by HELLO EVERYONE!!! It is March 8th, 2024 and you are reading the First Codeminer42 Dev Weekly!
Let’s see what the tech world showed us this week!
An HTML Switch Control – by Anne van Kesteren & Jon Davis
Designed for mobile and UI frameworks, it is seamlessly integrated into the web platform. Backwards compatible, familiar markup, and accessible with ARIA switch role. It is fully stylable with appearance control and accent-color property support. Opt for a switch for clear "on/off" settings, leaving checkboxes to selection tasks.
How does Sidekiq work? – by Dan Svetlov
This article dives into the internals of Sidekiq, a popular Ruby background job processor, examining its key components, design decisions, job lifecycle, exception handling, and potential scenarios of job loss. It provides insights into Sidekiq’s architecture, including the roles of Launcher, Manager, and Processor, as well as its integration with Rails and handling of signals. The article also explores Sidekiq’s enqueueing process, retrying and scheduling mechanisms, and the trade-offs between simplicity and durability guarantees.
The Art of Forking: Unlocking Scalability in Ruby – by Maciej Mensfeld
This article explores the art of forking and its role in unlocking scalability in Ruby, using Karafka as our guide. Discover how forking introduces new dimensions of parallelization, complementing existing threading capabilities. Learn about the challenges and strategies behind integrating forking effectively into Ruby applications, with insights into managing processes, handling memory leaks, and ensuring system reliability. Join us on this journey as we delve into the intricacies of parallelism and concurrency in Ruby, paving the way for optimized performance and scalability.
DistroSea
Distrosea is a platform where you can quickly test Ubuntu, Mint, Debian, Arch, Fedora, openSUSE, and many Linux distros online for free on your web browser. No installation or live boot needed.
Finding The Last Editor – by DHH
The famous David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) is in search of The Last Editor. TextMate has been a loyal companion for two decades but faces a platform dilemma. VSCode beckons, but its IDE ambitions diverge from my need for simplicity. Sublime, a touted successor, felt like an almost-but-not-quite match. Vim is the timeless, quirky choice but maybe neovim will be the answer? Let the experiment begin.
LSP Explained (in 5 Minutes) – by TJ DeVries
One of the most recent videos from the YouTube channel TJ DeVries introduces the Language Server Protocol (LSP), a specification for editor-server communication that provides language intelligence features like auto-completion, error checking, and navigation. Microsoft, Red Hat, and Code Envy developed LSP, which gained popularity around 2020 as a requirement for new languages.
Over 100,000 Infected Repos Found on GitHub – by Apiiro
Security alert! Over 100,000 malicious repos were discovered on GitHub, threatening millions of developers. Perpetrators clone trusted repos, infect them, and reupload them with identical names. Hidden payloads compromise sensitive data upon use. The attack, undeterred by GitHub’s removals, highlights the fragility of software supply chains. Stay vigilant and report suspicious repos.
Nvidia CUDA in 100 Seconds – by Fireship
One of the newest short videos from the popular YouTube channel Fireship is about Nvidia CUDA a parallel computing platform developed by Nvidia in 2007, which revolutionized computing by enabling humans to process large data sets in parallel, unlocking the potential of deep neural networks in artificial intelligence. CUDA allows developers to utilize the power of GPUs for parallel computing, beyond their traditional graphics calculations.
Drizzle ORM in 100 Seconds – by Fireship
Continuing on the Fireship channel content, another very good newest video is about the Drizzle ORM, a lightweight and enjoyable tool for type-safe object-relational mapping with popular databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite. Drizzle offers benefits such as type safety and intellisense without the performance overhead and leaky abstractions of other ORMs, thanks to its API and TypeScript that closely matches native SQL code.
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And that’s all for this now, folks! See you next week! Happy commits to everyone!
Editor’s note
Hello everyone! I’m happy to announce this new weekly publication we’re calling "Codeminer42 Dev Weekly"! The goal is to share with you a quick rundown of some of the latest news in tech that called up our attention during the last week. This series will be taken care of by our esteemed author @gabriel.quaresma, but you may see some other familiar faces around eventually. I hope you all enjoy your reading as always, and let us know what other exciting news have been floating around the dev world!
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