Programming Digest #439: What makes a good changelog
#439 — September 27, 2021 | View in browser |
Programming Digest
Spread the word, build the community, share the knowledge – invite your friends.
sponsor
What if Your Project Management Tool Was Fast and Intuitive? Try Shortcut
Imagine how much more you could get done if your project management software didn't make you want to throw your computer out a window. Shortcut is project management built for software teams and we're fast, intuitive, flexible, powerful, and many other, positive adjectives. Delight the grumpiest scrum masters sign up for free.
this week's favorite
These days, there are a ton of great tools to automatically generate and publish changelogs. While it might seem to make things easier, automating everything is not always the answer. After all, changelogs are made for humans, not machines.
Practical API design at Netflix
When we process a request it is often beneficial to know which fields the caller is interested in and which ones they ignore. Some response fields can be expensive to compute, some fields can require remote calls to other services. Remote calls are never free; they impose extra latency, increase probability of an error, and consume network bandwidth.
The psychology of pair programming
Behaviours and skills exhibited by the very best pair programmers.
A generation that grew up with Google is forcing professors to rethink their lesson plans.
I'm inspired to write this post because Someone Is Wrong On The Internet. Of course a more accurate statement would be "I disagree with some aspects of what someone on the internet said, even though they have an entirely valid point of view". But that's less catchy.
books
Building Mobile Apps at Scale: 39 Engineering Challenges
Learn about the engineering challenges that coincide with building mobile apps at scale and how you can best overcome them in this free eBook from SonarSource! Download now.
newsletters

Older messages
Programming Digest #438: Exploring 120 years of timezones
Sunday, September 19, 2021
And more news, tutorials and articles about programming and technology in this week's issue. #438 — September 20, 2021 View in browser Programming Digest Spread the word, build the community, share
Programming Digest #437: Writing well-documented code
Sunday, September 12, 2021
And more news, tutorials and articles about programming and technology in this week's issue. #437 — September 13, 2021 View in browser Programming Digest Spread the word, build the community, share
Programming Digest #436: Operations is not Developer IT
Sunday, September 5, 2021
And more news, tutorials and articles about programming and technology in this week's issue. #436 — September 06, 2021 View in browser Programming Digest Spread the word, build the community, share
Life before Unicode
Sunday, August 29, 2021
And more news, tutorials and articles about programming and technology in this week's issue. #435 — August 30, 2021 View in browser Programming Digest Spread the word, build the community, share
How Google bought Android—according to folks in the room
Sunday, August 22, 2021
And more news, tutorials and articles about programming and technology in this week's issue. #434 — August 23, 2021 View in browser Programming Digest Spread the word, build the community, share
You Might Also Like
Import AI 399: 1,000 samples to make a reasoning model; DeepSeek proliferation; Apple's self-driving car simulator
Friday, February 14, 2025
What came before the golem? ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏
Defining Your Paranoia Level: Navigating Change Without the Overkill
Friday, February 14, 2025
We've all been there: trying to learn something new, only to find our old habits holding us back. We discussed today how our gut feelings about solving problems can sometimes be our own worst enemy
5 ways AI can help with taxes 🪄
Friday, February 14, 2025
Remotely control an iPhone; 💸 50+ early Presidents' Day deals -- ZDNET ZDNET Tech Today - US February 10, 2025 5 ways AI can help you with your taxes (and what not to use it for) 5 ways AI can help
Recurring Automations + Secret Updates
Friday, February 14, 2025
Smarter automations, better templates, and hidden updates to explore 👀 ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏
The First Provable AI-Proof Game: Introducing Butterfly Wings 4
Friday, February 14, 2025
Top Tech Content sent at Noon! Boost Your Article on HackerNoon for $159.99! Read this email in your browser How are you, @newsletterest1? undefined The Market Today #01 Instagram (Meta) 714.52 -0.32%
GCP Newsletter #437
Friday, February 14, 2025
Welcome to issue #437 February 10th, 2025 News BigQuery Cloud Marketplace Official Blog Partners BigQuery datasets now available on Google Cloud Marketplace - Google Cloud Marketplace now offers
Charted | The 1%'s Share of U.S. Wealth Over Time (1989-2024) 💰
Friday, February 14, 2025
Discover how the share of US wealth held by the top 1% has evolved from 1989 to 2024 in this infographic. View Online | Subscribe | Download Our App Download our app to see thousands of new charts from
The Great Social Media Diaspora & Tapestry is here
Friday, February 14, 2025
Apple introduces new app called 'Apple Invites', The Iconfactory launches Tapestry, beyond the traditional portfolio, and more in this week's issue of Creativerly. Creativerly The Great
Daily Coding Problem: Problem #1689 [Medium]
Friday, February 14, 2025
Daily Coding Problem Good morning! Here's your coding interview problem for today. This problem was asked by Google. Given a linked list, sort it in O(n log n) time and constant space. For example,
📧 Stop Conflating CQRS and MediatR
Friday, February 14, 2025
Stop Conflating CQRS and MediatR Read on: my website / Read time: 4 minutes The .NET Weekly is brought to you by: Step right up to the Generative AI Use Cases Repository! See how MongoDB powers your