Cybersecurity and AI Deep in the Heart of Texas Cyber Summit

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Austin, Texas, is the 10th largest city in the US and is constantly growing, both in population and in industry. Every year, dozens of major companies either relocate or expand into the Austin area. It is also home to six universities, like The University of Texas at Austin and Texas State. As the state capitol of Texas, many government agencies have a presence there as well. Folks from all these sectors came together in the last week of September to learn from one another at Texas Cyber Summit 2023.

Here are just a few of the highlights from this security-focused event.

Incident Management: Checklist, Tools, and Prevention

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What Is Incident Management?

Incident management is the process of identifying, responding, resolving, and learning from incidents that disrupt the normal operation of a service or system. An incident can be anything from a server outage, a security breach, a performance degradation, or a customer complaint. Incident management aims to restore the service as quickly as possible, minimize the impact on users and the business, and prevent the recurrence of similar incidents.

Incident Management Checklist

Incident management can be a complex and stressful process, especially when dealing with high-severity incidents that affect a large number of users or have a significant business impact. To help you navigate the incident management process, here is a checklist of the main steps and best practices to follow:

SQL Server to Postgres Database Migration

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In this article, specialists of Intelligent Converters share their experience on database migration from SQL Server to Postgres. It covers tips and tricks, the most important bottlenecks, and best practices of migration.

Most  SQL Server to Postgres migration projects consist of the following steps:

Commercial Property Data Organizing

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Organizing business property info enables organization users to get the observations needed to generate defendable short and long term commercial proper property decisions. While it might sound like an arduous process, CRE specialists can streamline the procedure with the help of data platforms that provide foundational data sets in a single easy-to-navigate dashboard. These types …

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The Evolution and Coexistence of Web 2.0 and Web 3.0

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Web 3.0 has grown in popularity over the last few years and has fast become a tool for the empowerment of users in regard to ownership and sharing of data. The premise is that Web 3.0 will bring back the digital industry to a decentralized model, driving forwards, monetization, ownership, and governance, that was not as prominent through Web 2.0’s centralized model.

The basic principles of technological evolution dictate that when a new model is created, it replaces the previous version; that’s precisely what happened between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0. However, Web 3.0 will not follow the same pattern; instead, it has the potential to enhance instead of replace Web 2.0.

How to Send Confirmation Emails with Google Forms

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You have a Google Form and you would like to send an auto-confirmation emails to the person as soon as they submit the form. The autoresponder email message can contain a custom note (like an acknowledgement saying that you have received their form entry)  and also a copy of the form answers that that they have submitted.

These auto-responders are similar to canned responses in Gmail but for Google Forms. You may use the technique for sending welcome messages, acknowledge support requests, and more. Here’s a sample confirmation email that was sent through Google Forms:

A sample auto confirmation email sent through Google Forms A sample auto confirmation email sent through Google Forms

Send a Confirmation Email to the Form Submitter

The other day I got an email from N.Vamsi asking me how to send these confirmation emails using Google Forms?

Would you mind telling me how you have set up auto email updater for inputs taken from Google forms. I have seen your video tutorial on setting up Google forms and getting input values to an email address but auto email responder is something new! Do you have any tutorials for that as well?

This is easy and you can can add the auto-reply feature to your Google Forms in less than a minute. Here are the steps involved:

  1. Create a new Google Form with one or more fields. You can also use an existing form but do make sure you have a field where you would be asking for the email address of the form respondent. This should be a mandatory field.
  2. Install the Google Forms add-on, then go to the add-ons menu inside forms, choose Email Notification for Forms and select Create New Rule.
  3. Enter your name, choose your Gmail alias that you wish to use for sending confirmation emails and check the “Notify Form Submitter” option. Select the form field that you are using to get the email address of the respondent.
  4. On the next screen, customize the email subject and message as described in the Google Form Email tutorial.

Create the rule and you’re done. When anyone submits the Google Form, they’ll get an automatic confirmation email in HTML format and copy of the email data will also be cc’ed to you so you are in the loop.

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How to Reduce LLM Hallucination

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LLM hallucination refers to the phenomenon where large language models like chatbots or computer vision systems generate nonsensical or inaccurate outputs that do not conform to real patterns or objects. These false AI outputs stem from various factors. Overfitting to limited or skewed training data is a major culprit. High model complexity also contributes, enabling the AI to perceive correlations that don't exist.

Major companies developing generative AI systems are taking steps to address the problem of AI hallucinations, though some experts believe removing false outputs entirely may not be possible. 

Introduction to MQTT Control Packets

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MQTT control packets are the smallest unit of data transfer in MQTT. MQTT clients and servers exchange control packets for performing their work, such as subscribing to topics and publishing messages.

Currently, MQTT defines 15 types of control packets. If we classify them based on their functionality, we can categorize these packets into three categories: connection, publishing, and subscribing.

Hot-Cold Data Separation: What, Why, and How?

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Apparently, hot-cold data separation is hot now. But first of all:

What Is Hot/Cold Data?

In simple terms, hot data is the frequently accessed data, while cold data is the one you seldom visit but still need. Normally in data analytics, data is "hot" when it is new and gets "colder" and "colder" as time goes by. 

Decoding Duolingo: Returning to the Office, Enabling First-Time Managers, and More

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Remote, hybrid, or in-office? Opinions are divided on what has quickly become one of the most controversial topics in tech: Should we return to the office, and if so, how and when?

On this week’s episode of Dev Interrupted, we sit down with Duolingo’s Sr. Director of Engineering, Fabio Lessa, to discuss how to successfully transition your engineering org back to the office — and why Duolingo has done it so successfully. [Hint: it all starts with culture.]

