Weekly news | 2025-02-19
news
- LibreOffice still kicking at 40, now with browser tricks and real-time collab
- Kagi introduces Privacy Pass authentication for Kagi Search
- Zed editor now predicts your next edit with Zeta, its open model
- Apple and Google have restored the TikTok listing in their app stores for iOS and Android devices.
- Grok3 Launch
- HP Acquires Humane's AI Software
- Go 1.24 release
- Linux's sole Wireless/WiFi driver maintainer is stepping down
- New Mermaid Architecture Diagrams
- Canonical announces 12 year Kubernetes LTS
- AWS:
- AppSync
- CloudFormation support for Transfer Family web apps
- CloudTrail network activity events for VPC endpoints
- CloudWatch Application Signals Runtime Metrics for .NET Applications
- CloudWatch lock contention diagnostics for Aurora PostgreSQL
- CodePipeline adds CloudWatch Metrics support
- Connect Contact Lens
- Deadline Cloud Adobe After Effects in Service-Managed Fleets
- DynamoDB auto-approval of quota adjustments
- ECS update services from short to long ARNs
- EFS up to 10,000 access points per EFS file system
- EKS Secrets and Configuration Provider for Pod Identity
- EBS full snapshot size information in Console and API
- FSx for Lustre now supports Lustre version upgrades
- HealthScribe GIRPP note template for behavioral health
- Inspector enhances the security engine for container images scanning
- Lambda APM for Java and .NET runtimes via Application Signals
- Network Load Balancer removing availability zones
- Polly new voice in Singaporean English
- Q Developer upgrade to Java 21
- RDS for MySQL Extended Support minor 5.7.44-RDS.20250103
- RDS for PostgreSQL minor versions 17.3, 16.7, 15.11, 14.16, 13.19
- RDS for SQL Server new minor version in January 2025
- Redshift Serverless reduction in IP Address Requirements to 3 per Subnet
- SES tiered pricing for Virtual Deliverability Manager
- For a full list of AWS announcements, be sure to keep an eye on AWS’s What’s New Feed page.
tooling
- terraform-module-releaser: GitHub Action to automate versioning, releases, and documentation for Terraform modules in monorepos.
- Scripton: Python IDE with built-in realtime visualization
- WASMcloud
- imapsync
- gixy: NGINX configuration static analyzer
- SQLNoir: Learn SQL by solving crimes
- wger: Self hosted FLOSS fitness/workout, nutrition and weight tracker
- JesseSort: A novel sorting algorithm that is faster than Python's default sort
- TaskExplorer: Power full Task Manager
- HowToProfessionallySay: A guide for your daily "professional" interactions
- CodeWeaver: Generate a Markdown document of your codebase structure and content
- OCR4all: Optical Character Recognition (and more) for everyone
- yash: Yet another shell - a POSIX-compliant command line shell
- TL;DW: Too Long; Didn't Watch: Distill YouTube videos to the relevant information
- Nping: a Ping tool in Rust with real-time data and visualizations
- caddy: The ultimate server with automatic HTTPS
- WinterBreak: Kindle jailbreaking tool
- frames_of_mind: Watch R1 "think" with animated chains of thought
- umami: Google Analytics alternative
- RustOwl: Visualize Ownership and Lifetimes in Rust
- Cot: the Rust web framework for lazy developers
- subtrace: Wireshark for Docker containers
- mastra: Open-source JS agent framework, by the developers of Gatsby
- File Pilot: another file explorer for Windows
- postgres_lsp: A language server for Postgres
- gama: Manage your GitHub Actions from Terminal with great UI
- terraform-provider-func: Write Terraform Functions in Javascript
blogs
- OpenTelemetry collector deployment modes in Kubernetes
- Using Checkout Action in GitHub Actions Workflow
- The Ultimate Guide to OpenTelemetry Visualization
- Introduction to Open Policy Agent
- Simplifying Ingress Resource on AWS EKS: A Guide to AWS Load Balancer Controller
- Cluster API + Talos + Proxmox = ❤️
- OpenTelemetry: A Guide to Observability with Go
- How to Build a Multi-Tenancy Internal Developer Platform with GitOps and vCluster
- A year of uv: pros, cons, and should you migrate
- XOR
- Setting up a trusted, self-signed SSL/TLS certificate authority in Linux
- You can’t call yourself a senior until you’ve worked on a legacy project
- A unique generated maze to share with your valentine
- Trunk based development
- Why you should not parse localized strings
- Automating the Vim workplace
- Linux kernel cgroups writeback high CPU troubleshooting
- NAT is the enemy of low power devices
- Everything about Google Translate crashing React (and other web apps)
- Feature Flags vs Configuration Options – Same Difference?
- Watt The Fox?: how websites waste CPU cycles & battery and Firefox lets them
- NASA has a list of 10 rules for software development
- Reviewing the cryptography used by Signal
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