithms for Technical Interviews
Learn how to implement graph algorithms and how to use them to solve coding challenges.

Books

How To Code in React.js
This book is an introduction to React that works from the foundations upward. Each chapter takes you a little deeper into the React ecosystem, building on your previous knowledge. Along the way, you’ll maintain internal state, pass information between parts of an application, and explore different options for styling your application.

Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

PrivacyBot
A free and open source way to delete your data from an exhaustive list of data brokers and people search services.

Tilck
A Tiny Linux-Compatible Kernel.

Hora
Hora is an approximate nearest neighbor search algorithm library.

Bytebase
Web-based, zero-config, dependency-free database schema change and version control tool for teams.

KDash
A fast and simple dashboard for Kubernetes.

Plate
A plugin framework for building rich text editors with slate.

Droidlet
A modular embodied agent architecture and platform for building embodied agents

Peanut
Deploy Databases and Services Easily for Development and Testing Pipelines.

linux-malware
Tracking interesting Linux (and UNIX) malware.

axum
axum is a web application framework that focuses on ergonomics and modularity.

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