/Tools

Uptime Monitoring Is Now Available In AppSignal

- Wes Oudshoorn tl;dr: Uptime monitoring is the first line of defense against downtime. Ping your apps every minute from 4 locations around the world and receive alerts when something is down. Now you'll know about downtime before your users do.

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Public APIs

tl;dr: "A collective list of free APIs for use in software and web development."

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Timefind

- Nathan Manceaux-Panot tl;dr: "Timefind lets you find the exact moment that something was added to a website. It quickly flips through Web Archive snapshots using binary search, pinpointing the date of the modification e.g. you can search for the first mention of the iPhone on Apple's homepage."

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Authorization Academy

tl;dr: A series of technical guides on how to build authorization (roles, permissions, etc.) into your app, including architecture, modeling patterns, role-based access control, and more.

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Visualizing A Codebase

- Amelia Wattenberger tl;dr: Amelia show "how can we “fingerprint” a codebase to see its structure at a glance," exploring ways to automatically visualize a GitHub repo, and how that could be useful.

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Comcast

- Tyler Treat tl;dr: "Comcast is a tool designed to simulate common network problems like latency, bandwidth restrictions, and dropped / reordered / corrupted packets."

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Introducing GitHub Super Linter: One Linter To Rule Them All

- Lucas Gravley tl;dr: A "source code repository packaged into a Docker container and called by GitHub Actions. It will support a lot of languages and more coming in the future."

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MessagePack: It's Like JSON. But Fast And Small

tl;dr: "MessagePack is an efficient binary serialization format. It lets you exchange data among multiple languages like JSON. But it's faster and smaller."

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Online Regex Tester

- Firas Dib tl;dr: Free PCRE-based regular expression debugger with real time explanation, error detection and highlighting.

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Best Productivity Tools For Your Dev Life

- Areknawo tl;dr: Author runs through his favorite to-do lists, chart tools (they use charts as a productivity tool), mind-mapping and Kanban tools.

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