As someone who works on developer tooling - GitHub is the holy grail of data sets. There's just so much code out there, written by so many people, for so many reasons. I've often wished I could just clone all of the data on GitHub, and then write scripts to process the data for various reasons:
In March I had the chance to talk at GCP Next on Node.js @ Google. This is a fun little tour of what Google Cloud has to offer Node.js developers.
note: I recently updated this post to make sure all of the commands still work.
I've spent some time recently using the Go programming language for my side web projects. The Go standard libraries are minimal by design - meaning it doesn't come with a prescriptive web framework out of the box. The good news is that there are a ton of options:
How do the internal workings of a browser that was released only two years ago have an enormous ripple effect on the future of streaming media on the internet? Last week Google announced on their chromium blog that they're dropping support for the h.264 codec, in favor of the open source Ogg Theora and WebM/VP8 codecs. This is yet another snag in the messy attempt to unify the playback of video in HTML 5, as we now find the #2 and #3 most popular browsers lacking support for what currently is likely the most ubiquitous encoding format. So how did we get here?