Programming

Brush up your COBOL: Why is a 60 year old language suddenly in demand? -- "So, how can you learn it, make big bucks, and save lots of state agencies that need new code to deal with all the new government stimulus programs?" [United States of America] https://stackoverflow.blog/2020/04/20/brush-up-your-cobol-why-is-a-60-year-old-language-suddenly-in-demand/ https://redd.it/nj1r16 @programmingreddit

U.S. has almost 500,000 job openings in cybersecurity https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cybersecurity-job-openings-united-states/ https://redd.it/nj4kvv @programmingreddit

Sending an Email Tutorial in 1984 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yFB1iOrw28 https://redd.it/nimo91 @programmingreddit

Youki, a container runtime in Rust, passed all the default tests provided by opencontainers. https://github.com/utam0k/youki https://redd.it/niv8cg @programmingreddit

Retired Microsoft OS dev doing a programming Q&A livestream tonight! 30 Languages Compared! https://youtu.be/YUaIcMzgfGw https://redd.it/nir14x @programmingreddit

Building LLVM in 90 seconds using Amazon Lambda https://blog.nelhage.com/post/building-llvm-in-90s/ https://redd.it/nhxmkf @programmingreddit

Official Python software package repository flooded with spam https://www.tectalk.co/official-python-software-package-repository-flooded-with-spam/ https://redd.it/niibjt @programmingreddit

I wanted to make a quick video about the differences between classes and structs in C#. It turned into a much deeper exploration where I learned a handful of things I definitely didn't expect. I hope it is useful to other people! https://youtu.be/uFHtFOmH2OI https://redd.it/niiixq @programmingreddit

Welcome to Counterexamples in Type Systems, a compendium of horrible programs that crash, segfault or otherwise explode. https://counterexamples.org/intro.html https://redd.it/nhw2yy @programmingreddit

Have you ever wanted to write an emulator? Probably not, but here's a tutorial anyways! https://cgmathprog.home.blog/2021/05/20/chip-8-and-emulator-overview/ https://redd.it/ni1vwe @programmingreddit

Employees are feeling burned over broken work-from-home promises and corporate culture ‘BS’ as employers try to bring them back to the office https://theconversation.com/employees-are-feeling-burned-over-broken-work-from-home-promises-and-corporate-culture-bs-as-employers-try-to-bring-them-back-to-the-office-158692 https://redd.it/nhzrtq @programmingreddit

Animated GIF uses 360MB of RAM on x86, while the same image uses 35.51GB on Apple Silicon https://twitter.com/ccgus/status/1395145361136644098?s=20 https://redd.it/nhla14 @programmingreddit

Sublime Text 4 released https://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/sublime-text-4 https://redd.it/nhjz93 @programmingreddit

Microsoft announces end of life plans for Internet Explorer 11 https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2021/05/19/the-future-of-internet-explorer-on-windows-10-is-in-microsoft-edge/ https://redd.it/nh22eh @programmingreddit

What problems do people solve with strace? https://jvns.ca/blog/2021/04/03/what-problems-do-people-solve-with-strace/ https://redd.it/ngux8z @programmingreddit

Text Editing Hates You Too https://lord.io/text-editing-hates-you-too/ https://redd.it/nh0k0a @programmingreddit

“I Could Rewrite Curl” https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/05/20/i-could-rewrite-curl/ https://redd.it/ngzdjx @programmingreddit

The Freenode resignation FAQ, or: "what the fuck is going on?" https://gist.github.com/joepie91/df80d8d36cd9d1bde46ba018af497409 https://redd.it/ng804w @programmingreddit

In 1982, a one-bit hack let me dodge a summer of filling in potholes https://madned.substack.com/p/a-teenagers-guide-to-avoiding-actual https://redd.it/ng69ye @programmingreddit