Weekly Drip
Where we look at the week's top software development news.
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Each lesson focuses on a single aspect of building the project, like modeling the data, building a GraphQL server in Elixir, or building a mobile client for it in Flutter.
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2017-03-25 Language Rankings, CSS Grid, Gitlab updates to 9.0
The Weekly Drip for this week covers some highlights from Language Rankings, what the new GitLab updates include, and everything you need to know about CSS Grid.
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2017.04.01 Ember had a big week, Next.js 2.0 is here, and 99 Bottles of OOP is ready to be on your reading list.
Catch up on the latest news about Ember, Next.js & the latest technical book on OOP.
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Apple commits to Pro users, Android beats Windows in internet usage, and VR’s new backbone is here.
For the first time ever, Android has beaten Windows and internet Usage. VR has a new backbone, and Apple commits to Pro users.
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Rate Limiting, ReactXP Announced, and criticism of Electron/Slack resource management
Rate limiting, ReactXP became open source, and resource management via Electron apps were criticized.
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React Changes, Docker OSS rebrands as Moby, and Weed NLP
React changes, a new name for Docker, and the data behind Cannabis.
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RailsConf, Web Dev Roadmap, Stanford teaches JS over Java
RailsConf, Roadmap for Web Dev, Stanford picks JS over Java.
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deck.gl, music sequencing, an Intel chipset vulnerability, and more.
deck.gl, a new music sequencer, and an Intel chipset vulnerability.
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GPL Ruled Enforceable, New MS Design System, and Stack Overflow Trends
GPL Ruled Enforceable, New Microsoft Design System, and Stack Overflow Trends.
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Google I/O takes over, Kotlin becomes first-class, and data behind the repetitiveness of top songs
Google I/O takes over, Kotlin becomes a first-class language on Andriod, and data behind the repetitiveness of top songs
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Stack Overflow uses Machine Learning to make better job postings, GitHub Marketplace, and One Million developers are stuck in Vim
Stack Overflow is on top of the news again, GitHub Marketplace is live, and a lot of people have had trouble exiting Vim.
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Apple Teaches Swift, Node 8.0, Fireflies capture everyone’s attention, and CS degrees are rare.
Free Swift book, Node releases new version, Fireflies and CS degrees.
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R analysis of HN trends, WWDC, and TempleOS gets a Gameboy Emulator
R analysis of trending words in HackerNews post titles, WWDC, and TempleOS gets a Gameboy Emulator
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Tabs cost you money, Mac Ransomware, and G’MIC is more awesome
Developers who use tabs make less, Mac Ransomware, and G'MIC goes 2.0.
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Tabs vs. Spaces redux; Interviews are terrible; OSS deep-learning data
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One time delivery, engineering love, grow your own, and They’re good languages Brent
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Data Structures, Old Programmers, Better Programmers, and Google Docs hacks
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[ Weekly Drip July 15th ] Discord scales with Elixir, People argue over most popular langs, and Cryptocurrency ICOs
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2017-07-22 Weekly Drip: Wiping your OS while running, the myth of safe C/C++ code, and generating coastlines.
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Flash is dead; Mobile worm; Ionic survey results; AI optimization
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Interpreted Dolphin Shaders; Bitcoin Fork; DefCon attendee arrested
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DOOM, StarCraft, Unreal, AI and Teapots!
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OpenAI, .NET 2.0 and Bitcoin 💖’s coal
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CSS gets fast, Learn Crystal, Android noms Oreos, Cryptocurrency via Python
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ARCore, Clippy’s Revenge, and Finding Satoshi
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ElixirConf 2017, Python beats Javascript, Yarn 1.0, & How Blockchain Works
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Astrophotography, Graphing in Python, and a Deep Dive on Linters
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RIP open web, Calculate Your Dev Salary, VIM users make more $$$
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Facebook reliscenses GraphQL/React, Lyft uses Typescript, and Hacking your coding interviews
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Contractors make more 💰, Encrypted Git, & Mozilla 💖’s OSS
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Is Agile Working? Spotify uses ML to suggest tracks, Techniques for better code reviews
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Neural nets colorize B&W photos, MDN docs go cross browser, & iFrames get easier
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Better Code Reviews, Android Studio supports Kotlin, How Unreal Renders a Frame
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Best week ever! Adobe on UX, ML survey responses, Rust is growing fast, Most hated languages
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Unified Logs, ML-driven design, Frids, !STDs, and real-time ASCII art
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Be a better technical leader, make Firefox fast with Rust, resize tons of images with Go, don’t use NoSQL
Open Source Speech Recognition, The failed DRM fight, ML as software dev 2.0, and is Electron a cancer?
