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Welcome to issue 81 of Programmer Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

Quote of the Week

“Programming is not easy like Sunday morning, it is silent poetry.” - Waseem Latif

News

Hoax Email Blast Abused Poor Coding in FBI Website
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) confirmed that its fbi.gov domain name and Internet address were used to blast out thousands of fake emails about a cybercrime investigation. According to an interview with the person who claimed responsibility for the hoax, the spam messages were sent by abusing insecure code in an FBI online portal designed to share information with state and local law enforcement authorities.

Expanding Google Summer of Code in 2022
Beginning in 2022, we are opening the program up to all newcomers of open source that are 18 years and older. The program will no longer be solely focused on university students or recent graduates.

Microsoft brings JavaScript to Excel
At its Ignite conference, Microsoft announced an update to Excel that brings a new JavaScript API to the venerable spreadsheet app. With this new API, developers will be able to create custom data types and functions based on them.

GitHub’s commitment to npm ecosystem security
We're sharing details of recent incidents on the npm registry, our investigations, and how we’re continuing to invest in the security of npm.

Reading List

Speeding Up Container Image Builds with Remote Cache
Use these caching techniques to easily optimize your container image builds in your CI/CD pipelines.

How to build a second brain as a software developer
Learn how you can avoid spending time Googling for solutions as a software developer by building a second brain to store solutions to your problems

Etsy’s Journey to TypeScript
This post is all about how we designed our approach, some of the fun technical challenges that resulted, and what it took to educate an Etsy-sized company in a new programming language.

MemQ: An efficient, scalable cloud native PubSub system
This post introduces MemQ, an efficient, scalable PubSub system developed for the cloud at Pinterest that has been powering Near Real-Time data transportation use cases for us since mid-2020 and complements Kafka while being up to 90% more cost efficient.

Reputation Gaming in Stack Overflow
This paper offers, for the first time, a comprehensive study of the reported types of reputation manipulation scenarios that might be exercised in Stack Overflow and the prevalence of such reputation gamers. We found six different types of reputation fraud scenarios, such as voting rings where communities form to upvote each other repeatedly on similar posts.

Speed up your Conda installs with Mamba
Conda installs are very slow, but you can speed them with a much-faster Conda reimplementation called Mamba.

Highlights from Git 2.34
The open source Git project just released Git 2.34 with features and bug fixes from over 109 contributors, 29 of them new. To celebrate this most recent release, here’s GitHub’s look at some of the most interesting features and changes introduced since last time.

Watch and Listen

Infrastructure as Code
What is Infrastructure as Code? Learn in this course and get hands-on practice by implementing three IaC projects.

Top 8 Docker Best Practices for using Docker in Production
This video shows you 8 ways you can use docker in a right way in your projects to improve security, optimize the image size and take advantage of some of the useful Docker features and also write cleaner and more maintainable Dockerfiles.

Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

AppFlowy
AppFlowy is an open-source alternative to Notion. You are in charge of your data and customizations.

Odin
Odin is a general-purpose programming language with distinct typing, built for high performance, modern systems, and built-in data-oriented data types. Also watch an interview with Odin language creator gingerBill

mp4grep
Command-line tool that searches audio/video files.

terminal.js
Javascript Terminal-Like User Interface.

restic
Fast, secure, efficient backup program.

Taichi
Taichi is a parallel programming language for high-performance numerical computations. It is embedded in Python, and its just-in-time compiler offloads compute-intensive tasks to multi-core CPUs and massively parallel GPUs.

Hydrogen
Hydrogen is a React-based framework for building dynamic, Shopify-powered custom storefronts.

fonoster
The open-source alternative to Twilio.

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