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"Obsolete comments are worse than no comments." — Douglas Crockford

News

This Prepper Is Building a Post-Apocalyptic Internet
One engineer has built a new communications protocol that he says is resistant to disaster and central points of failure.

Conversational AI Programming with CodeGen: Let AI Write Code For You
Can you imagine a machine writing an app for you, just by telling it what you want? As futuristic as this scenario sounds, it’s actually here today. Salesforce AI Research outlines conversational AI programming as a new paradigm that’s making this vision a reality, thanks to an AI system that writes software with you, in a conversation.

Internet disruptions overview for Q1 2022
In this post, we review selected Internet disruptions observed by Cloudflare during the first quarter of 2022, supported by traffic graphs from Cloudflare Radar and other internal Cloudflare tools, and grouped by associated cause.

‘Mind-blowing’: Ai-Da becomes first robot to paint like an artist
AI algorithms prompt robot to interrogate, select, and decision-make to create a painting.

Proactively prevent secret leaks with GitHub Advanced Security secret scanning
Organizations with GitHub Advanced Security can now proactively protect against secret leaks with secret scanning’s new push protection feature.

Reading List

Head-First Kubernetes
A Kubernetes tutorial for complete beginners.

Everything You Never Wanted To Know About Linker Script
Very few people know how to write linker script; it’s a bit of an obscure skill. This post is a good enough summary of the linker script language that you, too, can build your own binary!

On the Craft of Engineering Management
Understanding the profession, and whether it's the right path for you.

Pathways Language Model (PaLM)
Scaling to 540 Billion Parameters for Breakthrough Performance.

Emerging Architectures for Modern Data Infrastructure
Software systems are increasingly based on data, rather than code. A new class of tools and technologies have emerged to process data for both analytics and ML.

Hacking Human Connection: the Story of Awedience
How a home-grown product helps Airbnb employees feel more connected during solitary times.

The Ultimate Guide to Onboarding Software Engineers
Learn how to onboard engineers with an empathetic and structured approach. Includes a 30-60-90-day check-in template. Onboarding software engineers is not trivial.

Watch and Listen

A Tour of Prolog
Let's take a look at Prolog's greatest attractions and most unique features! In addition to being an excellent database and query language, Prolog is uniquely suited for processing rules, reasoning about strings, and solving combinatorial problems. Rewriting code at compilation time, a feature called macros in other languages, is easily possible in Prolog. Prolog's implicit mechanisms allow exceptionally concise meta-interpreters. These features make Prolog a very attractive language for writing interpreters and other complex applications.

Security in the Cloud
A chat about how to think about security choices around services and resources in the cloud, the need for leadership and education, how serverless extends the shared security model, and so much more.

2022 InfoQ Software Architecture & Design Trends
Each year, InfoQ editors discuss what we’ve been observing across the entire software development landscape, and create several trends reports, each with its own graph of the adoption curve. This helps the editorial team focus its reporting on innovative technologies and ideas, and also provides our readers with a high-level overview of topics to keep an eye on.

Talos: Linux Designed For Kubernetes
Talos is Linux designed for Kubernetes. It's secure, immutable, and minimal.

Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

gh-dash
gh cli extension to display a dashboard of PRs and issues - configurable with a beautiful UI.

http-feeds
Asynchronous event streaming and data replication with plain HTTP APIs.

PacketStreamer
PacketStreamer is an open-source tool that captures network traffic from multiple remote sources concurrently and aggregates the data into a single pcap log file. It supports network capture from Kubernetes nodes, Docker hosts and bare-metal / virtual-machine servers.

Hacking-Windows
A free Windows C development course where we will learn the Win32API and reverse engineer each step utilizing IDA Free in both an x86 and x64 environment.

Yaade
Yaade is an open-source, self-hosted, collaborative API development environment.

EaseProbe
A simple, standalone, and lightWeight tool that can do health/status checking.

Helix
A post-modern modal text editor.

Nacre
Nacre is an intuitive shell designed for those who prefer to work with objects over text.

Dagger
A portable devkit for CI/CD pipelines

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