Issues from 2023
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2023-W51
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This week has been about the security of UUIDv7, a collection of neovim plugins, an introduction to how databases work, a collection of static analysis tools, package manager challenges and data-oriented design and the relational model.
2023-W50
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This week has been about the HTML input element, justifying technical tradeoffs, Canon TDD, offline-first SQLite replication, CRDTs in Rust and a Python library for loading data.
2023-W49
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This week has been about a tool to explore regular expressions, an embeddable Scheme runtime, a query language for Git, a chess game in the terminal, a Service Workers server implementation and a programming language for scientific computations.
2023-W48
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This week has been about Rust lifetimes expansion, a formatter and linter for JavaScript, an argument completions generator, an LS_COLORS generator, a parser combinator library, the timezone proposal from the Barcelona Declaration on Time Policies working group.
2023-W47
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This week has been about the notion of Pi, an API-driven dictionary, a small terminal-based editor, a programming language for concurrent software, Git concepts revisited and the Functional Source License.
2023-W46
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This week has been about custom Git diffs for SQLite, a data transformation framework, cross-platform applications with Flutter and Rust, web analytics using CSS, a regexd crossword and Web Components without Shadow DOM.
2023-W45
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This week has been about the HTTP/2 Rapid Reset vulnerability, a paper on new contributors and vulnerabilities, a guide on jq, a monospaced font, a multi-tile format and TigerBeetle's rationale for using 128-bit integers for financial amounts.
2023-W44
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This week has been about Signal’s new post-quantum protocol, an embedded programming language, an observability platform, PostgreSQL extensions in Rust, an introduction to LLM embeddings and Nginx extensions in Rust.
2023-W43
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This week has been about the Actor pattern, converting video to GIF, a reverse proxy for NAT traversal, a specification for GPDR-like privacy, a London tube game and a criticism to Tailwind.
2023-W42
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This week has been about digital content provenance, buffers and ropes, a gunzip tutorial, a CPU profiler, design choices of LSP and a Pi service.
2023-W41
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This week has been about sketching ASCII art, mathematics notation, a JavaScript IDE, macOS containers, a CSS custom properties library and a distributed stream processing engine written in Rust.
2023-W40
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This week has been about the Border Gateway Protocol, a game for learning how to code, changesets for better PRs, a tool manager, an embeddable language in Rust and a compact tutorial on Unicode.
2023-W39
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This week has been about a logic-based programming language, an array and stack oriented programming language, Lua as a config language, a column-oriented analytical database, a CLI for taking screenshots of webpages and an alternative to Postman.
2023-W38
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This week has been about Bun, a cleverer cd, shell pipelines in Rust, circles in printing, sustainability guidelines for the web and SQLite for multi-file documents.
2023-W37
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This week has been about the 4-colour map theory, a cross-platform nantive GUI for Rust, a terminal file manager, an interactive Linux kernel map, the Odin programming language and a Unix timestamp clock.
2023-W36
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This week has been about a tool for colour selection, a jq clone, Nix Flakes, Matrix shortcomings, the Oil shell and a video on curl.
2023-W35
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This week has been about a Web Component for math formulas, a Clojure language on top of LLVM, a Git command-palette, measuring developer productivity, the impact of Copilot and a offline maps application.
2023-W34
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This week has been about incompetent nice people, CVEs rescored without proper explanations, a package manager for Conda, Google DRM to control the Web, styilish maps and a WebAssembly framework for serverless.
2023-W33
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This week has been about Jira from the terminal, GitHub integrations with Rust, Postgres replicated to SQLite, a collection of miniature programming languages, unused CSS and whether syntax highlighting helps or not.
2023-W32
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This week has been about the Red Book of data management, animations in WebAssembly, an embeddable relational database, Machine Learning in Rust, a tool to compress in many formats and a memory for the creator of Vim.
2023-W31
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This week has been about Lua multi-values, the Fennel language, the Wing Cloud language, a keyboard customiser for MacOS, the history of Unicode and how to use semicolons in English.
2023-W30
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This week has been about a Rust code checker, portable maps with WebGPU, Apple's Private Access Tokens, Desktop Container Environments, a tool for MacOS automation with Lua and a high-level systems programming language.
2023-W29
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This week has been about a CLI for plain-text HTTP requests, a linter for Python imports, a chart library in Rust a software license against bigotry, WebGPU and Rust traits for data streams.
2023-W28
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This week has been about SQLite synchronisation, interactive widgets with DuckDB, a game with lasers and chess pieces, prototyping with Rust and Python, a web application framework driven by SQL and a library for diagramming in JavaScript.
