Software Development recap for week 49/2024

From 2/12/2024 to 8/12/2024

Articles #

• 4 YEARS of Work on My Portfolio / Desktop Environment in the Browser 923 comments in 13 discussions

• Using AI Generated Code Will Make You a Bad Programmer 922 comments in 4 discussions

• JavaScript is 29 years old today 843 comments in 4 discussions

• The 70% problem: Hard truths about AI-assisted coding 657 comments in 2 discussions

• SvelteKit: How to make an "overlay modal route" 606 comments in 18 discussions

• Engineers Do Not Get To Make Startup Mistakes When They Build Ledgers 599 comments in 2 discussions

• My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback 493 comments in 3 discussions

• Every V4 UUID 481 comments in 3 discussions

• Company claims 1,000 percent price hike drove it from VMware to open source rival 464 comments in 3 discussions

• Reclaim the internet: Mozilla’s rebrand for the next era of tech 396 comments in 6 discussions

• Dependency management fatigue, or why I forever ditched React for Go+HTMX+Templ 342 comments in 2 discussions

• A Tour of the Lisps 333 comments in 4 discussions

• Awk in 20 Minutes 332 comments in 12 discussions

• Inheritance was invented as a performance hack 309 comments in 3 discussions

• Egoless Engineering 303 comments in 2 discussions

Releases #

• React v19 has been released 308 comments in 5 discussions

• Pop!_OS Rust-based Desktop Environment Cosmic Alpha 4 released 59 comments in 3 discussions

• [Release] ksoup v0.2.1 – Faster, Modular HTML Parsing for Kotlin Multiplatform 🚀 52 comments in 7 discussions

• Phoenix LiveView 1.0.0 is here! - Phoenix Blog 33 comments in 4 discussions

• SFML 3.0.0 Release Candidate 2 is out! 27 comments in 1 discussion

• Arrow 2.0 release highlights 24 comments in 1 discussion

• Yazi 0.4.0 released (Blazing fast terminal file manager written in Rust, based on async I/O) 24 comments in 1 discussion

• Box64 v0.3.2 and Box86 v0.3.8 released 23 comments in 4 discussions

• After years using semantic-release, I developed a lightweight alternative tailored for smaller projects – with no dependencies, customizable release notes, and an easy setup to streamline versioning and releases without the extra overhead. 12 comments in 2 discussions

• Rust9x update: Rust 1.84.0-beta 10 comments in 1 discussion

Projects #

• My snake game got to 57 bytes by just messing around and basically refactoring most of the code 1063 comments in 15 discussions

• Interviews with over 20 teams revealed that the main issue is cognitive load 608 comments in 15 discussions

• GitHub - mattwparas/steel: An embedded scheme interpreter in Rust 188 comments in 2 discussions

• Trailbase: Fast, single-file, open-source app server built using Rust and SQLite 102 comments in 3 discussions

• Python with Rizz 101 comments in 2 discussions

• KlongPy: High-Performance Array Programming in Python 90 comments in 3 discussions

• qutebrowser: A keyboard-driven, vim-like browser based on Python and Qt 72 comments in 2 discussions

• I created the ultimate Makefile for Go projects that actually scales from tiny to enterprise 69 comments in 1 discussion

• glojurelang/glojure: Clojure interpreter hosted on Go, with extensible interop support. 69 comments in 3 discussions

• Rebels In The Sky: peer-to-peer terminal-based game about space pirates playing basketball across the galaxy 68 comments in 2 discussions

Videos #

• Bjarne Stroustrup: Why you should avoid Linked Lists 846 comments in 4 discussions

• This PR replaces is-number package with a one-liner with identical code. Author argues this tiny change saves 440GB weekly traffic. JavaScript micro-package debate 211 comments in 1 discussion

• SQL injection in 2024 - The vulnerability that won't go away 96 comments in 1 discussion

• The best metal song for programmers is finally out guys !! 79 comments in 3 discussions

• State of Clang as a C and C++ Compiler – Aaron Ballman, 2024 LLVM Dev Meeting [video] 40 comments in 1 discussion

• Java 24 Language & API Changes 36 comments in 1 discussion

• The action pattern [video] 25 comments in 1 discussion