In these last few days, we’ve had many news items, articles, information in the development and technology world, these are the most relevant for me:
Google announces a new Machine Learning service in the cloud
NPM & left-pad: Have We Forgotten How To Program?: The Kik case - left-pad from NPM and the critical fall to “I’ll do this with a third-party module/plugin/package/class”
The Kik case - left-pad from NPM and the fall in (official) or how the most insignificant dependencies can really leave us stranded.
Vulnerabilities in NPM: The week has been tough for the NPM ecosystem, and I think it’s the beginning of a necessary change, it can’t be a time bomb, as it currently is.
Google shares data center security and design best practices: some notes on best practices in the design of and security of Google’s datacenters.
Docker for Mac and Windows: With Docker’s third birthday, they announce Docker (without Virtualbox) for Mac, still in (private) beta.
The Nik Collection photo editing plugin suite is now free: After the purchase by Google, these magnificent editing plugins are now free.
Working at the same time in a project and its dependencies: Composer and path type repository: Very good example of Vendoring and dependencies with PHP.
The best advice I can give to a young engineer: Carlos Galli hits the nail on the head in this article.
When should I use TypeScript?: Although personally I’ll continue with Coffeescript.
BinDiff now available for free: Google has released BinDiff (for free) a tool to see differences between executables graphically.
Engineering Proteins in the Cloud with Python and Transcriptic, or, How to Make Any Protein You Want for $360 : Bioinformatics tools with python.
Deep Spelling: Rethinking spelling correction in the 21st century: Good example of how to build a spell checker with python using Machine Learning.
Using React and jQuery Together: From my point of view a WTF!
Bye bye Mcrypt: Goodbye to Mcrypt in PHP, it will become deprecated and then… viking funeral? ;-)
React Native v0.22 : Now with Hot Reloading.
Toonz Goes Open Source: The animation software behind Futurama, Studio Ghibli,… becomes Open Source.