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GitHub buying npm seems like a great outcome! I understand that npm was struggling financially, but the tooling is entrenched in the JS ecosystem.

Quantifying how safe typical Rust code is, by looking at fuzzing metrics:

cargo-xtask is exploring a `npm-run` style workflow for Rust projects: https://github.com/matklad/cargo-xtask This is a lovely accordance in npm that I'd love to see in more languages.

The computational complexity of the Apollo 11 computer versus a USB-C charger today!

The novel feature of a "ribbon" toolbar is that it's contextual. It only offers the functionality that you need. Could we do the same with programming languages? You could enable/disable features based on e.g. codebase size.

Introducing Zod, and design tradeoffs of typescript libraries that let you specify and validate types: https://vriad.com/blog/zod/

AMD's remarkable resurgence, the profitability of the server market today, and the prospect of significant CPU and GPU sales for them: https://www.nextplatform.com/2020/03/06/amd-is-determined-to-gets-its-rightful-datacenter-share/ Ultimately, competition is great for the consumer.

Using Idris' C FFI to do compile time type generation! https://docs.idris-lang.org/en/latest/guides/type-providers-ffi.html (Lovely clear example.)

Today I learnt that idiomatic code in REBOL is called REBOLious!

Interesting security research on radio car key fobs. Tesla's model of regular over-the-air updates enabled a much faster fix. An upside of the "update all your appliances" model for consumer software!

You can learn a lot about your readers by looking at their referral links. In this case, the author can see different company-internal bug tracking URLs! This enables you to learn about who has a problem that you're blogging about

Docker seems to be losing steam, but it's a wonderful way to simplify deploys with a very small number of servers. I'm curious to play with Kubernetes but it doesn't make sense at my hobbyist scale. Are the other up-and-coming container tools that might compete?

Filecoin is solving a real consumer problem (needing backup storage but having empty local capacity,) using blockchain protocols! https://filecoin.io/blog/filecoin-proof-system/ Blockchain problems can sometimes be replaced with simpler tech, but this seems like a great match.

I'm toying with the idea of writing a little language with all its keywords derived from leetspeak. \/4Я id = 14|\/|8|)4 (x) => x; Readability is overrated 🙃

Apple Pay already has a remarkable 5% of the global payments market!