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Top Linux command link tips, documenting accessibility, podcasts and more.

What's new in our latest round-up of resources and news from our bi-weekly newsletter?

Resources

Top Linux command line tips and tricks. Discover the basics, directory-related and advanced tips in this article. [GEEKSFORGEEKS]

A brief tour of the PDP-11, the most influential minicomputer of all time. It helped popularize the interactive computing paradigm we take for granted today. [ARSTECHNICA]

A designer’s guide to documenting accessibility & user interactions. Stephanie will tell you why, what and how designers can document different aspects of accessibility and user interactions requirements, to build better more inclusive products. [STEPHANIEWALTER]

A comprehensive guide on MLOps for machine learning engineering. This article discusses MLOps and their effectiveness. [ANALYTICSVIDHYA]

Some developers are fouling up open-source software. From ethical concerns, a desire for more money, and simple obnoxiousness, a handful of developers are ruining open-source for everyone. [ZDNET]

10 massive red flags in developer job interviews. Spot a toxic workplace before it's too late. [THENEXTWEB]

Two new, free AWS initiatives help build foundational cloud skills. The new game-based role-playing experience ‘AWS Cloud Quest: Cloud Practitioner’ and an enhanced AWS Educate program offer free hands-on learning opportunities for people seeking cloud computing skills. [ABOUTAMAZON]

Jobs for Ukrainians in Game development in Lithuania. A great initiative for developers in Ukraine looking for game dev jobs right now. [GAMEDEV]

Podcasts

Technology trade offs: Python & Kotlin. This podcast episode discusses with Matt Anger a blog he wrote about migrating from Python to Kotlin and the trade offs engineering teams make when deciding which technologies to use. [HAPPYPATHPROGRAMMING]

How to become a better developer. Rob J shares five tips in this episode. [COFFEEANDCODINGPOD]

JavaScript in 2022 - new, coming and proposed features. Scott and Wes talk about new proposed features coming to JavaScript in 2022.

Industry News

The Microsoft source code breach may be much bigger than we thought. Lapsus$ has made the source code for over 250 Microsoft projects available online in a 9GB torrent. According to the group, the torrent itself contains 90 percent of the source code for Bing and 45 percent of the source code for both Bing Maps and Cortana. [TECHRADAR]

Suffer from Ctrl+S fatigue? Visual Studio have a feature for you. Starting with 17.2 Preview 1, the new autosave feature will help with this. Use Visual Studio Search (Ctrl+Q) and look for “autosave”. That will take you to the Environment\Documents page in Tools\Options. [DEVBLOGS.MICROSOFT]

Almost 37 years after its launch, someone found an Easter egg in Windows 1.0. An intrepid and incredibly dedicated user has uncovered a hidden dialog inside Windows 1.0. That's right, the very first version of the operating system, released way back in November 1985. [TECHRADAR]

Swift 5.6 released. Swift 5.6 includes a number of enhancements to the type system, improved interaction with pointers, and adds the ability to run new plugin commands using the package manager. For a quick dive into some of what’s new in Swift 5.6, check out the playground put together by Paul Hudson. [SWIFT]

Google's annual developer conference I/O 2022 has been announced. Developers can join online during May 11 and 12, where there will be opportunities to grow their knowledge and skills through workshops, tutorials, codelabs, etc. Plus there will be the chance to network with other developers and Google experts. [IOGOOGLE]

PhpStorm 2021.3.3 is released. Notable updates in this build include the fixing of IDE freezes and hangs when indexing WSL projects, the ability to generate file name of file templates, and more. [JETBRAINS]

Java 18 brings new features to accelerate software development. With Java 18, Oracle is introducing a series of incremental features, many of which focus on easing application development. [ITPROTODAY]

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