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今日推荐开源项目：《showdown》
今日推荐英文原文：《Google gets web allies by letting outsiders help build Chrome’s foundation》

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今日推荐开源项目：《showdown》传送门：项目链接
推荐理由：showdown是一个将markdown转html的库，前后端均可用. 可以再客户端(浏览器)或服务端(Node.js)中共同使用showdown.简单小巧, 快速实现转换

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今日推荐英文原文：《Google gets web allies by letting outsiders help build Chrome’s foundation》作者：Stephen Shankland
原文链接：https://www.cnet.com/news/google-gets-web-allies-by-letting-outsiders-help-build-chromes-foundation/
推荐理由：浏览器巨头google chrome 以Chromium著称. Chromium是开源的, 所以不少市面上的浏览器都是基于这个内核做的. 随着Chromium浏览器队伍的不断壮大, Chromium也得到了不断的提升与进步.

Google gets web allies by letting outsiders help build Chrome’s foundation

Google is loosening control over the core of its Chrome browser, a move that helps Microsoft, Samsung and Brave build competitors while advancing the search giant’s vision of the web.

Over the past six months, Google welcomed a new outside developer into the leadership of its Chromium project, the software that powers the similarly named browser. The Alphabet subsidiary is also granting outsiders access to its previously proprietary software development system and allows outside features even when Google doesn’t incorporate them into the flagship Chrome browser.

Chromium is open-source software, which means anyone can modify and use it. Even with open source projects, however, outsiders can have trouble convincing organizers to accept their changes and additions, making it harder to contribute and benefit.

Google took pains to draw attention to the changes at the BlinkOn conference earlier this week. “It’s really cool to see so many people and groups with different priorities coming together and finding solutions that not only meet their individual agendas but also advance the common goal of improving the web,” said Danyao Wang, a Chrome engineer at Google.

Opening up to outside influence fits into Google’s broader strategy for the web. The allied-yet-competing Chromium-based browsers spread Google’s web technology, a software foundation for richly interactive web apps as opposed to static web pages and simple forms. Google sees that ability as critical to the future of the web, a vision that stands in stark contrast to Apple’s view. The iPhone maker doesn’t want web apps to inherit the same capabilities as mobile and desktop apps, a power expansion that threatens its rich iOS ecosystem.

Apple and one of its allies, Mozilla, worry that letting web apps communicate with USB and Bluetooth devices or access PC file systems opens up too many security risks. Google and its allies say web apps are inherently safer than native apps thanks to protective browser sandboxing technology and security forged in an unforgiving environment devoid of app store reviewers checking for malware. Limiting advanced interactivity to native apps will cripple the web’s long-term health, they say.

Google, which already accounts for 66% of web usage via Chrome, according to analytics firm StatCounter, has attracted powerful allies. Microsoft, Samsung and Brave are the most prominent companies building Chromium-based browsers. Others include Vivaldi, Opera, Yandex and UC Browser. Microsoft now ships Edge to millions of Windows PCs, Samsung is the top Android phone maker and 20 million people use Brave each month.

Apple didn’t respond to requests for comment. Mozilla didn’t comment.

Google opens up Chromium

Expanding governance is the most significant change to the Chromium project. Before the change, Google engineers largely decided whether Chromium would accept or reject major new features. A new nomination process that began earlier this year allows outsiders into the inner circle. Manuel Rego Casanovas of open-source developer firm Igalia joined in March through the process.

“We’re looking forward to more representation in the coming year,” Alex Russell, who heads Chrome’s web standards work, said in a statement.

Chromium project leaders are also accepting features from other companies into Chromium even if they won’t be added to Chrome. One example is the StorageAccess interface, a privacy-related project Apple’s Safari browser team launched to govern how websites store and access some types of data, said Yoav Weiss, who also spoke at BlinkOn. Allowing non-Chrome features is a deliberate decision to give other developers the ability to design Chromium-based browsers that can achieve their priorities, Google said.

