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The guys can't help but laugh when they hear the test tests one well-known online giant is testing. You might say they get a bit testy.

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• Alacritty: A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator. — Alacritty is a modern terminal emulator that comes with sensible defaults, but allows for extensive configuration. By integrating with other applications, rather than reimplementing their functionality, it manages to provide a flexible set of features with high performance. The supported platforms currently consist of BSD, Linux, macOS and Windows.
• How We Ported Linux to the M1 — At Corellium, we've been tracking the Apple mobile ecosystem since iPhone 6, released in 2014 with two 64-bit cores.
• Apple Seeds Second Release Candidate Version of macOS Big Sur 11.2 to Developers — ‌macOS Big Sur‌ 11 included a ContentFilterExclusionList that let Apple's apps like the App Store, Maps, iCloud, and more to avoid firewall and VPN apps that users had installed
• Probabilistic flakiness: How do you test your tests? — While we use automated tests to detect regressions in product quality, until recently we had no means of automatically detecting whether the tests themselves were deteriorating.

Is performance the ultimate requirement? What amount of compromise are we comfortable with?

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• Electron package guidelines — Arch Linux provides global electron and versioned electron* packages that can be used to run an electron application via a shellscript wrapper.
• Intel has to be better than ‘lifestyle company’ Apple at making CPUs, says new CEO — “We have to deliver better products to the PC ecosystem than any possible thing that a lifestyle company in Cupertino” makes, Gelsinger reportedly told Intel employees. “We have to be that good, in the future.”
• Intel suggests it will wait for new CEO to make critical decisions to fix manufacturing crisis - oregonlive.com
• MacBook Pro, iMac, Mac Pro, M1 Rumors — This week was sure a busy one in the Apple world, with a flurry of announcements out of CES early in the week followed by a rash of Mac- and iPhone-related rumors later in the week.
• The Shape of Code » Software effort estimation is mostly fake research

Mike and Chris discuss the recent JetBrains FUD and ponder the impact of recent AWS policy enforcement.

Plus a bunch of cool setups sent in by our audience.

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• code-server: VS Code in the browser — Run VS Code on any machine anywhere and access it in the browser.
• Homebrew on Apple Silicon — The biggest issue for me was Homebrew. According to this issue “There won’t be any support for native ARM Homebrew installations for months to come.” No big deal though. Homebrew can work just fine with Rosetta 2 and some things work natively.
• Download Visual Studio Code Insiders — Get the latest release each day.
• Widely Used Software Company May Be Entry Point for Huge U.S. Hacking - The New York Times — Russian hackers may have piggybacked on a tool developed by JetBrains, which is based in the Czech Republic, to gain access to federal government and private sector systems in the United States.
• Question on Quora that Captures the Impact — Are creators of IntelliJ, the JetBrains company, a project of Russian secret services stealing secrets from all the Western software shops?
• Parler is officially offline after AWS suspension — True to its word, Amazon Web Services (AWS) suspended services to Parler
• Amazon Is Suspending Parler From AWS
• Parler sues Amazon for kicking it off the internet — Parler compares itself to ‘a hospital patient on life support’
• Apple M1 Docker Tech Preview — This tech preview is aimed at early adopters of Apple M1 machines, who would like to try an experimental build of Docker Desktop.

Their lives change forever when they meet a handsome, tormented, laptop.

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• Plain Text Accounting, a guide to Ledger and friends - plaintextaccounting.org — Plain text accounting means doing accounting with plain text data formats and scriptable software, in the style of Ledger, hledger, beancount, and co.
• Beancount: Double-Entry Accounting from Text Files. — A double-entry bookkeeping computer language that lets you define financial transaction records in a text file, read them in memory, generate a variety of reports from them, and provides a web interface.
• Fava - web interface for Beancount — Fava is a web interface for the double-entry bookkeeping software Beancount with a focus on features and usability.
• Michael Dominick on Twitter — Interesting! It looks like @jetbrains is already on the M1 train.
• Dell.com/linux — With Canonical and Red Hat certification, Dell validation, and factory install options, you can be assured that your system just works.
• Dell XPS 13 Laptop As Built for the Show — + “Tiger Lake” 11th-gen CPU up to 4.2 GHz

Services and subscriptions get a bad wrap, so we flip the script and talk about the ones we're grateful to pay for.

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• Variety-slideshow — A pan-and-zoom image slideshow in Python, using Clutter. Integrates nicely with Variety.
• JÄRVFJÄLLET Gunnared beige, white, Office chair with armrests - IKEA — All bodies are different. JÄRVFJÄLLET swivel chair is designed so that you can adjust the headrest, lumbar support and the seat height and depth.
• SaaS we happily pay for — We try to run a lean operation at Mailbrew, but we are suckers for great tools that improve our daily workflows, so we pay for quite a few of them each month.
• Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2020 — In February 2020 nearly 65,000 developers told us how they learn and level up, which tools they’re using, and what they want.

Mike details his favorite python tools and his tricks for performance concerns.

Plus a bunch of workspace improvment ideas, feedback, and more.