The npm tea party

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#​700 — August 15, 2024

Read on the Web

👋 Wow, issue 700! We’re back after a week away. Technically I’m still on vacation, but I didn’t want to leave you in the lurch for too long.. 😉
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Peter Cooper, your editor

JavaScript Weekly

ECMAScript Safe Assignment Operator Proposal — We often feature ECMAScript proposals that are in their later stages, but how about a brand new one you could get involved with? This one proposes an interesting additional bit of language syntax (?=) that returns a [error, value] tuple from an assignment.

Arthur Fiorette

Crafting a 13KB Game: The Story of Space Huggers — We always love Frank’s dives into how he produces neat JavaScript experiments and, in this case, a complete game in just 13KB — and if it inspires you, the latest js13kGames game development competition has just started.

Frank Force

WorkOS: The Modern Identity Platform for B2B SaaS — WorkOS is a modern identity platform for B2B SaaS, offering flexible and easy-to-use APIs to integrate SSO, SCIM, and RBAC in minutes instead of months. It’s trusted by hundreds of high-growth startups such as Perplexity, Vercel, Drata, and Webflow.

WorkOS sponsor

Google’s Angular Lead Sees Convergence in JavaScript Frameworks“When picking a framework, don’t overthink it. It will end up being the same technology anyway with a different facade.” Minko Gechev talks about leading the way in converging Google’s Angular and Wiz frameworks.

Loraine Lawson (The New Stack)

Announcing Official Puppeteer Support for Firefox — As of version 23, Google’s originally Chrome-only Puppeteer browser automation library now has first-class support for Firefox too.

Mozilla Hacks

IN BRIEF:

⭐ If you’ve wondered why so many new npm packages are spam these days, it may be because of ‘Tea’. Though not the drinking kind..

Brendan Eich has expressed his support for the currently stage 1 Decimal draft proposal for bringing a more precise decimal number representation to JavaScript.

There’s an early technical preview of React Native WebGPU. William Candillon shows it off in ▶️ this 9-minute screencast.

RELEASES:

jQuery UI 1.14.0 – The legacy effects and widgets library reduces support for older browsers.

Madge 8.0 – Create graphs of module dependencies.

React Native 0.75, Angular 18.2, Bun 1.1.23, ESLint 9.9

📒 Articles & Tutorials

Patterns for Memory Efficient DOM Manipulation — Marc shares a solid look at the best practices to employ in order to avoid excess memory usage when managing/updating the DOM, all with a hope to make your apps faster. A good overview of the core principles behind DOM manipulation and optimization.

Marc Grabanski

‘How I Won $2,750 using JavaScript, AI, and a Can of WD-40’ — This is far from a technical JavaScript article, but it’s a fun story, involves some code and statistics, and ultimately might make you laugh.

Dave Kiss

Breakpoints and console.log Is the Past, Time Travel Is the Future — 15x faster JavaScript debugging than with breakpoints and console.log, supports Vitest, jest, node:test, and more. Huge changes are coming in Wallaby 2.0! Stay tuned. 🚀

Wallaby Team sponsor

Common Causes of Memory Leaks in JavaScript — Filled with basic examples oriented around V8-based runtimes like Node.js and Deno.

Trevor Indrek Lasn

Learn Web Components — If you’re looking to scrub on your Web Components know-how, this road map should prove useful. It’s a collection of good third party articles covering a wide range of knowledge.

Andrico Karoulla

A Tale of Evading JavaScript Anti-Debugging Techniques — When debugging code written by a third party, there could be some traps thrown in your way to prevent your usual debugging techniques. What to do? Revisiting a popular article from 2023.

Veritas

Fine-Grained Reactivity in Svelte 5 — Taking a close look at Svelte’s new so-called fine-grained reactivity.

Adam Rackis

📄 Tips for Using React Testing Library to Write Unit Tests Pavan Policherla

📄 45 VS Code Shortcuts for Boosting Your Productivity Shahed Nasser

🛠 Code & Tools

Volta 2.0: Install and Run JavaScript Tools Quickly — A long-standing Rust powered tool for installing and switching JavaScript related tools (like Node, TypeScript, Yarn, etc.) … “no matter the package manager, Node runtime, or OS.” GitHub repo.

Volta

Floating UI: Positioning for Tooltips, Popovers, Dropdowns, etc. — A library to create ‘floating’ elements such as tooltips, popovers, and dropdowns. Essentially a next-gen Popper which it now officially succeeds.

atomiks

😘 Kiss Bugs Goodbye — Get 80% automated E2E web and mobile app coverage in under four months with QA Wolf
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React Figma: Use Components as a Source for Figma Designs — A lot of folks use Figma to mock up designs for their React components, but what about the other way around? Use React components as a source for your designs in Figma! GitHub repo.

Ilya Lesik

Ky 1.6 – Simple HTTP client based upon Fetch for browsers, Node & Deno.

True Myth 8.0 – Safe, idiomatic null and error handling in TypeScript with Maybe and Result types.

Protobuf-ES 2.0 – Fully compliant Protobuf implementation for JS/TS.

🕹️ Kontra 10.0 – Lightweight gaming micro-library, optimized for js13kGames.

React Tooltip 5.28 – A tooltip component, surprisingly. (Demo.)

express-validator 7.2 – Express.js middleware for validator.js.

jscodeshift 17.0 – JavaScript codemod toolkit from Facebook.

🌍 Turf.js 7.1 – Modular geospatial analysis engine.

Marked 14.0 – Fast Markdown compiler / parser.