Issue #171 · July 20, 2020

Data Structures & Algorithms I Actually Used

“Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards”

Best 7 links of week #29, 2020

Data Structures & Algorithms I Actually Used

Data Structures & Algorithms I Actually Used

Do you actually use algorithms and data structures on your day to day job? I've noticed a growing trend of people assuming algorithms are pointless questions that are asked by tech companies purely as an arbitrary measure.

Articles

Building a self-updating profile README for GitHub

GitHub quietly released a new feature at some point in the past few days: profile READMEs. This article will illustrate a brilliant idea to keep your profile dynamic by using GitHub actions to update your README.

Hacking with Environment Variables

This article provides an interesting list of environment variables that you can supply to scripting language interpreters to produce "possibly unintended" side effects...

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Understanding and Decoding a JPEG Image using Python

A fantastic article that can help you to understand the JPEG compression algorithm. One thing a lot of people don’t know is that JPEG is not a format but rather an algorithm. During the course of this article, you will be implementing a JPEG decoder in python! 🐍

Book of the week

Irresistible APIs: Designing web APIs that developers will love

Irresistible APIs: Designing web APIs that developers will love

by Kirsten Hunter

Well-designed APIs feel like a natural extension of the application, rather than just a new interface into the backend database. Designing Web APIs based on use cases allows an organization to develop irresistible APIs, which developers can consume easily and which support the business values of that organization.