Martin Heinz martinheinz.dev

Why I will never use Alpine Linux ever again

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 joshwcomeau.com

The end of front-end development

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.

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What do 37,000 developers say about Postman?

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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:

  • 89% would be unhappy if they were not allowed to use Postman anymore
  • 81% say Postman is necessary for enabling an API-first development model
  • 51% say a majority of their organization’s development effort is spent on APIs
  • 75% say Postman helps them collaborate with developers better than other platforms or tools

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.

Daniel Rosenwasser devblogs.microsoft.com

Announcing TypeScript 5.0

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.

Docker docker.com

Docker apologizes for their Docker Free Teams announcement

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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