Chromium allies don’t have to ship all the web features Google likes. Indeed, Brave strips out some features like WebUSB. However, most of the Chromium code base makes it into the non-Chrome browsers, furthering Google’s vision.

Brave Chief Executive Brendan Eich wants Google to go farther in sharing control. “The Chromium playing field and rules still tilt steeply in Google’s favor,” Eich said. Brave disables Chromium features it views as nonstandard and privacy risks, but Google doesn’t accept those changes in Chromium, he said.

Helping developers build Chromium

Google also now lets outsiders use its formerly internal software to build system called Goma that can tap the power of Google’s data centers to build Chromium. Ordinarily that can take hours, slowing the pace of iteration for developers eager to experiment with new features. Goma will enable more people to contribute to Chromium, Google said.

The search giant is also inviting outside developers to its internal educational events. Earlier this month, Google replaced its internal Chrome University events, which explain how the browser works, with the first Chromium University. Sixty organizations participated.

The company could go farther and contribute Chromium to a neutral foundation, an approach Google and other companies have taken with earlier open-source projects. The Linux Foundation is responsible for the core of the Linux operating system. Google contributed its Kubernetes data center software to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation in 2015. LLVM, an important software building tool that blossomed under Apple’s oversight, is now run by the LLVM Foundation.

Google isn’t planning a Chromium Foundation, and outside contributors aren’t asking for one, the company said.

Microsoft didn’t comment on whether it would like to see a neutral foundation, but did say it’s working closely with Chromium team members, “bring the best of Chromium together with the best of Microsoft Edge.”

Non-Google Chromium participation increases

The changes are having an effect. Among the hundreds of Chromium contributors, 90 new ones came from Google over the last year but even more came from outside, Weiss said. Microsoft, which converted its Edge browser into a Chromium project over the last two years, is the top outside contributor, accounting for 35 percent of non-Google contributors in 2020. Intel, Igalia, Yandex, Opera, Samsung, LG Electronics and Arm also contribute substantially.

In terms of changes to the code base, Igalia leads the non-Google crowd. Microsoft is “closing that gap quickly,” Weiss said. Since November of last year, 161 Microsoft developers made 1,835 changes to Chromium, improving things like battery life, web accessibility for people with issues like vision impairment, WebXR virtual reality and augmented reality abilities, and modernized styling for web controls and forms. Since Microsoft first joined Chromium in December 2018, it’s made 4,443 changes.

“Other companies are increasing their investment in Chromium and the web platform, and that is awesome,” Weiss said.

Correction, 11:27 a.m.: Chromium has had two other non-Google engineer overseers earlier, but Manuel Rego Casanovas is the first to arrive through a new nomination process.

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今日推荐开源项目：《Netease-cloud-music-gtk》
今日推荐英文原文：《15 Mistakes Every Developer Has Made in Their Life》

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今日推荐开源项目：《Netease-cloud-music-gtk》传送门：项目链接
推荐理由：该项目是专为 Linux 系统打造的网易云网易云音乐播放器，基于Rust + GTK开发，稳定，极速，且简洁。

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今日推荐英文原文：《15 Mistakes Every Developer Has Made in Their Life》作者：Daan
原文链接：https://medium.com/better-programming/15-mistakes-every-developer-has-made-in-their-life-7b7ef03cc84c
推荐理由：一些开发人员容易犯的错误。比如说，为了修改 bug 将代码缝缝补补，最后计算机也许能读懂，但是自己读不懂了。

