Speaking of WWDC and possibly-overlooked announcements… Dan Moren has a great round-up on Six Colors of some small-yet-significant things like iOS Back Tap, App Store review process modifications, improvements to Shortcut, and more.
This is the 2nd biggest piece of news coming out of the WWDC keynote yesterday, but you may have missed it (I did) because it was merely mentioned in one of those overview slides.
(The 1st biggest news was the ARM transition, but nobody missed that one.)
This auth lib has a nice set of features, including support for a bunch of oauth providers. What I really appreciate about a solution like this (vs relying on a 3rd party) is the own your own data bit:
- An open source solution that allows you to keep control of your data
- Supports Bring Your Own Database (BYOD) and can be used with any database
- Built-in support for for MySQL, MariaDB, Postgres, MongoDB and SQLite
- Works great with databases from popular hosting providers
- Can also be used without a database (e.g. OAuth + JWT)
“Serverless” may be a buzzword, but it’s not an empty one. Less than five years since it launched, AWS Lambda has already been adopted by nearly half of the companies with infrastructure in AWS. In this report, Datadog examines the serverless usage of thousands of companies to provide a look at how (and how much) serverless is being used in the real world.
I am now making more money than I’ve ever made while developing open-source software for a community that I adore. Pinch me, I’m dreaming.
Was it luck? there’s certainly been a lot of that.
Was it fate? Let’s leave religion out of this mmkay?…
Was it that the software I built was so incredibly compelling that it forced 535 people to give me at least $14/mo. to keep working on it? …I wish.
It’s more than that though. There were some key things I did along the way to get here. Let me tell you all about them.
Application deployment and management should be automated, auditable, and easy to understand and that’s what beetle tries to achieve in a simple manner. Beetle automates the deployment and rollback of your applications in a multi-cluster, multi-namespaces kubernetes environments. Easy to integrate with through API endpoints & webhooks to fit a variety of workflows.
This full connected has it all: news, updates on AI/ML tooling, discussions about AI workflow, and learning resources. Chris and Daniel breakdown the various roles to be played in AI development including scoping out a solution, finding AI value, experimentation, and more technical engineering tasks. They also point out some good resources for exploring bias in your data/model and monitoring for fairness.
Looking for a new gig? Ryan Choi helps YC startups hire great people and he’s offering free advice to job seekers on their resumes and how to reach out. You can email him your resume at ryan@ycombinator.com if you want feedback or pointers.
In this post Ryan says to be sure to cover what, how and impact for each position on your resume.
What did you work on? How did you get your work done? What impact did you have?
On an upcoming episode of Brain Science we’ll be talking about Indistractable by Nir Eyal. One of the larger topics of being distracted is procrastination. In the book, Nir says procrastination “originates from a need to escape psychological discomfort,” and in this post they say…
Procrastination is driven by our desire to avoid difficult emotions…
Pretty close, right? Read this if you want a nice primer on the concept of procrastination, what’s inducing it, and how to overcome it. Else, for the non-tldr, just read Indistractable so you can follow along with us during that upcoming episode.
Linode Kubernetes Engine (LKE) is a fully-managed container orchestration engine for deploying and managing containerized applications and workloads. LKE combines Linode’s ease of use and simple pricing with the infrastructure efficiency of Kubernetes. You can now get your infrastructure and workloads up and running in minutes instead of days.
If you’ve been following along with the Changelog infrastructure, you’ll be pleased to know we’re rolling out LKE as we speak. We love what we’ve seen so far! Oh and be sure to use the code changelog2019 or changelog2020 (whichever works) to get our special pricing.
I’ll save you a click if you’re only curious what those two things are:
1️⃣ connected devices
2️⃣ meetings
You and your business will benefit greatly if you can address these issues. You and everyone on your team will enjoy yourselves more and accomplish more. The data echoes what our common sense tells us: We need to carve out more time for ourselves if we want to remain focused and effective at work. These five daily practices will help.
