This week I didn't have time to prepare the news part, so I've only gathered the list of interesting things.
How The Witcher Took Over The World
Safely supporting new versions of Swift
Dependency Injection in Swift with Protocols
Emoji in SQL - SELECT 🗣 FROM 👤
Famous Laws Of Software Development
The main event of this week was the launch and docking of the SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule to the International Space Station. Capsule was launched to orbit on Saturday with Falcon 9 rocket. The launch was perfect, capsule has been deployed to orbit and the couple minutes later, rocket booster landed on the drone ship in the Atlantic becoming SpaceX's 35th successful landing.
In the meantime, the Crew Dragon capsule was on its way to ISS. On Sunday capsule reached the station and docked by itself to International Docking Adapter. During its stay, the crew members of the Space Station will perform various tests on the capsule to see how it performs in the space. Nasa and SpaceX plans to return capsule to Earth on Friday.
This mission is a final test of the Crew Dragon. If this mission is successful, we will be one step closer to real mission with the crew on board, which is scheduled for July this year.
That all folks. If you want more interesting things check this list out.
Learning about .NET Core futures by poking around at David Fowler's GitHub
An awesome guide on how to build RESTful APIs with ASP.NET Core
Scott Hanselman & Damian Edwards Talk about Microsoft & .Net Core 3
The Complete Guide to SCSS/SASS
Mask Compositing: The Crash Course
How “defer” operator in Swift actually works
Data structures to name-drop when you want to sound smart in an interview
How to Make Other Developers Hate to Work with You
How to recognize fake AI-generated images
Image credits: Nasa.
This week we got some information about Apple event that is rumored for March. During this event we should see new iPads mini, which I've already covered two weeks ago, long awaited AirPower and AirPods 2 with new color options. Unfortunately, we don't know when we will be able to buy new AirPods, one rumor says it will be available this spring, and another says that we have to wait till fall. I cannot wait for new AirPods, especially black matte ones, and I hope we will get them in the first half of this year.
On the other side of the barricade, Samsung released a new tablet, Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e. Starting at $399 device has following specification:
Right now, the market of the tablets is dominated by iPads. The root cause of that situation was lack of decent Android devices. With this new Galaxy Tab, Samsung finally has something that might be recommended as an alternative to the iPad.
From the other news, JPMorgan is launching its own cryptocurrency. Yeah, another cryptocurency to the collection. This time, one JPM Coin will be equivalent of one dollar, and will be used to perform real-time transfers of substantial amount of money, which right now might take even days. I'm not a big fan of another cryptocurency, but I'm glad to see that big and respected bank is going to use blockchain to transfer money.
That's it for this week, if you want more, here is the list of interesting things.
In 2018 I made $23k in revenue from my podcast
10 Signs You Will Suck at Programming
Small Functions considered Harmful
Turn any Google sheet into an API instantly, for free.
Create Adaptive Buttons Using Combined Shapes In Sketch
If San Francisco Is So Great, Why Is Everyone I Love Leaving?
As nothing worth mentioning happened this week, beside Samsung launching Tinder for fridges, here is just the list of interesting things.
Finding Lena, the Patron Saint of JPEGs
How I do Vue in 2019: TypeScript and TSX
How to Use Mock Data in Vue Apps
Dear web developers: set the font color, too
Apple’s New iPad Pro Ads Were Shot and Made Entirely on the iPad Pro
Apple Is Fighting a Good Fight Against Facebook and Google
Good Engineering Practices while Working Solo
This week we also start with Apple news, rumors to be precise. We all anticipating the March event, but the question is what Apple would present. The iOS 12.2 beta unveiled a little bit of the secret. It looks like new (smaller) iPads are coming as well as new iPod touch. iPads are not a surprise but the iPod Touch is, I thought Apple has already killed iPod line.
So far we don't have any rumors regarding iPhone SE replacement, AirPower or new AirPods, except that the latter should be released in the first half of 2019.
Speaking of Apple rumors, new reports suggest that iOS 13 will get a major redesign. The last time iOS got one of those was iOS 7 and since then Apple was perfecting its clean design. I personally doubt that we will see any drastic changes in terms of graphic design, but we might get new ways to interact with the operating system. As Apple plans to combine iOS and macOS apps into one with project Marcepan we definitely will see some changes.
iFixit unveiled a new flow in MacBooks and called it Flexgate. Apparently the ribbon that connects the display with the motherboard is being pulled out when display is open, causing cables to tear over time. This issue is known to all generations of the MacBook Pros with Touch Bar. This is the design flow which Apple hasn't acknowledged yet. Which is not surprising, to fix this problem the entire display must be replaced and such repair cost about $600. Well, if this is a common problem, another law suite is waiting for Apple as well as another repair action.
That's all for this week, if you want more, here is the list of interesting things.
30th anniversary of the Macintosh
Avoiding conflicts between developers and marketers
Open source Eva icons as Vue components
Here are some super secret VS Code hacks to boost your productivity
Image credits: iFixit.