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• Alacritty: A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator. — Alacritty is a modern terminal emulator that comes with sensible defaults, but allows for extensive configuration. By integrating with other applications, rather than reimplementing their functionality, it manages to provide a flexible set of features with high performance. The supported platforms currently consist of BSD, Linux, macOS and Windows.
• How We Ported Linux to the M1 — At Corellium, we've been tracking the Apple mobile ecosystem since iPhone 6, released in 2014 with two 64-bit cores.
• Apple Seeds Second Release Candidate Version of macOS Big Sur 11.2 to Developers — ‌macOS Big Sur‌ 11 included a ContentFilterExclusionList that let Apple's apps like the App Store, Maps, iCloud, and more to avoid firewall and VPN apps that users had installed
• Probabilistic flakiness: How do you test your tests? — While we use automated tests to detect regressions in product quality, until recently we had no means of automatically detecting whether the tests themselves were deteriorating.

Plus some Qt license clarity, a handy new Rust feature, and your feedback.

Links:

• Feedback: ChromeOS vs Windows
• Feedback: Hardware Coverage
• Complying with the Requirements of the GPL/LGPL v3 License — With the discontinuation of our continued support for Qt 5.6 also ends our support for the last Qt version licensed under LGPL v2.1. Moving forward, versions 5.7 and beyond will be subject to LGPL v3. This webinar is a great opportunity to gain a better understanding of the differences in rights and obligations between the two licensing versions.
• Rust Pinning — The Rust team is happy to announce a new version of Rust, 1.33.0. Rust is a programming language that is empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.
• Regularized Programming with the BOSQUE Language — We believe that, just as structured programming did years ago, this regularized programming model will lead to massively improved developer productivity, increased software quality, and enable a second golden age of developments in compilers and developer tooling.
• All That You Need to Know About Microsoft's New Programming Language: Bosque — The Bosque programming language is a Microsoft Research project that is investigating language designs for writing code that is simple, obvious, and easy to reason about for both humans and machines
• Bosque Language Overview
• Microsoft debuts Bosque – a new programming language with no loops, inspired by TypeScript
• The Mad Botter INC on Twitter — Happy #EarthDay! We are awarding a free @system76 #DarterPro to the middle or high school student that can send our CEO @dominucco an innovative idea to fight climate change using #Linux. To submit please write up a report and diagram & email it to michael@themadbotter.com.
• git-secrets — Prevents you from committing secrets and credentials into git repositories.
• git-hound — Hound is a Git plugin that helps prevent sensitive data from being committed into a repository by sniffing potential commits against PCRE regular expressions.
• truffleHog — Searches through git repositories for secrets, digging deep into commit history and branches. This is effective at finding secrets accidentally committed.

Links:

• The VHS of Software...
• OmniGraffle — Create beautiful diagrams and designs with this powerful and easy to use app.
• iA Writer — iA Writer removes distractions, giving you a calm, focused writing space.
• Working Copy, Git on iOS — The powerful Git client for iOS that clones, edits, commits, pushes & more.
• Year of Theme inspired by the Cortex Podcast
• Turning Pro (Audiobook) by Steven Pressfield — Tap Your Inner Power and Create Your Life's Work

But ultimately this week’s episode is about the guys catching up after a long couple weeks apart.

Links:

• Ferrite Recording Studio — Ferrite is the tool many podcasters and journalists reach for when they’re away from the studio.
• ‎LumaFusion video editor — Pro video editing and effects
• Michael Dominick on Twitter — "Was running out of drive storage on my desktop, so I did the unthinkable @ChrisLAS. I opened it up and installed an additional HDD! What madness is that? #CoderRadio"

