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Welcome to issue 82 of Programmer Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

Quote of the Week

"Not all eyes that notice bugs in Open Source code belong to saints who will report or repair them in the interest of the public good." - Martin Fowler

News

The 2021 State of the Octoverse
The State of the Octoverse explores a year of change with new deep dives into writing code faster, creating documentation and how we build sustainable communities on GitHub.

Thousands of Firefox users accidentally commit login cookies on GitHub
Thousands of Firefox cookie databases containing sensitive data are available on request from GitHub repositories, data potentially usable for hijacking authenticated sessions.

OpenAI’s API Now Available with No Waitlist
Wider availability made possible by safety progress.

Reading List

An Engineer's Hype-Free Observations on Web3 (and its Possibilities)
A great analysis of the current state of the ecosystem. It is a collection of opinions from a pragmatic builder's perspective. It is focused away from economics and the financial mechanisms of the chains themselves.

20 Product Prioritization Techniques: A Map and Guided Tour
An in-depth overview of 20 product prioritization techniques and a periodic table to make sense of them all.

Learning Containers From The Bottom Up
What is a Container? Container vs. VM? Docker vs. Kubernetes. How to organize the learning efficiently?

The history of Berkeley DB
A Conversation with Margo Seltzer and Mike Olson

DevOps in academic research
Some things I learned supporting infectious disease epidemiologists.

My Own Private Binary
An Idiosyncratic Introduction to Linux Kernel Modules.

Visualising the 300M instructions of Hello World
This post covers some testing of instruction trace gathering and visualisation capability on the hello binaries of 13 different languages. It’s mainly graphs and a bit of commentary.

First steps with GPT-3 for frontend developers
A beginners guide to OpenAI's API that eases frontend developers into the world of GPT-3 and gives all the tools needed to start building AI-powered Next.js apps.

Avoiding Premature Software Abstractions
How we removed 80% of our code — improving development speed and reducing errors.

Build Your First Smart Contract with Ethereum & Solidity
Smart contracts are an exciting way to build decentralized applications (dapps) on a blockchain. This tutorial helps you learn and build your first smart contract using Solidity on Ethereum blockchain.

What you need to know about cluster logging in Kubernetes
Explore how different container logging patterns in Kubernetes work.

Peritext: A CRDT for Rich-Text Collaboration
Collaboration on rich text is hard to model with plain-text approaches. We review the challenges and how to construct a CRDT for rich text.

Watch and Listen

Context is Everything
Andreas Fredriksson, Principal Engineer at Unity3D, provides a fun and exhaustive case study to prove that context is everything.

Mastering AWS Freelancing
A chat with Adam Elmore about his journey to become an AWS freelancer, the value of achieving all 12 AWS certifications, how starting the AWS FM podcast may have changed his perspective on the AWS CDK (as well as other things), and much more.

Advanced Git Tutorial
Git has so much more to offer than just "commit, pull, push"! Its advanced tools can help you become more productive and professional with your code base. We're going to look at concepts like Interactive Rebase, Cherry-Picking, and Submodules to get you one step closer on your journey to mastering Git!

Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

RegexLearn
Learn RegEx step by step, from zero to advanced.

designstripe
Create beautiful illustrations, no design skills needed.

Remix
Remix is a full stack web framework that let’s you focus on the user interface and work back through web fundamentals to deliver a fast, slick, and resilient user experience.

Dev Lake
An open-source data-lake & dashboard for your dev tools.

Micronaut Framework
The Micronaut framework is a modern, open source, JVM-based, full-stack toolkit for building modular, easily testable microservices and serverless applications.

Runno
Runno helps you make runnable code examples that can be embedded in web pages.

tovie
An Advanced Programming Language (Compiler + Interpreter + Transpiler)

elfshaker
elfshaker is a low-footprint, high-performance version control system fine-tuned for binaries.

Blueboat
Blueboat is an open-source alternative to Cloudflare Workers. The monolithic engine for serverless web apps.

Jovo Framework
The React for Voice and Chat: Build Apps for Alexa, Google Assistant, Messenger, Instagram, the Web, and more.

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