Dart 2 Native

Dart 2.6 Goes Native on Linux, Windows, and MacOS

The latest version of Google programming language Dart, numbered 2.6, extends support for native, ahead-of-time (AOT) compilation with the addition of dart2native, which enables the creation of command-line programs on Linux, Windows, and MacOS.

Importantly, dart2native generates self-contained binaries, meaning they do not require the Dart SDK to run. 

Programming languages used at Google

The coding languages that will get you a job at Google. And the coding languages that won't | eFinancialCareers

based on advertised job at Google

Language	Jobs currently advertised	Existing employees
Python	15%	17%
Javascript	15%	12%
C++	14%	16%
Java	13%	18%
.NET	10%	2%
C#	9%	5%
Php	9%	5%
Go	5%	4%
Perl	3%	4%
Html	1%	11%
Ruby	1%	3%
Kotlin	0%	0%
Scala	0%	1%
Rust	0%	0%
Clojure	0%	0%
Elixir	0%	0%
Haskell	0%	1%

free ebook: Software Architecture Patterns

O'Reilly - Software Architecture Patterns

O'Reilly - Software Architecture Patterns

open source drones and robocars

The Changelog #366: Pioneering open source drones and robocars with Chris Anderson, CEO of 3DR |> News and podcasts for developers |> Changelog


3DR

The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More by Chris Anderson

DIY Drones

Dronecode

DIY Robocars

Donkey Car

Kubernetes Podcast from Google

Kubernetes Podcast from Google

Designing and Testing APIs

Episode 387: Abhinav Asthana on Designing and Testing APIs : Software Engineering Radio

Swagger

JSONAPI

OpenAPI

Postman

Stripe API

The Pragmatic Programmer

220: Jon Gifford on Logging and Logging Infrastructure

Episode 370: Chris Richardson on Microservice Patterns

376: Justin Richer on API Security with OAuth2

143: Jim Des Rivieres on API Design

A Framework for the Structural Analysis of REST APIs

Model-Based API Testing of Apache ZooKeeper

API Automation Test with API Relation Diagram

Declarative UI: SwiftUI, Jetpack Compose, Flutter

Declarative UI in the middle of a Whirlwind - Bram Yeh - Medium

Introduction to declarative UI - Flutter

// Imperative style
b.setColor(red)
b.clearChildren()
ViewC c3 = new ViewC(...)
b.add(c3)

// Declarative style
return ViewB(
  color: red,
  child: ViewC(...),
)

Jetpack Compose  |  Android Developers

Xcode - SwiftUI - Apple Developer


SwiftUI vs. Jetpack Compose - QuickBird Studios Blog

Microsoft Outlook PWA (Progressive Web App)

Microsoft has turned Outlook into a Progressive Web App - The Verge

Microsoft Edge is Getting New PWA Features on Windows 10 - Thurrott.com

Outlook on the Web is Becoming a PWA - Thurrott.com

Microsoft is turning Progressive Web Apps into Windows apps - The Verge

https://outlook.office365.com/mail/pwa.json

Get started with Project Web App - Project Online

startups: How not to die by Paul Graham

Advice to startups from Ycombinator founder, one of most successful startup incubators.

How Not to Die

"If you can just avoid dying, you get rich. That sounds like a joke, but it's actually a pretty good description of what happens in a typical startup."
this is also relevant to open source projects, as mentioned in this podcast

The Changelog #363: Nushell for the GitHub era featuring Jonathan Turner, Andrés N. Robalino & Yehuda Katz |> News and podcasts for developers |> Changelog


unrelated (quite good) book
How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease: Michael Greger M.D. FACLM, Gene Stone: 9781250066114: Amazon.com: Books

web: Understanding Flexbox

Understanding Flexbox: Everything you need to know - freeCodeCamp.org - Medium

no more IPv4 Addresses available

The RIPE NCC has run out of IPv4 Addresses — RIPE Network Coordination Centre



"25 November 2019, we made our final /22 IPv4 allocation from the last remaining addresses in our available pool. We have now run out of IPv4 addresses."

