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https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/yPUddPCkoXilnBsmcpueRgModules & The Death of Mobile Web & Yuque’s Fifth Anniversary & Fourth Age Of Programming & The Greatest Thing About Confucius

This Week’s Hot Topics

Yuque’s Fifth Anniversary!  https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/-ty1YNCPb_lAyDx11m4TrA
Five years ago today Yuque was officially launched to the public. Its fifth birthday arrives on schedule – yes, the long‑awaited annual‑report summary is about to go live! Stay tuned; more details are at the end of the post. As usual, we’ll recap what changed at Yuque over the past year and what new ideas are on the horizon. Below are excerpts from the Yuque team’s year‑end summaries, shared for everyone’s benefit.

You Want Modules, Not Microservices  http://blogs.newardassociates.com/blog/2023/you-want-modules-not-microservices.html
A deep dive into why everyone keeps talking about microservices. Related: 2022 in Serverless.

Things They Didn’t Teach You About Software Engineering  https://vadimkravcenko.com/shorts/things-they-didnt-teach-you/
Disclaimer: this is purely subjective. Whether you’re a seasoned pro or just starting out, I hope these insights give you a useful perspective. I’ve been meaning to write this since mid‑2022 but couldn’t recall everything that belongs here. Over the past year I’ve collected ideas, and now I have enough points to share.

The Fourth Age Of Programming  https://blog.replit.com/fourth
Today, developers must “game out” the steps needed to solve a problem. When it comes to implementing each step, you can search latent space (instead of Google) for the right code snippet. Latent space, however, doesn’t (yet) give you the steps themselves—causality remains a hard problem in ML, and building models that can reason about cause/effect for truly novel problems is still difficult. Still, there have been successful attempts to get LLMs to generate sequences of steps or ideas from past training data, so plenty of coding magic remains to be uncovered within the current LLM paradigm that powers today’s tools.

[Translation] Why Are Google and Apple Trying to Kill Mobile Web?  https://new.qq.com/rain/a/20230105A05Y8700  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34252196  https://chriscoyier.net/2023/01/04/what-does-it-look-like-for-the-web-to-lose/
Looking back, Apple, Google and others once championed the Web, but later abandoned Web apps in favor of native ones. Recently, CodePen co‑founder and web developer Chris Coyier wrote an article about the perpetual rivalry between “native apps” and the Web across platforms. He points out that if the Web ultimately loses this battle, designers and developers may either refocus on a single platform or be forced to spread their attention thin, producing increasingly mediocre software. “Walled gardens” will sprout everywhere, each with its own advantages, leaving users feeling powerless—no matter what they choose, they’ll miss out on many great experiences. Also attached: Sergey Brin: “Irate call from Steve Jobs”.

In‑Depth Reading

Vue: 2022 Year In Review  https://blog.vuejs.org/posts/2022-year-in-review.html
With the last Vue 2 minor release (2.7) behind us, we’re full‑steam ahead on Vue 3 core features for 2023. We have a long list of exciting features to work on! Related: 2022 JavaScript Rising Stars, The 6 JavaScript Projects to Watch in 2023.

What are SLOs, SLIs, and SLAs?  https://newrelic.com/blog/best-practices/what-are-slos-slis-slas
Service levels describe the performance delivered to users over a given period, in measurable terms. Service Level Objectives (SLOs) are the availability goals for a system. Service Level Indicators (SLIs) are the key metrics used to determine that availability. Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are the legal contracts that spell out what’s promised and what happens if the system fails to meet the SLOs.

The Beauty of CGI and Simple Design, by Hales  https://rubenerd.com/the-beauty-of-cgi-and-simple-design-by-hales/
I was browsing Hales’ blog archives over Christmas, like a gentleman, and was reminded of his post about CGI—the simple application/web interface of the 1990s. And here’s the thing: he said it was good.

Ruby 3.2.0 Is From Another Dimension  https://tomaszs2.medium.com/ruby-3-2-0-is-from-another-dimension-5249e3186ec9
On that very day Yui Naruse announced a groundbreaking Ruby release. I’ve been reporting on new programming‑language features for a while now, and I didn’t see this coming—especially during the holiday season. I almost choked on my bigos! (bigos = traditional Polish stew).

The Infrastructure Behind ATMs  https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/the-infrastructure-behind-atms/
ATMs illustrate a pattern common in finance: an internal‑operations improvement that becomes a business in its own right, eventually spawning an infrastructure layer that may dwarf the original business. Despite their ubiquity, almost no one—even finance professionals—understands how they work.

What’s Next for Quantum Computing  https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/01/06/1066317/whats-next-for-quantum-computing/
Companies are shifting focus from setting qubit‑record milestones to building practical hardware and pursuing long‑term goals.

Getting Your Data in Shape for Machine Learning  https://stackoverflow.blog/2023/01/04/getting-your-data-in-shape-for-machine-learning/
Machine learning uses data structures that often differ from those in conventional computing. You’ll need to preprocess your data if you want efficient ML.

The Physics Principle That Inspired Modern AI Art  https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-physics-principle-that-inspired-modern-ai-art-20230105/
Diffusion models create stunning images by learning to reverse the process that, among other things, makes ink spread through water.

Fresh Finds

• Future of Storybook in 2023

• React Native: First‑Class Support for TypeScript

• Pushup: A Server‑Side, Page‑Oriented Web Framework for Go

• Gluon: Develop desktop apps from websites using system‑installed browsers and Node.js

• Symphonia: An Audio Playback Library for Node

• Databases in 2022: A Year in Review

• Microsoft Is Preparing to Add ChatGPT to Bing

• conc: Better Structured Concurrency for Go

• Start a Fucking Blog: Go on, do it right now—it’s the best thing you can do on the web.

Products & Others

2022 Reading & Learning Summary  https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/597289196
It’s that time of year again for an annual recap. My personal summaries always revolve around reading and learning—see last year’s Zhihu answer as an example. This year will be no different: I’ll pick the books I rated 4 stars or higher to recommend, and I’ll also add other learning resources and personal reflections based on my reading.

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Originally written by Ping Xia (平侠) and published in Chinese on Web技术周刊 (Web Tech Weekly). Translated and adapted for DriftSeas with permission.