15 Mistakes Every Developer Has Made in Their Life

Making mistakes is human and is actually what makes us grow. You shouldn’t be afraid to make mistakes. Chances are that you’ve made a lot of mistakes that are on this list. If not, that’s great. Try to learn from the mistakes other developers have made so you don’t have to make them yourself. 1. Quick and dirty fixes in code with a long lifespan. The problem with quick and dirty solutions is that they kill the quality of the code base. Chances are that such a solution will add unnecessary technical debt. In the long run, quick and dirty fixes will come back and bite you. You’ll probably end up refactoring your quick and dirty solution at some point in the future. 2. Lack of practice. As we all know, practice makes perfect. So if you want to grow as a developer, you need to practice more. The biggest mistake you can make is to not learn any new things every once in a while. If you want to learn something new, like a programming language, you probably have to do it outside of your daily job. That’s an investment that you have to make in yourself in order to stay relevant. 3. Underestimating the workload. Estimating the workload is one of the hardest things in software development. How often have you heard “I could easily do this feature in one story point” in a Scrum refinement? Chances are that things aren’t quite that easy and your intended solution won’t work. When it comes to estimates, make sure you count in time for things like testing as well — not just for the developer. 4. Writing obvious comments. We’ve all seen comments like this before. They don’t explain anything but focus on what the code is doing (e.g. a comment like “looping over the products” when there is a foreach loop). Whenever you’re in that situation, don’t write a comment that focuses on what the code is doing. Focus on the why of this code instead. 5. Commenting out blocks of code. We’ve all seen entire blocks of code containing multiple functions being commented out. No one knows why this block of code is still there or if it’s still relevant. The reason no one deletes this block of code is that everyone assumes that someone else might need it. Just delete the commented out code block. If it turns out that the code is still necessary, it will be in version control. 6. Only testing the happy-path scenario. When writing tests, you should take into consideration more than just the happy path. Think about some scenarios where things don’t work out as intended. What’s the worst-case scenario? Make sure to test that scenario as well. 7. Messy formatting of code. This is a mistake that’s most often made by inexperienced developers. It makes code harder to read and frustrates other developers who have to read your code. Fixing messy code can be done by installing a linter that formats your code. 8. Not logging any relevant information. Useful logs provide great help to developers. Having log messages can give you a lot of insight into where things went wrong inside your code and will save you a lot of debugging time. Good log messages provide context about what the user was doing when a specific error occurred. 9. Reinventing the wheel as a lack of knowledge. This mistake happens when a developer doesn’t know what’s already available in the framework. As a result of this lack of knowledge, new methods get implemented by the developer that are almost identical to a method that’s already available in the framework. 10. Starting to code without knowing the solution. This might seem exciting at first, but it will come back and bite you. Planning and organizing your code is an essential part of coding. You shouldn’t start coding without a plan. Think about problems that you might find along the way and how can you tackle them. This makes you more aware of the fact that there’s a lot to think about before writing code. 11. The art of writing bad commit messages. We’ve probably all committed this one before. “Fixed a bug” or “WIP” are not great commit messages. Having good commit messages is important and you should take the time to write a good commit message. A good commit message provides useful information about what has changed and why. When things really go south, the revision history is a great resource to quickly find out where exactly things went wrong. 12. Having magic numbers in your code. Magic numbers are unique values with unexplained meaning or multiple occurrences that can and should be replaced with named constants. The thing with magic numbers is that they’re not readable and don’t provide any context for the developer. On top of that, magic numbers are often used multiple times in different places within a program, which makes it error-prone. 13. Too many things going on in one function. Try to let your functions do one thing and one thing only. Don’t let a function fetch, process, and output the data. Split all of these responsibilities up into different functions. One for fetching, one for processing, and another one to output the data. Keeping a function focused on a single concern is what makes it more robust. 14. Not writing automated tests. Initially, it will cost you a little bit more time than doing manual tests when you start writing automated tests. In the long run, you’ll be glad you took the time to write these automated tests. Having to test everything manually is boring, time-consuming, and the human factor makes it more prone to errors. 15. Making things unnecessarily complex (aka over-engineering). Implementing certain design patterns for the heck of it is something that most developers have done. Just because you see an opportunity to implement a design pattern doesn’t mean you should. All this accomplishes is adding more technical debt to the code base.

