Awesome static analysis tools, linters, and code quality checkers
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.
How I'm still not using GUIs in 2019
“GUIs are bloatware” — Terminal rules…a guide to the terminal…
In this post, I’ll walk you through everything you need to start making your terminal a complete development environment: how to edit text efficiently, configure its appearance, run and combine a myriad of programs, and dynamically create, resize and close tabs and windows.
Learn how Brex, Commonbond, and Ramp use Retool
This is part of the Retool Lightning Demos series. Learn how some of the fastest growing financial services companies build their internal tools. Watch 5 minute demos from Brex, Commonbond, and Ramp.
Enjoyed this? Visit learn.retool.com and retool.com/customers for more.
UTC is enough for everyone, right?
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.
OpenAI Fellows — Fall 2018 (now open)
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.
An NES-style (8-bit) CSS framework
I love this with my whole heart. 🤤
Upgrading GitHub from Rails 3.2 to 5.2
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.
An awesome list of open source macOS apps
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. 💪
Infrastructure as Code (free O'Reilly eBook)
Development teams for companies worldwide are attempting to build large infrastructure codebases. Download this eBook and learn how to effectively use principles, practices, and patterns pioneered by DevOps teams to manage cloud-age infrastructure.
A secure TypeScript runtime on V8
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.
Amp - a complete text editor for your terminal
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. 👌
A small git hack for resuming work
Amjith shares a simple git alias he uses to resume work from where he left off. Perhaps you’ll find it useful, too.
mostly – a full stack web app starter kit built on Node.js
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.
An XKCD excuse generator
A fun little side project by Mislav Cimperšak where you plug in a few values and it generates a shareable replica of XKCD’s famous Compiling comic. Here it is in action with a piece of modern art I call, “Low Hanging Fruit”. 😁
`cd` is wasting your time
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! 😱
Build your own Mint (finance analytics) with Plaid, Google Sheets, and CircleCI
Mint is super cool, but handing over your precious financial information to a 3rd-party is always a bit nerve-racking. Evan You’s new Node app builds a bridge between Plaid (for bank access) and Google Sheets (for data storage) so you can roll your own system.
Now you only have to trust your precious financial information to two 3rd-parties 😉. But! This is open source so at least you don’t have to trust the application code.
Guide to scaling engineering organizations
Stripe Atlas has a wide array of guides to running an internet business that are totally open and free for everyone. This guide is on “scaling engineering organizations” and covers everything from recruiting and hiring, training and on-boarding, to retention.
If you haven’t checked this out yet, it’s a 15 minutes or less read.
Build native desktop applications using Vue.js
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.
Signale – a hackable console logger
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.
Database modeling anti-patterns 🙅♀️
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.
What's coming in Go 1.15
If you missed Go Remote Fest over the weekend then you missed this talk (slides only for now) from Daniel Martí on what’s coming in the next release of Go (Go 1.15) scheduled for August of this year.
What are you most excited about for this upcoming release of Go?