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The other day I was looking at a nested map/reduce/filter constellation which had a bunch of nesting, therefore there were lot of closures. This colleague had an interesting question: "In PHP, usually we can tell the interpreter that a function is relying on something from outside of the function with the use keyword, so e.g. we could tell at one level of the nesting that a function not only relying on it's input, but something from the outside (closure). Is there a way to do this in JavaScript?".

Fuzz testing is a well-known technique for uncovering programming errors. Many of these detectable errors have serious security implications. Google has found thousands of security vulnerabilities and other bugs using this technique. Fuzzing is traditionally used on native languages such as C or C++, but last year, we built a new Python fuzzing engine. Today, we’re releasing the Atheris fuzzing engine as open source.

When I was new to programming, there was nothing more impressive than watching an expert navigate around a terminal. They could be doing something as simple as editing a text file, but from the outside perspective, it was awe-inspiring. A wizard at the keys, churning out lines of codes without the need to even glance at their mouse. Fast forward several years, and I have slowly acquired the art of the terminal. In this post, I will share several techniques that can be used to speed up development processes. We will specifically cover topics such as grep, tmux, aliasing, and several others. Let’s get started!