Dev

• [Introductory Go Programming Tutorial](https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/ introductory-go-programming-tutorial) – How to get started with this useful new programming language.
• [Grady Booch on the Future of AI](https://www.infoq.com/news/2019/02/ Grady-Booch-Future-AI) – According to [Grady Booch](https://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/Grady_Booch), most current AI systems are about pattern matching of signals at the edge and inductive reasoning, not true Artificial Intelligence. During his second day keynote at the 2018 QCon San Francisco, “Building the Enchanted Land”, he explained his view that AI today is a “system engineering problem with AI components.”
• [The 14 habits of highly effective developers (Part 1)](https://dev.to/ pavlosisaris/how-to-transition-from-junior-to-mid-level-developer-part-1-4gig) – transitioning from being a junior dev to a mid-level dev via good habits.
• SQL Series: From A to Z – jargon busting explanations for database terminology and concepts.

Ops

• [Kubernetes on-premises](https://medium.com/@anisinanaj/ kubernetes-on-premise-8ceffa48fee5) – Ani Sinanaj walks you through the process of installing and configuring Kubernetes on your own servers.
• [Clean out your Docker images, containers and volumes with single commands]( https://medium.com/the-code-review/ clean-out-your-docker-images-containers-and-volumes-with-single-commands-b8e38253c271 ) – while Docker has commands for stopping and removing images, containers, networks and volumes, they are not comprehensive. Clean out and refresh your entire Docker environment with this set of instructions and set them as shell aliases.
• [Google’s Cloud-Native NoSQL Database Cloud Firestore](https://www.infoq.com/ news/2019/02/gcp-firestore-database-nosql-ga) Is Now Generally Available.
• [5 open source network monitoring tools](https://opensource.com/article/19/2/ network-monitoring-tools) – Keep a better eye on your network with this roundup of top tools.

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• [What we’ve got here is failure to communicate](https://medium.com/@dicturel/ what-weve-got-here-is-failure-to-communicate-13f80189aced) – “Communication is vital at every level of a software development project, but you’d be surprised at just how often this fundamental rule is broken. And when there’s no communication, that’s when the final product created can look very different from what was sold, promised, built and ordered.” Tomer Dicturel, cofounder and CEO of Crane, discusses some of the many reasons these projects fail.
• [APIs you didn’t know you needed](https://dev.to/mkrl/ apis-you-didnt-know-you-needed-38c) – a small collection of APIs you may or not have heard about.
• [Ever wonder where your favorite language was born?](https://lemi.travel/ matt/the-birthplaces-of-programming-languages) – The Birthplaces of Programming Languages.
• [21 Platforms That Serve As A Lifeline To Web Developers](https://dev.to/ lambdatesting/21-platforms-that-serve-as-a-lifeline-to-web-developers-1hj1) – tools for speeding up productivity and maintaining an efficient workflow.
• [VS Code settings you should customize](https://dev.to/thegeoffstevens/ vs-code-settings-you-should-customize-5e75) – out-of-the-box settings that make VS Code work better.
• [20 VS Code Extensions You’ll Actually Use](https://dev.to/vip3rousmango/ vs-code-extensions-youll-actually-use-46gp) – once you’ve optimized your VS Code settings, advance to the next level by checking out this list of extensions.
• Some useful links about programming fonts:
  • [Programming Fonts — A List](https://medium.com/@caulfieldOwen/ programming-fonts-a-visual-guide-567fc210d2c6) – 2018’s highest quality fonts for coding — free and paid.
  • [The 10 best fonts for programming](https://www.developer-tech.com/news/ 2018/may/16/10-best-fonts-programming/) – A guide.
  • Sudo – A free font for coders by Jens Kutílek.
  • Firicico – Combination of Fira Code and Pacifico for Italics.
  • Fantasque Sans Mono – A programming font, designed with functionality in mind, and with some wibbly-wobbly handwriting-like fuzziness that makes it unassumingly cool.
  • Mononoki – A font for programming and code review.
  • Commercial [Dank Mono](https://medium.com/@philpl/ what-sets-dank-mono-apart-1bbdc1cc3cbd) font,
  • Commercial Gintronic font – The most ergonomic programming font.
  • Programming font comparison – Compares the most common fixed-width programming fonts. All font samples are from actual screenshots of the font taken under Windows 7 with Sublime Text.
  • Operator Mono Ligatures – This project will generate new OpenType fonts for Operator Mono that includes ligatures similar to those found in the popular Fira Code font.
  • Ligaturizer – Add ligatures to any coding font!

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