--- title: "🤖🚫 A robot did not write this newsletter" publication: "StatusCode Weekly" issue: 276 published_at: "2020-07-22" canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/276" --- Plus a neat static analysis tool for many programming languages, and tons of old PC fonts. #276 — July 22, 2020 [Web Version](https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/276) But what GPT-3 can do is still pretty neat.. 😁 StatusCode Weekly Covering the week's news in software development, ops, platforms, and tooling. [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60/n6ur2fv5jpr0sif1m1fo.jpg)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9upVbGSBFo) ▶[A Chat with Brian Kernighan of Unix, C, AWK, AMPL, and Go Fame](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9upVbGSBFo) — Lex Fridman, a well known AI researcher, spent well over an hour chatting with [Brian Kernighan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Kernighan), the even better known computer scientist! Brian touches on the early days of Unix, what programming means to him, what he thinks about JavaScript, and a lot more. There’s a lot to enjoy here and the audio and video quality is great. Lex Fridman [Why OpenAI's GPT-3 May Be A Big Deal](https://maraoz.com/2020/07/18/openai-gpt3/) — GPT-3 is a language prediction model created by [OpenAI](https://openai.com/), an AI research and deployment company, and people are already using it to write articles (spoiler alert!), attempt to pass [Turing Tests](http://lacker.io/ai/2020/07/06/giving-gpt-3-a-turing-test.html), [create code](https://twitter.com/sharifshameem/status/1283322990625607681), and more. Rest assured, all of our newsletters remain created by humans! 😁 Manuel Araoz [![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/cb2ac7f9.png)](https://link.sqreen.com/m0qa7Exn) [Security Engineer’s First 90 Days Checklist](https://link.sqreen.com/m0qa7Exn) — Prioritize your security efforts, implement the right security processes and develop a security culture in your company. Sqreen sponsor [IaaS Pricing Patterns and Trends 2020](https://redmonk.com/rstephens/2020/07/10/iaas-pricing-patterns-and-trends-2020/) — The developer industry analysts extraordinaire at RedMonk has taken a look at how providers are differentiating themselves via their pricing models for compute, memory and disk space. Prepare to be surprised for how well Oracle fares. RedMonk **⚡️ Quick bytes:** - GitHub took 21TB of active repositories and [has stored them in a vault in the Arctic.](https://github.blog/2020-07-16-github-archive-program-the-journey-of-the-worlds-open-source-code-to-the-arctic/) Check your GitHub profile page for a special badge if code of yours ended up there. - The US is [establishing three quantum computing centers](https://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/508305-trump-administration-establishes-75-million-quantum-computing-centers) with an investment of $75m. - If asked whether to allow or deny tracking in a mobile app, [a majority will opt out.](https://www.pollfish.com/blog/market-research/nearly-70-of-ios-and-android-users-will-deny-tracking-permissions-if-they-are-requested-in-app-to-opt-in/) - Brendan Gregg's [Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud](http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2020-07-15/systems-performance-2nd-edition.html) is coming out in a second edition — I've already preordered mine :-) - AWS has another new service: [AWS IVS (Interactive Video Service)](https://aws.amazon.com/ivs/) — it's for creating live streamed video services. Is it cheap? [Not really.](https://aws.amazon.com/ivs/pricing/) - Apparently it's [pleasant to code in Roblox.](http://www.bemmu.com/what-its-like-to-code-for-roblox) If you haven't got kids, move on. 💻 Jobs [One Application, Hundreds of Hiring Managers](https://www.vettery.com/tech?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=cooper-webopsweekly&utm_term=tech&utm_content=grouped&utm_campaign=ad-77581) — Use Vettery to connect with hiring managers at startups and Fortune 500 companies. It's free for job-seekers. Vettery ℹ️ _Interested in running a job listing in StatusCode Weekly? There's [more info here.](https://booking.cooperpress.com/jobs)_ 📕 Tutorials, Opinions and Stories [Essays on Programming I Think About A Lot](https://www.benkuhn.net/progessays/) — Links to and extracts from a variety of different developer related essays that are worth checking out. Ben Kuhn [Serverless Rendering with Cloudflare Workers](https://blog.cloudflare.com/serverless-rendering-with-cloudflare-workers/) — How to do server-side rendering ‘at the edge’ using Workers Sites, Wrangler, HTMLRewriter, and tools from the broader Workers platform. The Cloudflare Blog [A Crash Course on Using AWS CDK for Data