This new data-science-focused language is fully compatible with Go*, but streamlines things for data science use. It simplifies common scripting tasks. This in Go:
package main
func main() {
a := []float64{1, 2, 3.4}
println(a)
}
Becomes this in Go+:
a := [1, 2, 3.4]
println(a)
And adds features like list comprehensions for easier data processing:
a := [1, 3, 5, 7, 11]
b := [x*x for x <- a, x > 3]
println(b) // output: [25 49 121]
mapData := {"Hi": 1, "Hello": 2, "Go+": 3}
reversedMap := {v: k for k, v <- mapData}
println(reversedMap) // output: map[1:Hi 2:Hello 3:Go+]
It can be compiled directly to bytecode or transpiled into Go code. Give it a go on the playground.
*I almost described it as a “superset” of Go, but I’m not 💯 if that’s true.
Mat Ryer talks to a new full-time Go programmer, an intern at Google, and a high-school programmer about the tech world from their perspective.
Some interesting analysis by Lawrence Hecht for The New Stack:
The 2020 version of JetBrains’ State of the Developer Ecosystem does quantify the extent to which this specialty has disappeared. One finding is that 43% of teams or projects have less than one tester or QA engineer per 10 developers. This is not necessarily a problem if most testing is automated, but that is only true among 38% of those surveyed.
38% is far too low a percentage of folks doing automated testing.
We take a listener request this week and discuss how we evolve alongside (or opt out of) the ever changing JavaScript syntax. Arrow functions and variable declarations take center stage, but a wide range of new(ish) JS syntax and features are discussed.
Then Feross shares his new app, Nick talks fiction books, and Jerod switches coding fonts.
This article compares six static tools to validate and score Kubernetes YAML files for best practices and compliance.
One of the challenges with YAML is that it’s rather hard to express constraints or relationships between manifest files.
What if you wish to check that all images deployed into the cluster are pulled from a trusted registry?
How can you prevent Deployments that don’t have PodDisruptionBudgets from being submitted to the cluster?
I used to be the guy with dozens of Chrome extensions. These days I limit my use of both (Google Chrome and browser plugins). Performance and reliability are features I desire more than what most plugins have on offer.
That being said, if you have a lot of extensions and you’re curious which ones might be bogging down your machine’s resources, this is a great analysis of the top 1000.
No matter how many of these WFH articles I read (or podcasts I listen to), there’s usually still one or two tips and/or perspectives I glean from each one. This is a nice piece on the Taskade Blog that starts by unpacking these three common tips:
1️⃣ Become a (Master) Communicator 📣
2️⃣ Find Your Work Sanctum 🏡
3️⃣ Make Time for Work (And Play) ⏰
Use this GitHub Action to select a combination of linters you want to run on your code base automatically. It currently supports 15 linters and there are a bunch more in the request queue.
Expose is a beautiful, open source, tunnel application that allows you to share your local websites with others via the internet.
Since you can host the server yourself, you have full control over the domains that your shared sites will be available at. You can extend expose with additional features and middleware classes on the server and client side, to make it suit your specific needs.
Alan Shreve closed ngrok’s source code years ago, and every now-and-again an open source alternative pops on the scene. Add Expose to the list. It’s written in PHP and has a nice shine on it. But which of these SSH tunneling tools is best in class?
You are not what you’ve been dealt. You might have heard in your life that you’ve inherited bad genes or even good genes, and from that you conclude that you’re doomed or blessed. In some cases there’s a margin of truth to that. However, the role of genes, Epigentics, and Neuroplasticity tell a different story. It’s a story of hope and opportunity for change.
Stephanie Morillo
In my own observations and conversations with developers and marketers, UX design is often conflated with visual design or user interface design, when in fact both of these are sub-disciplines within the field of UX design and are not representative of the totality of UX. I’ve been involved in conversations where talk of updating a “page’s UX” has meant adding visual design elements to a page. Anecdotally, I’ve seen calls for “UX designers” in open source when the need was for brand assets like a logo. (In this case, you would look for a visual designer.)
In this short post, I’ll cover some basics of UX design for developers who are interested in understanding what UX is and how it differs from other forms of design.
