At WWDC 2015, in a very influential session titled Protocol-Oriented Programming in Swift, Dave Abrahams explained how Swift’s protocols can be used to overcome some shortcomings of classes. He suggested this rule: “Don’t start with a class. Start with a protocol”.
Source: Value-Oriented Programming, an article by Matt Diephouse.
Like everyone else, I got excited about the latest Ubuntu LTS release and installed it on day one. A week in, I’m sorry to say that I leave disappointed. The amount of unready snap features being effectively forced onto users is affecting Ubuntu’s usability and user-friendliness.
Source: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it, an article by Jatan Mehta.
Awk is a tiny programming language and a command line tool. It's particularly appropriate for log parsing on servers, mostly because Awk will operate on files, usually structured in lines of human-readable text.
Source: Awk in 20 Minutes, an article by Fred Hebert.