O'Reilly += Katacoda

O'Reilly acquires Katacoda—and a new way for 2.5M customers to learn - O'Reilly Media



Katacoda - Interactive Learning Platform for Software Engineers

Visual Studio Online - Cloud IDE - Code Editor Online

Visual Studio Online - Cloud IDE - Code Editor Online
Cloud-powered dev environments accessible from anywhere



Episode #156 All the programming LOLs - [Python Bytes Podcast]

Microsoft launches Visual Studio Online, an online code editor | TechCrunch

IoT: Microsoft Connected Vehicle Platform (MCVP)

The Microsoft Connected Vehicle Platform: An Introduction | Internet of Things Show | Channel 9

Connected Vehicles – Intelligent Platform Solutions | Microsoft Industry

Tesla's Gigafactory 4 in Germany

Tesla's Gigafactory 4 Is One Of Elon Musk's Smartest Moves - Tesla, Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA) | Seeking Alpha



"The company plans on investing in a new electric car factory near Berlin. The factory is expected to go into operation at the end of 2021 and will initially build the future Model Y compact off-roader as well as batteries and drives. Elon Musk had also announced that an engineering and design centre would be located in Berlin."

Tesla Gigafactory 3 - Electrek

Tesla has finally obtained its manufacturing license to start production at Gigafactory 3 in Shanghai — indicating that production is imminent at the new factory.

Tesla is planning a massive service, sales, and charging infrastructure expansion in China ahead of the expected increase in vehicle sales due to volume production at Gigafactory 3.

Tesla Gigafactory 4 Europe - Wikipedia

Gigafactory 3 - Wikipedia

Gigafactory 2 - Wikipedia

"The Tesla Gigafactory 2 is a photovoltaic (PV) cell factory leased by Tesla subsidiary SolarCity in Buffalo, New York. The factory, owned by the State of New York, was built on brownfield land remediated from a former steel mill. Construction of the factory started in 2014 and was completed in 2016–17."

Gigafactory 1 - Wikipedia

CPython Source Code Guide

Your Guide to the CPython Source Code – Real Python



Episode #154 Code, frozen in carbon, on display for all - [Python Bytes Podcast]

Episode #240 A guided tour of the CPython source code - [Talk Python To Me Podcast]

Elon Musk: Neuralink, AI, Autopilot, and the Pale Blue Dot

Elon Musk: Neuralink, AI, Autopilot, and the Pale Blue Dot | MIT | Artificial Intelligence Podcast

transcript.pdf

Elon Musk: 34:18
"Channeling Carl Sagan. Look again at that dot that's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you've ever heard of, every human being who ever was lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering. Thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines. Every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every King and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer. Every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every Saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there. Automotive dust suspended in a sun beam.

Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all those vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. The earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There was nowhere else, at least in the near future to which our species could migrate."

Voyager 1's Pale Blue Dot | NASA Solar System Exploration

Pale Blue Dot | EEGYM – A Service of Thomas M. Brod, MD

Elon Musk: Neuralink, AI, Autopilot, and the Pale Blue Dot | Artificial Intelligence (AI) Podcast - YouTube

Neuralink

Watch Elon Musk’s Neuralink presentation - YouTube

Neuralink Launch Event - YouTube

Neuralink - Merging Brain and Machine - YouTube

WinUI 3.0 & .NET Native

WinUI 3.0 with Ryan Demopoulos @.NET Rocks! vNext

 Carl's Blazor Workshops Emergent Use AI Windows UI LIbrary (WinUI) .NET Native Flutter Fluent Design React Native for Windows XAML Islands Uno UWP App Design WinUI Community Call

Tesla Cybertruck

some interesting ideas implemented, very controversial design: generational change?

Cybertruck | Tesla







Tesla Cybertruck: This Is It







Tesla unveils Cybertruck: electric pickup with range up to 500 miles, starting price of $39,900, & more - Electrek



A Physics Analysis of Tesla's Shattered Cybertruck Windows | WIRED

Everything that happened when Elon Musk unveiled the Cybertruck - Business Insider

Tesla smashes 'bulletproof' pickup truck's windows with a metal ball



Tesla’s Cybertruck can be preordered with a $100 deposit - The Verge

Tesla Cybertruck - Wikipedia

Tesla Cybertruck unveiled
Tesla unveils its first electric pickup, the Cybertruck, starting at $39,900

Tesla Cybertruck reservations hit 146,000 – TechCrunch
Musk tweeted Saturday that 146,000 Cybertruck orders have been made so far. Of those, 41% picked the most expensive tri-motor option and 42% of future customers chose the dual motor version. The remaining 17% picked the cheapest single-motor model.
Kelly Blue Book is owned by Cox, that invested in Ravian, a competitor maker of future electric trucks... Conflict of interest...



