Developer Tools Weekly

Articles

• Benchmarking Ruby's Heap: malloc, tcmalloc, jemalloc
  An analysis of heap allocation in Ruby: comparing stock Ruby using regular old malloc (Linux glibc) to alternative heap allocators: tcmalloc and jemalloc.
• Shipping system fonts to GitHub.com
  GitHub updated its UI back in July to use your system's default fonts for better. Their lead designer reflects on these changes, why they were necessary and the issues they faced.
  Mark Otto
• Introducing GitFinder
  A new Git client for macOS that provides finder integration, including badges and context menus for files in your Git repositories.
• LLVM accepted to 2018 Google Summer of Code!
  LLVM is sponsoring students for Google Summer of Code (GSoC), where students can get real-world experience contributing to open source software.
  Tanya Lattner
• Carbon Copy Clone drops support for APFS disk images (temporarily)
  The CCC team discovers that macOS may lose data on APFS-formatted disk images; they remove support for APFS from Carbon Copy Cloner until Apple fixes the issues.
  Mike Bombich
• Apache OpenWhisk
  The serverless / functions-based cloud world grows. Apache OpenWhisk is a serverless, open source cloud platform that executes functions in response to events at any scale.
• What Developers Can Learn from Apple's iOS Woes
  A look at software quality versus new feature velocity, with a particular view on Apple's decision to delay new iOS features to make the overall experience more stable.
  Fred Stevens-Smith
• Replacing jQuery With Vue.js: No Build Step Necessary
  An incredibly deep article on the Vue.js framework, a comparison with jQuery, and an introduction to how easy it is to replace jQuery with Vue.
  Sarah Drasner

In Brief

• 5 Best Node.js Frameworks to Know JavaScript
• How to use Continuous or Infinite Scrolling in Xamarin Forms Xamarin
• Zero Downtime Deployment with Kubernetes Kubernetes
• The Curse of Memory Fragmentation GC
• How to Convert a Portable Class Library to .NET Standard and Keep Git History .NET
• Fine-tuning the notifications experience inside the Visual Studio IDE VisualStudio

New Releases

• Docker for Windows Desktop 18.02 Docker
• Atom 1.24.0 Atom
• gplk 4.65 GNU

Podcasts

• Radio TFS: Anthony Borton on Conducting the Trainer Train Windows
  Anthony Borton discusses the difficulties and rewards of training users.
• The Xamarin Show: CI with App Center for Xamarin Apps Xamarin
  James Montemagno and Matthias Wenz discuss continuous integration with Visual Studio App Center for Xamarin applications.

Published at the beginning of every week. Created by Edward Thomson.

Do you have news about developer tools? Did you write an article about methodologies? Did you release a new library? Let me know, I'm @ethomson on Twitter.