Changelog

Fresh on the heals of our TS Party comes this curated list of tools for getting the most out of static code analysis. This list is gloriously polyglot, so there’s probably something in there for everyone. Not in to static analysis (or just a huge fan of lists)? Check out the sister project, Awesome Dynamic Analysis.

Programming around time is the bane of pretty much every programmer’s existence. UTC works most of the time, but still has its flaws. Zach Holman writes on his blog: Programming time, dates, timezones, recurring events, leap seconds… everything is pretty terrible. The common refrain in the industry is Just use UTC! Just use UTC! And that’s correct…sort of. But if you’re stuck building software that deals with time, there’s so much more to consider. It’s time…to talk about time. Zach includes a lot of time-related puns and whole lot of wisdom about programming time.

As we gear up for the launch of Practical AI and more AI/ML/DS related news coverage, I wanted to bring to your attention to this 6-month apprenticeship (compensated) in AI research at OpenAI. We’re now accepting applications for the next cohort of OpenAI Fellows, a program which offers a compensated 6-month apprenticeship in AI research at OpenAI. We designed this program for people who want to be an AI researcher, but do not have a formal background in the field. Applications for Fellows starting in September are open now and will close on July 8th at 12AM PST. Apply here.

I love this with my whole heart. 🤤

Eileen Uchitelle: In total the project took a year and a half to upgrade from Rails 3.2 to Rails 5.2. Along the way we took time to clean up technical debt and improve the overall codebase while doing the upgrade. Below we’ll talk about how we upgraded Rails, lessons we learned and whether we’d do it again. Congrats to Eileen and the team on this massive effort! Click through to read how they did it and the lessons the learned along the way.

This list is a lot longer than I expected! Alongside each app is an icon indicating whether it’s written in Swift or Objective-C, which is nice for those of us looking for reading material. 💪

Inspired by Vim’s modal editing, but built to be as simple as possible. This is no fly-by-night proof of concept. It’s 3 years in the making and looks extremely polished. I’m definitely going to give Amp a test-drive. 👌

Amjith shares a simple git alias he uses to resume work from where he left off. Perhaps you’ll find it useful, too.

If you need a JS runtime that supports TypeScript out of the box and has security as a top-most priority, star this repo and come back when it’s no longer “Segfaulty”. Feature bullets! 👇 No package.json, no npm. Not backwards compatible with Node Single executable Defaults to read-only file system access Always dies on uncaught errors Supports top-level await EDIT: it’s worth noting that this project is by Ryan Dahl, inventor of Node.js.

Olivier Lacan on why we should all stop using cd and start using j (a.k.a. autojump). I’ve been wasting soooo many keystrokes over the years! 😱

Nikita Sobolev outlines why they’re a self-described “mediocre developer” and how they survive in such a state. What follows is a bunch of excellent advice on practical steps toward success as a developer. Ironically, Nikita’s self-professed mediocrity and clear path toward defeating it makes them an outstanding developer in my eyes. 🤩 Go and do likewise.

Dimitri Fontaine shares 3 classic data-modeling anti-patterns. The UUID section lacks strong argumentation, but the real gem in this article is his advice at the end. A snippet: My advice is to always normalize your database model first, and then only fix the problems you have with that when you actually have them. Well except in those 3% of cases where really, really, it should be done in the design phase of the project. It’s quite hard to recognize those 3% though, and that ability is hard gained with experience. Experience is the ultimate teacher.

An exciting new project from Nathan Sobo and team: an experimental Electron-based text editor informed by what we’ve learned in the four years since the launch of Atom … this project is a testbed for rapidly iterating on several radical ideas without risking the stability of Atom Xray’s priorities are high performance, collaboration, extensibility, and web compatibility. Needless to say, we’ll be keeping our 👀 on this project over the coming months.

mostly’s purpose is to serve as a lightweight, easy-to-comprehend starting point, with a focus on providing a great developer experience while helping you get high quality and maintainable web applications deployed rapidly. It uses Express for the server and React for the client. Worth a look if you’re starting up a new web project. I dig this point about it: Nothing is hidden, nothing is magical, and all of the “plumbing” is accessible and simple.

The list is categorized by programming language and most entries include a brief description and frequency of publishing. You know I had to get my PR on when I only saw a couple of our podcasts in the list. Now we can truly call it an awesome list. 😉

Zack Whittaker writes for Zero Day: Apple gave me all the data it collected on me since I bought my first iPhone — in 2010. This is what has largely stood out to me in the ongoing discussion about what data the four have on me and how they use it… As insightful as it was, Apple’s treasure trove of my personal data is a drop in the ocean to what social networks or search giants have on me, because Apple is primarily a hardware maker and not ad-driven, like Facebook and Google, which use your data to pitch you ads. Want to request your data? It takes just a few seconds…

Hackable and configurable to the core, signale can be used for logging purposes, status reporting, as well as for handling the output rendering process of other node modules and applications.

a collection of working, practical examples of using service workers in modern web sites. From caching strategies, to web push, to going offline and optimizing performance; this cookbook is chocked full of great recipes. There’s also a comments section at the bottom of each recipe where people are answer the question, “Has it been useful?” Now that’s useful!

Vuido makes it possible to create lightweight, native desktop applications using Vue.js. Application using Vuido can run on Windows, OS X and Linux, using native GUI components, and don’t require Electron. Emphasis added. Vuido uses libui under the hood to drive its cross-platform GUI components.

I bet everybody has heard about popular lists such as awesome-python, awesome-shell, awesome-cms and such and find them incredibly valuable. Well… Awesome Dev Fun list is on the other side of that spectrum. It’s a curated list of awesome funny libs/packages/languages that have no real value or purpose but to make a developer chuckle. If we can’t have fun (and poke fun at ourselves), what’s the point of it all? Also this list is embarrassingly short, y’all. Gentlepeople, fire up your PR engines…