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• Mechanical Keyboards Matrix Chat
• ThinkPad TrackPoint Keyboard II — The ThinkPad TrackPoint II Keyboard translates the ThinkPad notebook’s iconic typing experience into a stand-alone device.
• Gooseneck Tablet Holder — Flexible Arm Clip Tablet Stand Bed Desk Mount Compatible with iPad Pro Mini Air, Galaxy Tabs and More
• Portable Monitor — UPERFECT 15.6" 100% DCI-P3, 99% Adobe RGB, 500 Nits Brightness, FHD 1920x1080 IPS Screen
• Chris’ WFH Setup Pics on Instagram
• Welcome to Flask
• FastAPI — FastAPI framework, high performance, easy to learn, fast to code, ready for production
• Qt for Python | The official Python bindings for Qt — Qt for Python is the project that provides the official set of Python bindings (PySide2) that will supercharge your Python applications. While the Qt APIs are world renowned, there are more reasons why you should consider Qt for Python. The first official release of the PySide2 module is available now!
• Pylance - Visual Studio Marketplace — Pylance is an extension that works alongside Python in Visual Studio Code to provide performant language support. Under the hood, Pylance is powered by Pyright, Microsoft's static type checking tool. Using Pyright, Pylance has the ability to supercharge your Python IntelliSense experience with rich type information, helping you write better code faster.
• pylance-release: Documentation and issues for Pylance
• microsoft/pyright: Static type checker for Python — Pyright is a fast type checker meant for large Python source bases. It can run in a “watch” mode and performs fast incremental updates when files are modified.
• Jeremy Soller on Twitter — "I can no longer let things like this go. While System76 has been a part of the process, this should not be interpreted as consent to the new GNOME Shell design. We will do whatever possible to improve Pop!_OS UX even if it breaks significantly from GNOME's defaults."
• Carl Richell on Twitter — Yes, we were involved but our involvement had no impact on the design. Our design ethos and reading of the research differs. We raised our concerns and proposed a different design. We’re continuing our research and building prototypes.
• GNOME on Twitter — System76 was part of the entire process: setting up the research, doing polls, evaluating the results, suggesting changes
• KDE Architecture — Human Interface Guidelines documentation
• Plasma/Architecture - KDE Community Wiki

Mike recalls how he accidentally converted his development shop into a Python house, and Chris experiments with his Minimum Viable Robe.

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• Men's Rugby Robe, Flannel-Lined, Hooded — Perfect for lounging around the house, this flannel-lined robe offers incredible comfort and warmth.
• Model 01 Keyboard – Keyboardio — The Model 01 is not like other keyboards. We mill the Model 01's enclosure from solid maple
• Keyboardio Atreus — Until you see an Atreus in person, it's hard to comprehend just how compact it is.
• ErgoDox EZ: An Incredible Mechanical Ergonomic Keyboard — The world's most powerful ergonomic keyboard
• QMK Firmware - An open source firmware for AVR and ARM based keyboards — The goal of the QMK software project is to develop a completely customizable, powerful, and enjoyable firmware experience for any project - keyboard or otherwise
• Qt 6.0 Released — The mission of Qt 6 is to enable Qt to be the productivity platform for the future.
• New Features in Qt 6.0 - Qt Wiki
• Qt for Python 6 released
• Corsair Void RGB Elite Wireless Premium Gaming Headset — RF Gaming Headphones

Time to talk business, and Chris reveals his biggest mistake since going independent.

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• Ultimate Hacking Keyboard – The keyboard. For professionals.
• Unicomp Inc: New Model M
• Keychron K3 Ultra-slim Wireless Mechanical Keyboard

After we geek out about keyboards, we answer some feedback and take a dip in the Rust lust.

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• Das Keyboard Q software — The information you need - on your keyboard
• Vortex Race 3 Mechanical Keyboard — Vortex's newest 75% keyboard, the 83-key Race 3! Do you need dedicated arrow keys that your 60% doesn't provide, but don't want the size of a TKL? A 75% may be just for you! Most of the keys are in the "normal" spot, so there's nearly no learning curve for this keyboard.
• Vortexgear Race 3 - on Amazon
• CODE Mechanical Keyboard — The CODE keyboard is designed to be timeless – but modern and unobtrusive as well.
• Khaos Tian on Twitter — Ubuntu virtualized on M1 ;)
• Linus Torvalds wants an M1 Mac — I'd absolutely love to have one, if it just ran Linux..
• Salesforce deal to buy Slack expected to be announced tomorrow — The deal is expected to be about half cash and half stock, the sources said, and will price Slack at a premium.
• Dear Microsoft — So welcome, Microsoft, to the revolution. We’re glad you’re going to be helping us define this new product category. We admire many of your achievements and know you’ll be a worthy competitor. We’re sure you’re going to come up with a couple of new ideas on your own too. And we’ll be right there, ready.
• Source: Microsoft mulled an $8 billion bid for Slack — Microsoft eyed Slack as a potential acquisition target for as much as $8 billion, TechCrunch has heard
• Slack Missed Out on the Pandemic’s Zoom Boom
• Amazon: We're hiring software engineers who know programming language Rust — Open-source programming language Rust is a critical component of our long-term strategy, says AWS.
• Why AWS loves Rust, and how we’d like to help

Mike buys a laptop live on air while Chris worries about the turkey.

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• Michael Dominick on Twitter — "Live purchases are fun right?"
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• Apple will reduce App Store cut to 15 percent for most developers starting January 1st —