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Interrupt #10 - Copilot, CodeWhisperer, Twitter Notes, Netflix Lay-off, netboot, Side Projects

Abhinav Kumar
Jun 25, 2022
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Interrupt is a weekly newsletter compiled from the most interesting things I have come across this week. Sometimes along with my original writing or commentary.


Big News and Happenings

GitHub Copilot is generally available to all developers We’re making GitHub Copilot, an AI pair programmer that suggests code in your editor, generally available to all developers for $10 USD/month or $100 USD/year. It will also be free to use for verified students and maintainers of popular open source projects.

Musk, Tesla, SpaceX Are Sued for Alleged Dogecoin Pyramid Scheme — www.bloomberg.com Elon Musk, SpaceX and Tesla Inc. were sued for $258 billion over claims they are part of a racketeering scheme to back the cryptocurrency Dogecoin.

Twitter confirms it’s working on a built-in Notes feature Twitter is testing a new long-form writing feature, named either Notes or Articles. Rumors of the feature have been swirling for months but now a select group of users has access.

ML-powered coding companion – Amazon CodeWhisperer — aws.amazon.com

AWS has launched CodeWhisperer, an AI pair programming tool similar to GitHub’s Copilot. It currently supports Java, JavaScript and Python.

Facebook plans ‘discovery engine’ feed change to compete with TikTok — www.theverge.com

The head of Meta-owned Facebook explains how the app is trying to compete with TikTok by revamping the News Feed and leaning into Reels.

Netflix lays off 300 more employees

The company previously cut 150 jobs in May amid business woes.

Firefox Rolls Out Total Cookie Protection By Default To All Users

What more reasons do you need to get off Chrome?

ManifestV3 *cough*

What I Found

GitHub - ozanyurtsever/verbum — github.com

Verbum is a fully flexible text editor based on lexical framework.

GitHub - elastic/eui: Elastic UI Framework — github.com

GitHub - sonnyt/just

Zero config TypeScript build and development toolkit

Your favorite operating systems in one place! | netboot.xyz — netboot.xyz netboot.xyz enables you to PXE boot many Operating System installers and utilities from a simple to use menu powered by the iPXE project.

What I Read

What would a Chromium-only Web look like?

Most of the complexity and nuance of the Web is stuffed into browser engines. Even though they’re a huge burden to develop and maintain, the world is lucky enough to have three major ones, and they’re all Open Source.

I fucking hate Jira. — ifuckinghatejira.com Real opinions from real people about a project management system which unfortunately is also real.

A Mindfulness Monday Review of The Light Phone — thesweetsetup.com An in-depth look at the Light Phone, a great smartphone alternative for those who want to reclaim their focus.

GitHub Copilot and open source laundering | Drew DeVault's blog

4 integers are enough to write a Snake Game

Ask HN: Side projects that are making money, but you'd not talk about them?

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