Double Shot #2500

That's two thousand, five hundred of these things. Merry Christmas!

• Initial Commit - Learn about development by exploring the very first release of git.
• Calm Technology - A manifesto for making software less annoying.
• Designers tool stack of 2020 - One designer's overview of useful tools from leaning to implementation.
• We are giving every IPv6 address a name - Automatic DNS for all your IPV6 addresses.
• Making S3 more resilient using Lambda@Edge - Building a multi-region active-active failover structure.
• Announcing Message DB: Event Store and Message Store for PostgreSQL - You can always roll your own but this handles a lot of the details already.
• Supabase - "Supercharge PostgreSQL" with some interesting extensions including monitoring via websockets.
• Firefox Announces New Partner in Delivering Private and Secure DNS Services to Users - A step towards decoupling DNS-over-HTTP from a single provider.
• Multipass - "A mini-cloud on your Mac or Windows workstation" via quick Ubuntu VMs.
• Javascript Cryptography Considered Harmful - Because, among other things, any attacker who can steal content from the wire can also inject stuff into your JS.
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Security Best Practices - I don't know much about GCP but this looks like a sensible starting point.
• The INQUIRER reaches end-of-life - And the web continues to get crappier.
• Flipper Zero - Hacker hardware gets ever more sophisticated.
• Odyssey - "Advanced multi-threaded PostgreSQL connection pooler and request router." A slide deck from Yandex engineering.