Weekly Developer Roundup #9 - Sun Aug 16 2020
Tags: webdev, newsletter
Published: 2020-08-16 00:00:00

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title: Weekly Developer Roundup #9 - Sun Aug 16 2020
description: Your weekly dose of trending articles and repos from across the web!
date: "2020-08-16"
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Here is your update from across the web for the week of 2020-08-16.

## Trending This Week On Github

- **romefrontend/rome** (TypeScript): [The Rome Frontend Toolchain. A linter, compiler, bundler, and more for JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, Markdown, and CSS.](https://github.com/romefrontend/rome)
- **aristocratos/bpytop** (Python): [Linux/OSX/FreeBSD resource monitor](https://github.com/aristocratos/bpytop)
- **tailwindlabs/heroicons** (JavaScript): [A set of free MIT-licensed high-quality SVG icons for UI development.](https://github.com/tailwindlabs/heroicons)
- **PrefectHQ/prefect** (Python): [The easiest way to automate your data](https://github.com/PrefectHQ/prefect)
- **aristocratos/bashtop** (Shell): [Linux/OSX/FreeBSD resource monitor](https://github.com/aristocratos/bashtop)
- **guoday/Tencent2020_Rank1st** (Python): [The code for 2020 Tencent College Algorithm Contest, and the online result ranks 1st.](https://github.com/guoday/Tencent2020_Rank1st)
- **EbookFoundation/free-programming-books** : [📚 Freely available programming books](https://github.com/EbookFoundation/free-programming-books)
- **simdjson/simdjson** (C++): [Parsing gigabytes of JSON per second](https://github.com/simdjson/simdjson)
- **openservicemesh/osm** (Go): [Open Service Mesh (OSM) is a lightweight, extensible, cloud native service mesh that allows users to uniformly manage, secure, and get out-of-the-box observability features for highly dynamic microservice environments.](https://github.com/openservicemesh/osm)
- **AliaksandrSiarohin/first-order-model** (Jupyter Notebook): [This repository contains the source code for the paper First Order Motion Model for Image Animation](https://github.com/AliaksandrSiarohin/first-order-model)
- **servo/servo** (Rust): [The Servo Browser Engine](https://github.com/servo/servo)
- **aboelkassem/educative.io_courses** : [this is downloadings of all educative.io free student subscription courses as pdf from GitHub student pack](https://github.com/aboelkassem/educative.io_courses)
- **sherlock-project/sherlock** (Python): [🔎 Hunt down social media accounts by username across social networks](https://github.com/sherlock-project/sherlock)
- **taosdata/TDengine** (C): [An open-source big data platform designed and optimized for the Internet of Things (IoT).](https://github.com/taosdata/TDengine)
- **storybookjs/storybook** (TypeScript): [📓 The UI component explorer. Develop, document, & test for React, Vue, Angular, Ember, Web Components, & more!](https://github.com/storybookjs/storybook)
- **papercups-io/papercups** (Elixir): [Open-source live customer chat](https://github.com/papercups-io/papercups)
- **ultralytics/yolov5** (Python): [YOLOv5 in PyTorch > ONNX > CoreML > iOS](https://github.com/ultralytics/yolov5)
- **rancher/rancher** (Go): [Complete container management platform](https://github.com/rancher/rancher)
- **ouyanghuiyu/chineseocr_lite** (Python): [超轻量级中文ocr，支持竖排文字识别, 支持ncnn推理 , dbnet(1.7M) + crnn(6.3M) + anglenet(1.5M) 总模型仅10M](https://github.com/ouyanghuiyu/chineseocr_lite)
- **facebook/docusaurus** (JavaScript): [Easy to maintain open source documentation websites.](https://github.com/facebook/docusaurus)
- **smartcontractkit/chainlink** (Go): [node of the decentralized oracle network, bridging on and off-chain computation](https://github.com/smartcontractkit/chainlink)
- **mplushnikov/lombok-intellij-plugin** (Java): [Lombok Plugin for IntelliJ IDEA](https://github.com/mplushnikov/lombok-intellij-plugin)
- **Azure/azure-quickstart-templates** (PowerShell): [Azure Quickstart Templates](https://github.com/Azure/azure-quickstart-templates)
- **Sycnex/Windows10Debloater** (PowerShell): [Script to remove Windows 10 bloatware.](https://github.com/Sycnex/Windows10Debloater)
- **dianping/cat** (Java): [CAT 作为服务端项目基础组件，提供了 Java, C/C++, Node.js, Python, Go 等多语言客户端，已经在美团点评的基础架构中间件框架（MVC框架，RPC框架，数据库框架，缓存框架等，消息队列，配置系统等）深度集成，为美团点评各业务线提供系统丰富的性能指标、健康状况、实时告警等。](https://github.com/dianping/cat)

