Issue 300 - Putting food on the table with open source (25)

Tejotron: A Virtual Breadboard and 6502 in the Browser — This is a fun project, though it’ll take you a bit of fiddling to get up to speed with it. Here’s a video of it in action to get a better feel. Note: You have to click Start Simulation before Run Simulation will work.

Wine 6.0 Released: Run Windows Apps on POSIX-Compliant OS — A significant release for a tool commonly associated with running Windows apps on Linux.

go-enry: A Faster File Programming Language Detector — When they say ‘faster’, they’re comparing to Linguist, as used by GitHub.

Why Elasticsearch Had to Change Its License — This is a complicated story that ties into a bunch of things that have been happening over the past few years. In short, Amazon/AWS is keen to offer new services and often releases services built on open source projects (e.g. RDS with MySQL and Postgres).Some companies that steward open source projects (like MongoDB and Elastic) want...

Putting Food on the Table While Giving Away Code — libcurl is a fundamental part of Internet infrastructure tooling now and its creator has had to balance it being free with keeping ‘food on the table’ and earning a living. Here’s his story.

An Unlikely Database Migration — We’ve all simply used text files (whether CSV or a lump of JSON) as adhoc databases, and so was the case at Tailscale, a networking company. Here’s how they migrated from a single JSON blob ‘database’ to etcd to help their control plane scale into the future.

Maximizing Developer Effectiveness — A technical director at ThoughtWorks introduces a framework for increasing developer effectiveness through the idea of highly optimized feedback loops.

An Alternative Way for Google to Block Sites — Once upon a time, Google dropping you from its search results could be disastrous, but now they can, in theory, block your site from loading in Chrome altogether via the well-intended Safe Browsing system. There are some tips here for mitigating this risk.

Securing Your GitHub Project — 15 tips for improving the security of any projects you have hosted on GitHub from using two factor auth to security scanning and using trusted GitHub Actions.

Language-Agnostic Guidelines on Naming Variables — JavaScript is used although the basic principles can be applied to most languages.

The Cost of Errors: Reduce Churn with Granular Data in Video Analytics — Download our latest whitepaper to learn about error types and how to calculate their potential effect to your business.

Introducing Message Archiving and Analytics for Amazon SNS — How enabling SNS delivery to Kinesis Data Firehose lets you add storage and analytics services into the mix with an example showing how to store SNS messages in S3 via Kinesis Data Firehose.

Linux and Powershell — It’s been possible to use Microsoft’s Powershell in Linux for a while. This is a very simple introduction, but the Hacker News discussion off the back of it provides more value if you choose to give it a go.

A Photo Sharing Website on Less Than a Cup of Coffee Per Month — How one photographer’s site works by tying together a variety of AWS services including Lambda, Rekognition (for label detection), Amplify, Cloudfront, and S3.

The Complexities of Creating a New Capability at the BBC — In an organization as complex as the BBC, adding a new feature to their Web site platform involves a lot of collaboration, planning, and process.

How .NET Core 3.1 Has Saved Azure 20,000 CPU Cores — Azure migrated their Active Directory gateway service from .NET to .NET Core and the throughput gains were so significant they could reduce their fleet size by 50%.

Building DigitalOcean's API Gateway — The full story of how DigitalOcean built its own API gateway in Go.

Rust Is A Hard Way to Make A Web API — We run so many positive stories about Rust that some balance is always welcomed.

Fulfilling The Promise of 'CI/CD' — The author says that when we say CI/CD, we’re nearly always talking about continuous integration and not true continuous deployment. Here she makes the case for us all to adopt true CI/CD in our projects.

Software Effort Estimation Is Mostly Fake Research — Some good HN discussion off the back of this one.

Altair: A Feature-Rich Cross Platform GraphQL GUI Client — A tool clearly written using Web technologies but available for macOS, Windows, Linux, etc. for testing and working with GraphQL and GraphQL APIs.

Find Your Next Job Through Hired — Create a profile on Hired to connect with hiring managers at growing startups and Fortune 500 companies. It's free for job-seekers.

Do You Need Golang or Kubernetes Training? — On-site corporate training. Having trained over 4,000 engineers since 2013, we've crafted classes for students to get as much as possible.