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Apr 4, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Alex Williams |Jeffrey Burt |Tim Davis |Yujian Tang
The story about the Linux xz backdoor exploit transforms our open source world into a human drama as compelling as any fiction. Our story begins with a mysterious maintainer who has planted a backdoor. The backdoor only works under certain circumstances, but when it does, access gets granted to a place where they are not supposed to enter — at all. As Joab Jackson writes, think of it as someone whose home got robbed. Except they have no clue when it happened or what was stolen.
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Apr 4, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Jeffrey Burt |Alex Williams |Tim Davis |Yujian Tang
The skyrocketing innovation and adoption of generative AI that took off almost immediately after OpenAI released its ChatGPT chatbot was followed closely by concerns about the security around the emerging technology. The worries stretch from what large language models (LLMs) can do to how they can be manipulated and abused.
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Apr 3, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Yujian Tang |Loraine Lawson |Joab Jackson |Kimberley Mok
ChatGPT brought AI to the forefront of public knowledge in 2023. However, there are now many more options, so development is no longer tied to OpenAI. This is the third entry in a series of blogs on how you can build retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) apps using LLMs that aren’t OpenAI’s GPT. Here’s where you can find Part 1 and Part 2. The GitHub repo for this project can be found here.
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Mar 27, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | David Cassel |Tim Davis |Yujian Tang |Gorkem Ercan
It’s an institution. Every month more than 100 million people visit Stack Exchange sites — with over 22 million visiting Stack Overflow for its programming-related content. But with the recent success of ChatGPT, it has been feeling the competitive pressures. So after 16 years, the company is trying something brand new — another way to solicit helpful information outside of the site’s long-standing question-and-answer format.
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Mar 26, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Jack Wallen |Tim Davis |Yujian Tang |Gorkem Ercan
Ah, the underscore, the “_” that connects multiple words when a blank space. A character that can mean nothing and something all at the same time. Once upon a time, I used underscores in Linux file names, like image_1.jpg or test_file.txt. That was back when spaces in file names could wreak havoc within the command line. Although things have changed with that, I still use the underscore now and then.
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Mar 26, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Jon Udell |BYTE Magazine's.. |Tim Davis |Yujian Tang
I once taught expository writing and have long felt that software tools ought to be able to help people learn how to write more clearly and effectively. In a previous post I applied core principles — omit needless words, use active voice, avoid jargon and cliche, cite specific examples — to a typical badly-written press release.
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Mar 24, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | David Cassel |Tim Davis |Yujian Tang |Gorkem Ercan
It’s been six months since JetBrains launched a dedicated IDE for Rust. But it’s become a milestone — a symbolic sign that Rust‘s developer community has achieved a new level of maturity. 🚀 Let’s hear it for RustRover – our new dedicated Rust IDE! We’re announcing a free public preview and encourage you to check it out. Enjoy this IntelliJ-based IDE with on-the-fly analysis, code completion, and debugger.
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Mar 23, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Jack Wallen |Tim Davis |Yujian Tang |Gorkem Ercan
With Linux, there are always numerous routes to wind up at the same location. That’s actually part of the strength of this operating system: It’s up to you how to get from point A to point B. Think of it as the “Mad Libs” of operating systems. Take, for instance, the ability to run commands on remote machines. There are plenty of options, such as Red Hat Ansible, Puppet and Chef, which are all amazing platforms but may be a bit overkill for what you need.
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Mar 23, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | David Eastman |Tim Davis |Yujian Tang |Gorkem Ercan
Some months ago, I looked at the issue and project tracker Plane. This is part of my ongoing mission to find sensible replacements for the old warhorse, Jira. Now, when agile planning, there have always been a few disparate tools that extend the issue tracker to deal with Epics, Stories and Tasks. As we shall see, I can’t describe Linear as an “agile” story tracker. Linear describes itself as “the new standard for modern software development.
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Mar 22, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Bob Reselman |Tim Davis |Yujian Tang |Gorkem Ercan
Many developers come to TypeScript after having programmed in JavaScript for years. As a result, in a haste to get things done, some of these developers don’t take full advantage of the more advanced object-oriented features of TypeScript. It’s understandable. The pressure to get code into production can be harsh and unrelenting. Having time to fully learn the principles of object-oriented programming (OOP) in terms of TypeScript becomes a luxury. There’s a lot to know.
