​​Generation of diagrams and flowcharts from text in a similar manner as markdown.

Ever wanted to simplify documentation and avoid heavy tools like Visio when explaining your code?

This is why mermaid was born, a simple markdown-like noscript language for generating charts from text via javanoscript.

https://github.com/knsv/mermaid

#js

Turn this:

 TD;
    A-->B;
    A-->C;
    B-->D;
    C-->D;

Into this:

Let's talk about #svelte!

"Write less, do more" used to be #jquery slogan for over a decade. Then, the slogan and jQuery itself was forgotten for some time.

And we face the second birth of this slogan with Svelte!

Rich Harris shares some very interesting ideas in this great talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzX4aTRPzno

Github Action to share your productivity stats in your Github profile.

https://github.com/matchai/waka-box

#github

⚡Breaking news!

After six and a half years, Guido van Rossum, the creator of Python, is leaving Dropbox and heading into retirement.

https://blog.dropbox.com/topics/company/thank-you--guido

Debt is not always a bad thing. Here are several examples of "good tech debt".

"How to do a code review" by Google

This project contain recommendations on the best way to do code reviews, based on long experience. All together they represent one complete document, broken up into many separate sections. You don’t have to read them all, but many people have found it very helpful to themselves and their team to read the entire set.

https://google.github.io/eng-practices/review/reviewer/

Life As A Developer: My Code Does Not Work Because I Am A Victim Of Complex Societal Factors

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Nj9ZjwOdFQ

Well, that's unexpected! 😑

​​Beagle is an incident response and digital forensics tool which transforms data sources and logs into graphs. Supported data sources include FireEye HX Triages, Windows EVTX files, SysMon logs and Raw Windows memory images. The resulting Graphs can be sent to graph databases such as Neo4J or DGraph, or they can be kept locally as Python NetworkX objects.

Beagle can be used directly as a #python library, or through a provided web interface.

https://github.com/yampelo/beagle

​​Visually explore, understand, and present your data.

https://github.com/microsoft/SandDance

#ts

Straight from command line, you can extract voice, piano, drums... from any music track!

https://github.com/deezer/spleeter

#python

We often laught at frontend tech because there are two new frameworks every year. But, I deeply believe that all this "CloudNative" "DevOps" is the new frontend. Tons of crazy stuff going on!

For example, you can now run docker-compose in podman! What is podman? It is something that compliments buildah. What is buildah? That's OCI-friendly tool. Should you ask what OCI is? I guess not.

- https://github.com/containers/podman-compose
- https://github.com/containers/libpod
- https://github.com/containers/buildah

Please, stop.

#devops

​​A fantastic credit card form with smooth and sweet micro-interactions. Includes number formatting, validation and automatic card type detection. Built with #vue and also fully responsive.

https://github.com/muhammederdem/vue-interactive-paycard

A very good rant about our modern software state.

#oldmanyellsatcloud

​​⚡Breaking news!

TypeScript 3.7 released with:

- Optional Chaining & Coalescing!
- Assertion Functions
- .d.ts Emit From .js Files
- Smarter Control Flow Analysis
- Flatter Error Messages

That's great!

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typenoscript/announcing-typenoscript-3-7/

Compile-time assertions for #rust.

This library lets you ensure correct assumptions about constants, types, and more. There is zero runtime cost to using this because all checks are at compile-time, and so no code is emitted to run.

https://github.com/nvzqz/static-assertions-rs

⚡Breaking news!

Announcing Dart 2.6 with dart2native: Compile #dart to self-contained, native executables

https://medium.com/dartlang/dart2native-a76c815e6baf

​​Onefetch is a command line tool that displays information about your Git project directly on your terminal. Onefetch supports almost 50 different programming languages. If your language of choice isn't supported: Open up an issue and support will be added.

https://github.com/o2sh/onefetch

#rust

GitHub Action to cache your dependencies.

https://github.com/actions/cache

#github

​​Streetmix is a collaborative process for communities and city planners to improve public spaces. Design, remix, and share your neighborhood street.

https://github.com/streetmix/streetmix

#js

⚡Breaking news!

#rust 1.39 released with async/await support and many other features.

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2019/11/07/Rust-1.39.0.html

Catalyst helps you write compact but full-featured DL & RL pipelines in a few lines of code. You get a training loop with metrics, early-stopping, model checkpointing and other features without the boilerplate.

Features:
- Universal train/inference loop.
- Configuration files for model/data hyperparameters.
- Reproducibility – all source code and environment variables will be saved.
- Callbacks – reusable train/inference pipeline parts.
- Training stages support.
- Easy customization.
- PyTorch best practices (SWA, AdamW, 1Cycle, Ranger optimizer, FP16 and more).

https://github.com/catalyst-team/catalyst

#python #data