Sourcegraph - Universal Code Search

 Sourcegraph - Universal Code Search

Code as Infrastructure?

 Code as Infrastructure – O’Reilly

"If shortages of COBOL programmers are a problem because COBOL code is infrastructure, and if we don’t expect shortages of Fortran talent to be a problem because Fortran code isn’t infrastructure"

Next:

C, C++: OSs

Java, J2EE

PHP :)

GoLang (Docker, Kubernetes)

Rust

Tesla Full Self-Driving Subscription: $199/month

 Breaking: Tesla Releases Full Self-Driving Subscription - Tesla Daily

Until now, Tesla has only offered access to the Full Self-Driving feature set as a purchase rather than a subscription. The price has risen over time and currently costs $10,000. At $199 per month, customers who decide to purchase in full would come out ahead after four years and two months.

AOP: Aspect-Oriented Programming in JavaScript

Aspect-Oriented Programming in JavaScript | by Fernando Doglio | Bits and Pieces

Aspect-Oriented Programming provides a way for us to inject code into existing functions or objects, without modifying the target logic.

"Magic" Passwordless Authentication

 Magic with Sean Li - Software Engineering Daily

Magic: Passwordless Authentication That's Delightfully Simple

Cloud Native fundamentals (free? course)

Cloud Native fundamentals with Katie Gamanji from CNCF (Ship It! #8) |> Changelog

Learn Cloud Native Development, the Future of App Development @Udacity

Meltano: ELT for DataOps (GitLab spin-off)

 Meltano: ELT for DataOps with Douwe Maan - Software Engineering Daily

"ELT is a process for copying data from a source system into a target system. It stands for “Extract, Load, Transform” and starts with extracting a copy of data from the source location. It’s loaded into the target system like a data warehouse, and then it’s ready to be transformed into a usable format for things like modern cloud applications.

The company Meltano provides code that manages ELT pipelines through an open-source, self-hosted, CLI-first, debuggable, and extensible process. Meltano projects manage your Singer tap and target configurations to easily select which entities and attributes to extract. These pipelines track their own incremental replication state so they can pick up where the previous run left off. Once your raw data is in its target source, Meltano helps you transform it into a usable format. These pipelines can run on a schedule and be fed to supported orchestrators like Apache Airflow."

JavaScript on WASM (@Fastly)

very informative podcast:

JS on Wasm with Nick Fitzgerald (JS Party #183) |> Changelog.

Oxidizing Source Maps with Rust and WebAssembly

Making JavaScript Run Fast on WebAssembly

Wizer

Talk: Hit the Ground Running: Wasm Snapshots for Fast Startup

Ableton

Wasmtime

SpaceX saves NASA $2 billion

SpaceX to launch the Europa Clipper mission for a bargain price | Ars Technica

After years of speculation, NASA officially announced Friday that SpaceX's Falcon Heavy would launch what is arguably the space agency's most important Solar System exploration mission of the 2020s—the Europa Clipper.

Slated to launch in October 2024, the $4.25 billion mission will spend much of the remainder of this decade flying to the Jovian system before entering an elongated orbit around Jupiter. The spacecraft will then make as many as 44 flybys of Europa, the intriguing, ice-encrusted Jovian moon that scientists believe harbors a vast ocean beneath the surface. It is possible that aquatic life exists there.

The total contract award amount for launch services is approximately $178 million, NASA said in a news release. This is a significant moment for SpaceX, as the company will be entrusted with one of NASA's highest-priority exploration missions. The deal also saves NASA about $2 billion.

book: Move Fast: How Facebook Builds Software (free audiobook)

 (Full Audiobook) Move Fast: How Facebook Builds Software - Software Engineering Daily

Amazon.com: Move Fast: How Facebook Builds Software eBook: Meyerson, Jeff: Kindle Store

"Over the last fifteen years, every major aspect of our lives has changed because of Facebook. You may not like Facebook, but you can’t deny its success. And to a large degree, that success stems from the “move fast” ethos. The entire culture of Facebook is built for speed.