## Trending This Week On Dev.To

- **Jess Lee (she/her)**: [Announcing the GitHub Actions Hackathon on DEV!](https://dev.to/devteam/announcing-the-github-actions-hackathon-on-dev-3ljn)
- **Jatin Rao**: [Resources for Frontend Developers](https://dev.to/jatinrao/resources-for-frontend-developers-1l9i)
- **Afonso Pacifer**: [How I became a senior javascript developer with personal projects](https://dev.to/afonsopacifer/how-i-became-a-senior-javascript-developer-with-personal-projects-1lpo)
- **Ganesh Agrawal**: [How to setup HTTPS locally with create-react-app](https://dev.to/ganeshagrawal/how-to-setup-https-locally-with-create-react-app-e46)
- **Satyam Pandey**: [7 useful websites                      
every front-end developer          
should know about](https://dev.to/satyampandey24/7-useful-websites-every-front-end-developer-should-know-about-it-3a4l)
- **Kyle Prinsloo 🚀**: [Here are 10 Freelancing Websites to Find Clients 🔥](https://dev.to/study_web_dev/here-are-10-freelancing-websites-to-find-clients-2d86)
- **Liviu Lupei**: [5 Projects You Can Build To Become a Better Web Developer](https://dev.to/liviufromendtest/5-projects-you-can-build-to-become-a-better-web-developer-221i)
- **Stephanie Morillo**: [A Brief Introduction to Technical Writing](https://dev.to/radiomorillo/a-brief-introduction-to-technical-writing-53bh)
- **Son Goku**: [React  infinite scroll in few lines](https://dev.to/hunterjsbit/react-infinite-scroll-in-few-lines-588f)
- **Ilemona  Achimugu**: [How to easily turn your website to a Progressive Web App(PWA)](https://dev.to/dfiredeveloper/how-to-easily-turn-your-website-to-a-progressive-web-app-pwa-2nm4)
- **Jane Tracy 👩🏽‍💻**: [Big O Notation for beginners!!](https://dev.to/tracycss/big-o-notation-for-beginners-4b51)
- **Ben Halpern**: [#showdevAnnouncing forem.dev](https://dev.to/devteam/announcing-forem-dev-5b38)
- **Ibrahim Kamal**: [10 Useful Vanilla Javascript Plugins 2020](https://dev.to/kamalo__22/10-useful-vanilla-javascript-plugins-2020-2gij)
- **Desiré 👩‍🎓👩‍🏫**: [#watercoolerSome basic writing tips for your articles💅](https://dev.to/helleworld_/some-basic-writing-tips-for-your-articles-2k7o)
- **Hannah Gooding**: [VS Code shortcuts and tricks that I wish I knew sooner](https://dev.to/hannahgooding/vs-code-shortcuts-and-tricks-that-i-wish-i-knew-sooner-3mcj)
- **Cyd**: [4 things in web development I've learned in 2020, so far](https://dev.to/cydstumpel/4-things-in-web-development-i-ve-learned-in-2020-so-far-3cg)
- **Max Lynch**: [Saying Goodbye to PhoneGap](https://dev.to/ionic/saying-goodbye-to-phonegap-1gp4)
- **🆖 Karan Oza**: [6 Skills to Become a Front-End Developer](https://dev.to/ozakaran/6-skills-to-become-a-front-end-developer-5782)