Tesla Cybertruck event in 5 minutes - YouTube

WATCH LIVE! Elon Musk presents the new Tesla Cybertruck Launch - YouTube

Up Close and Personal with the Crazy All-New Tesla CYBERTRUCK! - YouTube


Why cars are not made from stainless steel? It would be nice to have a car that won’t rust | Technology Org


Tesla (TSLA) stock down after electric pickup unveiling — market is missing the point - Electrek

"...Tesla figured out some significant cost improvements in both battery costs and manufacturing a vehicle with this new exoskeleton structure...

...Right now, the cheapest vehicle that Tesla is selling with a 100 kWh battery pack is the Model S Long Range, which costs $80,000.

The Cybertruck starts at half that price."

A few too many rounds: Tesla CyberTruck window shattering
"The leading theory is that the repeated launches of the steel ball against the window led to microfractures, which compromised the glass leading to its ultimate shattering on stage."

Elon Musk on Twitter: "Franz throws steel ball at Cybertruck window right before launch. Guess we have some improvements to make before production haha. https://t.co/eB0o4tlPoz" / Twitter

Elon Musk explains why Tesla’s Cybertruck windows smashed during presentation - The Verge

WASI: WebAssembly System interface

The State Of WebAssembly - With Lin Clark and Till Schneidereit - Kent C. Dodds podcast


Lin Clark - Standardizing WASI: a system interface to run WebAssembly outside the web

Lin Clark - A cartoon intro to WebAssembly

Rust and WebAssembly Book

SwiftWasm - compile Swift to WebAssembly

Tesla Model Y vs. Ford Mustang Mach-E

Tesla Model Y vs. Ford Mustang Mach-E specs comparison - Electrek

comparing the least expensive versions of each vehicle:

	Ford Mustang Mach-E Select	Tesla Model Y Standard Range Plus
Price:	$43,895	$43,000 (Estimated)
Range:	230 miles (EPA)	230 miles (EPA)
0-60 mph:	mid-5 seconds	5.9 seconds
Cargo Space:	59.6 cubic feet	66 cubic feet

 

2021 Ford Mustang Mach-E vs. Tesla Model 3, Model Y - MotorTrend - Automobile




Survey finds consumers are split between Ford Mustang Mach E and Tesla Model Y - Electrek

How Tesla's Model Y Compares To Ford's New EV - YouTube

Architecting Multi-Tenancy

41. Architecting Multi-Tenancy - Podcasts | Heroku

Multi Tenant Architecture - developer.force.com


Condos and Clouds - ACM Queue

The Magic of Multitenancy - Salesforce Engineering

K8s & CN (Kubernetes and Cloud Native)

Go Time #105: Kubernetes and Cloud Native with Kris Nova & Joe Beda |> News and podcasts for developers |> Changelog

/k-eigths/

Kubernetes.io

book: Kubernetes: Up and Running, 2nd Edition

free: Kubernetes Concepts and Deployment E-book | Microsoft Azure

Joe Beda on Kubernetes & the CNCF

High Performance Swift

High Performance Numeric Programming with Swift: Explorations and Reflections · fast.ai
by Jeremy Howard (fast.ai, kaggle)

The Power of Swift for Machine Learning (TensorFlow Meets) - YouTube
with Chris Lattner (@clattner_llvm), the creator of Swift, about how Swift has grown beyond mobile development, and can now be used to train neural networks in TensorFlow.

Swift for TensorFlow

free web dev ebooks by flavio copes

My ebooks!

• 📒 JS Handbook
• 📗 Vue.js Handbook
• 📘 Node.js Handbook
• 📙 Express.js Handbook
• 📕 React Handbook
• 📖 ES5 to ESNext
• 📔 CSS Handbook
• 📓 HTML Handbook
• 📙 Svelte Handbook

SQL Server 2019

Introducing SQL Server 2019 | Data Exposed | Channel 9

Search | Channel 9

SQL Server 2019 | Microsoft

What's new in SQL Server 2019 - SQL Server | Microsoft Docs

free ebook: Guide to NoSQL with Azure CosmosDB

Guide to NoSQL with Azure Cosmos DB E-Book | Microsoft Azure

"Work with the massively scalable Azure database service with JSON, C#, LINQ, and .NET Core 2"

electric: Ford Mustang Mach-E

Ford Mustang Mach-E revealed: an electric SUV with up to 300 miles of range - The Verge




2021 Ford® Mustang Mach-E SUV | All-Electric & Exhilarating

Here's how many Mustang Mach-Es Ford can build | Fox News
starting price of $44,995, max 50000/year, 300ml range