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• Qt Design Studio 1.0 Released — Qt Photoshop Bridge – import your graphics design from Photosho
• New LSP language service supporting Swift and C-family languages for any editor and platform — I'm excited to announce that we are going to start a new open-source project for a Swift and C-family language service based on the Language Server Protocol 1.6k. We've chosen to adopt LSP so we can benefit from its active community and wide adoption across other editors and platforms. This means that Visual Studio Code, Atom, Sublime Text, or whatever your favorite editor happens to be, can use the same service as Xcode, and any improvements we make to the service will benefit them all.
• IBM to Acquire Red Hat — IBM will acquire all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Red Hat for $190.00 per share in cash, representing a total enterprise value of approximately $34 billion.
• Forget Watson, the Red Hat acquisition may be the thing that saves IBM — Watson, the business division focused on artificial intelligence whose public claims were always more marketing than actually market-driven, has not performed as well as IBM had hoped and investors were losing their patience.
• GitHub is now officially a part of Microsoft — With government approvals received, the acquisition announced in June is complete.
• Remote Workers Are Outperforming Office Workers — Plenty of studies and surveys show the power of remote work when it comes to productivity.

Plus we respond to some emails, chat about GitHub’s future plans to sell talent, and Mike’s big announcement: Gryphon.

Links:

• Wyatt of Vulkan
• Molten | Vulkan, and faster OpenGL ES, on iOS and macOS — MoltenVK is a runtime library that maps Vulkan to Apple's Metal graphics framework on iOS and macOS.
• Vulkan has just become the world’s first graphics API with a formal memory model.  So, what is a memory model — This week, Vulkan® has become the world’s first graphics API to include a formal memory model for its associated GLSL™ and SPIR-V™ programming languages.
• Jonathan has found something Rotten
• GitHub Foreshadows Big Open Source Announcements at GitHub Universe — "Businesses use open source libraries, and then they make applications from them, and then they need someone to work on them," said St John. "They will email people at GitHub, and they will come to GitHub itself and say 'We need somebody to come and work on this application built off this open source library. Can you find anybody in the community that will come and work on it?' Happens all the time."
• Gryphon — Gryphon provides everything you need to intelligently display your radar data in a variety of scenarios including simulator-based training and adversary air flights.
• From Jupiter to Beyond: Unplugged where we talk about the merger — We announce our big news, Jupiter Broadcasting is joining Linux Academy and what we have planned for the future is huge!
• Linux Academy Ruby and Node Remote Jobs
• Linux Academy SALE Happening Now - $150 Off — Exclusive discount for new or existing users upgrading to annual plans only. Sale ends 9/24/2018 at 11:59pm CDT.
• User Error Episode 48: Living The Dream — User Error is back!

Plus some recent hoopla, a new way to get started contributing to open source, and more!

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• Win95 in a box
• Scoop — A command-line installer for Windows
• Steve's Travel Hack
• Sunsetting React Native — Due to a variety of technical and organizational issues, we will be sunsetting React Native and putting all of our efforts into making native amazing.
• React Native: A retrospective from the mobile-engineering team at Udacity — We removed the last traces of React Native from the apps because the only remaining React Native feature was being sunset and we no longer had to support it.
• CodeTriage — Help out your favorite open source projects and become a better developer while doing it.

Plus some feedback, thoughts on AMP, and why dynamic linking keeps Mike up at night.

Links:

• Qt is not for Johnny
• gary likes the Qt
• Eric fround a QML Library for .NET
• Qml.Net - Qt/Qml integration/support for .NET
• ZMQ Setup for Qt Dev on Windows
• vcpkg: C++ Library Manager — C++ Library Manager for Windows, Linux, and MacOS
• Google AMP - A 70% drop in our conversion rate
• Qt FAQ — With a term license of Qt for Application Development or Qt for Device Creation, you pay a recurring fee during the time you develop with Qt and distribute the developed applications. You receive all updates and will be able to access online systems. After the term ends, you are no longer entitled to develop with Qt or further distribute the applications developed with Qt. Applications already distributed can be used, but not maintained.
• Can I use Qt LGPL license and sell my application without any kind of restrictions?

Plus we answer some questions, share some travel hacks, and discuss the top programing languages of 2018, as declared so by the IEEE.

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• Jacob's lookin for a change
• Mark's Travel Bag Hack
• BAGSMART Travel Electronic Accessories Thicken Cable Organizer Bag Portable Case
• Devil’s Dictionary for Tech
• The 2018 Top Programming Languages
• Tesla announces using Qt in their cars
• QML