BP’s Daily Digest: C# 11 preview updates, MVI with Kotlin, and more
More daily reads to inspire you
In this daily digest, we’ve got a first look at the C#11 preview updates brought to you by Microsoft, the latest updates from some software engineering Medium publications, an entirely new way to debug your apps, one fun Python challenge, refreshing thoughts on the challenges an organization may face with Agile (with a remedy), a comprehensive guide to writing smart contracts for the Zilliqa blockchain, and as always lots of code to help you build stuff.
Programming
In her blog post, Kathleen Dollard walks us through the upcoming C# 11 preview features — Raw string literals, UTF-8, Checked user-defined operators, Auto-default structs, Pattern matching with spans, and more. Read the complete article here.
Debug Your App Through the User’s Eyes With a Session Replay Tool
Other times the bug reports say “the user complains about the app not working”, or even worse, “the app works sometimes, but when I click on the red button, it stops working”. And you’re left there wondering which of the 10 red buttons in your whole app the user is talking about. Gladly, Session replay comes to our rescue.
Session replay is the ability to review exactly what happens in someone else’s browser but at a later time — by Fernando Doglio
From Software Engineering Publications
An Introduction to Kaniko
How to use Kaniko to build container images in the Jenkins CI pipelines
Kaniko is one of the best image builder tools which runs without any dependency on the docker daemon. It is also a secure option to consider for image building when compared to using docker — by Tanvi P Karennavar at Groww Engineering.
- Structuring a Golang Application by Deepshi Garg at BranchKey.
- Kickstarting CI Best Practices in Autonomous Teams by Katharina Sick at Dynatrace Engineering.
From Python
How to Find the King’s Legal Moves in Chess With Python
Ever wondered how to find the king’s legal moves on a chessboard using Python? Don’t go anywhere as Martin Andersson Aaberge shows us how to solve this fun challenge.
From Web Dev
Decoupling Your Concerns With Dependency Injection, the Repository Pattern, React, and Typescript
Have you ever been frustrated by the baked-in application logic? Had to rewrite entire components or projects when a provider has changed? Wished that your frontend code wasn’t reliant on a specific data implementation? Been annoyed by relentless questions at the start of an article?
In this post, I’m going to walk through an example of how you can build loosely-coupled applications capable of scale and adapting to future change — by Leigh White
From Android Dev
All You Need for MVI is Kotlin. How to Reduce Without a Reducer?
In this article, I describe my attempt to implement a simple state reducer based on Kotlin Flow — by Maciej Sady
From iOS Dev
In a four-part series, Elena Rubilova builds a Cookies App using SwiftUI. Check out the 4th tutorial to know how to implement a cart functionality.
From Web3 Dev
Writing Smart Contracts for the Zilliqa Blockchain using the Scilla Programming Language
To write Scilla smart contracts, the easiest is to use the Neo Savant IDE, a fully-fledged IDE used for writing, testing and deploying Scilla smart contracts — by Wei-Meng Lee
From AWS
Creating a Serverless Redirect Function Using AWS Lambda and API Gateway
So you’ve created an app that’s published on the app stores and now you want to redirect your users to their respective stores using a single URL? You’ve come to the right place — by Rafiul Ansari
Agile
The Real Challenge of Organizations With Agile — and How to Fix It
It seems the main problem with applying Agile methodologies is not the lack of knowledge. It is rather the willingness of leadership to let go of their tactical decision-making power and put trust in their teams — by David Gattig
That’s all for now. Thanks for reading.
