Speeding up Rust semver-checking by over 2000x

Bridging the Object-Oriented and Functional Divide with the Visitor pattern

DevOps Self-Service Centric Pipeline Security and Guardrails

Issue #333

2/15/2023

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Hey-ya
Issue 333. Pretty cool number. 333 more and we'll be at the most demonic issue.
Looks like the core-js story from yesterday hit home with a lot of people yesterday.
I watched this interesting video yesterday about the recent explosion of AI tools. Tom Scott explains how technology development follows an S curve, where at the beginning development is slow because there are a lot of issues to fix, but then it explodes with growth, and ultimately slows down again when the tech begins reaching its limits. Your existential fear and/or excitement should depend on what part of that curve we're currently on.
I'm still kind of processing what I think about the situation and where I think we're at. I've been using these AI tools for a while and am very aware of both their strengths and limitations. At the moment, I'm not really sure if the strengths outweigh the limitations. Why? Because the tools are REALLY good at producing output that LOOKS correct, but in fact isn't. This can lead to big problems in certain instances. However, I'd say 60% of the time, the output is pretty good. I guess we'll just see how things develop from here.
Anyway, here's the issue.

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Speeding up Rust semver-checking by over 2000x

Published: 7 February 2023
Tags: optimization, rust

Predrag Gruevski highlights "how cargo-semver-checks will benefit from the upcoming query optimization API in the Trustfall query engine".
Some highlights:

  • "Today, cargo-semver-checks is good enough to prevent real-world semver violations, and fast enough to earn a spot in the release pipeline of most crates"
  • Checking larger crates is slow though
  • Indices are used to speed things up!


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Bridging the Object-Oriented and Functional Divide with the Visitor pattern

Published: 11 February 2023
Tags: design patterns, functional, javascript, oop, typescript

Joseph Junker discusses how the visitor pattern can be used to mix functional and object oriented programming in a beneficial way.
Some highlights:

  • The visitor pattern enables a beneficial mixing of functional and object oriented programming and has a deep and rigorous connection to type theory
  • Functional programming makes it easy to define new functions, and hard to add new data, object oriented programming makes it easy to define new data, and hard to add new functions
  • Can make the visitors more lightweight by just making them into TS/JS objects


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DevOps Self-Service Centric Pipeline Security and Guardrails

Published: 25 January 2023
Tags: devops, infosec, infrastructure

Wenqi Glantz discusses how to ensure security when using a devops self-service pipeline.
Some highlights:

  • Covers good practices for implementing security in your devops pipelines
  • Wenqi highlights a bunch of different tools that can help
  • Descriptions of why the tools are useful and how to use them


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