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"Where have all the hackers gone?" + a way to discuss programming languages (morepablo.com)

A way to talk about programming languages, and a plea to Think Different™

The State of Developer Ecosystem in 2023 Infographic (www.jetbrains.com)

Software Architectural Patterns and development approaches (github.com)

Architecture is a structure, a way to distribute your application components in various groups. There is not a single way to organize your projects because it could depend on several aspects like project state, team size, time constraints, etc

Hackers are using malicious Microsoft VSCode extensions to steal passwords (www.techradar.com)

In some cases, to run malicious code remotely, too

How do you deal with management and tech debt?

Hey all, I want to know how you all deal with management and pushing tech debt work. Here's a little bit of background on my current situation, and I'd love to hear how you'd deal with it....

Installing kbin.social locally, anyone know what this issue might be?

Hey guys. I've been trying to get kbin.social running on my local machine outlined here but I'm running into issues...

GTA3 Code Review: Weapons, Vehicles, Cops and Gangs (youtu.be)

Today, we'll review the source code for RE3– the reverse-engineered C++ source code for Grand Theft Auto III and Vice City.

Looking for less toxic alternatives to StackOverflow

No answers, but a lot of downvoting and toxicity around pROPer QueSTioNS. I got reminded why I haven't gone to that site for a very long time....

Commit Mono. Neutral programming typeface. (commitmono.com)

Commit Mono is an anonymous and neutral programming typeface focused on creating a better reading experience.

LZ77 Is All You Need? Why Gzip + KNN Works for Text Classification (codeconfessions.substack.com)

Decoding the Success of Gzip + KNN: The Central Role of LZ77

GitHub - EbookFoundation/free-programming-books: :books: Freely available programming books (github.com)

:books: Freely available programming books. Contribute to EbookFoundation/free-programming-books development by creating an account on GitHub.

The Tragic Death of Inheritance (avivcarmi.com)

Languages on the rise like Rust and Go are being quite vocal against inheritance and many engineers seem to agree. Why? And is it the fall of inheritance?

Coding Adventure: Making a Stronger Chess Engine (Youtube, 1:01:00) (www.youtube.com)

Trying to improve an old chess bot by experimenting with various interesting techniques.You can play (or watch) the bot on lichess: https://lichess.org/@/Cod...

Future CSS: State Container Queries (ishadeed.com)

An early look at CSS state queries.

How does Machine Learning work? (ageofai.substack.com)

A conceptual overview for anyone

Domain Knowledge or a lack thereof (2013) (jacquesmattheij.com)

I believe that a lack of domain knowledge is the root cause of a lot of very bad software that gets developed and I think that it is up to computer programmers and their managers to deal with this. Acquiring domain knowledge is an essential component in the development of software that really works well for its users.