Dropped Bits — Issue #9
Welcome to issue #9 of Dropped Bits, the humble tech newsletter delivered weekly to your inbox. I hope you find here some interesting readings.
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Top News
AWS Lambda Now Supports Up to 10 GB Ephemeral Storage | Amazon Web Services — aws.amazon.com
Serverless applications are event-driven, using ephemeral compute functions ranging from web APIs, mobile backends, and streaming analytics to data processing stages in machine learning (ML) and high-performance applications. While AWS Lambda includes a 512 MB temporary file system (/tmp) for your code, this is an ephemeral scratch resource not intended for durable storage such as […]
Linux on M1. Progress has been made into running Linux natively on M1 Ultra SoC.
Front-end developers rejoice: Angular 13.2 brings Extended Diagnostics. Here’s a deep dive about it.
Extended Diagnostics. A deep-dive into Angular 13.2’s new… | by Doug Parker | Mar, 2022 | Angular Blog
blog.angular.io
In Angular v13.2.0, we released extended diagnostics, a new feature in the Angular compiler which gives more insight into your templates and how you might be able to improve them. These diagnostics…
New in the AppStore. The developer of PCalc has split out the ‘About’ page of its notorious app. The information screen is a very unusual one being a 3D gaming playground for the developer himself, rather than a simple collection of strings. Now you can play with 3D objects and more in this free separate app. An interesting move for both casual players and anyone who’s getting started in iOS game development.
New software by Apple. Last but not least in the iOS ecosystem, Apple has released the first beta of iOS/iPadOS/tvOS 15.5, watchOS 8.6 and macOS 12.4 to developers.
Remember you can know when those will be released as public betas, as well as be available to everyone, via my Telegram channel.
Tool of the week
The tool of this week is Away for Twitter, ‘the first ever Twitter client to support you in using Twitter less’. Developed by Marina Gornostaeva, Away provides you only the twitter statistics you may need as a publisher, without featuring a timeline, not to lure you into some time-wasting scrolling.
Away for Twitter on the App Store — apps.apple.com
Read reviews, compare customer ratings, see screenshots, and learn more about Away for Twitter. Download Away for Twitter and enjoy it on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
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