Software Development recap for week 1/2025

From 30/12/2024 to 5/1/2025

Articles #

• Why should I have written ZeroMQ in C, not C++ (2012) 1547 comments in 11 discussions

• Why Safety Profiles Failed 806 comments in 5 discussions

• Passkey technology is elegant, but it’s most definitely not usable security 739 comments in 6 discussions

• Things we learned out about LLMs in 2024 711 comments in 3 discussions

• I still don’t think companies serve you ads based on spying through your microphone 429 comments in 2 discussions

• Mistakes engineers make in large established codebases 394 comments in 4 discussions

• Collection of insane and fun facts about SQLite 391 comments in 4 discussions

• Lisp Is Not an Acceptable Lisp 386 comments in 8 discussions

• Static search trees 315 comments in 2 discussions

• A story on home server security 306 comments in 2 discussions

• Databases in 2024: A Year in Review 294 comments in 3 discussions

• Systems Ideas that Sound Good But Almost Never Work—"Let's just…" 286 comments in 3 discussions

• printf debugging is OK (2024) 274 comments in 2 discussions

• Dumping Memory to Bypass BitLocker on Windows 11 271 comments in 5 discussions

• Rails for everything | Literally the Void 270 comments in 2 discussions

Releases #

• iTerm2 3.5.11 released with a critical security fix 441 comments in 2 discussions

• Helix Editor 25.01 released 142 comments in 4 discussions

• Gleam v1.7.0 released! 66 comments in 3 discussions

• Oils 0.24.0 - Closures, Objects, and Namespaces 15 comments in 1 discussion

• Taskflow v3.9.0 released: Task-parallel Programming Library in C++ 13 comments in 1 discussion

• openglfx 4.1 released - OpenGL canvas for JavaFX 11 comments in 1 discussion

• Initial Release of heretek: Yet Another GDB TUI Frontend 10 comments in 2 discussions

• crb 0.0.23 released: hybrid state-machines 8 comments in 1 discussion

• matchit 0.8.6 released 4 comments in 1 discussion

• DCA3 - GTA 3 Dreamcast port first release (source available + interview with the dev team) 2 comments in 1 discussion

Projects #

• ruffle-rs/ruffle: A Flash Player emulator written in Rust 252 comments in 8 discussions

• After 8 years of development and delivering it to thousands of users, today I am open sourcing my visual programming language. 228 comments in 2 discussions

• TiDB – cloud-native, distributed SQL database written in Go 222 comments in 10 discussions

• Bunster: a shell script compiler 176 comments in 5 discussions

• Script: Making it easy to write shell-like scripts in Go 119 comments in 6 discussions

• Yokai: Modular Go framework for production-grade backend applications, with observability (logs, traces, metrics, health checks) built-in. 110 comments in 5 discussions

• Zasper: A Modern and Efficient Alternative to JupyterLab, Built in Go 103 comments in 2 discussions

• Nervous about Nim 73 comments in 2 discussions

• HTML Thermal Printer: HTML Printing Solution for 80mm Thermal Printers! 🖨️ Excited to share my new open-source project! What is HTML Thermal Printer? A WPF application specifically designed for 80mm thermal printers, allowing direct HTML content printing. 72 comments in 3 discussions

• C++ logging library - something I've been working on, Pt. 4 (Cross-Post) 70 comments in 9 discussions

Videos #

• The existential threat against C++ – NDC TechTown 2024 [video] 390 comments in 2 discussions

• Every language should have this feature (Kotlin let/also/apply/run/with) 68 comments in 1 discussion

• The Benefits of React Router V7 Nobody Told You About 65 comments in 1 discussion

• What are Go's "values?" 60 comments in 1 discussion

• Worst Practices in Software Development — What are the *worst* practices in software development that you follow? On this channel we ask many people this question. 39 comments in 2 discussions

• Learn C for Cybersecurity 34 comments in 1 discussion

• Why CGO is Dangerous 32 comments in 1 discussion