Move Fast is an exploration of modern software strategies and tactics through the lens of Facebook. Relying on in-depth interviews with more than two dozen Facebook engineers, this book explores the product strategy, cultural principles, and technologies that made Facebook the dominant social networking company. Most importantly, Move Fast investigates how you can apply those strategies to your creative projects."

Move Fast with Jeff Meyerson - Software Engineering Daily

SpaceX Inspiration4

Inspiration4 - Wikipedia

"Inspiration4 is a spaceflight planned for four people aboard the SpaceX Resilience capsule in late 2021.[4][5] The three-day flight will be the first human spaceflight to orbit Earth with exclusively private citizens on board.[6][7][8] The flight will be privately operated by SpaceX using a previously-flown Crew Dragon capsule launched to low Earth orbit. The flight will be sponsored by Jared Isaacman, who will be on the flight along with Hayley Arceneaux, Christopher Sembroski, and Sian Proctor.

This first all-private citizen flight to space is slated to launch as early as 15 September 2021.[3] Inspiration4 is the first crewed orbital spaceflight since the Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission in 2009 whose primary objective is not to visit an orbital space station."

Jared Isaacman - Google Search

Jared Isaacman

Inspiration4: The first all-civilian spaceflight on SpaceX Dragon | Space

Inspiration4 - Home

DartPad: Dart language playground

DartPad

DartPad | Dart

dart-lang/dart-pad: An online Dart editor with support for console, web, and Flutter apps @GitHub

dart-lang/sdk: The Dart SDK, including the VM, dart2js, core libraries, and more. @GitHub

google/dart @DockerHub 

A brand new DartPad.dev with Flutter support | by John Ryan | Dart | Medium

CLI & server apps | Dart

Write HTTP servers | Dart

COBOL for WASM @ "Cloud"

node.js in the 2020s with Rob Richardson .NET Rocks! vNext

History of Search Engines

DevIntersection

nodeJS

ECMAScript 2015

Babel

WebPack

TypeScript

React

Vue

Angular

Electron

Express

Jeremy Bytes

Snapshot Tests on .NET Rocks

WASM Languages

COBOL for WASM

Cloudflare Workers Now Support COBOL.
Uses GnuCOBOL 2.2.

Blue Origin Space flight

Blue Origin's Jeff Bezos launch on New Shepard: Live updates | Space

"Blue Origin will launch its first crewed mission on its New Shepard rocket July 20 to fly its billionaire founder Jeff Bezos and three other passengers to suborbital space and back. Liftoff is set for 9 a.m. EDT (1300 GMT) from Blue Origin's Launch Site One in West Texas and will launch Bezos, his brother Mark Bezos, Mercury 13 and aviation pioneer Wally Funk and 18-year-old Oliver Daemon."

New Shepard First Human Flight - YouTube

What Jeff Bezos And Crew Said On Their Trip To Space : NPR

Days Before Becoming An Astronaut Himself, Jeff Bezos Pledges $200 Million To Smithsonian To Support Air & Space Museum

KiwiCo: Inspiring young innovators

KiwiCo | Exclusive offer for Veritasium followers!

Inspiring young innovators

Seriously fun and enriching projects, delivered.

Engineering & Art Kits for Teens & Adults | KiwiCo

link from:

Risking My Life To Settle A Physics Debate - YouTube

Brilliant: science education

Daily Challenges | Brilliant

Learn to think

Brilliant replaces lecture videos with hands-on, interactive lessons.
It’s a better (and more fun) way to learn.

Learn key ideas through problem solving

All of our courses are crafted by award-winning teachers, researchers, and professionals from MIT, Caltech, Duke, Microsoft, Google, and more.

Get unlimited access to all math, science, and computer science courses on Brilliant.

Courses | Brilliant

Cloud Cost

 Cloud Cost with Martin Casado - Software Engineering Daily

"the costs of using the cloud stack up once companies reach large scale. Dropbox, for example, shifted away from the cloud in 2016 to opt for a custom built infrastructure in co-location facilities. They saved $75 million over 2 years and increased their gross margins from 33% to 67% due to this change. Actually, recent research suggests major companies spend 75%-80% of cost of revenue on their cloud bills. Should large companies shift away from the cloud like Dropbox did? Is it too late for some companies to untangle themselves from it?"

