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Design for Developers, {:elixir, :cars}, Code Review Review, Top 20 Languages

This week we cover Design and accessibility, programming your car with Elixir, a culture of code reviews, and the most popular languages among software developers.

ReasonML Fundamentals Part 3

Destructuring, pattern matching, imperative loops, modules

Open Source Spotlight: GitPitch

Our weekly spotlight of a cool project in the open source community that are looking for exposure or assistance. If you’d like your project to be featured, let us know about it.

Congratulations to Andy L. and Ben S. on winning tickets to The Big...

ReasonML Fundamentals Part 2

Fundamentals - Record, variant, list, array, function, if/else

Achieve more with Less code, Elm vs React-Redux-Flow

Elm Language was specifically designed to build front-end applications, and it offers a great experience as a whole. Its most shiny features are:

Great performance using the virtual DOM
Functional language
Safety through a Powerful type system
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Dart 2: The Dartening, Pwning Homebrew, Prod Minimalism, Unethical Development

Dart 2 launches, Homebrew forgets to secure Jenkins, Deploy less to do more, Automated employee firing with Bash.

ReasonML Fundamentals Part 1

Dive into the core fundamentals of ReasonML, including let, type, string, char, and more.

Open Source Spotlight: Wallaby

As part of DailyDrip’s relaunch as SmoothTerminal.com, we want to spotlight some cool projects in the open source community. These projects are looking for exposure or assistance. If you’d like your project to be featured, email ...

Introduction to ReasonML

Installing ReasonML and getting to know its ecosystem, including refmt, Merlin, BuckleScript, and redex.

Re-Distributing the (D)web, Vue vs React, Keeping secrets, Typescript 3 released, ❤️ Mechanical Keyboards

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We are giving away a copy of @pragmaticstudio’s course Developing With Elixir/OTP. Enter the contest to win.

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Congrats to Mohamed, Alex, and Wheeler for winning a copy of Exploding Rails by Ryan Bigg. If you want to pick up a copy of your own, here’...

Keeping Your Secrets Hidden

There aren’t many rules when deploying applications to the cloud, but here’s one I think is pretty important:

>Don’t commit your API keys to your git repository.

Perhaps even more important:

>Don’t commit your database credentials to your git...

SmoothTerminal Open Source Spotlight: Alchemist.el

As part of DailyDrip’s relaunch as SmoothTerminal.com, we want to spotlight some cool projects in the open source community. These projects are looking for exposure or assistance. If you’d like your project to be featured, hit reply and let us...

Exploding Rails; Knative k8s Serverless; Elixir QoL; JS fundamentals; Stable APIs

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Have you felt the pain of using Active Record on a large codebase? How about messy controllers? Well, you should probably enter to win a free copy of Ryan Bigg’s Exploding Rails. We are giving away 3 copies of it!

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Robin Wieruch provided a detailed...

9 Biggest Mistakes in CSS Grid; 💌 Love Letter to Vue; ☕️ Java types broken

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Alex Balashov wrote a love letter to Vue. Alex discusses Vue’s component-centric design, amazing documentation, and distinct project vision as reasons for why Vue is great. If you’re only experience with a FE framework is Angular 1.x, Alex can...

Python drives away BDFL; Monads sans 🌯; System Design Explained

Guido Van Rossum has decided to remove himself from the position of BDFL in the Python community.In Guido’s letter he says "I don't ever want to have to fight so hard for a PEP and find that so many people despise my decisions." For...

Build your own 8-bit character using Sass part IV

Automating character animation.

3 Nerds in a Garage, /([Pp]+okemon)/, TypeScript|OCaml for React Native

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Alex Clemmer wrote one big Regex to beat Pokemon Blue. Alex dives into what a finite state machine is, which he defines as "a collection of states with transitions between them." Alex used a FSM, a simple data model, a massively...

Logging and Monitoring

Configuring and managing basic logging for Nginx.

Creating a Worker Service with Faktory

Set up and create a Worker Service.

Build your own 8-bit character using Sass part III

Animating the character

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Google announced the stable release of Dart 2. Dart 2 features a sound type system, flexible tooling, a web framework, and an updated inference type system that minimizes boilerplate. The Dart team touts it’s much compile size and use for building consistent UXs, and includes over prebuilt UX components for use. Dart is aiming to be a real competitor in the web and mobile app building space (via Flutter), and this is an update worth looking into.

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If you like OCaml and JavaScript you will probably love ReasonML. Alex Allen started a multi-part series for getting started with ReasonML. In the first piece you can see a breakdown of what ReasonML is, and shows how to get set up with it. Then, in the second piece of the series Alex covered the core fundamentals of ReasonML, including let, type, string, char, and more.

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Eric Homes was able to gain commit access to Homebrew in 30 minutes. He details the process he went through for the exploit, now that it’s been mitigated. tl;dr - Homebrew intentionally exposes their Jenkins publicly, and Jenkins contained a GitHub API token that had commit privileges to a few homebrew repositories. We published a story recently on keeping your secrets hidden that covers (almost) this exact issue.

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We all know it’s impossible to exit Vim, but where did Vim come from? Sinclair Target discusses Vim’s roots, and how Vim came to be in his piece ‘Where Vim Came From’. If you’re not familiar with Vim’s history, this will make for a fun read.

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Yiming Chen details how to do outside-in TDD with Phoenix. Even if you aren’t a Phoenix developer, it’s a fantastic detailed walkthrough of the process of test-driving an app by writing feature tests first, then driving down into unit tests from there. The TDD strategy is: feature test; unit test controller action; unit test context functions; unit test view; a routing rule to pass the feature test.

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Tired of typing in those long git commands? Try lazygit, doesn’t git much simpler than this.

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Megzari Raphael provides step-by-step instructions on Instrumenting Phoenix apps with Prometheus. The article provides instructions on integrating prometheus dependencies in the Elixir application and some sample dashboards.

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So now you have monitoring on your servers? I’m sad to tell you that at scale that’s not enough. In "You can’t debug systems with dashboards", Charity Majors goes in-depth into how they increased observability at Parse through dynamic sampling.

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You might be familiar with TDD or DDD, but have you heard of SDD? Well, this one doesn’t have as many pros as it does cons. Sales-Driven Development is described by Marcus Blankenship as a trap. Marcus has some tips on how to avoid SDD, and how to get back on the right track.

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There’s a fantastic thread on The Orange Site answering the question "What is the most unethical thing you've done as a programmer?" From building draconian employee-automation tools for call-centers to intentionally leaving bugs in to help QA meet their quotas, the whole thread is a fascinating read.

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If you’re in the market to buy a Mechanical Keyboard, Brian Mock has written a comically detailed intro to get you started. Pros: Feels good, customizable, pretty. Cons: Expensive, loud, typically are not wireless.

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What are the differences between Vue and React? Sunil Sandhu built the same app in both FE Frameworks to find out the differences and see them side by side. Each app passes data through a child component, has event listeners, and creates new items on a todo list. Read the article, and checkout the code for the Vue app and React app.

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George Brocklehurst showed how Thoughtbot used machine learning to recommend blog posts on the Giant Robots Blog. George gives a brief intro to Topic Modeling, and talks about why this approach might work better than just pairing articles by tags. Read on to see exactly how they did it.

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TypeScript released version 3.0. Typescript was created by Microsoft, and defines itself as "an extension of JavaScript that aims to bring static types to modern JavaScript." There are a lot of new features, but the features we are most excited about are project references, ‘--build mode’, controlling output structure, and richer tuple types.

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