- **Catalin Pit**: [Best Resources To Learn JavaScript As A Beginner](https://dev.to/catalinmpit/best-resources-to-learn-javascript-as-a-beginner-4cjl)
- **Ilona Dee Codes**: [My Top-10 Finance And Investment Books For Developers](https://dev.to/ilonacodes/my-top-10-finance-and-investment-books-for-developers-32ae)
- **Jake Z.**: [How to Prepare for a Technical Interview](https://dev.to/jacobjzhang/how-to-prepare-for-a-technical-interview-4f24)
- **Marina Costa**: [Illustrated JS: Promises](https://dev.to/marinafroes/illustrated-js-promises-5ed7)
- **Tom Holloway 🛰️**: [How to build a product without much design background](https://dev.to/nyxtom/how-to-build-a-product-without-much-design-background-i66)
- **Jack Domleo**: [#watercoolerWhy the term 'T-shaped' is better than the term 'full-stack'.](https://dev.to/jackdomleo7/why-the-term-t-shaped-is-better-than-the-term-full-stack-489f)
- **Manaswini**: [Things I'd do differently if I had to start with programming all over again!](https://dev.to/thisismanaswini/things-i-d-do-differently-if-i-had-to-start-with-programming-all-over-again-33m8)
- **Chris Blakely**: [Fast track your React learning with these 12 Tips!](https://dev.to/chrisblakely01/fast-track-your-react-learning-with-these-12-tips-gnn)
- **Aashir Aamir Khan**: [How I created my resume/logo/portfolio in the last 3 hours](https://dev.to/justaashir/how-i-created-my-resume-logo-portfolio-in-the-last-3-hours-3aoh)
- **Andrew Mason**: [8 Tailwind CSS resources to help your next project takeoff](https://dev.to/andrewmcodes/8-tailwind-css-resources-to-help-your-next-project-takeoff-2b92)
- **Veliswa_Boya 🇿🇦**: [3x AWS Certified: My certification journey](https://dev.to/aws-heroes/3x-aws-certified-my-certification-journey-3bd1)
- **Tyler Hawkins**: [How Dev Bootcamps Are Failing Their Students](https://dev.to/thawkin3/how-dev-bootcamps-are-failing-their-students-5b4h)
- **Christina Gorton**: [All the Clouds in AWS](https://dev.to/exampro/all-the-clouds-in-aws-205n)
- **Alvaro Montoro**: [#showdev100 Days of CSS Illustrations (1-10)](https://dev.to/alvaromontoro/100-days-of-css-illustrations-1-10-2134)
- **JoelBonetR**: [All you need to know about CI/CD as Web Developer](https://dev.to/joelbonetr/all-you-need-to-know-about-ci-cd-as-web-developer-1e19)
- **skaytech**: [A Practical Guide to help you stay more Organised & Productive](https://dev.to/skaytech/a-practical-guide-to-help-you-stay-more-organised-productive-3p0g)
- **Nirbhay Vashisht**: [#discussBurnout as a Developer: Experience, Symptoms, Prevention and Cure](https://dev.to/nirbhayvashisht/burnout-as-a-developer-experience-symptoms-prevention-and-cure-20e2)

