Stuff Lucca says about tech - January 2k22

Hey folks, here’s what made the day month in Lucca’s tech watch this January.

Architecture

• This January, a lot of questions about abstraction and indirection :
  • The origin of these questions (Vladimir Khorikov)
  • What are Abstractions in Software Development (Steve Smith)
  • Indirection Is Not Abstraction (Silas Reinagel)
• Service Locator Is Not an Anti-Pattern (Jimmi Bogard)

C# / .NET / EF Core

• C# 11 caches method group conversions (David Kean)
• Parse Regex with ValueSpan (Konrad Kokosa)
• Bebop, Schema-based serialization
• New Result type in .NET7 (David Fowler)

Front

• NPM v8.3.0 added the overrides feature
• Dev corrupts NPM libs ‘colors’ and ‘faker’ breaking thousands of apps

Security

• Don’t copy paste commands from webpages, you can get hacked
• The Kubernetes network (security) effect (Amir Kaushansky)

Miscellanous

• Changing your organisation
• Wordle Reverse solver
• Understanding UUID, ULID and String Representations