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Quote of the Week

"One man's crappy software is another man's full time job" - Jessica Gaston

News

Microsoft reverses controversial .NET change after open source community outcry
.NET 6 will now include Hot Reload across multiple platforms.

Everything new from Universe 2021
Since last year’s GitHub Universe, we’ve shipped more than 20,000 improvements to GitHub for developers, open source communities, and enterprise teams. Here’s a comprehensive overview of what we’re announcing at Universe this week.

Fake npm Roblox API Package Installs Ransomware and has a Spooky Surprise
Fake npm Roblox API package discovered by Sonatype uncovers first known ransomware maliciously placed in typosquatted open source package.

Alibaba Open Source XuanTie RISC-V Cores, Introduces In-House Armv9 Server Chip

Reading List

A 16 Year History Of The Git Init Command
In this article, we'll discuss how the git init command originated and how it has changed each year for the past 16 years since Git's inception in April 2005. Then we will examine snapshots from Git's code every year from 2005 to 2021 to get a feel for how the git init command and the object database have evolved, from a code perspective, over the past 16 years.

Tesla Dojo Technology
A Guide to Tesla’s Configurable Floating Point Formats & Arithmetic.

Meet Ottr: A Serverless Public Key Infrastructure Framework
Ottr is a serverless Public Key Infrastructure framework that handles end-to-end certificate rotations without the use of an agent. The purpose of the post is to provide an overview on Ottr with sample reference architecture, logical and network flows, and highlight the benefits of the solution.

Kangaroo: Caching Billions of Tiny Objects on Flash
Kangaroo is a new flash cache that enables more efficient caching of tiny objects (objects that are ~100 bytes or less) and overcomes the challenges presented by existing flash cache designs. Kangaroo combines log-structured and set-associative caches to reduce both DRAM and flash-write overheads.

Incident Review and Postmortem Best Practices
A survey of how companies deal with incidents today, and a peek into the best practices of the future.

The Largely Untold Story Of How One Guy In California Keeps The World’s Computers Running On The Right Time Zone. (Well, Sort Of)
Down the rabbit hole: my brief odyssey into the esoteric world of the tight-knit time zone data maintenance community who quietly keep the world’s computers from avoiding DST-related-meltdowns.

Use Cases: The purpose of your code
Have you ever wondered to what extent your code expresses the business rules it supports?

Habits I've Developed for Fast + Efficient Programming

The Micro-Frontend Chaos (and how to solve it)

A Primer for Testing the Security of GraphQL APIs

Google SRE: Site Reliability Engineering at a Global Scale

Watch and Listen

Optimizing Your Web Performance: Separating the Signals from the Noise
Carl Anderson shares the journey Trainline has been on leading up to Google introducing Core Web Vitals as a ranking signal, discussing web performance.

Learn React by Building an eCommerce Site
Learn React by building an e-Commerce application with Class Components. You will learn component basics, rendering various items in components, parent-to-child component communication, lifecycle methods, forms, REST-API calls with JSON server and basic routing.

Do We Still Need Strong Copyleft Licenses?
The landscape of tech is changing. Developer culture isn’t what it used to be—and neither is how we consume software. We ask: Do we still need strong copyleft licenses?

Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

cleanup.pictures
Quickly cleanup or remove objects in any image.

Refine
A React-based framework for building data-intensive applications in no time.

projectM
The most advanced open-source music visualizer.

mujoco
Multi-Joint dynamics with Contact. A general purpose physics simulator.

Olric
Distributed cache and in-memory key/value data store. It can be used both as an embedded Go library and as a language-independent service.

CookLang
Recipe Markup Language.

imgproxy
Fast and secure standalone server for resizing and converting remote images.

Kubernate
Kubernate is a Kubernetes YAML generator that can be used as an alternative to other popular tools like Helm. Kubernate is distributed as a library and as a CLI, both working together to achieve one goal: Kubernetes as Code.

crane
Crane is a easy-to-use and beautiful desktop application helps you build manage your docker images.

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