## Trending This Week On Hacker News

- **Amazon Liable for Defective Third-Party Products Rules CA Appellate Court**: [https://californiaglobe.com/section-2/amazon-liable-for-defective-third-party-products-rules-ca-appelate-court/](https://californiaglobe.com/section-2/amazon-liable-for-defective-third-party-products-rules-ca-appelate-court/)
- **Arm co-founder: Sale to Nvidia would be a disaster**: [https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-53637463](https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-53637463)
- **Mutt email client 25 years old**: [http://mutt.org](http://mutt.org)
- **Star is moving so fast it visibly warps spacetime**: [https://futurism.com/the-byte/star-moving-fast-warps-spacetime](https://futurism.com/the-byte/star-moving-fast-warps-spacetime)
- **To the future occupants of my office at the MIT Media Lab**: [http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2020/08/15/to-the-future-occupants-of-my-office-at-the-mit-media-lab/](http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2020/08/15/to-the-future-occupants-of-my-office-at-the-mit-media-lab/)
- **Kosmonaut: web browser from scratch in Rust**: [https://github.com/twilco/kosmonaut](https://github.com/twilco/kosmonaut)
- **Using machine learning to recreate photorealistic portraits of Roman Emperors**: [https://voshart.com/ROMAN-EMPEROR-PROJECT](https://voshart.com/ROMAN-EMPEROR-PROJECT)
- **The best way to exercise self-control is not to exercise it at all**: [https://psyche.co/ideas/the-best-way-to-exercise-self-control-is-not-to-exercise-it-at-all](https://psyche.co/ideas/the-best-way-to-exercise-self-control-is-not-to-exercise-it-at-all)
- **Trump says he is considering pardon for leaker Edward Snowden**: [https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-politics-snowden/trump-says-hes-considering-pardon-for-leaker-edward-snowden-idUSKCN25B10Z](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-politics-snowden/trump-says-hes-considering-pardon-for-leaker-edward-snowden-idUSKCN25B10Z)
- **NTFS read-write GPL kernel driver**: [https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/2911ac5cd20b46e397be506268718d74@paragon-software.com/](https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/2911ac5cd20b46e397be506268718d74@paragon-software.com/)
- **Paul Rand's NeXT Logo (2010)**: [https://www.logodesignlove.com/next-logo-paul-rand](https://www.logodesignlove.com/next-logo-paul-rand)
- **Opus Audio Codec – FAQ**: [https://wiki.xiph.org/index.php?title=OpusFAQ](https://wiki.xiph.org/index.php?title=OpusFAQ)
- **Mosaic HIV Vaccines in Late-Stage Trials**: [https://www.verywellhealth.com/mosaic-hiv-vaccine-sparks-hope-4173079](https://www.verywellhealth.com/mosaic-hiv-vaccine-sparks-hope-4173079)
- **MiniFB: Small cross platform library to create framebuffer to draw pixels in**: [https://github.com/emoon/minifb#minifb](https://github.com/emoon/minifb#minifb)
- **Scribd acquires SlideShare from LinkedIn**: [https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/11/scribd-acquires-slideshare/](https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/11/scribd-acquires-slideshare/)
- **People slept on grass beds 200k years ago**: [https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/08/people-slept-on-comfy-grass-beds-200000-years-ago/](https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/08/people-slept-on-comfy-grass-beds-200000-years-ago/)
- **The brilliance of All Gas No Brakes**: [https://bigtechnology.substack.com/p/the-brilliance-of-all-gas-no-brakes](https://bigtechnology.substack.com/p/the-brilliance-of-all-gas-no-brakes)
- **Russell Kirsch, inventor of the pixel, has died**: [https://petapixel.com/2020/08/13/russell-kirsch-inventor-of-the-pixel-passed-away-this-week/](https://petapixel.com/2020/08/13/russell-kirsch-inventor-of-the-pixel-passed-away-this-week/)
- **The Illustrated TLS Connection**: [https://tls.ulfheim.net/](https://tls.ulfheim.net/)
- **The BEAM Has Spoiled Me**: [https://gvaughn.github.io/2020/08/08/beam_spoiled_me.html](https://gvaughn.github.io/2020/08/08/beam_spoiled_me.html)
- **Mystery of superior Leeuwenhoek microscope solved after 350 years (2018)**: [https://phys.org/news/2018-03-mystery-superior-leeuwenhoek-microscope-years.html](https://phys.org/news/2018-03-mystery-superior-leeuwenhoek-microscope-years.html)
- **Saliva-based Covid-19 test approved by FDA**: [https://news.yale.edu/2020/08/15/yales-rapid-covid-19-saliva-test-receives-fda-emergency-use-authorization](https://news.yale.edu/2020/08/15/yales-rapid-covid-19-saliva-test-receives-fda-emergency-use-authorization)
- **How the 8086 processor handles power and clock internally**: [http://www.righto.com/2020/08/how-8086-processor-handles-power-and.html](http://www.righto.com/2020/08/how-8086-processor-handles-power-and.html)
- **ZzFXM – A tiny JavaScript music system**: [https://keithclark.github.io/ZzFXM/](https://keithclark.github.io/ZzFXM/)
- **A joke about the difference between mathematicians and physicists**: [http://www.thingspondered.xyz/2020/08/excerpt-man-who-loved-only-numbers.html](http://www.thingspondered.xyz/2020/08/excerpt-man-who-loved-only-numbers.html)
- **Oh Shit, Git?**: [https://ohshitgit.com/](https://ohshitgit.com/)
- **ATM Hackers Have Picked Up Some Clever New Tricks**: [https://www.wired.com/story/atm-hackers-jackpotting-remote-malware/](https://www.wired.com/story/atm-hackers-jackpotting-remote-malware/)
- **Perception of musical pitch varies across cultures (2019)**: [https://news.mit.edu/2019/perception-musical-pitch-cultures-0919](https://news.mit.edu/2019/perception-musical-pitch-cultures-0919)
- **A guide to Semantic Segmentation**: [https://nanonets.com/blog/semantic-image-segmentation-2020/](https://nanonets.com/blog/semantic-image-segmentation-2020/)
- **The machines USPS is removing can sort more than 36,000 pieces of mail per hour**: [https://www.businessinsider.com/usps-mail-sorting-machines-how-they-work-in-photos-2020-8](https://www.businessinsider.com/usps-mail-sorting-machines-how-they-work-in-photos-2020-8)

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