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[Link] Microsoft rolls out revamped Notepad app to Windows 11 Insiders
Read: 9/12/2021 arstechnica.com
Microsoft is continuing to update and refine Windows 11 two months after its public release, and the Notepad app is the latest bit of the operating system to get some attention.
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[Link] Keep a Changelog
Read: 17/11/2021 keepachangelog.com
To make it easier for users and contributors to see precisely what notable changes have been made between each release (or version) of the project. People do. Whether consumers or developers, the end users of software are human beings who care about what's in the software.
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[Link] Does ES6 make JavaScript frameworks obsolete?
Read: 14/11/2021 stackoverflow.blog
Every time JavaScript goes through a major update, we seem to repeat the same cycle. At first, developers are delighted by the new features. They move back to coding directly in JavaScript, and frameworks become less popular.
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[Link] Deep dive into Node.js Architecture
Read: 7/11/2021 dev.to
In this article, we are going to deep dive into Node.js architecture and understand the asynchronous nature of Node.js. Let's dive into it.
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[Link] Trojan Source attack: Code that says one thing to humans tells your compiler something very different, warn academics
Read: 3/11/2021 www.theregister.com
Updated The way Unicode's UTF-8 text encoding handles different languages could be misused to write malicious code that says one thing to humans and another to compilers, academics are warning.
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[Link] Python Ditches The GILs And Comes Ashore
Read: 3/11/2021 hackaday.com
The Python world has been fractured a few times before. The infamous transition from version 2 to version 3 still affects people today, and there could be a new schism in the future.
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[Link] How the nation’s newest billionaire built a software giant
Read: 27/10/2021 www.afr.com
Tony Walls, the founder of software company Objective Corp, has quietly added $20 million a week to his wealth pile over the past five months.
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[Link] Techies demand top dollar as skills shortages bite
Read: 27/10/2021 www.afr.com
Australian tech companies are turning down new business because soaring pay rates being charged by workers with in-demand skills are making projects unprofitable, instead turning to training and other non-financial strategies to try to lure and retain staff.
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[Link] The 14-Year-Old Who Founded Girls Who Hack Is Inspiring the Next Generation of Hackers
Read: 25/10/2021 www.vice.com
Bianca Lewis, or as she is known in the hacker world: BiaSciLab, is part of the next generation of hackers. At 14 years old, she has already made a name for herself in hacker conference circles when a few years ago, she was among a group of kids that hacked into an election reporting system.
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[Link] Supply Chain Attack: NPM Library Used By Facebook And Others Was Compromised
Read: 25/10/2021 hackaday.com
Here at Hackaday we love the good kinds of hacks, but now and then we need to bring up a less good kind. Today it was learned that the NPM package ua-parser-js was compromised, and any software using it as a library may have become victim of a supply chain attack.
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[Link] In Search Of The First Comment
Read: 25/10/2021 hackaday.com
Are you writing your code for humans or computers? I wasn’t there, but my guess is that at the dawn of computing, people thought that they were writing for the machines.
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[Link] Microsoft angers the .NET open source community with a controversial decision
Read: 25/10/2021 www.theverge.com
Microsoft has spent the past 10 years embracing open-source software and, at several points, even admitting it loves Linux and the open source community.
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[Link] Migration to SourceForge
Read: 12/10/2021 opengapps.org
Hello everyone! It’s been a while. You may have noticed that our website has undergone some changes. Today we’d like to share what has been going on with the hosting situation at GitHub and shed some light on our decision to transfer our releases to the SourceForge.
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[Link] Docker changes its subscription plans, usage rules, and product line
Read: 2/9/2021 www.zdnet.com
For all Docker's container technology popularity, Docker, the company, has its problems. First, Docker had trouble finding a working business plan. Then, Docker ran short of funds.
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[Link] Activision Blizzard’s QA Department Seems Like A Hellhole
Read: 15/8/2021 kotaku.com
Long hours. Low pay. Tremendous instability. Working in quality assurance (QA) for a video game studio is notoriously difficult and painstaking enough as it is without factors like these complicating matters.
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[Link] StormCrawler demonstrates the power of open source
Read: 15/8/2021 cameraforensics.com
We sat down with our team member Julien Nioche, resident web crawling and big data expert and the developer of the open-source project ‘StormCrawler’.
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[Link] Team Fortress 2 Fans Are Rebuilding The Game With Latest Tech
Read: 15/8/2021 kotaku.com
An independent group of developers recently announced their intentions to port Team Fortress 2 to the upcoming Source 2 engine, and the early results of their work—an aptly named project known as Team Fortress: Source 2—already look amazing.
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[Link] Activision Blizzard Employees Form Coalition, Reject CEO's Choice of Law Firm
Read: 5/8/2021 www.ign.com
We are The ABK Workers Alliance, an organized group of current Activision Blizzard, Inc. employees committed to defending our right to a safe and equitable workplace.
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[Link] Meet FitGirl, The Repack ‘Queen’ Of Pirated Games
Read: 1/8/2021 torrentfreak.com
Repacked games are in high demand on pirate sites as they save considerable bandwidth. One of the leading names in this niche is FitGirl. In recent years, the Russian-born repacker transformed from a home archivist into the best-known releaser on the Internet.
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[Link] Fixing JavaScript Date – Getting Started
Read: 1/8/2021 maggiepint.com
I’ve been off the blog for a while, which has to do with a lot of things going on in my life. That said, I’m happy to report that I’m back with stories about a big project – fixing the date handing in the JavaScript programming language itself!
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[Link] What's different in the new WebSocket protocol
Read: 1/8/2021 developers.google.com
The WebSocket protocol specification has recently been updated to solve previous security concerns and is largely stable. Below is a summary of the changes involved, along with some notes on current implementations.
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[Link] BBC Online Uses Serverless to Scale Extremely Fast
Read: 31/7/2021 www.infoq.com
In a series of blog posts published recently, Johnathan Ishmael, lead technical architect at BBC, explains why BBC Online uses serverless and how they optimize for it. According to the author, BBC Online uses AWS Lambda for most of its core implementation due to its ability to scale extremely fast.
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[Link] NPM is Now Providing Malware – or was until recently
Read: 30/7/2021 www.theregister.com
Another malicious library has been spotted in the JavaScript-oriented NPM registry, underscoring the continued fragility of today's software supply chain.
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[Link] Muse Group Continues Tone Deaf Handling Of Audacity
Read: 23/7/2021 hackaday.com
When we last checked in on the Audacity community, privacy-minded users of the free and open source audio editor were concerned over proposed plans to add telemetry reporting to the decades old open source audio editing software.
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[Link] Not for children: Audacity fans drop the f-bomb after privacy agreement changes
Read: 9/7/2021 www.theregister.com
A few more litres of accelerant were poured onto Audacity critics' fire late last week as an update to the sound editor's privacy agreement seeped out to the consternation of users.
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