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Quote of the Week

"In the end, regardless of where you are on the development hierarchy, keep coding. It’s where you’re most valuable." - The Developer's Code

News

DeepMind Has Trained an AI to Control Nuclear Fusion
The Google-backed firm taught a reinforcement learning algorithm to control the fiery plasma inside a tokamak nuclear fusion reactor.

Exploiting Apache Cassandra User-Defined Functions for Remote Code Execution
JFrog Security disclosed CVE-2021-44521 remote code execution vulnerability in Apache Cassandra NoSQL database. Learn who is impacted and how to fix it.

A new programming language for high-performance computers
With a tensor language prototype, “speed and correctness do not have to compete ... they can go together, hand-in-hand.”

WebGL 2.0 is Now Supported in All Major Browsers
From Firefox to Safari: all major browsers can now render graphics.

Reading List

Radar Interference Tracker
Many military radars interfere with open source satellite imagery when they're turned on. A new tool lets anyone monitor when and where these radars are deployed.

GPS
Interactive article explaining how GPS works.

How Postgres Stores Rows
This post goes into the implementation level details and map out how PostgreSQL row storage really works.

Top 10 web hacking techniques of 2021
The Top 10 (new) Web Hacking Techniques of 2021 is the latest iteration of an annual community-powered effort to identify the most significant web security research released in the last year.

The Adventures of Rendezvous in Heroku’s New Architecture
A story of how we encountered a critical error for a customer use case and the root cause analysis that followed.

My thoughts on writing a Minecraft server from scratch (in Bash)
I wrote a working Minecraft server in Bash! wait, why did I do that.

What TPMs Do and What Software Engineers Can Learn From Them
A deep dive with five Technical Program Managers (TPM) on what the role is, how it evolved, and how engineers and managers can benefit from working with TPMs.

Server-Sent Events: the alternative to WebSockets you should be using
When developing real-time web applications, WebSockets might be the first thing that comes to your mind. However, Server Sent Events (SSE) are a simpler alternative that is often superior.

Watch and Listen

Lua in 100 Seconds
Lua is a lightweight dynamic scripting language often embedded into other programs like World of Warcraft and Roblox. It's minimal syntax makes it easier to learn than Python, while being much more performant than other interpreted languages.

Blockchain Development: Querying with Open APIs Course
In this blockchain development course, you will learn how to query on the blockchain and build open APIs. This course will teach you how to build your own distributed applications using The Graph. It's like Lego blocks for composing your own protocols. You'll learn how to build your own APIs that query Ethereum, IPFS, and other data sources.

Self-Provisioning Runtimes
A chat about workflows as code with Temporal, self-provisioning runtimes, the intersection of cloud and serverless, the need for developer experience roles, and so much more.

Inside the Hidden Git Folder
Git doesn't actually perform magic, but it's pretty neat. Dr Max Wilson takes us through the various elements that make Git such a useful tool.

Books

Algorithmica
Algorithmica is an open-access web book dedicated to the art and science of computing.

Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

Validkube
ValidKube combines the best open-source tools to help ensure Kubernetes YAML best practices, hygiene & security.

jless
JLess is a command-line JSON viewer designed for reading, exploring, and searching through JSON data.

A-Frame
A web framework for building 3D/AR/VR experiences.

redbean
Single-file distributable web server.

Melody
Melody is a language that compiles to regular expressions and aims to be more easily readable and maintainable.

snake-asm
Tiny snake game made in x86_64 assembly for Linux.

onedev
Self-hosted Git Server with Built-in CI/CD.

frawk
An efficient awk-like language.

AzureHunter
A Powershell module to run threat hunting playbooks on data from Azure and O365 for Cloud Forensics purposes.

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