StatusCode Weekly Covering the week's news in software development, ops, platforms, and tooling. | Apple Switching Macs to Its Own Processors — In the opening session of this year's online-only WWDC, Apple revealed that they're dropping x86 and moving to their own ARM-based silicon starting later this year. In other WWDC news, macOS 11 Big Sur was announced which means the true end of OS X and a new design language. Even if you're not interested in the Mac space at all, this development could shake things up a lot, right down to how different languages approach ARM as a key compilation target. Tom Warren (The Verge) |
| How One Developer Passed $100K/yr on GitHub Sponsors — GitHub's Sponsors program has opened up an interesting new funding model for many open source developers. Of course, not everyone can do it to this level, but it's an inspirational story and Caleb shares lots of useful points, particularly if you want to fund your own work this way too. Caleb Porzio |
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| The Impending Doom of Expiring Root CAs and Legacy Clients — It's a fact of life that security certificates have expiry dates and need replacing.. including root certificates that can often have very long multi-year timespans which could cause a lot of problems with older devices quite soon. This post is a good introduction to the problems on the horizon. Scott Helme |
| Let Them Paste Passwords — Some sites prevent pasted passwords (which can even break some password managers). The UK's cyber security officials stress that this a security anti-pattern. Today I also learnt that "Sociotechnical Security Researcher" is an actual job title – cool! National Cyber Security Centre (UK) |
| The SaaS CTO Security Checklist — Learn the latest best practices for SaaS CTOs and technical leaders around leveling up your company's security with this actionable checklist. Sqreen |
| After Three Years of Work, Chrome Killed My Extension and Won't Tell Me Why — This is a story worth checking out if your work ends up on the Chrome Webstore in any way (such as if you're distributing a browser extension): "Complaining on the internet should not be a support channel. Developers should not have to rely on the internet attention lottery. The Chrome Webstore has been around 10 years and needs to get its act together." LipSurf |
| How a Little Bit of Plain JavaScript Can Do a Lot — For anyone more than happy to dive in and write JavaScript without dragging in an entire framework and tooling to manage it, there will be no surprises here, but this is a nice reminder otherwise. Julia Evans |
| Windows Terminal Preview 1.1 Released — If you're on Windows 10, this is for you. Terminal now supports setting your chosen font weight, a "Open in Windows Terminal" context menu in File Explorer, and more. Kayla Cinnamon |
| TiDB 4.0 Released: A Hybrid, Open Source HTAP Database — TiDB is an elastic, real-time Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) database built in Go(lang) that can act like a traditional relational database, a NoSQL database, or an analytical database all out of one box. PingCAP |
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