In late 2019, Bill Nichols, a senior member of the technical staff at Carnegie Mellon University with the Software Engineering Institute published his study on “the 10x developer myth.” On this show we talk with Bill about all the details of his research. Is the 10x developer a myth? Let’s find out.

This “letter to self” from Luca Florio is a great example putting down in writing what you’re optimizing for and front loading (which we talk about on Brain Science) so that future you can make choices more easily.

Dear Self,

You just graduated and you are ready to start your career in the IT field. I cannot spoiler anything, but I assure you it will be an interesting ride. I’m writing you this letter because I want to give you some advice that will help you be a better professional. Nothing you won’t learn by yourself in the next few years, but it is something that I wish someone had told me when I started my career. They are not ordered by any means and are all equally important.

A fun way to discover interesting color combos. Whatch out for that undiagnosed light indigo.

Jerod and KBall are joined by Micro Frontends in Action author Michael Geers to discuss (you guessed it) micro frontend architecture. We ask: what is the concept? How is it similar/different to micro services? Who is it best fitted for? How do you put it in practice? And much more.

MeiliSearch is a powerful, fast, open-source, easy to use and deploy search engine. Both searching and indexing are highly customizable. Features such as typo-tolerance, filters, and synonyms are provided out-of-the-box. For more information about features go to our documentation.

Even with the proliferation of modern UI tools like React, Vue, etc. you still have times when dealing directly with the DOM is a must. When that time comes, this site will help you get things done with explanations and code samples for common tasks.

There are many ways to SSH. Some have more security “risks” than others. Yet, we SSH everyday…but could you improve the security of your SSH infrastructure? Maybe. Let’s find out.

Most people can agree that using public key authentication for SSH is generally better than using passwords. Nobody ever types in a private key, so it can’t be keylogged or observed over your shoulder. SSH keys have their own issues, however, some of which we’ve covered in a previous post about SSH key management.

The next level up from SSH keys is SSH certificates. … With SSH certificates, you generate a certificate authority (CA) and then use this to issue and cryptographically sign certificates which can authenticate users to hosts, or hosts to users….

This is a grab and go CSS pattern library powered by modern CSS features. Start with the most basic part (copy and paste the pattern), then customize to your needs.

Bryan Liles joins Johnny and Mat for a wide-ranging discussion that starts with the question: what even is enterprise Go?

One of the great things about Git is everyone can develop their own branching strategies. One of the terrible things about Git is everyone has to develop their own branching strategies. In this quick post on the Adeva blog, Vedrana Tozija describes a strategy she believes is on point for small teams.

Jam session! I sat down (metaphorically) with Phoenix’s new LiveView feature to see if I can integrate it into our admin to provide a Google Docs-esque experience for podcast co-hosts.

This is my first long-form video where I work toward a goal with no clue how to actually get there. Please let me know if you dig this style in general and/or if you have any advice on the particulars.

José Valim, writing on the Dashbit blog:

I have thought about launching “Devise for Phoenix” probably hundreds of times. I had long conversations with Chris McCord (creator of Phoenix) and co-workers about this. Helping Phoenix users get past the burden of setting up authentication can be a great boost to adoption. At the same time, I never found a proper way to approach the problem.

You can probably guess what’s coming next…

About 2 months ago I decided to handwrite a simple and secure authentication solution on top of a Phoenix application.

Cool stuff. Click through to learn the details of what he came up with (and what’s happening next).

If you’re setting out to win friends and influence people with your vim skills, you might as well do it in 3D…

Lens is a standalone application for MacOS, Windows, and Linux. It’s open source and free.

We’ve been logging a few of the ways the open source community has rallied to pitch in our skills around this global pandemic… now our friends at opensource.com created a round-up of their own.

So you just access the GraphQL data in your application like so:

const App = () => (
  <div>
    {query.me.name}
    {query.users({ limit: 10 }).map(user => (
      <div key={user.id}>{user.name}</div>
    ))}
  </div>
)

And behind the scenes gqless generates the queries for you like so:

query App {
  me { name }
  users(limit: 10) {
    id
    name
  }
}

I’m pretty sure that, given the state of the world and the focus on Zoom right now, they will rectify this, but until then…“the only feature of Zoom that does appear to be end-to-end encrypted is in-meeting text chat.”

“They’re a little bit fuzzy about what’s end-to-end encrypted,” Green said of Zoom. “I think they’re doing this in a slightly dishonest way. It would be nice if they just came clean.”

Without end-to-end encryption, Zoom has the technical ability to spy on private video meetings and could be compelled to hand over recordings of meetings to governments or law enforcement in response to legal requests.

This is a written summary of Katerina Trajchevska’s Laracon 2019 talk on SOLID. Tosho Trajanov says it is a “must-read for every software engineer.” Here’s a primer on the primer:

SOLID is an acronym formed by the names of 5 design principles centered around better code design, maintainability, and extendability.

If you use (and abuse) Gmail’s filters in order to wrangle your inbox, this tool might help you keep your sanity as you maintain them over time.

This utility helps you generate and maintain Gmail filters in a declarative way. It has a Jsonnet configuration file that aims to be simpler to write and maintain than using the Gmail web interface, to categorize, label, archive and manage your inbox automatically.

Here is my python source code for training an agent to play Tetris. It could be seen as a very basic example of Reinforcement Learning’s application.

Demo on YouTube.

Daniel Wilson and Rob Fletcher of ESRI hang with Chris and Daniel to chat about how AI powered modern geographic information systems (GIS) and location intelligence. They illuminate the various models used for GIS, spatial analysis, remote sensing, real-time visualization, and 3D analytics. You don’t want to miss the part about their work for the DoD’s Joint AI Center in humanitarian assistance / disaster relief.