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Welcome to issue 92 of Programmer Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

Quote of the Week

"XML is like violence – if it doesn’t solve your problems, you are not using enough of it." - Anonymous

News

Researchers Build AI That Builds AI
By using hypernetworks, researchers can now preemptively fine-tune artificial neural networks, saving some of the time and expense of training.

Researchers use tiny magnetic swirls to generate true random numbers
Whether for use in cybersecurity, gaming or scientific simulation, the world needs true random numbers, but generating them is harder than one might think. But a group of Brown University physicists has developed a technique that can potentially generate millions of random digits per second by harnessing the behavior of skyrmions—tiny magnetic anomalies that arise in certain two-dimensional materials.

North Korea Hacked Him. So He Took Down Its Internet
Disappointed with the lack of US response to the Hermit Kingdom's attacks against US security researchers, one hacker took matters into his own hands.

Malicious Kubernetes Helm Charts can be used to steal sensitive information from Argo CD deployments
Apiiro’s Security Research team has uncovered a major software supply chain 0-day vulnerability (CVE-2022-24348) in Argo CD, the popular open source Continuous Delivery platform, which enables attackers to access sensitive information such as secrets, passwords, and API keys. Argo CD released a patch to fix this zero-day vulnerability.

Reading List

The Semiconductor Ecosystem – Explained
The last year has seen a ton written about the semiconductor industry: chip shortages, the CHIPS Act, our dependence on Taiwan and TSMC, China, etc. But despite all this talk about chips and semiconductors, few understand how the industry is structured. So here’s a quick pictorial tutorial on how the industry works

Kubernetes kOps: Step-By-Step Example & Alternatives
Learn the features and functionality of Kubernetes kOps, explore its alternatives, and follow step-by-step instructions to implement it.

3 Innovations While Unifying Pinterest’s Key-Value Storage
In unifying all of Pinterest’s 500+ key-value use cases (over 4PB of unique data serving 100Ms of QPS) onto one single interface, not only did we make huge gains in reducing system complexity and lowering operational overhead, we achieved a 40–90% performance improvement by moving to the most efficient storage engine, and we saved the company a significant amount in costs per year by moving to the most optimal replication and versioning architecture. In this post, we selected three (out of many more) innovations to dive into that helped us notch all these wins.

R: a quick introduction
This article focuses on R-specific concepts like vectorisation, recycling, subsetting, matrix and data.frame objects, and some built in types. Control statements and function/object declarations are omitted.

Testing Distributed Systems
Curated list of resources on testing distributed systems.

PostgreSQL Timestamps and Timezones: What You Need to Know—and What You Don’t
In part one of a two-part blog series, we'll demystify date and time data types in PostgreSQL and YugabyteDB in the context of a live conference call.

Part 2 - In this part two, we'll explore durations—or how long things last—in PostgreSQL and YugabyteDB.

How Prime Video updates its app for more than 8,000 device types
Overall, we think that this investment in Rust and WebAssembly has paid off: after a year and 37,000 lines of Rust code, we have significantly improved performance, stability, and CPU consumption and reduced memory utilization.

Creating a Postgres Foreign Data Wrapper
This is an introductory tutorial on how to get started building a PostgreSQL foreign data wrapper. We introduce the basics around setting up a project for building and installing the extension and how to implement a very basic read only scan.

Exposing a web service with Cloudflare Tunnel
What if you could host a web service with no ports exposed? With Cloudflare Tunnel, you can!

Request bodies in GET requests

Yes, I can connect to a DB in CSS

How UTF-8 Works

Watch and Listen

Creating a Zelda style game in Python
A Zelda-style RPG in Python that includes a lot of elements you need for a sophisticated game like graphics and animations, fake depth; upgrade mechanics, a level map and quite a bit more.

APIs and the Evolution of Serverless
A chat about how Brainly used serverless to turn 4 developers into 50, how the API economy could reshape cloud architecture, what the next evolution of serverless and cloud development looks like, and so much more.

Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

Adadot
Adadot is the world’s first fitness tracker for work, for developers. We leverage data hiding in productivity and collaboration software to help you improve how you work and feel. Rooted in science.

Sha256 Algorithm
Sha256 algorithm explained online step by step visually.

RegEx Library
A curated list of useful regular expressions for different programming languages.

Unikraft
Unikraft is a fast, secure and open-source Unikernel Development Kit.

Medusa
The Open Source Shopify Alternative. Create a headless commerce store in minutes and start your growth journey on a fast and flexible foundation.

SR
A project to statically recompile DOS and Windows game executables to create Windows or Linux (x86 or arm) versions of the games.

AstroVim
AstroVim is an aesthetic and feature-rich neovim config that is extensible and easy to use with a great set of plugins.

Midarr
The next-generation media server.

blockprotocol
The Block Protocol is an open standard for building and using data-driven blocks. Blocks developed in accordance with the protocol allow you to make websites and applications that are both more useful to and readable by humans and machines.

Script Kit
Shortcut to Everything. An open-source kit to optimize your developer workflow.

PgCat
PgBouncer rewritten in Rust, with sharding, load balancing and failover support.

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