Hi readers! In today's issue, I've included the following:
- Dev Masterclass With JetBrain's WebStorm Team: The team behind WebStorm, a JavaScript IDE by JetBrains, reveals a number of new product announcements while even giving away a major exclusive discount.
- The latest GPT-3 updates round-up with a running list of brand new GPT-3 developer tools, what experts are saying about its implications for the development industry and world, free programs, and websites that churn out various texts based on queries, and more.
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- Part Three: JavaScript / Front-End Development Mid-Year Review
- Part Four: Python, PHP, Golang, Ruby/Ruby on Rails, and Rust Mid-Year Review
- Part Five (Coming Soon): most important surveys/trends/studies released so far in 2020. Also includes other tools, news, language highlights (from the likes of Java, Crystal, NIM, and more), and updates you need to know to stay ahead of the game.
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The stable version of Google Chrome 85 is now available. Some highlights:
- Chrome announced a new compiler optimization technique, Profile Guided Optimization (PGO), that it claims makes Chrome 85 faster by increasing page load speed by up to 10%.
- Style editing for CSS-in-JS frameworks
- Four new Origin Trials: Readable Stream, a declarative API to allow the creation of shadow roots using only HTML and no JavaScript, the
- Auto-upgraded Chrome images
- Tab Throttling, another new feature that makes Chrome faster by reducing the impact of idle background tabs, thus helping increase loading speed while also saving one's battery and memory. It will be available in the Beta channel soon.
For a full list of changes, click here.
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Dev Masterclass With JetBrain's WebStorm Team: The team behind WebStorm, a JavaScript IDE by JetBrains. reveals a number of new product announcements while even giving away a major exclusive discount. Here are the eight announcements you need to know:
1. The team says it is working on the following most-requested features: IDEABKL-708 Collaborative development, and they will announce an early preview program soon. In addition...
2. Asked about whether or not remote pairing tools could be a possibility for InteliJ, the team said "yes," and that they will make an announcement about this on...
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GitHub officially deployed its app to production using the most recent Ruby release, Ruby 2.7, in July. As this release deprecated how keyword arguments behave, GitHub reveals it had to fix over 11,000 warnings in order to run the version deprecation-free.
More:
- GitHub details its strategy for upgrading here.
- GitHub says it is very happy with Ruby 2.7, noting a significant improvement in performance such as faster deploys. The upgrade also made it possible for the company to find and remove unowned code no longer used in the app.
- As a part of the upgrade, GitHub also sent patches for gems that were emitting warnings in their app including Rails, rails-controller-testing, capybara, factory_bot, view_component, posix-spawn, github-ds, ruby-kafka, and others.
- Ruby 2.7 was released on Dec. 25, 2019. Ruby 2.8 is due for release on Dec. 24, 2020.
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GPT-3 UPDATES:
GPT-3 is artificial intelligence research lab OpenAI's latest AI language mode considered the most powerful one ever built. In July, OpenAI gave some people public access to GPT-3 last through an API after releasing research on it in May, inspiring many to share text-generations they are creating using the model across social media.
Inside Dev Premium will continue to keep you updated on the latest GPT-3 updates and its implications for the world of development with a running list of new GPT-3 developer tools, what experts are saying about its implications for the development industry and world, free programs, and websites that churn out various texts based on queries, and more every few weeks.
Running list so far of notable GPT-3 developer tool examples, and others:
Running list of what the experts are saying about GPT-3, and whether or not it will be a "game-changer" for the world and web development:
Game-changer:
- Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch says it represents "a building block for a new category of apps," adding that it feels like “Google as an API.”
- Expert...
Not that disruptive: These experts note GPT-3 has limitations:
- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman: "It still has serious weaknesses and sometimes makes very silly mistakes. AI is going to change the world, but GPT-3 is just a very early glimpse. We have a lot still to figure out.
- GPT-3 could be used as just another tool or framework...
GPT-3-enabled free websites/programs
People who managed to get public access to OpenAI's advanced AI language model, GPT-3, through an API have created many programs and websites that churn out various texts based on queries. Here, we share a few of the frees ones, which are available now without a waiting list:
- Taglines.ai. Tagline generation is apparently the No. 1 use case for GPT-3. Provide a product description, and it spits out a specific tagline. Email is required to sign up.
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Redis Labs raised $100m in a Series F round, achieving unicorn status. The company says it will use the money to invest in its real-time data platform.
More:
- Demand for Redis Labs' popular open-source database management system has increased dramatically as a result of the pandemic, the company says, adding that the investment will help them meet the increased demand.
- “The unprecedented conditions brought on by COVID-19 have accelerated business investments in building applications that require real-time, intelligent data processing in the cloud," Ofer Bengal, the co-founder and CEO at Redis Labs, explains.
- The investment was co-led by Bain Capital Ventures LP and TCMI Inc.’s TCV investment arm. Redis’ total financing is now at over $246m.
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SECURITY PATCH ROUNDUP:
Here are some of this week's most important security patches web developers should know about:
- Apple plans to fix a cross-browser sharing API bug in Safari in its Spring 2021 update to the browser. Security researcher Pawel Wylecial found that bug and warned it could allow an attacker to steal user files.
- Ubuntu patched several vulnerabilities in the Linux Kernel, which could enable a remote attacker to trigger a denial of service condition and sensitive data disclosure on a targeted system.
- Google plugged one high-severity Chrome security hole with the release of Chrome 84.0.4147.135 for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
- The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) patched a number of vulnerabilities in the ISC Berkeley Internet Name Domain.
- IBM patched a number of vulnerabilities in its products, including a high-severity bug in Apache Batik library that affects IBM's WebSphere Application Server.
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Quick Hits:
- Google has launched Google Open Source Live, a new initiative wherein open source experts will host monthly events focused on various technologies and areas of expertise. The first event will take place on Sept. 3. I will be listing these events in Inside Dev's web dev calendar every week/month for Inside Dev Premium readers' convenience. Start your free 14-day trial to access this calendar.
- Node.js and npm are both vulnerable to a security flaw that could make it possible for an attacker to easily send spoofed emails to their respective communities.
- Senior Privacy Researcher Peter Snyder argues on the Brave browser blog that Google's new WebBundles standard, which will let sites “bundle” resources together, will hurt the open web in general, URLs, security and privacy tools, and content blocking.
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