/Industry News

Mozilla: The Greatest Tech Company Left Behind

- Matthew MacDonald tl;dr: "Mozilla is a company with a long history of moving the world of web standards forward. And its crisis should concern us all." Some of its contributions have gone under the radar - Rust, HTML5, Asm.js and MDN. Click on the link in this tweet if paywalled.

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How To Save Mozilla

- Daphne Preston-Kendal tl;dr: "Google is to blame for not renewing the contract that gives Mozilla a share of the ad revenue from the Firefox search bar." Ways to support Mozilla include writing to lawmakers to prompt an investigation into Google’s anti-competitive practices, "actually use Firefox", and more.

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Berners-Lee 'Sorry' For Slashes

tl;dr: "Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the World Wide Web, has confessed that the // in a web address were actually "unnecessary"."

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The State Of Developer Ecosystem 2020

tl;dr: "Feedback from 19,696 developers whom we surveyed helped us identify the latest trends around tools, technologies, programming languages."

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Bye, Amazon

- Tim Bray tl;dr: Tim resigned his role at Amazon in protest of the company's mistreatment of warehouse workers. He cites the critical role of power balances. Employees at AWS are not mistreated nor considered disposable the way warehouse workers are. 

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Coding.blog

tl;dr: "A blog platform for developers, for everything coding. Not for content-marketing disguised as programming tutorials. Not for advertisement blended with sincerely interesting pieces."

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The Soul Of A New Computer Company

- Bryan Cantrill tl;dr: Bryan Catrill is launching Oxide, a new computer company that comes from a deep-rooted philosophy that hardware and software should each be built with the each other in mind ground-up.

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Two Malicious Python Libraries Caught Stealing SSH And GPG Keys

- Catalin Cimpanu tl;dr: Two libraries were found stealing SSH and GPG keys. The libraries were named similar to common ones to trick developers into using them.

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Contract For The Web

tl;dr: Authored by the WWW Foundation, this is a set of principles for the trifecta of government, companies and citizens. 

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$10,000 Fellowships For Women Working On Open Source Programming Projects, Research, and Art

- Rachel Vincent

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