Dev

• Tutorial guide about making a REST API.
• Acquire Git superpowers with these 6 tips – “Git [is] a must-have skill for developers. Yet many developers only know the basics—or worse, they cargo code the Git commands they use on a daily basis without really understanding what they are doing.” Get more productive with your Git. James Turnbull shows you how.
• It’s a trap! – “If you’ve written any amount of bash code, you’ve likely come across the trap command. Trap allows you to catch signals and execute code when they occur.…Most of these notifications are for events that you hope never happen, such as an invalid memory access or a bad system call. However, there are one or two events that you might reasonably want to deal with.” In Linux Journal, Mitch Frazier offers an exhaustive explication of the command, with examples.
  • • “Bash Aliases You Can’t Live Without”
• Go is eating the world of software – Straight from the floor of the O’Reilly Open Source Software Conference, The Changelog talks with Ron Evans about why “embedded systems and Go are the most exciting things happening right now.” Listen in to learn more about TinyGo, a project to bring the Go programming language to microcontroller and modern web browsers.
• 5 Powerful Programming Languages to Stretch Your Brain – an overview of different languages that will allow you to look at problems in new and unique ways.
• The Big O Notation - An Introduction – the what and why of Big O Notation.
• JetBrains Educational Products 2019.2 – Please give a warm welcome to Educational Products 2019.2! Enjoy upgraded IDEs for Education and the EduTools plugin v2.8, use the unittest framework for Python courses, and get ready to learn with our brand-new courses.
• Fun with objects in Perl – Here’s an easy way to get Perl up and running (from Laurent Rosenfeld’s Think Perl 6: How to Think Like a Computer Scientist): You can run Perl 6 in a browser using Glot.io Once you do that, follow along with David Cassel as he has fun with objects.
• What would generics mean for Go? – “Go was released on November 10, 2009. Less than 24 hours later we saw the first comment about generics.…In three years of Go surveys, lack of generics has always been listed as one of the top three problems to fix in the language. But what does it mean to add generics, and why would we want it?”

Ops

• 16 essentials for sysadmin superheroes – With great power comes great responsibility, but these tips and tricks can help you handle the pressure.
• A useful library for anyone writing Go-based HTTP services. Sundheit allows you to register async health checks for your dependencies and the service itself and provides a health endpoint that exposes status and health metrics.
• Firefox developer tools can do that? – tips and tricks for Firefox developer tools.
• 5 Visual Studio Code Tricks to Boost Your Productivity – tips for refactoring, shortcuts for editing, cool cursor magic, and more.
• Curlie provides a CLI tool for making HTTP requests. It aims to offer the power of Curl but with an easier to use and more informative UI.
• Even experts can’t really explain DevOps – Bryan Lunduke, Linux Journal deputy editor and software developer, searches for a more concrete definition.

tail -f /dev/misc

• This AI-powered autocompletion software is Gmail’s Smart Compose for coders.
• How I Got a Software Engineering Job Without Work Experience or a CS Degree – how a dev with an untraditional coding background got a dev job through an untraditional route.
• Music for programming (2019 edition) – You either like to listen to music when you code, or you hate it.
• Top monospaced fonts for coding.
• If you’ve never fiddled with regex and are kind of intimidated by the whole thing, here’s a gentle introduction – with pictures.