I bet you can learn a lot about Bash scripting from this project. Comes with a caps locked disclaimer: DO NOT USE THIS IN ANY PUBLIC FACING SERVER. THIS IS NOT SECURE. FOR EDUCATIONAL USE ONLY.

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Learn from Ryan Palo about the super-powers of the “short-circuit” policy in Bash. In Bash, the && and || (AND and OR) operators work via a “short-circuit” policy. if [[ "$1" -gt 5 ]] && [[ "$1" -lt 10 ]]; then This checks the first condition. If the first condition is true, then there’s a possibility the whole thing could be true, so it checks the second condition. If the second condition is true, then the whole thing is true! However, if the first condition is false, then there’s no reason to check the second condition, because the whole thing could never possibly be true with the first one false.

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While googler is extremely popular among cmdline users, in many forums the need of a similar utility for privacy-aware DuckDuckGo came up. DuckDuckGo Bangs are super-cool too! So here’s ddgr for you!

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CSSBattle is a fun developer game where players replicate visual targets using the smallest possible code and climb the leaderboards. Looks like a fun way to waste spend your Friday afternoon…

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Our friend Henry Zhu (of Babel “fame”) has a new podcast all about maintainers: How can we work together to achieve a common goal: whether in our code, cities, or infrastructure? Henry Zhu chats with fellow maintainers across all disciplines of life on their process, motivations, and struggles as they learn in public.

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We’re talking with Syrus Akbary about WebAssembly and Wasmer — a standalone just in time WebAssembly runtime aiming to be fully compatible with Emscripten, Rust, and Go. We talked about taking WebAssembly beyond the browser, universal binaries, what’s an ABI?, running WebAssembly from any language, and what a world might look like with platform independent universal binaries powered by WebAssembly.

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Awesome Stacks is a community-curated list of tech stacks for building different applications and features. Each stack in the list has a name, description, and list of a few of the key tools and technologies. Optionally, it links to a tutorial, starter kit or boilerplate that makes it easy to get started with. Contribute ’em if you got ’em.

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Thorsten Ball writes on his personal blog: Different programming languages are good at different things and bad at others. Each one makes certain things easier and in turn others harder. Depending on what we want to do we can save ourselves a lot of work by choosing the language that makes solving the type of problem we’re facing the easiest. That’s one of the tangible, no-nonsense benefits of learning more languages. You put another tool in your toolbox and when the time comes you’re able to choose the best one. But I would go even one step further. I think it’s valuable to learn new programming languages even if — here it comes — you never take them out of the box. But why? Languages shape the way we think, each in their own peculiar way. That’s true for programming languages as well…

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This is an explainer on how to build a GitHub App that predicts and applies issue labels using Tensorflow and public datasets. Hamel Husain writes: In order to show you how to create your own apps, we will walk you through the process of creating a GitHub app that can automatically label issues. Note that all of the code for this app, including the model training steps are located in this GitHub repository. See also: Issue Label Bot

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Containerization technologies are one of the trendiest topics in the cloud economy and the IT ecosystem. The container ecosystem can be confusing at times, this post may help you understand some confusing concepts about Docker and containers. We are also going to see how the containerization ecosystem evolved and the state of containerization in 2019. Put on your swimming suit, because this is a deep dive. 🏊‍♀️🏊

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We’re back! Panelists Mat Ryer, Johnny Boursiquot, Jaana B. Dogan, and Mark Bates discuss Go 2, the future of Go, what they like and don’t like, and what they would add or remove.

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We recently added a new feature Tidelift subscribers can use to discover unmaintained dependencies. After taking an early look at the data we’re getting back, it appears that about 10-20% of commonly-in-use OSS packages aren’t actively maintained. Click through for an explainer on how they define “unmaintained” as well as a link to their tool for analyzing your app’s dependencies (email required).

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If necessity is the mother of invention, who is its father? My vote: laziness Jumpcutter was invented when some Stanford CS students had to catch up on hours of recorded lectures prior to the exam, but didn’t want to have to watch all of the non-talking parts. What resulted was a super useful tool that can be used for vloggers, stop-motion video, and more. The whole story is told in this highly entertaining video on YouTube.

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On our recent text mode episode, we mentioned learning from other people’s dotfiles. Adam found this awesome-dotfiles repo and included it in the show notes, but I thought I’d log it as well to call more attention to it. Also, did you like my idea near the end of the show to produce some videos of smart/interesting developers walking us through their dotfiles? Holla back in the comments…

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A fabulous introduction to Quantum computing: Learning this material is challenging. Quantum computing and quantum mechanics are famously “hard” subjects, often presented as mysterious and forbidding. If this were a conventional essay, chances are that you’d rapidly forget the material. But the essay is also an experiment in the essay form… the essay incorporates new user interface ideas to help you remember what you read. Parts 2 and 3 coming soon. ⌛

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A web UI for managing your app’s cache, inspired by Sidekiq’s web UI.

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Don’t put off slow tests as an annoyance: do the math on how much time your team is wasting, and then spend a commensurate amount of time speeding it up. A week’s worth of developer time this month will save you a whole lot more over the course of a year.

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From walking five miles from his home to the office, no food all weekend, to using saunas and ice baths in the evening… Dorsey only eats dinner. Sometime between 6:30 p.m. and 9 p.m. he has a meal of fish, chicken, or steak with a salad, spinach, asparagus or Brussels sprouts. He has mixed berries or some dark chocolate for dessert and also sometimes drinks red wine. “I’ll go from Friday ‘til Sunday. I won’t have dinner on Friday. I won’t have dinner or any meal on Saturday. And the first time I’ll eat will be Sunday evening. I’ve done that three times now where I do [an] extended fast where I’m just drinking water,” Dorsey says.

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We literally now have an open-source typeface created by the people, for the people — contributions are welcome. Public Sans is a strong, neutral, principles-driven, open-source typeface for text or display.

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The core idea of this project is to do more with less. PipeHub being a programmable proxy allow users to extend and customize it as needed. Features found in other servers can be added with Go packages. Not ready for production, but interesting nonetheless. Not sure if PipeHub is something that might serve you well? Here’s some pretty good advice to help you decide: If your requirement is covered by built-in features present on other servers like Nginx and Caddy, you’re better of with then. PipeHub shines when you need to add logic that traverses the responsibility of multiple servers…

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