The New Cybersecurity

 The New Cybersecurity with Troy Hunt - RunAsRadio

"What does cybersecurity look like today? Richard talks with Troy Hunt about the recent news around the Hafnium exploits. The FBI utilized the vulnerability created in Exchange servers to patch the servers and remove the exploit."

The HAFNIUM Exploits

FBI BotNet Testimony

Vastaamo Ransomware Podcast

The Hafnium Podcast Episode

Apollo Breach on HIBP

AWS BugBust

 New – AWS BugBust: It’s Game Over for Bugs | AWS News Blog

"AWS BugBust, the world’s first global challenge to fix one million bugs and reduce technical debt by over $100 million.

Behind the scenes, AWS BugBust uses Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer and Amazon CodeGuru Profiler. These developer tools use machine learning and automated reasoning to find bugs in your applications. These bugs are then available for your developers to claim and fix. The more bugs a developer fixes, the more points the developer earns. A traditional bug bash requires developers to find and fix bugs manually. With AWS BugBust, developers get a list of bugs before the event begins so they can spend the entire event focused on fixing them."

"It detects defects and vulnerabilities that are difficult to find in Java and Python code and offers recommendations on how to remediate them."

Deno Deploy

 Deno Company unveils server-side JavaScript hosting service | InfoWorld

"With Deno Deploy, the developers of the Deno JavaScript/TypeScript runtime are offering a globally distributed virtual machine service that runs JavaScript, TypeScript, and WebAssembly at the edge. The goal is for Deno Deploy to become the best place to host modern server-side JavaScript.

Deno Deploy was released as a first beta on June 23, with a series of beta releases set to follow. General availability is planned for the fourth quarter of 2021. A multi-tenant JavaScript engine running in 25 data centers worldwide, from Taiwan to Montreal, Los Angeles, and London, Deno Deploy integrates cloud infrastructure with the Google V8 virtual machine, allowing developers to develop locally and deploy globally.

Built on the same systems as Deno CLI, Deno Deploy is free for developers to use during Beta 1, with users able to sign up to use it via GitHub. During the past eight months, Deno’s developers have been designing the hosted service to supplement workflows with the open source Deno CLI."

Top Threats to Cloud Computing @ CSA

 Top Threats to Cloud Computing: Egregious Eleven | CSA

Read, Write, Math, Code

 Tim O'Reilly: the golden age of the programmer is over | InfoWorld

"Short of telling people to "learn to code", O'Reilly sees a new set of literacies being required if the workforce of the future is to take advantage of the oncoming "augmentation" that intelligent systems could enable.

"I think the golden age of the last couple of decades where you can become a programmer and you'll get a job... is sort of over," O'Reilly says. "Programming is now more like being able to read and write. You just have to be able to do it to be able to get the most out of the tools and the environments that you're presented with, whatever they are."

"Every working scientist today is a programmer," he adds. "Programming can make a journalist more successful, programming can make a marketer more successful, programming can make a salesperson more successful, programming can make an HR person more successful. Having technical literacy is on the same level as being good at reading, writing, and speaking."

xbar: macOS menu bar app in GoLang

xbar on GitHub

xbar’s website

based on: Wails.app (GoLang for portable desktop/web apps)

podcast: 

xbar puts anything in your macOS menu bar with Mat Ryer from Go Time (The Changelog #446) |> Changelog

Go Time #144 - Building desktop apps with Go + web tech

What happens when your old open-source project unexpectedly gets to the top of Hacker News?

The Changelog #3 - Rob Pike

Go Time #154 - Where Jerod shares his unpopular opinion

Become a sponsor to Mat Ryer

Virgin Galactic Unity 22 Spaceflight

Virgin Galactic Completes First-Ever Spaceflight from New Mexico - YouTube

Virgin Galactic Unity 22 Spaceflight Livestream - YouTube

Aboard #Unity22 will be our team of two pilots and four mission specialists, including Sir Richard Branson. They will put our Future Astronaut spaceflight experience to a final test, while giving the world a preview of the life-changing experience.

