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**Jerod Santo:** |
Let's finish up this week's episode with a quick list of new tools for your software trade. |
- [remoteStorage](https://remote.storage) persists data across browsers & devices reusing the localStorage API |
- [dive](https://github.com/wagoodman/dive) is a tool for exploring each layer in a docker image |
- [deadcode](https://go.dev/blog/deadcode) finds unreachable functions in Go programs |
- [Tart](https://tart.run) is a virtualization toolset to build, run & manage macOS / Linux VMs on Apple Silicon |
- [Refine](https://github.com/refinedev/refine) is a React framework for building internal tools with "unmatched flexibility" |
- [WhisperSpeech](https://github.com/collabora/WhisperSpeech): is a text-to-speech system built by inverting Whisper |
- [Keploy](https://keploy.io): converts user-traffic to test cases and data stubs |
- [pgxman](https://pgxman.com) is like npm, but for Postgres extensions |
- [verto.sh](https://www.verto.sh) isa directory of open source projects that are beginner-friendly |
Find links to all of these tools in the companion newsletter. |
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That's the news for now! Have a great week, **tell your friends about Changelog News** if you dig it, and I'll talk to you again real soon. 💚 |
• The Pudding's experiment using Anthropic's Claude LLM failed to replace human journalists |
• 80% of professional programmers are unhappy according to the Stack Overflow Developer Survey |
• Using plain vanilla web development techniques can help reduce tech stack complexity and improve developer happiness |
• MIT's "missing semester" course covers essential tool proficiency for CS students |
• Sentry is hosting a workshop on extended tracing for frontend performance optimization |
• The history and enduring popularity of CSV file format as a simple, resilient data standard |
• A new open-source tool, ngtop, extracts request analytics from nginx access logs |
**Jerod Santo:** |
What up, nerds? I'm Jerod and this is Changelog News for the week of Monday, August 5th, 2024. |
The Pudding (who we've talked to [on JS Party](https://jsparty.fm/193)) ran an experiment where they used an LLM to make one of their data-driven, visual stories. Effectively, they tried replacing themselves with Anthropic's Claude. The conclusion: *“Do we feel replaceable? In short, not right now.”* ([readme](https://... |
Ok, let's get into some human-generated news. |
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**Jerod Santo:** |
[80% of professional programmers are unhappy](https://shiftmag.dev/unhappy-developers-stack-overflow-survey-3896/) |
The latest Stack Overflow [Developer Survey](https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/) results (65k developers from 185 countries) had some shocking (but not exactly _surprising_) findings: |
> 80% of professional programmers are unhappy. One in three respondents actively hates their job, while almost half survive in survival mode. This leaves only 20% of those who claim to be somewhat happy. Although programmers are well-paid and often able to work remotely, many are still dissatisfied. |
According the the survey, the main drivers of developer frustration are technical debt & the complexity of the tech stack they have to work with. Combine that with the pressure to meat unrealistic deadlines, endless meetings with point-haired bosses & the recent, industry-wide massive layoffs... and yeah, 80% sounds a... |
**Break:** |
**Jerod Santo:** |
[Doing web dev using only vanilla techniques](https://plainvanillaweb.com/) |
One way to fend off the "complexity of the tech stack" factor, which we know leads to developer unhappiness, is to eschew complex tools & frameworks that set out to help you build websites, but sometimes end up costing you (and your users) in unnecessary complexity down the road. But how does one go about using plain v... |
> This is an overview of the major techniques used to make web sites and web applications without making use of build tools or frameworks, with just an editor, a browser, and web standards. |
This looks like a great explainer. Check it out by following the link in your chapter data and the newsletter. |
**Break:** |
**Jerod Santo:** |
[The missing semester of your CS education](https://missing.csail.mit.edu/) |
MIT's "missing semester" course looks pretty amazing: |
> Classes teach you all about advanced topics within CS, from operating systems to machine learning, but there’s one critical subject that’s rarely covered, and is instead left to students to figure out on their own: proficiency with their tools. We’ll teach you how to master the command-line, use a powerful text edito... |
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> Mastering these tools not only enables you to spend less time on figuring out how to bend your tools to your will, but it also lets you solve problems that would previously seem impossibly complex. |
The video recordings of the lectures are available [on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyzOVJj3bHQuloKGG59rS43e29ro7I57J). Link in the newsletter. |
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**Jerod Santo:** |
It's now time for Sponsored News! |
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**Jerod Santo:** |
[Why CSV is still king](https://konbert.com/blog/why-csv-is-still-king) |
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