The Daily Index — Wednesday, April 10, 2024 · TLDR Index

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EXPLORING SERVER ACTIONS WITH NEXT.JS

This tutorial teaches how to use Next.js Server Actions for manipulating data. Server Actions, combined with React Server Components (RSC) and the App Router, can be used to edit entities within the database without the need to convert Server Components to Client Components for database interactions.

robinwieruch.de · 6 min

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4 WAYS GITHUB ENGINEERS USE GITHUB COPILOT

GitHub engineers use GitHub Copilot to semi-automate repetitive tasks like protobuf ID number generation. It also helps them stay focused by generating regular expressions on the fly. GitHub Copilot can be used for documenting code properly.

github.blog · 4 min

TLDR Web Dev

TECH NOTES: COMPLEXITY IS THE ENEMY

Simpler code is easier to understand and manage. Establishing clear design goals and non-goals can prevent over-engineering when complexity creeps in. Using less powerful tools can sometimes lead to simpler solutions as the constraints force less complex designs.

neugierig.org · 2 min

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THE DEBUGGER'S TOOLKIT

Great debuggers follow systematic processes rather than haphazardly tweaking code. They constantly form and test hypotheses, take breaks, and document their learnings from debugging.

addyo.substack.com · 5 min

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DATADOG HAS A SECURITY FOOTGUN

Datadog's Real User Monitoring (RUM) package has an API that can lead to sensitive user data being accidentally sent to unintended domains. The "site" parameter can be confusing - developers can easily mistake it for their website domain. Instead of defaulting to Datadog's data intake domains, the RUM package constructs a new domain based on the provided "site" value, which could potentially send data to a domain the developer doesn't control. This happened to a company called Corporate Clash, where a misconfiguration led to user data being sent to an unauthorized third-party domain.

sheriffcranky.substack.com · 10 min

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GOOGLE UNVEILS GEMINI CODE ASSIST AND I'M CAUTIOUSLY OPTIMISTIC IT WILL HELP PROGRAMMERS

Google’s new Gemini Code Assist is an AI-powered coding assistant that helps programmers streamline development tasks. It runs within popular IDEs and can generate code, explain existing code, and assist with large-scale codebase changes. However, similar to GitHub Copilot, it can’t write code completely by itself and will probably need developer oversight to be fully effective.

zdnet.com · 13 min

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LIST OF 2024 LEAP DAY BUGS

A list of software bugs and outages that occurred on February 29th, 2024, including problems like payment terminal failures at gas stations and minor glitches in weather apps.

codeofmatt.com · 8 min

TLDR Web Dev

ARMY ANNOUNCES NEW POLICY TO DRIVE ADOPTION OF AGILE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PRACTICES

The US Army has announced a new policy for agile and lean software development practices.

army.mil · 3 min

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INTRODUCING GOOGLE’S NEW ARM-BASED CPU

Google has announced Axion, a new custom-designed Arm-based CPU for data centers that is meant to be more performant and energy-efficient compared to existing x86 and Arm-based solutions.

cloud.google.com · 6 min