Virgin Galactic launches Richard Branson to space in 1st fully crewed flight of VSS Unity | Space

VSS Unity - Wikipedia

VSS Unity 22 | SpaceShipTwo | Everyday Astronaut

original creator of this plain/rocket solution: Burt Rutan - Wikipedia

tuples in JSON and JavaScript?

What is tuple? - Definition from WhatIs.com

1) In programming languages, such as Lisp, Python, Linda, and others, a tuple (pronounced TUH-pul) is an ordered set of values. The separator for each value is often a comma (depending on the rules of the particular language). Common uses for the tuple as a data type are (1) for passing a string of parameters from one program to another, and (2) representing a set of value attributes in a relational database. In some languages, tuples can be nested within other tuples within parentheses or brackets or other delimiters. Tuples can contain a mixture of other data types.

 A first look at records and tuples in JavaScript

At the moment, JavaScript only compares primitive values such as strings by value (by looking at their contents):
> 'abc' === 'abc'
true
In contrast, objects are compared by identity (each object has a unique identity and is only strictly equal to itself):
> {x: 1, y: 4} === {x: 1, y: 4}
false
> ['a', 'b'] === ['a', 'b']
false

> const obj = {x: 1, y: 4};
> obj === obj
true
The proposal Record & Tuple (by Robin Ricard and Rick Button) lets us create compound values that are compared by value.
For, example, by prefixing an object literal with a number sign (#), we create a record – a compound value that is compared by value and immutable:
> #{x: 1, y: 4} === #{x: 1, y: 4}
true
If we prefix an Array literal with #, we create a tuple – an Array that is compared by value and immutable:
> #['a', 'b'] === #['a', 'b']
true

Python Tuples

thistuple = ("apple", "banana", "cherry")

Preserve Python tuples with JSON - Stack Overflow

jsonstring =  enc.encode([1, 2, (3, 4), [5, 6, (7, 8)]])

# [1, 2, {"items": [3, 4], "__tuple__": true}, [5, 6, {"items": [7, 8], "__tuple__": true}]]

^ too complex encoding :(

JSON - Wikipedia

Google Surveys

 https://surveys.google.com/

Google Surveys - Wikipedia

Google Surveys (formerly Google Consumer Surveys)^[3] is a business product by Google that facilitates customized market research.^[1] The product was designed by Google as an alternative to internet pay walls for websites that publish content. 

Google Forms: Free Online Surveys for Personal Use

EV: Ford Mustang Mach-E

Presenting Car and Driver's 2021 EV of the Year

Tested: 2021 Ford Mustang Mach-E Lives up to the Hype

AWS Step Functions Workflow Studio

 New – AWS Step Functions Workflow Studio – A Low-Code Visual Tool for Building State Machines | AWS News Blog

free "Deno" book

 Introducing Deno - Deno Succinctly Ebook | Syncfusion

Intel + RISC-V Open HW

 Intel to Adopt SiFive's New High-Performance P550 RISC-V Cores With 7nm Platform | Tom's Hardware

who works for SiFive now? creator of LLVM, Swift, VP in Tesla, architect in Google... 

Chris Lattner - Wikipedia

VMware + Hyper-V

 VMware Workstation 15.5 Now Supports Host Hyper-V Mode - VMware Workstation Zealot - VMware Blogs

"VMware Workstation/Player can now run when Hyper-V is enabled. You no longer have to choose between running VMware Workstation and Windows features like WSL, Device Guard and Credential Guard. When Hyper-V is enabled, ULM mode will automatically be used so you can run VMware Workstation normally. If you don’t use Hyper-V at all, VMware Workstation is smart enough to detect this and the VMM will be used.

To run Workstation/Player using the Windows Hypervisor APIs, the minimum required Windows 10 version is Windows 10 20H1 build 19041.264. VMware Workstation/Player minimum version is 15.5.5."

