Welcome to EP-3 of FalseTrue Digest, - newsletter or journal, or maybe even e-zine, but right now let’s stick to the name digest. I’ll write weekly based summaries about software development, programming world and software itself.
News
Morris Tanenbaum, Inventor of the Silicon Microchip, Dies at 94 https://spectrum.ieee.org/in-memoriam-may-2023
Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability CVE-2023-29336 https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/05/microsoft-patch-tuesday-may-2023-edition/ https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2023-29336
WordPress Plug-in Used in 1M+ Websites Patched to Close Critical Bug https://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/wordpress-plugin-used-in-1m-websites-patched-to-close-critical-bug
Bryan Lunduke migrating to Locals https://lunduke.locals.com/member/Lunduke
Repositories and projects
Windmill Open-source developer infrastructure for internal tools. Self-hostable alternative to Airplane, Pipedream, Superblocks and a simplified Temporal with autogenerated UIsm and custom UIs to trigger workflows and scripts as internal apps. https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill
Pigzee A parallel implementation of gzip for modern multi-processor, multi-core machines https://zlib.net/pigz/
Distrobox, - Use any Linux distribution inside your terminal https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox
How-to’s and guides
Telegram channel to RSS feed https://github.com/hleb-kastseika/tg-channel-to-rss
Brex’s Prompt Engineering Guide, - this guide was created by Brex for internal purposes. It’s based on lessons learned from researching and creating Large Language Model (LLM) prompts for production use cases. https://github.com/brexhq/prompt-engineering
Electronics Lab Bench Setup Guide, - https://badar.tech/2023/04/30/electronics-lab-bench-setup-guide/
Weekly Linux Desktop
Bavader, UI for many AI chats API https://flathub.org/apps/io.github.Bavarder.Bavarder
Free Orion, (free and opensource Master of Orion clone) https://freeorion.org/index.php/Main_Page
DejaDup, - It’s actually default GNOME app and it useful https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/DejaDup
Mentions and utils
Today I mentioning Michael Kerrisk https://man7.org/mtk/index.html the Author and maintainer of man-pages https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Authors note
This format will be like this,
I’ll share various links, and experiences on a weekly base.
Interesting persons on Internet and their stuff.
Various software which you don’t even know.
If you like what you see here please comment and share, this helps me gain some consistency on this.