Electric Ford Mustang SUV - Ford Mach-E Reveal & Details - YouTube

InfluxDB: time series db, open source, golang

InfluxDB - Wikipedia


Get InfluxDB | InfluxData

influxdata/influxdb: Scalable datastore for metrics, events, and real-time analytics @github

Practical AI #62: It's time to talk time series with Anais Dotis-Georgiou, Developer Advocate at InfluxData |> News and podcasts for developers |> Changelog

Testing APIs & Postman

quite informative podcast
Episode 387: Abhinav Asthana on Designing and Testing APIs : Software Engineering Radio

• Swagger
• JSONAPI
• OpenAPI
• Postman
• Stripe API
• The Pragmatic Programmer
• 220: Jon Gifford on Logging and Logging Infrastructure
• Episode 370: Chris Richardson on Microservice Patterns
• 376: Justin Richer on API Security with OAuth2
• 143: Jim Des Rivieres on API Design
• A Framework for the Structural Analysis of REST APIs
• Model-Based API Testing of Apache ZooKeeper
• API Automation Test with API Relation Diagram

WASM: Web Assembly, AssemblyScript book

Web Assembly (WASM) comes in two formats:

• portable binary format, with file extension .wasm
• text format, with file extension .wat

For most cases .wat is still quite low level, and there is option to use an "AssemblyScript",

an extended strongly typed subset of TypeScript, and compile that to .wasm directly.
The file extension of AssemblyScript is still .ts, same as TypeScript, and that may confuse IDEs.

Converting WebAssembly text format to wasm - WebAssembly | MDN

Introduction - The AssemblyScript Book

assemblyscript/examples at master · AssemblyScript/assemblyscript @GitHub

The simplest way to get started with WebAssembly - Benedek Gagyi - Medium


.WASM is also a compile target for many languages now.

• Rust is quite popular choice since it produces safe, compact and efficient .wasm code, and has good tools for WebAssembly toolchain.
• GoLang compiler provides .wasm compilation target also, while files are larger singe it includes runtime with its own GC
• C-based languages that are using LLVM (C, C++, Swift) have compilation target for .wasm
• .NET Core (C#) can be compiled to .wasm, by leveraging Mono compiler that is C/LLVM based. The runtime is included and relatively large, while tools are quite good. "Blazor" is leveraging ASP.NET C# templates for web apps.

Wasm By Example

Useful code examples:

JeremyLikness (Jeremy Likness) / Repositories (WASM) @GitHub

JeremyLikness/wasm-trees: An example of memory management/passing buffers between WebAssembly and JavaScript

JeremyLikness/PlasmaWasmGo: Implementation of Plasma effect in WebAssembly using Go

JeremyLikness/PlasmaWasmRust: Implementation of plasma effect using WebAssembly compiled from Rust.

JeremyLikness/blazor-wasm: Blazor and WebAssembly examples (part of a Blazor presentation)


Presentations and tutorials:

WebAssembly: Your Browser is the new OS - Jeremy Likness - YouTube

THAT Conference '19: WebAssembly: The Swiss Army Knife of Browser Apps | Pluralsight

WebAssembly for Web Developers (Google I/O ’19) - YouTube

Lin Clark: A Cartoon Intro to WebAssembly | JSConf EU 2017 - YouTube

Tools:

WebAssembly/binaryen: Compiler infrastructure and toolchain library for WebAssembly
Compiler infrastructure and toolchain library for WebAssembly

Binaryen has a simple C API in a single header, and can also be used from JavaScript. It accepts input in WebAssembly-like form but also accepts a general control flow graph for compilers that prefer that.

free ebook: Monolith to Microservices

Monolith to Microservices - NGINX

companion to Sam Newman’s book

Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems: Sam Newman: 9781491950357: Amazon.com: Books

Sam Newman Building Microservices

Microservices design and deployment with NGINX | Free Ebook

AWS VPC: Another Day, Another Billion Packets

The "why" and "how" of AWS VPC

AWS re:Invent 2015 | (NET403) Another Day, Another Billion Packets - YouTube

previous version:
A Day in the Life of a Billion Packets (CPN401) | AWS re:Invent 2013 - YouTube

same name, different presentation
AWS re:Invent 2016: Another Day, Another Billion Packets (NET401) - YouTube

recommended by:
Demystifying the AWS Certified Solutions Architect: Associate Exam | Pluralsight

Must-Watch Videos From Every AWS Re:Invent Ever - CloudHesive | Cloud Services

Best talks of AWS re:Invent 2016 - Jaanus Writes

Elixir in web browser

The Changelog #365: Let's talk Elixir! with Chris Bell and Desmond Bowe |> News and podcasts for developers |> Changelog

