This Week in Code, October 24th
Tags: ddos, opensource, twic
Published: 2016-10-24 08:21:21

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title: This Week in Code, October 24th
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description: Massive DDoS takes down major portions of web, Disney OSS, and more.
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tags: ddos, oss, twic
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In case you missed any of it, here are some of the most noteworthy links for the past week.

[Massive DDoS attack affects Twitter, Amazon, others](https://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/10/hacked-cameras-dvrs-powered-todays-massive-internet-outage/) The attack on Dyn DNS services was carried out through malware-infected IoT devices such as digital cameras. This attack did not come as a surprise. In fact, Cloudflare described this sort of attack in [a blog post](https://blog.cloudflare.com/say-cheese-a-snapshot-of-the-massive-ddos-attacks-coming-from-iot-cameras/) earlier in October. Here is the [Dyn postmortum](http://dyn.com/blog/dyn-statement-on-10212016-ddos-attack/) on the barrage.

[2017 Rust Roadmap](https://github.com/aturon/rfcs/blob/roadmap-2017/text/0000-roadmap-2017.md) A vision for where the Rust project should be in a year's time. Focus is improving Rust's productivity, while retaining its emphasis on fast, reliable code.

[Why we chose Vue.js](https://about.gitlab.com/2016/10/20/why-we-chose-vue/) A simple outline of what GitLab likes about the view library [Vue.js](https://vuejs.org/). The article is not all that interesting, but it is a nod from an important player in open source web applications. Vue is well-liked and certainly worth considering in this space.

[All Tesla Cars Being Produced Now Have Full Self-Driving Hardware](https://www.tesla.com/blog/all-tesla-cars-being-produced-now-have-full-self-driving-hardware) This represents a concrete move in the direction of software-enabled driving. Folks in the know have done a lot of [bikeshedding](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12752750) about the choices Tesla made, but it is hard to deny this is a big deal for the future of transportation.

[Disney has established an Open Source Program](http://disney.github.io/) This is an interesting move from the company most representative of the tightening of copyright laws worldwide, often seen as abusive in their use of the laws. This seems like a step in the right direction, but it is easy to be skeptical.

[The winding path of being a developer](https://medium.com/@mogest/the-winding-path-of-being-a-developer-196b4074f236#.e8bhl9185) A wonderfully articulated summary of the struggles most developers face as they grow into their career.

[New storage classes for Google Cloud Storage](https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/10/introducing-Coldline-and-a-unified-platform-for-data-storage.html) Google Cloud Storage is now significantly cheaper, faster and more available than Amazon S3.

[How the Web Became Unreadable](https://backchannel.com/how-the-web-became-unreadable-a781ddc711b6#.53hcsosef) Evolutions in web design have trended away from typographic principles of print for the purpose of readability and usability. This is a well-written plea for designers to ditch some of the modern fads.

## Podcasts

[I was a guest on Software Engineering Daily](https://dev.to/sedaily/topic-roundtable-with-haseeb-qureshi-and-practical-devs-ben-halpern) Jeff, Haseeb and myself covered a broad array of topics. It was a lot of fun.

[Building a startup on Go with Blake Mizerany](https://dev.to/gotime/21-building-a-startup-on-go-with-blake-mizerany) Coming to Go from Ruby, Go's growth and adoption over the past 7 years.

## #DevDiscuss
This week's [#DevDiscuss](https://twitter.com/hashtag/DevDiscuss) Twitter chat was about working remote, [here are the highlights](https://twitter.com/i/moments/788561800623161344).

This week's topic has not yet been picked. The poll will go out later today on Twitter. #DevDiscuss is a weekly Twitter chat every Tuesday at 9pm EDT(UTC-0400).