Newsletter 47 – 02/2024

Featured

9 years of Apple text editor solo dev – Awesome post about a niche that I usually don’t read much on the internet: Apple app creators. Nice post with a mix of product knowledge, app architecture, and objective C. Must read.

The Pulse #75: Will US companies hire fewer engineers due to Section 174? – Best overview of what is happening in the US and why Section 174 affects and will affect the IT market in the US.

Challenging projects every programmer should try – Seeking a nice project to learn new patterns or just train a new programming language? This post suggests some interesting posts.

The IDEs we had 30 years ago… and we lost – Nice post showing the beginning of what we call IDE and text editors today, nice to know that since the 90s we have had something very similar to what we have today.

MISC

The Internet Is Full of AI Dogshit – The Internet is not a safe place to talk and get information anymore.

Here’s what’s coming in Rails 8 – Rails 8 is coming with huge news! Better PWA support, new default queue and caching implementation for Rails, and basic authentication!

Coming Soon: Golang 1.22 – Some nice improvements with Go 1.22, interesting upgrades on the trace tool.

Product Managing to Prevent Burnout – Avoid burnout should be a team goal and it can start with product management making the right decisions and priorities.

An overview of Cloudflare’s logging pipeline – A nice overview of how Cloudflare observability infrastructure handles over 1m/s of logs with strong redundancy and reliability.

I quit my job to work full time on my open source project – The history of people quitting working full time on personal projects is special, and when it’s an OSS, it is even more.

What We Got Right, What We Got Wrong – Amazing talk from Rob Pike, one of the Golang creators about Go history, things that got right, things that got wrong, and much interesting information about the. background of the language.