/dev monthly

🔥 A newsletter by developers for developers
curated by  Allan and  Thomas.

Fields of Interest

Here is some input from the interwebs
we thought you might like. Enjoy.

🎮 The history of Tetris randomizers

💳 Implementing Stripe-like Idempotency Keys in Postgres

🟩 Wordle and grep (hn discussion)

⭐️ How we lost 54k GitHub stars (hn discussion)

🐘 How Postgres Chooses Which Index To Use For A Query (hn discussion)

🍄 The games Nintendo didn't want you to play (hn discussion)

🌴 EarthBound’s Copy Protection (hn discussion)

🗄 A database for 2022 (hn discussion)

🦊 Firefox UI UX history (hn discussion)

🗺 The smallest 256x256 single-color PNG file (hn discussion)

📖 Algorithms for Decision Making (hn discussion)

🏎 My upgrade to 25 Gbit/s Fiber To The Home (hn discussion)

🧑🏽‍🍳 Software Mise en Place (hn discussion)

📟 How macOS manages M1 CPU cores (hn discussion)

Talks

Here are a few talks or documentaries
on software engineering to watch and listen to.

🎬 Python: Modern Dictionaries (2016)

🎬 Tony Hoare on inventing Quicksort

📻 The April APL Compiler

🎬 Big Data vs "Working Data"

📻 State Machine Replication, and Why You Should Care

Volunteering, Donating, Activism

Here are a few organizations
that can use your support.

epicenter.works: About | Volunteer | Donate

EFF: About | Volunteer | Donate

Wikimedia Foundation: About | Volunteer | Donate