The Daily Index — Thursday, April 11, 2024 · TLDR Index

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HOW I WRITE TESTS IN GO

Golang comes with its own testing library, which is not common among popular programming languages. Unit tests in Go should be written to run in parallel by default so that concurrency issues are surfaced early on. The testing package has a comprehensive set of flags and can provide code coverage reports, race condition detection, static analysis, shuffled test execution, and more.

blog.verygoodsoftwarenotvirus.ru · 14 min

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DON'T REQUIRE PEOPLE TO CHANGE 'SOURCE CODE' TO CONFIGURE YOUR PROGRAMS

Programs should avoid requiring users to modify source code files (like Makefiles or header files) for configuration purposes. This is because it can often lead to merge conflicts during updates later on, which can be difficult to debug. Configurations should be handled through other methods instead.

utcc.utoronto.ca · 2 min

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CODEGEMMA

CodeGemma, a collaborative effort between Google and Hugging Face, is a family of open-access, code-specialized LLMs. The models are available in 2B and 7B configurations. They have been fine-tuned with a lot of data to bring better performance in logical reasoning and programming suggestions.

huggingface.co · 8 min

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NOTES ON GIT'S ERROR MESSAGES

Git’s error messages can be confusing to understand, but there are some great strategies to help decode them. Git status clarifies the current branch state, and git log helps examine commits and identify divergence points. You can also customize your shell prompt to display branch status, which can be helpful.

jvns.ca · 10 min

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WHY CAN'T MY MOM EMAIL ME?

This author was receiving encrypted emails with blank bodies from his mother. The issue was Proton's use of the Web Key Directory (WKD), which automatically encrypts emails if a public key is found for the recipient's address, even if the user didn't explicitly enroll in the service. The author’s email address was enrolled, so he received blank emails.

matduggan.com · 5 min

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GPT-4 TURBO WITH VISION NOW AVAILABLE VIA API

Some interesting use cases for GPT-4 with Vision include nutrition insights from pictures, UI replication from screenshots, web scraping, and data extraction.

favtutor.com · 11 min

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"BATBADBUT" VULNERABILITY DISCOVERED IN RUST STANDARD LIBRARY ON WINDOWS

A vulnerability named "BatBadBut" was discovered in the Rust standard library on Windows that allows arbitrary command execution due to improper argument escaping when invoking batch files.

cyberkendra.com · 2 min

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IMPROVING OUR JEST EXECUTION TIME BY 300%

A look into how one developer improved slow Jest tests by fixing memory leaks, disabling redundant type checking, and optimizing some functions.

camggould.com · 5 min