Nowadays, Alpine Linux is one of the most popular options for container base images. Many people (maybe including you) use it for anything and everything. Some people use it because of its small size, some because of habit and some, just because they copy-pasted a Dockerfile from some tutorial. Yet, there are plenty of reasons why you should not use Alpine for your container images, some of which can cause you great amount of grief…
Josh Comeau:
Over the past few months, I’ve spoken with lots of early-career devs who are getting more and more anxious about AI. They’ve seen the increasingly-impressive demos from tools like GPT-4, and they worry that by the time they’re fluent in HTML/CSS/JS, there won’t be any jobs left for them.
I couldn’t disagree more. I don’t think web developer jobs are going anywhere. And I’m getting pretty sick of the FUD? being spread online.
So, in this blog post, I’m going to share my hypothesis for what will happen. Things are going to change, but not in the scary way people are saying.
Andrew Quinn:
fzfis a bit of a weird program because installing it actually overwrites a whole bunch of keyboard shortcuts, in the interest of making them better. Normally I would hate this. But…
Lots of good stuff in this post 👍
Postman surveyed over 37,000 developers to ask them how they worked with APIs. Most of those findings are in their State of the API Report (2022), but there were a few things to highlight separately. Here’s what they learned:
This is the fourth year in a row for Postman’s State of the API survey and report. It’s the largest and most comprehensive survey and report on APIs. You should check it out.
This is an awesome HN thread on all the ways blogging have improved the lives of developers around the world. It’s brimming with statements like:
I’ve been blogging since 1998 and can trace every major step forward in my career to my blog.
The best time to start your developer blog was 1998. The second best time is right now.
Congrats to Dan, Rachel and the entire React team for shipping a new docs site! Here’s their TLDR:
TypeScript PM, Daniel Rosenwasser:
This release brings many new features, while aiming to make TypeScript smaller, simpler, and faster. We’ve implemented the new decorators standard, added functionality to better support ESM projects in Node and bundlers, provided new ways for library authors to control generic inference, expanded our JSDoc functionality, simplified configuration, and made many other improvements.
Typst is a new markup-based typsetting system that is designed to be as powerful as LaTeX while being much easier to learn and use.
Often folks think that chasing the next promotion is the best thing to do, but sometimes you should just enjoy where you are..
Docker CMO, Tim Anglade:
For those of you catching up, we recently emailed accounts that are members of Free Team organizations, to let them know that they will lose features unless they move to one of our supported free or paid offerings. This impacted less than 2% of our users…
The Docker Free Team subscription was deprecated in part because it was poorly targeted. In particular, it didn’t serve the open source audience as well as our recently updated Docker-Sponsored Open Source program, the latter offering benefits that exceed those of the deprecated Free Team plan.
We’d also like to clarify that public images will only be removed from Docker Hub if their maintainer decides to delete them. We’re sorry that our initial communications failed to make this clear.
Just to be clear: their apology is not about the change, it’s about how they communicated the change. There’s more details in the post about deleting public images, squatting names, etc, but that’s the gist.
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