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 Samsung held its UNPACKED 2019 event, during which they presented new phones. Lets start with phones we have already anticipated, Galaxy S10 and S10+. The first model starts at $899 and have following specification:
The bigger model S10+ starts at $999 with following specification:
And that's not all. Samsung following steps of Apple, introduced the "budget" version of the phone. Galaxy S10e starts at $749 with following specification:
The biggest surprised was introduced at the end. The Samsung Galaxy Fold is the first Samsung's foldable device. Here is the specification:
Samsung's Galaxy Fold foldable starts at $1,980 and launches on April 2. I'm really interesting to see how this foldable device will behave in real life and can't wait to try it myself.
Now, moving on to other news. Earlier this week, we got rumors that Apple is planing to release new 16-inch MacBook Pro. All we know so far is that new mac is supposed to have a brand new design. This is interesting rumor, maybe overheating and hinge issues force Apple to change the design. I will follow this topic with great interest.
Speaking of Apple, there is another rumor saying that Apple will combine macOS and iOS by 2021. We already know that we will be able to run iOS apps on mac using project Marzipan, which should be released this year. But the more interesting part is that we have a date when this transition should be in effect, which means that around 2021 we will get macs with ARM processors.
Thats all for this week. Last but not least, here is the list of interesting things.
Don’t get clever with login forms
7 Alternatives to the <div> HTML Tag
CSS Scroll Snap — How It Really Works
You probably don’t need a single-page application
Linux Reverse Engineering CTFs for Beginners
The shady economics of ‘buy one, get one free’ deals
Image credits: Samsung.
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