Welcome to ISSUE #52 of the Overflow! This newsletter is by developers, for developers, written and curated by the Stack Overflow team and Cassidy Williams at Netlify. While you’re sipping on eggnog and munching some gingerbread, read about how to safely update IoT devices over the air, when it makes sense to cancel your daily scrum, and designing a web to prevent abuse.
From the blog
The semantic future of the web stackoverflow.blog Much of the data currently exchanging hands can be viewed as human-centric. But increasingly we are not the only consumers of the web, and someday that data may be crafted for the consumption of virtual readers.
Security considerations for OTA software updates for IOT gateway devices stackoverflow.blog In order to respond to threats, device designers must remotely update, which if implemented poorly, can provide another vector for attacks. In this post, dig into specifics related specifically to the over-the-air (OTA) software update framework in an enterprise setting.
Podcast 293: Connecting apps, data, and the cloud with Apollo GraphQL CEO Geoff Schmidt stackoverflow.blog Schmidt, formerly of Meteor.JS, says GraphQL has done for the cloud what SQL did for databases. Now it’s about balancing corporate growth with an open source community.
How to integrate eSignatures into your apps promotion Check out this on-demand webinar to learn about the importance of eSignatures in compliance and sales workflows and how you can integrate them into the web and mobile apps you build.
Interesting questions
Should I cancel the daily scrum if the team has only minor issues to discuss? pm.stackexchange.com “If you aren’t planning together, you aren’t working together.”
DeepMind just announced a breakthrough in protein folding. What are the consequences? mattermodeling.stackexchange.com By “breakthrough,” they mean “did really, REALLY well in a protein folding competition.”
Suppose there is a 50 watt infrared bulb and a 50 watt UV bulb. Do they emit light of the same energy? physics.stackexchange.com Overall, yes. But does each photon contain the same energy?
Is there any text to speech program that will run on an 8 or 16-bit CPU? retrocomputing.stackexchange.com Even though they didn’t do it well, speech still blew kids’ minds in Commodore 64 games.
Links from around the web
Making a responsive (birthday) card with HTML and CSS dev.to You know, with it being JavaScript’s birthday month, it might be good to have a birthday card coming from its relatives!
Abusability test your product database.platformabuse.org This is a fantastic reference for those building and using social platforms to avoid abuse and to make a safer web.
Web performance calendar » A font-display setting for slow connections calendar.perfplanet.com Block? Optional? Swap? Fallback? How should you pick a font-display setting? Here’s a solid discussion to help you decide.
Life of a pixel (Chrome University 2020) www.youtube.com Here’s a very cool tour of Chrome’s rendering architecture, and how a pixel “comes to life” on the page.