The Best of Programming on Medium (September 2021)

Our favorite stories that were published last month

Happy October everyone,

To help you get inspired and code more, we’ve got some amazing stories published across Medium from the month gone by. By the way, Facebook had a hangover yesterday. In case you want to know the cause of the glitch, here’s a detailed explanation of their global outage.

Without further ado, here are our favorite stories from September 2021— in no particular order.

Programming

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• A first taste of Codex by Mark Ryan
• What’s new in Flutter 2.5 by Chris Sells
• Generative Art NFTs With Python and Solidity by Parker Ferguson
• Can Development Life Exist Without Docker Desktop? by Randal Kamradt Sr
• The Problem with Popular Programming Languages by Charles Scalfani
• Learning Almost Nothing About LLVM by Marianne Bellotti

Data Science

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• Prettifying pandas DataFrames by Zolzaya Luvsandorj
• Tired of AI? Let’s talk about CI. by Bryce Murray, PhD
• PixelCNN’s Blind Spot by Jessica Dafflon
• Is Pandas for Web Scraping Not Enough? Try Beautiful Soup by Yong Cui
• SHAP: Explain Any Machine Learning Model in Python by Khuyen Tran

JavaScript

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• I instructed GitHub Copilot to code an Instagram profile feed in React. Here’s what happened. by Ayush Singh
• The Fastest and Most Efficient Way to Calculate Fibonacci Series in JavaScript by Arek Jaworski
• Why You Should Use Next.js As the Default Framework in React Apps by Jérôme Mottet
• Architecting a GraphQL API Codebase in Node.js by Haseeb Anwar

Software Engineering

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• The Show Must Go On: Securing Netflix Studios At Scale by Netflix Technology Blog
• Generating Random Numbers Is a Lot Harder Than You Think by Sunny Beatteay
• Autonomous Monitoring and Self-Healing Networks by Kshitij Dogra
• Automating Data Protection at Scale, Part 1 by elizabeth nammour

iOS

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• What’s New in Xcode 13? by Dheeru N
• Creating Confetti Particle Effects Using SwiftUI by Sarah
• Exploring ShazamKit With SwiftUI in iOS 15 by Rudrank Riyam
• Implementing SwiftUI Canvas in iOS 15 by Mark Lucking
• Building Dynamic Lists in SwiftUI for iOS 15 by Peter Friese
• Build Your Own Blog App With SwiftUI by Roman Luzgin
• Preventing Data Races Using Actors in Swift by Lee Kah Seng

Work and Productivity

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• 5 Steps To Learn New Things Effectively by Vickie Li
• What Can Companies Do To Retain Employees for More Than Six Months? by Mandi Gunningham
• How to Turn “Do You Have Any Questions for Me?” Into a Job Offer by Jameson Zaballos
• I Was Wrong About Burnouts (and You Are Too, Probably) by Vinita
• Why “Where Do You See Yourself in 5 Years?” Is a Bullshit Question by George J. Ziogas
• You Should Spend More Time Doing Nothing — That’s When You Actually Grow by Alan Trapulionis

Humor

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• What “Miscellaneous Bugs and Fixes” Really Mean by Jesse Bramani
• If Programming Languages Were Zodiac Signs by Michael Miller

While that wraps up this newsletter! Check out betterprogramming.pub for more interesting stories.

Thanks for reading. Until next time,

Anupam and the Better Programming team