Issue #184

A Reading Club For Software Developers

Pointer.io If you're interested in mentoring people of color & under-represented minorities, signup here.  Where Did Software Go Wrong? - Jesse Li #ThoughtPiece   tl;dr: "Software cannot be divorced from the human structures that create it, and for us, that structure is capitalism" prompting the profound question - "what are the aims and ends we should direct our software towards?"   Stripe's Remote Engineering Hub, One Year In - Fernando Doglio #Stripe #RemoteWork   tl;dr: For businesses that weren't full remote but considering it now, a rundown of what Stripe has learnt.  The Third Age Of JavaScript - Shawn Wang #Javascript   tl;dr: "Third Age is about clearing away legacy assumptions and collapsing layers of tooling."  Introducing Hermes #Hermes #NewTechnology   tl;dr: A new package manager, deployment tool for linux. "A bit like docker, where instead of building images in layers, you are building software packages from source into directories that can reference each other." Stop Using datetime.now! - Haki Benita #Python   tl;dr: Discusses dependency injection as a design pattern, which has the main benefit of decoupling modules, functions & objects. We Are SpaceX Software Engineers - We Launch Rockets Into Space - AMA #Reddit   tl;dr: AMA with engineers who work on everything from large-scale web applications to tiny embedded computing platforms related to spacecrafts or their manufacturing process.   To donate to the George Floyd Memorial Fund, Click Here #BlackLivesMatter 80-characters-per-line Limits Should Be Terminal, Says Linux Kernel Chief Linus Torvalds - Simon Sharwood #PracticalTips   tl;dr: "Linus Torvalds has railed against 80-character-lines as a de facto programming standard and has moved to make reminders to keep things short a thing of the past." How Lyft Does Remote Learning Differently - Jen Gilbert #RemoteWork   tl;dr: How Lyft pivoted their tech learning strategies for remote work, including their work with online learning platforms.  Rust: Dropping Heavy Things In Another Thread Can Make Your Code 10000 Times Faster - Aaron Abramov #Rust   tl;dr: "A significant chunk of time is usually spent not in doing any computations, but in dropping large data structures at the end of the function." Example and workaround is shown.  What Science Can Tell Us About C And C++'s Security - Alex Gaynor #Security #C #C++   tl;dr: Research suggests that using memory-safe programming languages results in reduction in number of vulnerabilities. The Go Compiler Needs To Be Smarter - Daniel Lemire #Go   tl;dr: Go's compiler is "shy about inlining" and doesn't have a concept of runtime constant variable. 2020 Developer Survey #Survey #StackOverflow   tl;dr: An analysis of the annual survey of over 65,000 developers.  Pointer.io unsubscribe from this list