2023-W27
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This week has been about SQLite on Postgres protocol, an IRC desktop application, relational joins, checkmate patterns, a statically typed configuration language and a carbon footprint calculator.
2023-W26
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This week has been about CSS Hue, a tool for code structural search, calling C++ from Rust, a block-based editor, a single data access layer library and memory allocation basics.
2023-W25
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This week has been about completion scripts from BNF, a lambda calculus repl, Rust Git hooks, the Kakoune editor, repurposing hardware and data abstractions.
2023-W24
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This week has been about a SurrealDB playground, PDF annotation in Obsidian, snapshot testing in Rust, the new EU AI Act, CSS blend modes and weaknesses in OOXML signatures.
2023-W23
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This week has been about a system for consultations, speeding up Rust Docker builds, a curly Python dialect, the London tube in Git, a collection of CSS patterns and low-level WASM in TypeScript.
2023-W22
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This week has been about bypassing paywalls, stored procedures in SQLite, a local meta search engine, merging tree-like structures, WASI on POSIX and a web bundler in Rust compatible with Webpack.
2023-W21
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This week has been about a tool to generate flamegraphs, debugging asynchronous Rust, a technical debt classification, electronic music rudiments, a spreadsheet-like tool supporting Python and a programming language with manual memory management and Python-like syntax.
2023-W19
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This week has been about RocksDB, emoji prompts, managing Python, querying binary files, prompt engineering and a tutorial on TLS.
2023-W18
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This week has been about the internals of Pandas, internals of Deno KV, unsafe Rust vs Zig, useful errors in Rust, search and replace for Neovim and streaming statistics.
2023-W17
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This week has been about the internals of databases, LLMs in Python, LLMs in Rust, a service offering pre-trained models, MVCC in Postgres and a tool to kill processes.
2023-W16
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This week has been about data exfiltration in Python, WebAssembly in Python, Rust backing mobile applications, text minimaps, interactive graphics in JavaScript and load balancer strategies.
2023-W15
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This week has been about a simplified Nix, fast lexers in Rust, accessible SolidJS, the London tube in 3D, a technical search engine, and headless mobile applications.
2023-W14
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This week has been about networks and graphs with Gephi Lite, a JavaScript library for graph manipulation, a Python library for data validation, a Make-like build tool, the state of AI research, and WebAssembly tail call optimisation in V8.
2023-W13
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This week has been about the Janet language, the bicycle movement, a tool for analysing security risks, a typesetting system, and a talk on data-oriented design.
2023-W12
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This week has been about collations in databases, flaws in Linux processes, provenance for digital content, Amazon S3 as a local file system, the GPT hype and deceptive design patterns.
2023-W11
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This week has been about translating C to Rust, a graphical font editor, an alternative to Parquet, a WASM Markdown parser, Lua in Neovim and AI Animation.
2023-W10
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This week has been about incident management, a tool for managing JavaScript projects, a Rust actor framework inspired by Erlang, gradient descent in SQL, a toolset for interactive Markdown and a study of the Panopticon.
2023-W09
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This week has been about how the Internet works, prompt injection threats, fast SQLite indexing, an edge CMS, an in-memory database and trait references in Rust.
2023-W08
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This week has been about daily art, a tool for searching in repositories, SQL in Jupyter with DuckDB, plain text accounting, Rust programs interactive visualisations and the accessibility of Shadow DOM.
2023-W07
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This week has been about an iOS Mastodon application, a tool for inspecting large allocations in Rust, a tool to make Linux applications behave, Python's GIL, Go's proposal on telemetry and a deep dive on Rust and WebAssembly.
2023-W06
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This week has been about a multi-source query engine, a file-tree visualiser, a Rust magazine, GPT-3 prompt injections, a tutorial on fzf and Rust procedural macros.
2023-W05
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This week has been about shipping pre-built Rust binaries, an alternative to asdf, an alternative to Git, a 12-bit colour palette, a recursive game of life and the Quite Ok Image format.
2023-W04
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This week has been about using NPM for non-javascript packages, the line of death pattern, story points and planning, rare Git commands, a pub/sub protocol and a new introduction to Nix.
2023-W03
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This week has been about float point numbers, an interaction net runtime, deep learning in Rust, data wrangling in Python and modem handshakes explained.
2023-W02
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This week has been about WebAssembly User Defined Functions (UDF) in libSQL, a collection of failed projects, a collection of web fonts, a multi-clipboard tool, a collection of React components for 2D diagrams and a book on Rust atomics.
2023-W01
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This week has been about reactive libraries mechanics, graph neural networks, reusable SQL with M4, TypeScript types from Rust, a command-line JSON viewer and web browsers user agent compatibility.