--- title: "Copying and pasting from Stack Overflow" publication: "StatusCode Weekly" issue: 313 published_at: "2021-04-21" canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/313" --- Plus bringing Python and Go together, porting DOOM to a serverless edge platform, and searching code across half a million GitHub repos. | #​313 — April 21, 2021 [Web Version](https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/313) StatusCode Weekly What's happening in software development, ops, platforms and tools. [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60/v1619006752/sflstskcx0ere6cfjkqy.png)](https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/04/19/how-often-do-people-actually-copy-and-paste-from-stack-overflow-now-we-know/) [How Often Do People Actually Copy and Paste from _Stack Overflow_?](https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/04/19/how-often-do-people-actually-copy-and-paste-from-stack-overflow-now-we-know/) — The folks at Stack Overflow decided to track every use of Ctrl/Cmd+C on the site over two weeks and it turns out a quarter of users landing on a question page copies _something_ within five minutes. The stats go a _lot_ further than that though.. Ben Popper and David Gibson 🚀 [Open Source Goes to Mars](https://github.blog/2021-04-19-open-source-goes-to-mars/) — In case you missed it, humanity [flew a helicopter on Mars](https://mars.nasa.gov/technology/helicopter/#) the other day, and open source played a big role. Apparently “nearly 12,000” developers contributed to the underlying software used and all have been rewarded with a badge on their GitHub profiles. I love this because it emphasizes the “standing on the shoulders of giants” aspect that makes open source so powerful. Nat Friedman (GitHub) [![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/777b6cd1.jpg)](https://learn.launchdarkly.com/demo/?utm_source=cooperpress&utm_medium=display&utm_campaign=21q1-cooperpress) [Book a Demo. Ship Fast. Rest Easy. LaunchDarkly](https://learn.launchdarkly.com/demo/?utm_source=cooperpress&utm_medium=display&utm_campaign=21q1-cooperpress) — Testing in production? It's scary until it's not. Get total control of your code to ship fast, reduce risk, and reclaim your nights and weekends. LaunchDarkly sponsor [Cloudflare Workers Unbound Now Generally Available](https://blog.cloudflare.com/workers-unbound-ga/) — Workers _Unbound_ is Cloudflare's serverless _Workers_ system but for functions that need long execution times (as you’d need to use [the WebSockets support](https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-websockets-in-workers/) they've just added). You pay per request _and_ by the GB/sec and get 400,000 GB/sec for free. A nice bonus is they’ve halved egress data costs too. Nancy Gao (Cloudflare) - It's been 7 months since Nvidia's planned acquisition of Arm was announced, but the UK government has [decided to 'intervene'](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56804007) and it's _"far from certain that this deal will go through."_ - Cloudflare is working on an ['Images' service](https://blog.cloudflare.com/announcing-cloudflare-images-beta/) where you upload images once and can then retrieve variants of them on demand, a la Cloudinary, say. They've also released their [DDOS attack trends for 2021 Q1.](https://blog.cloudflare.com/ddos-attack-trends-for-2021-q1/) - The [FTP protocol](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc114) is 50 years old! - Cerebras has produced [the 'world's largest chip'](https://www.tomshardware.com/news/cerebras-wafer-scale-engine-2-worlds-largest-chip-7nm-850000-cores) — it runs 850,000 cores across 2.6 trillion transistors. - Apple has released a variety of new goodies including a [new keyboard with TouchID support](https://www.macrumors.com/2021/04/20/magic-keyboard-touch-id-compatible-all-m1-macs/), [a paid podcasting system](https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/04/apple-leads-the-next-chapter-of-podcasting-with-apple-podcasts-subscriptions/), [10Gb Ethernet for the Mac Mini](https://www.macrumors.com/2021/04/20/mac-mini-10-gigabit-ethernet-add-on/), an [M1-powered iPad Pro](https://www.macrumors.com/2021/04/20/new-ipad-pro-with-m1-chip/) and a redesigned [M1-based iMac](https://www.macrumors.com/2021/04/20/apple-announces-redesigned-imac/) in rainbow colors. High end iMac users must continue to wait for now, however. - Are top sites using WebGL for fingerprinting? [Seems so.](https://jonatron.github.io/webgl-fingerprinting/) # Tutorials, Opinions and Stories 📖 [Tiny Container Challenge: Building a 6KB Containerized HTTP Server](https://devopsdirective.com/posts/2021/04/tiny-container-image/) — _“I set out to build the smallest container image that I could that was still able to do something useful.”