InfoQ’s latest programming language trends report lists Elixir for first time

Jerod talk about Elixir and changelog.com on Full Stack Radio

Phoenix LiveView

Phoenix Phrenzy

The Lumen project on GitHub

Elixir Forum is pretty great

EMPEX LA is Feb 8, 2020


116: Jerod Santo - Building the Changelog Platform with Elixir and Phoenix | Full Stack Radio

Building rapid UI with utility-first CSS, Adam's episode of JS Party

Elixir

Phoenix

Chris McCord on The Changelog

The Changelog source code

Confident Ruby

"Why we chose Turbolinks"

Programming Phoenix book

Elixir Forum

AWS Certification resources

Prepare for your AWS Certification Exam

https://proven-class.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ExamPrep-SAA.htm

AWS Certification Readiness

Exam Readiness: AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (Digital) | AWS Training & Certification

Exam Readiness: AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate | AWS Training & Certification

Exam Readiness: AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional | AWS Training & Certification



Which AWS certification is right for me?

Project Orion: Lucidchart
AWS Solutions Architect Associate Exam Course Material by Linux Academy


AWS Cheat Sheets - Overview - Tutorials Dojo

AWS Lambda@Edge

Edge Computing| CDN, Global Serverless Code, Distribution | AWS Lambda@Edge

Lambda@Edge Example Functions - Amazon CloudFront

Docker -= Enterprise (K8S)

Mirantis acquires Docker Enterprise | TechCrunch

After selling enterprise biz, Docker lands $35M investment and new CEO | TechCrunch

Docker is in deep trouble | ZDNet

Apollo 11: Source Code & UX simulator

50 years ago:
UX with "verbs and nouns",
source code in custom assembly,
direct communication with hardware

excellent explanation of source code:
1969 Moon Landing: The Code of the Apollo 11 Guidance Computer (AGC) | Pluralsight

actual source code:
chrislgarry/Apollo-11: Original Apollo 11 Guidance Computer (AGC) source code for the command and lunar modules. @GitHub

Apollo 11 Mission Overview | NASA


Apollo 11 - Wikipedia

50 Years Ago, Apollo 11 Launched to the Moon: A Look Back at the Epic Day | Space

Apollo 11 Turns 50: A Complete Guide to the Historic Moon Mission | Space

Apollo 11 Command Module Columbia | Smithsonian Institution



Online Apollo Guidance Computer Simulator

Functional DSKY with Apollo Guidance Computer, runs all NASA/MIT Code | eBay

SpaceX += 60 Starlink Satellites ( = $30B ?)

SpaceX Just Launched 60 Starlink Satellites (And Nailed a Milestone Rocket Landing) | Space



SpaceX’s Satellite Internet Service Could Warrant A $30 Billion Valuation

hybrid cloud: Azure Arc

Why Azure Arc Is A Game Changer For Microsoft

"With Azure Arc, Microsoft has expanded the support for ARM to resources running outside of Azure. This means, a physical server running in a data center looks like a compute resource in the eyes of the Fabric Controller. Even VMs running on top of VMware vSphere, Amazon EC2, and Google Compute Engine can be registered with the Azure Resource Manager. Any Windows or Linux server - even those running behind a firewall and proxy - can be registered with ARM. The external VMs run a similar software like the agent that runs inside Azure VMs."
Azure Arc | Microsoft Azure

WebAssembly (WASM) Languages

appcypher/awesome-wasm-langs: 😎 A curated list of languages that compile directly to or have their VMs in WebAssembly @ GitHub

🥚 - Work in progress.
🐣 - Unstable but usable.
🐥 - Stable for production usage.

my selection:

🐥 AssemblyScript
🐥 TypeScript
🐥 Rust
🐥 C
🐥 C++
🐥 C#
🐥 Go

🐣 Java
🐣 JavaScript
🐣 Kotlin/Native
🐣 Swift

🐣 Elixir
🐣 F#
🐥 Forth
🐣 PHP
🐣 Python
🐣 Prolog
🐣 Ruby
🐣 Scheme

The State Of WebAssembly - With Lin Clark and Till Schneidereit @ Kent C. Dodds

Current state of compiling TypeScript to WebAssembly - wanago.io - Marcin Wanago Blog

AssemblyScript/assemblyscript: Definitely not a TypeScript to WebAssembly compiler 🚀

Assembleash Playground