Twitter updated its developer agreement, officially banning third-party apps. Last week, third-party apps such as Tweetbot, Echofon, and Twitterific stopped working as users could not log in and access their Twitter feeds. More: - According to the new rules, developers cannot use Twitter API to create or attempt to create a substitute product or service for the Twitter applications.
- On Tuesday, the Twitter Dev account tweeted that the company is enforcing its long-standing API rules.
- During recent layoffs, Twitter fired employees who were working on its developer platform.
- Twitterific, one of the most prominent apps that can be credited for coining the term Tweet, announced it is being discontinued after 16 years.
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According to Electric Capital's 2022 Developer Report, there are currently 23,343 monthly active developers in crypto. Electric Capital analyzed 250M code commits to measure developer activity. More: - Ethereum blockchain is seeing the largest developer activity with over 1,800 full-time developers. Polkadot, Cosmos, Solana, and Bitcoin follow it.
- More than 471,000 monthly code commits were made towards open-source crypto, and over 61,000 developers contributed code for the first time in 2022.
- Full-time developers contributed 76% of the code commits, and their number saw an 8% YoY growth.
- Electric Capital said measuring developer engagement is an early and leading indicator of value creation in emerging platforms.
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 A message from ONE SCHEMA No more messy csv data It always seems to be the case that customers want to give you their data as the messiest possible CSV file, but building spreadsheet import capabilities becomes a never-ending sink for engineering and support resources. Teams keep adding features to their importers, but customers just keep running into issues. 6 months later, you’re fixing yet another data conversion edge case bug. Most data tools aren’t built for handling messy data, but OneSchema’s embeddable CSV importer is. Instead of frustrating your customers with import messages like “error on line 53”, OneSchema helps them intelligently correct messy data so they don’t have to spend hours in Excel just to get started with your product. With an extensive library of prebuilt validations and robust SDKs, OneSchema only takes 30 minutes to get running in your app. Companies like Scale AI and Pave are using OneSchema to make launching delightful spreadsheet import experiences fast and easy. Watch demo
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The makers of Swimm announced the launch of the code documentation tool on ProductHunt. Swimm ranked as the No. 1 product of the day on the day of its launch. More: - According to its makers, Swimm empowers developers to understand code easily, find documentation in the IDE, integrate code directly in the docs, and automatically update documentation as code changes.
- It offers integrations with GitHub, VS Code, JetBrains, Slack, Compass, and Backstage.
- Swimm is used by developer teams at Intel, Akamai, Orca Security, Hunters, Warp, Melio, and StackAdapt.
- The tool is free for one private repo, up to five users, and 30 verification tests per month. For more features, the Standard and Pro plans are available at $8 and $20 per month per user, respectively.
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Researchers at Trend Micro demonstrated how attackers could use GitHub Codespaces to host and distribute malware. In November, GitHub announced the general availability of Codespaces for its Free and Pro plan users. More: - The report showcases how attackers could abuse Codespaces' port forwarding feature to distribute malware and avoid detection.
- Trend Micro said it ran a Python-based HTTP server on port 8080, forwarded, and exposed the port publicly.
- During the process, the researchers found the URL and the absence of cookies for authentication.
- Trend Micro also shared best practices that IT and security teams could follow to prevent attacks.
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 A message from LINEARB Do More with the Same Team How do you do more with the same team in a shorter time frame? Hint: It isn’t asking devs to type faster. If you optimize developer experience with things like automated workflows, you both improve your developers’ happiness and make your teams more productive. Bottom line: Merging devs = happy devs. Measure and improve cycle time, merge frequency, and dozens of other developer experience and productivity metrics (like DORA metrics) with the LinearB platform. LinearB includes tools like: - Efficiency and Business Alignment Metrics: Showcase engineering’s impact and become more predictable
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Decentralized cross-chain liquidity protocol Swing launched a new widget and an SDK to enable cross-chain implementations. Swing empowers developers to connect dApps to blockchains, ecosystems, and decentralized liquidity. More: - Swing claims the widget and SDK will improve the overall experience for cross-chain developers by eliminating pain points and unifying cross-chain liquidity and bridge aggregation.
- According to Swing, the combination of Swing API, SDK, and widget:
- makes user onboarding a seamless experience,
- reduces engineering hours, and
- eliminates the need to monitor, maintain, and integrate 10 or more bridges simultaneously.
- Swing supports over 20 Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) networks and is working on adding four non-EVM networks: Solana, Cosmos, Polkadot, and Elrond.
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New Tools and Updates: - Updates from Microsoft:
- Microsoft released Visual Studio 2022 17.5 Preview 3 with new productivity improvements for developers and other enhancements. The latest release introduces VS Intent-based Suggestions that leverage Machine Learning algorithms to suggest relevant code changes.
- .NET Community Toolkit 8.1 includes performance improvements to the MVVM Toolkit source generators and other highly requested features. Dedicated analyzers in MVVM Toolkit will provide recommendations to improve the code along with diagnostics for features misused.
- Microsoft announced the general availability of Azure OpenAI service that will provide access to AI models developed by OpenAI.
- Cloud development platform, Codesandbox officially launched support for Rust. CodeSandbox said the update offers the ability to spin up a Rust development environment with IntelliSense support and open the environment in iOS or VS code.
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- Google lost its appeal in India's Supreme Court to block the Competition Commission of India (CCI)'s order to change the business model of its Android operating system.
- Ireland's Data Privacy Commissioner fined WhatsApp €5.5M (~$5.95M) for breaching privacy laws.
- Google's CEO, Sundar Pichai, informed staff that the company is planning to lay off around 12,000 employees.
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 |  | Sudarshan lives in Toronto, Canada, and is an engineering graduate. He is passionate about business, tech, entrepreneurship, and politics. FUN FACT: Sudarshan worked for the election campaign teams of two heads of state in India. When he is not busy with work, he enjoys hiking, playing cricket, and cooking. | | | | Editor | Aaron Crutchfield is based in the high desert of California. Over the last two decades, he has spent time writing and editing at various local newspapers and defense contractors in California. When he's not working, he can often be found looking at the latest memes with his kids or working on his 1962 and 1972 Fords. | |
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