by HELLO EVERYONE!!! It is April 19th, 2024 and you are reading Codeminer42’s tech news report. This week we have a lot of content, let’s check out what the tech world showed us this week!
Prism in 2024 – by Kevin Newton
Prism is a new standard library added to CRuby in Ruby 3.3.0, serving as a parser for the Ruby language. It is a collaborative effort between Shopify, CRuby core contributors, and other Ruby tooling developers. Prism aims to be the definitive Ruby parser API, offering error tolerance, portability, and a clear path for future improvements. While CRuby is considering a "universal" parser, the official parser API for Ruby will be Prism, ensuring consistency for developers. The future of the Ruby frontend ecosystem looks promising with the adoption of a single syntax tree.
The Intl.Segmenter object is now part of Baseline – by Rachel Andrew
The text discusses the use of the Intl.Segmenter feature in JavaScript for locale-sensitive text segmentation. This feature allows users to split a string into words, sentences, or graphemes. It is now available in all major browser engines as of April 16, 2024. The text highlights that using the split() method on whitespace may not work correctly for non-Latin languages like Chinese and Japanese. To use Intl.Segmenter, users need to create a new object with the Intl.segmenter() constructor and pass in a locale and options. The segment() method can then be called on the object to split a string into segments. The text also mentions additional resources for tutorials and examples on using Intl.Segmenter.
CSS in React Server Components – by Joshua Comeau
Our friend Joshua explores compatibility issues between CSS-in-JS libraries like styled-components and React Server Components. He explains the limitations of Server Components, and the challenges faced by popular CSS-in-JS libraries, and introduces new libraries like Linaria and Pigment CSS that offer solutions. Joshua shares their experience with migrating their applications and provides insights on whether or not developers should consider updating their stack.
Bridging the Gap: Sharing Data Between React Native and WebView – by Mohammed Adel (Youcef)
Mohammed discusses the challenges and solutions for sharing data between React Native and web views, emphasizing the importance of seamless data exchange for developers. It explores techniques such as using props, state management, and PostMessage communication to overcome these challenges and create immersive cross-platform experiences.
Introduction to DuckDB – by Manfred Ng
This post provides an overview of DuckDB, an analytical relational database. It explains the advantages of DuckDB, including fast queries, SQL compatibility, quick deployment, and being free and open-source. The post also provides instructions for how to install DuckDB. And yes, the post shows us DuckDB with Java, and if you are not quite a big fan of Java, you can use this DB with other languages, like JavaScript, C++, and Rust, for example.
Code Coverage vs. Test Coverage – by Ana Peterlić
Software testing is a crucial part of the development process, ensuring that our code works correctly. When discussing testing, it’s important to understand the differences between code coverage and test coverage. While both measure the effectiveness of our codebase, they refer to different concepts and should not be used interchangeably.
Our friend Ana explores the distinctions between code and test coverage and what each entails. She also discusses the advantages and disadvantages of each approach.
Shadow API Detection for Google Cloud Environments in Preview – by Steef-Jan Wiggers
During Google Cloud Next, Google announced the preview release of shadow API detection in Advanced API Security, part of the Apigee API Management solution. This feature allows users to proactively identify misconfigured APIs and detect malicious attacks. Shadow APIs, which are not under a company’s control, can pose serious vulnerabilities. These kinds of APIs pose significant business risks due to their lack of robust security measures, making them vulnerable targets for hackers.
AWS Batch Introduces Multi-Container Jobs for Large-Scale Simulations – by Renato Losio
AWS has announced the support of multi-container jobs in AWS Batch, making it easier to run simulations for testing complex systems like autonomous vehicles and robotics. This feature reduces job preparation efforts, eliminates the need for custom tooling, and allows for the use of separate "sidecar" containers. It also simplifies DevOps by defining clear component responsibilities.
How to Create a Responsive HTML Email Template – by Fanny Nyayic
This very useful post provides a beginner-friendly guide on how to create a responsive HTML email template. It includes step-by-step instructions with code snippets for setting up the basic structure, creating the email structure, adding content and inline styles, making it responsive, testing across email clients, and adding Google Fonts.
Vector Databases: Unlocking New Dimensions in Video Streaming – by Sai Mahesh vuppalapati
This author discusses the use of vector databases in handling unstructured data like images, videos, and audio in the era of big data and AI. He explains how vector embeddings are used to transform data into numerical vectors for efficient querying and search capabilities. The article provides an example of transforming movie data into vector embeddings using a pre-trained deep-learning model. It concludes by highlighting how vector databases enhance user experience on streaming platforms by enabling similarity searches and suggesting relevant content based on thematic similarities.
Google Trains User Interface and Infographics Understanding AI Model ScreenAI – by Anthony Alford
Google Research has developed ScreenAI, a multimodal AI model that can understand infographics and user interfaces. The model is pre-trained on a dataset of screenshots and uses off-the-shelf AI models to generate synthetic training data. After pretraining and fine-tuning, ScreenAI can answer questions about UI screens and infographics, summarize screens, and navigate screens. Google has open-sourced its evaluation datasets but has not released the model code or weights.
How to implement HLS Video Streaming in a React App – by Indranil Chutia
This interesting tutorial presents us with how to implement HLS video streaming in a React app, yeah! You can be a successful Streamer. It covers the backend setup using Node.js and Express to convert videos to HLS format, as well as the frontend setup using React and Video.js for seamless video playback.
Mastering JavaScript: Multiple Ways to Generate a Two-Dimensional Array – by yanhaijing
The author discusses various methods to generate two-dimensional arrays in JavaScript. It explains different techniques, such as using nested loops, Array.from(), Array.fill() and map(), and the spread operator with map(). Each method is analyzed for its advantages and disadvantages, providing insights into how to handle different programming scenarios.
Hardest Problem in Computer Science: Centering Things – by Nikita Prokopov
This peculiar post talks about the issue of centering things in computer science, particularly focusing on fonts, line height, icons, and horizontal centering. It highlights common problems with alignment in various applications and offers solutions for designers, font designers, web developers, and everyone to improve centering in UI design.
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And that’s all for this week! Wish you all a great weekend and happy coding!
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