As building software grows more like snapping Legos together, how people find and use those Legos becomes more important. That's why we are donating $25,000 to the NixOS Foundation and betting on Nix as the future of software distribution.

In software, the…

Summary Our current issue icon colors are a source of constant user feedback, citing confusion with errors, confusion between why Open is green and Closed is red, accessibility concerns and the gen...

Posted in r/programming by u/Atulin • 132 points and 21 comments

An implementation of the exact same app in Firestore, AWS Datastore, PouchDB, RxDB and WatermelonDB - pubkey/client-side-databases

Fake npm Roblox API package discovered by Sonatype uncovers first known ransomware maliciously placed in typosquatted open source package.

Pastebin.com is the number one paste tool since 2002. Pastebin is a website where you can store text online for a set period of time.

Professor demands that governor halt "baseless investigation" and apologize.

GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

Fizz Buzz is a common challenge given during interviews. The challenge goes something like this:

Write a program that prints the numbers from 1 to n. If a number is
divisible by 3, write Fizz inst...

In December 2018, bling vendor Signet Jewelers fixed a weakness in their Kay Jewelers and Jared websites that exposed the order information for all of their online customers. This week, Signet subsidiary Zales.com updated its website to remediate a nearly…

Leading-edge software developers are amazing – yet incredibly demanding – early adopters.  For products and platforms that increase development velocity, remove complexity, and dri…

Posted in r/programming by u/mileslimes • 218 points and 37 comments

This is brilliant: Software engineer got tired of getting rejected by automated screeners and tested a theory. Real resume: 0% success Obviously fake resume stuffed with buzzwords: 90% success rate Calls from from Notion, AirBnB, Reddit, Dropbox, Robinhood…

Version 2.098.0 of the D programming language is now available in the form of DMD 2.098.0 (the reference D compiler) and LDC 1.28.0 (the LLVM-based D compiler), D has come to OpenBSD, cool things a…

Gaping OptinMonster security hole patched

LISP engine that's tiny enough to fit in a 512-byte master boot record

I've been using Bash functions quite liberally over the past couple years, but
last week I discovered that they can be much better than I thought. In this
post, I'll explain how I thought they worked, why I was wrong, and how that
makes them better.Function…

A detailed description of how we made Google Docs run inside the new Flow Browser. The number of websites that work in Flow is increasing regularly.

The growing complexity of modern software systems is slowly killing software developers. How can you regain control, without losing out on the best these technologies have to offer?