Work](https://dashbird.io/blog/crash-course-aws-cdk-serverless-rest-api-data-lake-analytical-querying/) — AWS’s Cloud Development Kit (CDK) makes it possible to define cloud infrastructure in code and provision it with CloudFormation. This article looks at the basics of using it to create a serverless app for querying different data systems. Renato Byrro (Dashbird) [The Docker Handbook: A Practical Docker Intro](https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/the-docker-handbook/) — If you’re new to Docker, this is one of those great walkthrough/practical style tutorials that covers the main concepts complete with examples. Farhan Hasin Chowdhury [How to Make a Parallelized Cron Job in AWS, for The Laziest Programmers](https://medium.com/@karl.pickett/how-to-make-a-parallelized-cron-job-in-aws-for-the-laziest-programmers-a50a793de18a) — There’s not really an AWS service that shouts about being able to do this, but you can rig up the idea of running a service on a frequent basis using… AWS CodeBuild. I’ve done this myself before and it works well. Karl Pickett [Faster CI/CD for All Your Software Projects - Try Buildkite ✅](https://buildkite.com/?pk_campaign=sc_speed_nocr_ch_july_20&pk_source=cp&pk_medium=newsletter) — See how Shopify scaled from 300 to 1800 engineers while keeping their build times under 5 minutes. Buildkite sponsor [Could Predictive Database Queries Replace Machine Learning Models?](https://aito.ai/blog/could-predictive-database-queries-replace-machine-learning-models/) — There’s been a lot of buzz around ‘machine learning’ over the past few years and _predictive queries_ provide an interesting twist on the idea.. where we ask databases not for concrete data that they store, but ML models or ML-powered databases for predictions. Antti Rauhala [How SHA-2 / (SHA-256) Works Step-By-Step](https://qvault.io/2020/07/08/how-sha-2-works-step-by-step-sha-256/) — SHA-2 (Secure Hash Algorithm 2), of which SHA-256 is a part, is one of the most popular hashing algorithms out there. Lane Wagner [Implementing Cosine in C From Scratch](http://web.eecs.utk.edu/~azh/blog/cosine.html) — This is one of those _“you’ll probably never need to do this, but this is cool/educational..”_ items 😁 Austin Z. Henley ▶[Kelsey Hightower on His Very Personal Kubernetes Journey](https://thenewstack.io/kelsey-hightower-on-his-very-personal-kubernetes-journey/) — Kelsey Hightower speaks about his role in Kubernetes since the beginning, his thoughts on the project’s leadership today and the challenges that lay ahead. Alex Williams (The New Stack) podcast [How Vercel Frees Frontend Developers from Backend Burden](https://thenewstack.io/vercels-frontend-and-the-rise-of-the-hybrid-developer/) — Vercel is a frontend stack for web developers, which abstracts the backend and makes it easier to build sites and apps with a JavaScript framework. Richard MacManus 🛠 Code and Tools [Semgrep: Lightweight Static Analysis for Many Languages](https://github.com/returntocorp/semgrep) — A command-line tool for offline static analysis. Use pre-built or custom rules to enforce code and security standards in your codebase. There’s [an interactive online demo](https://semgrep.live/editor) if you want to try it out more easily. r2c [Gitify: GitHub Notifications on Your Menu Bar](https://www.gitify.io/) — GitHub can produce a lot of notifications. This utility tames them a little by bringing them down to your menu bar along with a lightweight UI to navigate through them. macOS, Windows and Linux. Emmanouil Konstantinidis [Download FusionAuth and Get a Free T-Shirt. It's Free to Get Started](https://fusionauth.io/download?utm_campaign=Cooperpress&utm_source=email&utm_medium=statuscode) FusionAuth sponsor [FastoNoSQL: A Cross-Platform Redis, Memcached, SSDB, LevelDB, RocksDB, UnQLite, LMDB, etc. Client](https://github.com/fastogt/fastonosql) — If you’re using one of numerous non-SQL databases, this cross-platform, native (built using Qt and C++) client may be of interest to you. FastoGT [Procmon: A Linux 'Reimagining' of the Classic Procmon Tool from Windows](https://github.com/microsoft/ProcMon-for-Linux) — Well, if you can have PowerShell on Linux now, why not Procmon? You can use this for tracing syscall activity. Microsoft [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60/v1595430765/r2it43phwcomljvvwc9e.png)](https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/readme/) [The Ultimate Oldschool PC Font Pack 2.0](https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/readme/) — Want those old school 80s and 90s bitmap fonts? This is catnip to me 😄 INT10h and VileR Curated by [Cooperpress](https://cooperpress.com/). [Change your email address](https://webopsweekly.com/edit_subscription/*|UID|*) or[Stop getting this newsletter](https://webopsweekly.com/leave/*|UID|*). © Cooper Press Ltd · Fairfield Enterprise Centre, Louth, LN11 0LS, United Kingdom