Top Browsers in 2020

When I read this strange article about the top browsers for developers, I'm usually skeptical. But, seeing the expected browsers was logical to consider.

1. Firefox (Developer Edition)
2. Google Chrome (for Developers)
3. Opera (for Developers)
4. Polypane - never heard of this but will now consider and test
5. Blisk - never heard of this and am skeptical
6. Safari - like for real, in 2020?

Reference

https://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2020/02/6-best-browsers-for-developers-in-2020/

O'Reilly's 5 key areas for tech leaders

This was an informative, useful article (thanks O'Reilly)!

5 Key Areas - Article

https://www.oreilly.com/radar/oreilly-2020-platform-analysis/

Rate of Change

This is a unique chart that really stood out to me. I hope this does for you to.

• Biggest increase - Rust
• Biggest drop - Scala

HBR on Locomotive Organizations

"Our results indicated that the language in mission statements could predict EEOC violations. Franchises whose mission statements emphasized locomotion (“just do it”) over assessment (“do the right thing”) were significantly more likely to be charged with discrimination."

"In other words, locomotion motivates action, but locomotion combined with assessment motivates conscientious action."

Read more

https://hbr.org/2020/02/research-organizations-that-move-fast-really-do-break-things

Google and OpenSK

This is a good read and also good to-know.
https://security.googleblog.com/2020/01/say-hello-to-opensk-fully-open-source.html

Microsoft's Project Tokyo

First let me say that I'm in awe of how Microsoft is on the up and up with having so many software (and overall system) projects in progress. Usually I rarely hear about Microsoft and often hear more about Google or Facebook projects. Maybe even Amazon, but those are usually more hardware related.

Anyhow, I'm super happy to hear about this Project Tokyo! Another great project in the suite of wonder from Microsoft.

Read more from Venture Beat:
https://venturebeat.com/2020/01/28/microsofts-project-tokyo-helps-visually-impaired-users-see-with-ai-and-ar/

Reference
https://news.microsoft.com/innovation-stories/project-tokyo/

Microsoft's Project Verona - New Programming Language Research

I haven't had much time to blog, but had to highlight this.

Microsoft's New Programming Language - Project Verona

• https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-opens-up-rust-inspired-project-verona-programming-language-on-github/
• https://github.com/microsoft/verona/blob/master/docs/faq.md

This is very interesting to see Microsoft "claim" continuing contribution to the development of Rust but research and develop its own new programming language comparatively to Rust.

Thanks to CodeProject for this update.

Review: Sourcetrail

If this is what I think it is, then this is AMAZING! Every development team given the insurmountable task to migrate old code into new code (i.e. modernize a behemoth, outdated software system) should take a serious look into using Sourcetrail. It is a cross-platform source explorer (i.e. code source explorer) that analyzes unfamiliar source code and creates visual aids to help a developer (or anyone looking into the unfamiliar source code) understand at least the design structure of the source code. This is extremely useful considering how many software systems either have no documentation or outdated documentation.

I'll have to look into this more later, but definitely happy to be aware of this tool.

Read More

https://www.sourcetrail.com/blog/open_source/

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