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Programmer Weekly (Issue 257 June 5 2025)
Rahul Chaudhary
June 05, 2025
Welcome to issue 257 of Programmer Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.
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Quote of the Week
“Truth can only be found in one place: the code.” — Robert C. Martin
News
Microsoft has introduced dotnet run app.cs in .NET 10 Preview 4, allowing developers to execute C# files directly without creating a full project, streamlining scripting and rapid prototyping. This new feature supports file-level directives for dependencies and SDKs, and makes it easy to convert scripts into full project-based apps as they grow.
Reading List
This post e describes building a simple Unix shell in C, covering core features like command parsing, process management, and handling built-in commands. It walks through key implementation challenges and shares insights for anyone interested in systems programming or creating their own shell.
The author reflects on stepping back from programming language research after a decade, citing shifting passions and hard-won lessons about the field’s deep, often unsolvable tradeoffs. The post serves as a personal closure, exploring the emotional journey, the challenges of language design, and the social dynamics that shape programming’s evolution.
Pinterest adopted a "docs-as-code" approach by building PDocs, an internal documentation system that treats documentation like code—using version control, code reviews, and Markdown—to improve quality, discoverability, and collaboration. This shift has led to higher satisfaction, better-maintained docs, and seamless integration with AI tools, proving that robust tooling and developer-centric workflows are key to sustainable, high-quality technical documentation.
ClickHouse has developed a distributed cache for cloud object storage (like S3), enabling all compute nodes to share and instantly access hot data, eliminating cold starts and redundant reads. This post details the evolution from local and per-node caching to this new architecture, explains its performance benefits for cloud analytics, and includes benchmarks showing significant speed improvements.
Dropbox engineered a new multimedia search system for Dash, enabling fast and accurate retrieval of images, videos, and audio by leveraging metadata-first indexing and just-in-time preview generation to balance cost, speed, and user experience. This overhaul required rethinking infrastructure, optimizing for large file sizes and minimal metadata, and building a responsive UI—paving the way for smarter, more universal search across all content types.
Leveraging formal and semi-formal methods.
TLTSS is a minimalist programming language implemented entirely within TypeScript's type system, featuring first-class functions, closures, mutable variables, and basic arithmetic—all achieved without runtime code. This proof of concept demonstrates the surprising computational power of TypeScript's type system, leveraging pattern matching, recursion, and literal types to tokenize, parse, and interpret code at compile time.
Watch, Listen
Andrew Ng emphasizes that the most effective AI agents start with simple, linear workflows—like assembling Lego bricks—rather than complex autonomous systems. He outlines why speed, deep technical skill, and modular tool integration are the keys to building successful, production-ready AI applications.
Learn to build a complete match-3 game from scratch using C programming and the Raylib graphics library in this hands-on tutorial. You'll create a polished ASCII-based puzzle game with smooth animations, visual effects, sound integration, and responsive gameplay mechanics. The course covers everything from setting up the game loop and tile matching logic to implementing score systems, particle effects, and audio feedback.
AI-driven natural language commands generate and manage Kubernetes services—creating manifests, monitoring status, and deleting resources—without requiring deep platform expertise. This approach highlights AI’s power to simplify DevOps workflows, making internal developer platform interactions more intuitive while balancing flexibility against determinism.
Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries
An eBPF agent that captures pre-encrypted network traffic, providing rich context about egress connections and their originating processes.
The IRS has open-sourced the codebase for its interview-based online service, Direct File, which allows eligible taxpayers to electronically file their federal tax returns directly with the IRS.
OAuth 2.0 & OIDC Auth Server and Identity Provider.
Formally verified, real-time capable, UNIX-like operating system kernel written in SPARK and Ada.
FlowGram is a node-based flow building engine that helps developers quickly create workflows in either fixed layout or free connection layout modes.
Java decompiler written in C.
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