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Welcome to issue 91 of Programmer Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

Quote of the Week

"The proper use of comments is to compensate for our failure to express ourself in code." - Robert C. Martin

News

German Court Rules Websites Embedding Google Fonts Violates GDPR
Google Fonts is a font embedding service library from Google, allowing developers to add fonts to their Android apps and websites simply by referencing a stylesheet. As of January 2022, Google Fonts is a repository for 1,358 font families and is used by over 50.1 million websites.

Competitive programming with AlphaCode
As part of DeepMind’s mission to solve intelligence, we created a system called AlphaCode that writes computer programs at a competitive level.

Reading List

5 Design Patterns for Building Observable Services
How can you make your services observable and embrace service ownership? This article presents a variety of universally applicable design patterns for the developer to consider.

Pay attention to WebAssembly
WebAssembly is at an inflection point. Over the next few years, I expect to see increased adoption of WebAssembly across the tech sphere, from containerization to plugin systems to serverless computing platforms. This post is a discussion of what WebAssembly is, what makes it a relevant technology, and where it’s being used today. I’ll also describe some potentially high-impact applications and make some predictions about its future.

Why and how I got my own ASN!
In this article, I'll explain how, and why I acquired an Autonomous System Number and some IPv6 addresses.

How I Discovered Thousands of Open Databases on AWS
My journey on finding and reporting databases with sensitive data about Fortune-500 companies, Hospitals, Crypto platforms, Startups during due diligence, and more.

An Index Gone Rogue
Our investigation recipe for loaded RDS PostgreSQL instance.

A pipe operator for JavaScript: introduction and use cases
The proposal “Pipe operator (|>) for JavaScript” (by J. S. Choi, James DiGioia, Ron Buckton and Tab Atkins) introduces a new operator. This operator is an idea borrowed from functional programming that makes applying functions more convenient in many cases. This post describes how the pipe operator works and what its use cases are (there are more than you might expect!).

Improving Reliability: Building a Vitess Balancer to Minimize MySQL Downtime
After noting how a single hardware failure could domino into high-severity database outages, HubSpot engineers used constraint solving to build a system that balances MySQL workloads.

Speeding up VSCode (extensions) in 2022
I was curious to know if the functionality of VSCode can catch up with the native speed of some editors, such as Sublime. That led me to seek out where some bottlenecks may be and where time is being spent. In this post, I look at both the internals and extensions.

Retrospective and Technical Details on the recent Firefox Outage
On January 13th, 2022, Firefox became unusable for close to two hours for users worldwide. This incident interrupted many people’s workflow. This post highlights the complex series of events and circumstances that, together, triggered a bug deep in the networking code of Firefox.

How I hacked SONOS and YouTube the same day
Or how to play YouTube videos on your SONOS, easy and for free.

WebVM: server-less x86 virtual machines in the browser
We made a server-less virtual Linux environment that runs unmodified Debian binaries in the browser. This is powered by CheerpX, a WebAssembly virtualization platform. Feel free to play with it and report bugs.

How to build a CI/CD pipeline with GitHub Actions in four simple steps
A quick guide on the advantages of using GitHub Actions as your preferred CI/CD tool—and how to build a CI/CD pipeline with it.

A Beginner’s guide into Router Hacking and Firmware Emulation

Reasons for servers to support IPv6

Watch and Listen

2D Game Development with GDevelop
Learn how to create games with GDevelop, a 2D cross-platform, free and open-source game engine. You can create games with minimal coding and run them on most major platforms.

Programming the Linux Kernel with eBPF, Cilium and Service Meshes
Charles Humble and Liz Rice discuss eBPF, a way of making the Linux kernel programmable. They talk about why it exists, how it works under the hood, and what you can and can’t do with it. They also talk about Cilium, an open source library for observing network connectivity between container workloads, and the new Cilium-based service mesh currently in beta.

Go and AWS - Code and Deploy a Serverless API
Learn how to create a complete AWS serverless stack using the Go programming language. This course covers both coding and deployin a simple serverless stack using API Gateway, Lambda, and DynamoDB.

This is What a Large-Scale Cloud Adoption Program Looks Like
Dio Rettori discusses some of the lessons learned, challenges, and considerations of large-scale adoption for JPMorgan Chase.

Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

mysql-snake
Classic video game revived with a new story, now available for your MySQL database.

Hibiki
A powerful new web framework for creating modern, dynamic, frontend applications without JavaScript, that can be fully scripted and controlled by backend code.

Cherrybomb
Stop half-done API specifications! Cherrybomb is a CLI tool that helps you avoid undefined user behavior by validating your API specifications.

lossless-cut
The swiss army knife of lossless video/audio editing.

wholeaked
A file-sharing tool that allows you to find the responsible person in case of a leakage.

NextUI
Beautiful, fast and modern React UI library.

hollows_hunter
Scans all running processes. Recognizes and dumps a variety of potentially malicious implants (replaced/implanted PEs, shellcodes, hooks, in-memory patches).

awesome-security-hardening
A collection of awesome security hardening guides, best practices, checklists, benchmarks, tools and other resources.

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