Technology Articles, Discussions and Updates from April 2023

• Douglas Crockford shares the story of discovering JSON and learning to love Javascript. [link]
• Programmer Interrupted by ninlabs research [link]
• Wes McKinney about how he started Panas and worked on Apache Arrow [link]
• Avoid low prio tasks fester and explode [link]

Python

• FawltyDeps is a dependency checker for Python that finds undeclared and/or unused 3rd-party dependencies. [github]

Golang

• Write Once, Use Many: A Handy Package to Call Internal HTTP APIs [youtube]

Other

• CFSSL is a tool to generate signing keys and certificates, we use it sometimes because it consumes JSON and has no dependencies. [github]
• What Is ‘Sufficiency’? The Personal MBA [link]