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Open Source Projects We Are Thankful For
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Generative Adversarial Networks, Django 2.0, CSS Grids, and Spider Monkey optimizations
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Blockchain Blockers, The State of JavaScript, Sustainable FE practices
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Graphs (real and fake), Profilers, Firefox eats crow
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JavaScript’s domination continues, 34C3 shares visions of the future, and how Ethereum executes a transaction
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ZOMG Processors, Cold Showers for the Hot New Thing, and Browser Security
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Elixir Survey, Why security is difficult, Browser Wars Story time, Quantum computing in 2018
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Beyond Bitcoin, Vue.js Rising, AI-Curated Garbage
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2018 Dev skills survey results, modeling Elm API requests, and reducing Ruby’s memory footprint
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Deploy with Fargate, Rust matches its Roadmap, and Webpack 4 beta drops
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Dinosaurs teach CSS, Developer Compensation, Cargo Cult Development, and ReasonML finds traction
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CTO’s reflections, Byte-equivalent decompilation & Framework Benchmarks Round 15
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React Native MIT, JupyterLab Beta, Code Review Mistakes, NPM Issues, and Smart Contract Security
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Functional Web Stack, Programmers’ Hell, First NN Running on Ethereum, Google ML Crash Course
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GitHub sucks for hiring, John Carmack writes NN in C++, Flutter is neat, & Dockermentation
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2018 Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results, Building Systems from Scratch, Bot or Not, & React is all the Rage!
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Technical debt as a tool, the CLOUD Act, Github ‘forks’, and toilet geolocation
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*Intelligent* DEs, Code Under Change, and Developers are ….
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Rogue Packages, Rust Week, & A Guide to the Unexpected!
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Elixir is fast, webasm has an IDE, Technical Debt payment strategy
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Rails Conf, 1000+ Rails Projects, Azure Sphere & Avoid Fireballs
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Explosions, Testing Antipatterns, Job Interviews, Backwards Compatibility.
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Is C stifling processor development? Kubernetes gets Operators. A new Electron challenger has appeared!
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Google IO & PyCon Do Not Disappoint, DIY Pool Table (With JavaScript) & Cool Stuff in FireFox 60
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Front-End Tooling Survey, VIM Pacman, Agile & Estimation don’t get love.
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Building a Ray Tracer ⚡️, ☀️ Solar Fridges ❄️, WebAssembly and Elm Starters
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Linux has the Power, Internet Trends, Intro to Pony, (Game) Devs Love Doom
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GitHub Acquired, Node Mistakes, C inspires madness, Elixir Project Structure
Vue Native Launches, Intro to Data Structures, Adopting Elixir, and unsecure bluetooth padlocks
Facial Recognition, Crystal != Ruby, FreeBSD turns 25, Wireshark Rocks, and Pascal => D
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Vue.js Handbook, Elm generative art, Gentoo Github compromised, and Kubernetes’ effects on an organization
3 Nerds in a Garage, /([Pp]+okemon)/, TypeScript|OCaml for React Native
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Python drives away BDFL; Monads sans 🌯; System Design Explained
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9 Biggest Mistakes in CSS Grid; 💌 Love Letter to Vue; ☕️ Java types broken
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Exploding Rails; Knative k8s Serverless; Elixir QoL; JS fundamentals; Stable APIs
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Re-Distributing the (D)web, Vue vs React, Keeping secrets, Typescript 3 released, ❤️ Mechanical Keyboards
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Dart 2: The Dartening, Pwning Homebrew, Prod Minimalism, Unethical Development
Dart 2 launches, Homebrew forgets to secure Jenkins, Deploy less to do more, Automated employee firing with Bash.
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Design for Developers, {:elixir, :cars}, Code Review Review, Top 20 Languages
This week we cover Design and accessibility, programming your car with Elixir, a culture of code reviews, and the most popular languages among software developers.
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Waffle Fries as a Service; Elm 0.19; has OSS failed?; design for devs
Chick-fil-A deploys k8s for fun and proffit, Elm 0.19 compiles to very small bundles, Does OSS provide for societal good?, How to stop sucking at design
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Is Rails Relevant? On the whining re: Elm, and Funding of OSS for fun and profit
Rails developers have babies to feed, Elm removes feature they promised to remove, algorithm interviews, and what funds open source?
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Java Dominates while Python grows, AMP sucks, Typescript helps tame JS
JetBrains 2018 developer survey, John Ousterhout discusses Software Design, ElixirConf videos released
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2.5M concurrent connections in Elixir. Readable code. Functional UI framework. Postgres 11 gets ~30% faster
How Discord manages 2.5M concurrent WebRTC connections. Long form article on writing more readable code. Scenic is a functional UI framework in Elixir and OpenGL.
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cat /dev/news: impossible programs, Linus vacations, BIG TECH COLLUSION!
This was a busy week for dev news, so we are trying a different format. More link dump + snark, less formal write ups.
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💵💵 Java 11 - now with license fees 💵💵; Neckbeard wisdom; CA makes empty promise on IoT security
Java 11 license changes, Two discussions of retained developer wisdom, CA passes more useless laws, Dropbox drops the mic after a major Python 3 migration.
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Open Source Spotlight: Ignite - the React Native Starter Kit
Production ready starter kits for the React Native ecosystem.
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