Programming

In praise of PostgreSQL https://drewdevault.com/2021/08/05/In-praise-of-Postgres.html https://redd.it/oynrdh @programmingreddit

PEP 657 -- Include Fine Grained Error Locations in Tracebacks https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0657/ https://redd.it/oye2el @programmingreddit

MS Edge Team experiments with disabling JIT (Super Duper Secure Mode) https://microsoftedge.github.io/edgevr/posts/Super-Duper-Secure-Mode/ https://redd.it/oycjq4 @programmingreddit

When You Get Right Down to It, Most Security Is Based on The Honor System https://mhd-aboelez.medium.com/when-you-get-right-down-to-it-most-security-is-based-on-the-honor-system-517eec985e64?sk=f849da59aa1f2f033dd91ef1bc1bd5de https://redd.it/oyeq6y @programmingreddit

Code for America employees are unionizing - More than 75 percent of eligible employees have indicated their support for the effort https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/4/22607889/code-for-america-employees-unionizing https://redd.it/oy3yvk @programmingreddit

The surreal experience of my first developer job https://bennuttall.com/the-surreal-experience-of-my-first-developer-job/ https://redd.it/oxqtez @programmingreddit

Why Don’t Tech Companies Pay Their Engineers to Stay? https://www.goethena.com/post/why-don-t-tech-companies-pay-their-engineers-to-stay https://redd.it/oxw2jk @programmingreddit

Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Phone Numbers https://github.com/google/libphonenumber/blob/master/FALSEHOODS.md https://redd.it/oxxoh1 @programmingreddit

Making Reasonable Use of Computer Resources https://vfoley.xyz/reasonable-use/ https://redd.it/oxifte @programmingreddit

Beautiful ideas in programming: generators and continuations https://www.hhyu.org/posts/generator_and_continuation/ https://redd.it/ox8vvz @programmingreddit

RTS game, but instead of using mouse you program the units' AI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJvHsV32Yms https://redd.it/oxo19n @programmingreddit

Malicious PyPI Packages Stealing Credit Cards and Injecting Code https://jfrog.com/blog/malicious-pypi-packages-stealing-credit-cards-injecting-code/ https://redd.it/owzyf7 @programmingreddit

Two months in: How the SaaS that was built in 7 days is going https://onlineornot.com/two-months-on-how-onlineornot-is-going https://redd.it/oxfmsh @programmingreddit

Zoom to pay $85M for lying about encryption and sending data to Facebook and Google https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/08/zoom-to-pay-85m-for-lying-about-encryption-and-sending-data-to-facebook-and-google/ https://redd.it/ox7u0o @programmingreddit

GitHub - VSCodium/vscodium: binary releases of VS Code without MS branding/telemetry/licensing https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium https://redd.it/ox0m6a @programmingreddit

Vue.js has been selected as Wikimedia Foundation's future JavaScript framework https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/SOZREBYR36PUNFZXMIUBVAIOQI4N7PDU/ https://redd.it/owy1e0 @programmingreddit

Github CoPilot is 'Unacceptable and Unjust' Says Free Software Foundation https://www.theinsaneapp.com/2021/08/github-copilot-is-unacceptable-says-free-software-foundation.html https://redd.it/owzuz3 @programmingreddit

Empty npm package '-' has over 700,000 downloads https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/empty-npm-package-has-over-700-000-downloads-heres-why/ https://redd.it/owveu5 @programmingreddit

Exercises that programmers should do to avoid back and neck pain https://pinkpen.net/exercises/ https://redd.it/ow8lz0 @programmingreddit

Tilck: a Tiny Linux-Compatible Kernel https://github.com/vvaltchev/tilck https://redd.it/owdgjf @programmingreddit