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Welcome to issue 73 of Programmer Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

Quote of the Week

"One of the big lessons of a big project is you don't want people that aren't really programmers programming, you'll suffer for it!" - John Carmack

News

Linux executable files have been deployed as stealth Windows loaders
Black Lotus Labs, the threat intelligence arm of Lumen Technologies, has proven what was previously just a theory: threat actors can use a Linux binary as a loader designed for Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) to inject malicious files into a Windows running process.

The New Postman API Platform: Announcing 6 Key Platform Improvements
The new Postman API Platform integrates deeply with your workflows and creates a best-in-class integrated experience that scales from individual developers to organizations.

Netlify introduces new features and integrations to accelerate app development across teams
A lineup of features and integrations that make it even easier for teams across your organization to use a modern Jamstack approach for every web project. This includes a new Netlify Enterprise Grid plan to simplify team governance, a Jira integration with Deploy Previews to help you gather feedback on your web projects faster, and more.

Scientists develop the next generation of reservoir computing
A relatively new type of computing that mimics the way the human brain works was already transforming how scientists could tackle some of the most difficult information processing problems.Now, researchers have found a way to make what is called reservoir computing work between 33 and a million times faster, with significantly fewer computing resources and less data input needed.

GitLab files to go public
The devOps platform said its revenue in the last six-month period grew 69% year-over-year.

Reading List

The Most Heated Tech Job Market in History: Advice for Software Engineers
Welcome to the best tech job market of probably all-time - assuming you have a few years of industry experience under your belt. Now is a perfect time to turn this employee’s market to your advantage.

Mental health impacts of a Big Tech job
This post dives into some deep thoughts about mental health.

Automating Data Protection at Scale, Part 1
Part one of a series on how we provide powerful, automated, and scalable data privacy and security engineering capabilities at Airbnb.

How to Explain Public-Key Cryptography and Digital Signatures to Anyone
Here’s an easy-to-understand analogy to help your non-technical friends and customers understand public keys and private keys, and how they relate to cryptography and digital signatures.

I failed to transform the enterprise
How management power plays win out over measurable profit increases, risk mitigations and years of track record.

Why Authorization is Hard

GIT PURR! Git Commands Explained with Cats!

Debugging by starting a REPL at a breakpoint is fun

Secure computation: Homomorphic encryption or hardware enclaves?

Watch and Listen

Build and Deploy a React Cryptocurrency App and Master Redux Toolkit in One Video
Learn advanced React best practices, State Management using Redux Toolkit, UI Creation using Ant Design, creating charts using Chart.js, and fetching data from multiple sources using RapidAPI while building the best Cryptocurrency App.

Amplifying Serverless Developers with Ali Spittel
A chat with Ali Spittel about the ongoing evolution of AWS Amplify, why developers should be embracing low-code frameworks and platforms, why developers shouldn't feel like they need to know everything, and so much more.

Introduction to TypeScript
In this video, we'll be walking through some of the basics of TypeScript with our very own Josh Goldberg. We'll try to answer some of the following questions: What does TypeScript add (or not add) to JavaScript? What's a type system? How does a type system work with code? How do we declare types for TypeScript?

Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

Composing Studio
Composing Studio is an open-source collaborative web application that lets people write and engrave music together using ABC notation.

AirGuard
Protect yourself from being tracked by AirTags and Find My accessories.

chezmoi
Manage your dotfiles across multiple diverse machines, securely.

seed
Rust framework for creating fast and reliable web apps.

PipeWire
Next-generation cross-desktop audio and video server.

DataSpell
JetBrains DataSpell is an IDE for data science with intelligent Jupyter notebooks, interactive Python scripts, and lots of other built-in tools.

go-sse
Fully featured, spec-compliant HTML5 server-sent events library.

Theatre.js
Theatre.js is an animation library for high-fidelity motion graphics. It is designed to help you express detailed animation, enabling you to create intricate movement, and convey nuance.

Aino
An experimental HTTP framework built on top of elli.

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