_ Sid Palas [Faster Python with Go Shared Objects](https://blog.kchung.co/faster-python-with-go-shared-objects/) — It’s always nice to see programming languages _getting on_ with one another.. Here, we see how Go can be used to produce faster code that can be called from Python. Kevin Chung [Hunting Down The Stuck BGP Routes](https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/bgp-stuck-routes-tcp-zero-window) — Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) allows systems to share routing data and is, as the author says, ‘the glue’ of the Internet. Ben looks at what happens when such data is lost and routes get ‘stuck’. Ben Cox [How to Scale Prometheus (Hint: It’s Not Prometheus)](https://go.lightstep.com/register-prometheus-scale-guide-co?utm_campaign=statuscode&utm_source=cooper&utm_medium=Email) Lightstep sponsor [Porting DOOM to Fastly's Serverless Edge Platform](https://www.fastly.com/blog/compute-edge-porting-the-iconic-video-game-doom) — What better way to show off your edge computing platform than porting a 28 year old game to it? :-) I’m not convinced of the “why” here but the “how” tickles a curious itch. Justin Liew (Fastly) ['Thanks for the Bonus, I Quit!'](https://madned.substack.com/p/thanks-for-the-bonus-i-quit) — On one hand a corporate tale of greed and desperation, but on the other, human psychology and the power of expectations. A fun little tale, nonetheless. Mad Ned - Jonathan Metzman of the Google Open Source Security Team says to ["fuzz your code because if you don’t, someone else will"](https://thenewstack.io/developers-are-buzzing-on-fuzzing/). - Pinterest shares more about [their process of scaling Kubernetes 'with assurance'.](https://medium.com/pinterest-engineering/scaling-kubernetes-with-assurance-at-pinterest-a23f821168da) Assurance is just what you need when you have over 35,000 pods in operation. - Soroco has shared their tale of [building large scale systems with Python](https://engineering.soroco.com/building-large-scale-systems-and-products-with-python/). # Code and Tools 🔧 [grep.app: Search Code Across a Half Million GitHub Repos](https://grep.app/) — A code search engine that lets you use regexes or syntax in your search. Considering what it is, it’s pretty fast and has an extensive index (over half a million public repos from GitHub, allegedly). grep.app [GitLeaks 7.4: Check Git Repos and History for Secrets and Keys](https://github.com/zricethezav/gitleaks) — Worried if you’ve got things like AWS details, GitHub tokens or SSH keys hanging around your project’s git history? Find out for sure with this Go-based tool. Zachary Rice [Too Much Code for Bazel Monorepo? Try Going Virtual](https://www.wix.engineering/post/virtual-monorepo-for-bazel) — How Wix used existing Bazel mechanisms to create monorepo experience on top of multiple Git repositories. Wix Engineering sponsor - [Node.js 16](https://nodejs.medium.com/node-js-16-available-now-7f5099a97e70) is now available. More on that in [Node Weekly](https://nodeweekly.com/) tomorrow. - [Firefox 88](https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/88.0/releasenotes/) has been released and adds support for JavaScript embedded in PDFs. Firefox is also beginning to roll out [QUIC and HTTP/3 support.](https://hacks.mozilla.org/2021/04/quic-and-http-3-support-now-in-firefox-nightly-and-beta/) - [OpenSSH 8.6](https://lwn.net/Articles/853445/) has been released. - curl has added [support for 'funny' IPv4 addresses.](https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/04/19/curl-those-funny-ipv4-addresses/) For example, those written in octal, as 32 bit numbers, and a few other forms. - Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL [now integrates with AWS Lambda](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/04/amazon-rds-postgresql-integrates-aws-lambda/) which lets you call Lambda functions direct from Postgres stored procedures or user defined functions. This feels significant. - Want to query the Kubernetes API with SQL? [Now you can with `kubesql`.](https://github.com/Dentrax/kubesql) - Cloudflare has made geolocation data available to all Workers users making [location-based personalization at the edge even easier.](https://blog.cloudflare.com/location-based-personalization-using-workers/) Please don't use this to force different languages on people based on their IP location though :-) [Netdata: An Open Source, Real-Time Performance Monitoring System](https://github.com/netdata/netdata) — Use agents to feed data from all your systems and then track everything down to a 1 second granularity in Netdata’s interface. netdata [aws-eks-base: Boilerplate for a Basic AWS Infrastructure with EKS Cluster](https://github.com/maddevsio/aws-eks-base) — A Terraform-based boilerplate extracted from production projects. 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