Programming

TIL that Hyrum of "Hyrum's Law" is a senior staff engineer at Google whose coworkers - after hearing him frequently refer to an already known phenomenon without a name - jokingly refer to it as "his law". The name stuck and become widely accepted. https://dzone.com/articles/lessons-learned-from-programming-at-google-w-hyrum https://redd.it/s0tvgf @programmingreddit

Why I switched from VS Code to JetBrains - 5 Points https://blankly.finance/vscode-vs-jetbrains https://redd.it/s0my2q @programmingreddit

Multicore OCaml PR has been merged https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pull/10831#issuecomment-1008918735 https://redd.it/s0lidc @programmingreddit

JiraCLI: 🔥 Feature-rich interactive Jira command line (supports both cloud and on-premise installation) https://github.com/ankitpokhrel/jira-cli https://redd.it/s0dxo9 @programmingreddit

The right to delete: how faker.js exposed the fragile nature of open source culture, again https://www.thegingerviking.com/the-right-to-delete-fakerjs-fragile-nature-open-source/ https://redd.it/s0epdr @programmingreddit

Why your organization needs a software bill of materials -- "The recent Log4j vulnerability has exposed systemic problems in how businesses, and the community at large, audit their software." https://venturebeat.com/2022/01/08/why-your-organization-needs-a-software-bill-of-materials/ https://redd.it/rzu4jf @programmingreddit

An incomplete list of skills senior engineers need, beyond coding https://skamille.medium.com/an-incomplete-list-of-skills-senior-engineers-need-beyond-coding-8ed4a521b29f https://redd.it/rzvqgf @programmingreddit

Fast Kernel Headers v2 Posted - Speeds Up Clang-Built Linux Kernel Build By ~88% https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Fast-Kernel-Headers-v2 https://redd.it/rzoysn @programmingreddit

James Web Space Telescope runs on C++ code. https://youtu.be/hET2MS1tIjA?t=1938 https://redd.it/rzmxy8 @programmingreddit

This is David Khourshid and his pure CSS (no js) creations. And they are flat out amazing! https://codepen.io/davidkpiano https://redd.it/rzmlon @programmingreddit

This is David Khourshid and his pure CSS (no js) creations. And they are flat out amazing! https://codepen.io/davidkpiano https://redd.it/rzmlon @programmingreddit

I wanted to interview at companies doing good in the world, then I built a job board for engineers who want to do the same. https://goodjobs.careers https://redd.it/rzcail @programmingreddit

500M Avira Antivirus Users Introduced to Cryptomining https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/01/500m-avira-antivirus-users-introduced-to-cryptomining/ https://redd.it/rz6ym8 @programmingreddit

Marak, creator of faker.js who recently deleted the project due to lack of funding and abuse of open source projects/developers pushed some strange Anti American update which has an infinite loop https://github.com/Marak/colors.js/issues/285 https://redd.it/rz5rul @programmingreddit

Ben Eater || How does a USB keyboard work? https://youtu.be/wdgULBpRoXk https://redd.it/ryiwo1 @programmingreddit

My first impressions of web3 https://moxie.org/2022/01/07/web3-first-impressions.html https://redd.it/rytqmz @programmingreddit

Saving a Third of Our Memory by Re-ordering Go Struct Fields https://wagslane.dev/posts/go-struct-ordering/ https://redd.it/ryes0g @programmingreddit

Filling in some gaps in the story of Space Cadet Pinball on 64-bit Windows https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20220106-00/?p=106122 https://redd.it/ryeobv @programmingreddit

How a routine gem update ended up creating $73k worth of subscriptions https://serpapi.com/blog/how-a-routine-gem-update-ended-up-charging/ https://redd.it/ryjvjc @programmingreddit

Researchers discover Log4j-like flaw in H2 database console https://portswigger.net/daily-swig/researchers-discover-log4j-like-flaw-in-h2-database-console https://redd.it/ryb2yd @programmingreddit