Regrettably, I got busy with the dangerous combination of a hectic day job, some travel, and some last-minute conference talks at Git Merge. That meant that I didn't send out a newsletter last week. Never fear; this week is overstuffed with developer tools news as a result. Enjoy!
Articles
- How To Work From Home
A topical article, given the viral concerns of late. Phil Haack has been working from home for years, even managing a fully-remote team, and includes some great productivity tips.
- How to set up Docker within Windows System for Linux (WSL2) on Windows 10
The new Windows Subsystem for Linux v2 has a lot of improvements over the original. And Docker for Windows keeps getting better. Combining the two is like chocolate and peanut butter.
- GitHub: February service disruptions
GitHub's been experiencing growing pains, and had a several service interruptions recently. They're introducing data partitioning efforts for their databases to ensure that it can continue to scale. - Source maps in Node.js
JavaScript is great, and ubiquitous. But sometimes I like to write my JS in a totally different language, like TypeScript. It's source maps that save my bacon and enable me to easily debug my TypeScript when it's transpiled to JavaScript.
- Scripting Applications with WebAssembly
WebAssembly is one of the most interesting new technologies, taking myriad projects and running them in a JavaScript engine. Can you use webassembly for scripting in applications?
In Brief
- WASM-GIT: Git in the browser, via WebAssembly Git
- Azure DevOps Lab: Terraform using GitHub Actions CI/CD
- Profiling Tools and IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate Java
- Using GitHub Actions With Azure Functions CI/CD
- How to write a Roslyn Analyzer .NET