Passipedia: Passive, Net-Zero Homes

Exploring Passive House Design - 90% Energy Savings! - YouTube

Exploring Passing House Design – 90% Energy Savings! - Undecided with Matt Ferrell

Exploring Modular Homes - Cheapest Path to Net Zero? - YouTube

Exploring Modular Homes – Cheapest Path to Net Zero? - Undecided with Matt Ferrell

Passipedia - The Passive House Resource [ ]

Learn Go with test-driven development

 quii/learn-go-with-tests: Learn Go with test-driven development @GitHub

• Explore the Go language by writing tests
• Get a grounding with TDD. Go is a good language for learning TDD because it is a simple language to learn and testing is built-in
• Be confident that you'll be able to start writing robust, well-tested systems in Go
• Watch a video, or read about why unit testing and TDD is important

podcast:

Giving TDD a Go with Riya Dattani, David Wickes, & Chris James (Go Time #185) |> Changelog

JavaScript Numeric Separators

 JavaScript Numeric Separators

valid syntax!

const oneMillion = 1_000_000; // 1000000
const decimals = 1_000_00.01_02_03 // 100000.010203

YAML Anchor, Aliases and Merge Keys

Don’t Repeat Yourself with Anchors, Aliases and Extensions in Docker Compose Files | by King Chung Huang | Medium

definitions: steps: - step: &build-test name: Build and test script: - mvn package artifacts: - target/** pipelines: branches: develop: - step: *build-test main: - step: *build-test

YAML anchors | Bitbucket Cloud | Atlassian Support

definitions: steps: - step: &build-test name: Build and test script: - mvn package artifacts: - target/** pipelines: branches: develop: - step: *build-test main: - step: *build-test

YAML Ain’t Markup Language (YAML™) Version 1.2

YAML Anchor, Aliases and Merge Keys

Some of YAML's properties not in JSON are anchors, aliases and merge keys that can work well together. These allow references and mixins for hashes (not sequences a.k.a. arrays) and are common to reduce repetition of same configuration directives that some files/systems tend to and/or sometimes just because one can

YAML Anchor

&<anchor-name>

YAML 1.2 (3rd Edition) 3.2.2.2. Anchors and Aliases

YAML 1.1 3.2.2.2. Anchors and Aliases

YAML 1.0 4.3.6. Anchor

YAML Alias

*<anchor-name>

YAML 1.2 / 1.1; see above 3.2.2.2. Anchors and Aliases

YAML 1.0 4.4. Alias

YAML Merge Key

<< : *<anchor-name> (one; or:)

<< : [ *<anchor-name>, *<anchor-name>, ... ] (sequence of: [none,] one or multiple)

YAML 1.1 Working Draft Merge Key Language-Independent Type

Anchors need to be before aliasing (e.g. in an alias or merge key), can remain unused and can be re-defined, last one wins at the time of use (flow is from top to bottom).

Example-YAML with Aliases, References and Merge Keys taken from the Merge Key working draft:

---
- &CENTER { x: 1, y: 2 }
- &LEFT { x: 0, y: 2 }
- &BIG { r: 10 }
- &SMALL { r: 1 }

# All the following maps are equal:

- # Explicit keys
  x: 1
  y: 2
  r: 10
  label: center/big

- # Merge one map
  << : *CENTER
  r: 10
  label: center/big

- # Merge multiple maps
  << : [ *CENTER, *BIG ]
  label: center/big

- # Override
  << : [ *BIG, *LEFT, *SMALL ]
  x: 1
  label: center/big

Tesla Autopilot: with cameras only

 Tesla is following in the steps of an unlikely rival: Subaru - CNN

Tesla announced last month that it's no longer including radar for driver-assist systems on its best-selling vehicles, the Model 3 and Y, and will instead rely on cameras for Autopilot in those new models

Tesla and Subaru suddenly have something in common, as the only automakers to exclusively trust cameras for driver-assist technology.

Lisp tutorials & books

Learn Lisp - [2021] Most Recommended Lisp Tutorials | Hackr.io

Lisp Tutorial - YouTube

LISP - Loop For Construct - Tutorialspoint

Practical Common Lisp

Learning Lisp Fast

On Lisp by Paul Graham