April 2021
a list of open source alternatives to google internal tools.
There are numerous tools used by internal google developers that are not available outside. This is a list of similar tools that are open source and available to all.
PyRobot: An Open Source Robotics Research Platform
Very nice python interface to control a robot that hides a lot of the complexity (at the cost of flexibility of course)
Building a Small Rails API with Serializers - Level Up Coding
This is a useful and detailed guide.
GitHub - iris-ua/iris_lama: LaMa - A Localization and Mapping library
Another interesting SLAM library to try
Finite State Machines are dead. Long life Behavior Trees
Very nice explanation of behavior trees
My first impressions of Rust - DEV Community
Really good run down features in rust. I believe that rust as a programming language is most appreciated by people who know languages such as C or C plus plus, in other words non-garbage collectors language is where you need to allocate and remember to deallocate.
A Recipe for Training Neural Networks
Very good article for anyone using Neural Networks
Similarity in Postgres and Rails using Trigrams · pganalyze
Useful feature of Postgres that’s right there but easy to overlook!
20 Most-Recommended Books for Software Developers - DEV Community
I know all these books. Odd that nothing new is on the list.
10 New things in ActiverRecord 6
A good tour of some new handy features in activerecord 6
Diagram.Codes
A neat interactive, web based, way to create diagrams. Is it related or based on Graphviz?
How to Process Passwords as a Software Developer - DEV Community
Very useful tips and techniques on handling of passwords.
MRPT – Empowering C++ development in robotics
A comprehensive package of C++ robotics related code. Another resource, not sure how well it works or how usable it is.
Instrument Your Ruby App In Minutes with the Honeycomb Beeline for Ruby - Honeycomb
This is another package of performance monitoring scaling tools. There are several out there, maybe this one has some cool differences.
what’s new in ruby 2.7
Some fun new features in ruby, some immediately useful, others controversial!
intro to dashboards using python
Looks like a very handy library to know about!
Ruby Literals You May Not Know - citizen428.net
Useful little details. Ruby is better than python. There I said it.