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今日推荐开源项目：《ShameCom》
今日推荐英文原文：《Google Pay revamps with new focus on managing bank accounts and finances》

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今日推荐开源项目：《ShameCom》传送门：项目链接
推荐理由：整个校招高峰算下来的时间并不长，如果你不做好充足的准备，时间一晃就过去了，机会没准就这样错过了，但是话又说回来，现在很多企业在校招过程中会出现各种各样的污点行为，比如毁意向书、毁两方协定、毁三方协定、试用期裁员、大量裁应届生等。 为了帮助大家在校招中避免踩坑，有人在Github上创建了一个名为ShameCom的项目，专用于记录在校园招聘中的具有污点行为的公司。目前已经在Github上标星2K。

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今日推荐英文原文：《Google Pay revamps with new focus on managing bank accounts and finances》作者：Richard Nieva, Eli Blumenthal
原文链接：https://www.cnet.com/personal-finance/google-pay-revamps-with-new-focus-on-managing-bank-accounts-and-finances/
推荐理由：搜索巨头谷歌也在发展自己的移动支付, 最近google pay进行了关于用户管理银行账户和财务的改进, 并表示移动支付的开发部门不会和其他部门共享信息, 以保护用户的隐私.

Google Pay revamps with new focus on managing bank accounts and finances

Google wants its software to become the center of people’s financial lives. The search giant on Wednesday said it’s overhauling its Google Pay service, which lets people pay for stuff using their phones, and extending the focus to online banking, shopping and loyalty programs.

It’s partnering with a handful of banks and financial institutions to create “a new mobile-first bank account,” called Plex, managed through the Google Pay app. Starting next year, institutions including Citi, BBVA and the Stanford Federal Credit Union will offer the Plex accounts, which come with no monthly fees or overdraft charges.

Google hopes to lure people to its software with the promise of a better user experience. It said its artificial intelligence will make it easier to search through purchases. For example, it will show you a charge from a taqueria if you search for something more vague like “Mexican restaurant.” The app will also send spending reports and other insights to help with budgeting. While Google provides the technology, the money is handled by the bank, the company said.

The announcement underscores a major push into financial services by the biggest tech companies in the world, from Apple to Samsung. But the effort could be dogged by trust problems Silicon Valley has faced in recent years, as the public, lawmakers and media take a harder look at the tech industry’s privacy and data collection practices.

Asked about those concerns, Caesar Sengupta, Google’s vice president of payments, said the company won’t share transaction history with third parties. He said the data also won’t be shared with other parts of Google, so it won’t feed into the company’s massive digital advertising operation, which accounts for the vast majority of the company’s more than $160 billion in annual revenue.

“Payments and money are an area that is deeply personal,” he said in an interview. “And you do want to have very, very tight control over it.”

Google also wants the app to compete with other payment services like Venmo. People will be able to use it to pay friends, split a check or order from a business. They can use it to pay for parking meters in 400 cities or buy gas from Shell, ExxonMobil and other gas stations at certain locations. The app will also be a hub for loyalty programs and deals, with offers from businesses including Burger King, Sweetgreen and REI.

Google is the latest tech company to revamp its payment offering, though it’s not going as far as other companies have gone.

In 2018, wireless carrier T-Mobile began the rollout of a banking service it calls T-Mobile Money. The company partnered with BankMobile, a division of Customers Bank, to offer its customers a banking option that had no overdrafts, ATM fees and up to 4% interest on checking account balances of up to $3,000, as long as they deposit at least $200 a month.

Last year, Apple announced its own branded credit card, called Apple Card, that offered no annual or late fees, daily cash back and a titanium physical card. The card, launched in partnership with Goldman Sachs, is designed to be used with its Apple Pay mobile payment service on iPhones, iPads and Macs. The company incentivized purchases made digitally, with 2% daily cash on purchases made with the Wallet app on an iPhone or Apple Watch, compared to 1% on purchases made with the physical card.

Earlier this year, Samsung announced it would be offering a debit card as part of its Samsung Pay payment service on Galaxy devices. Partnering with SoFi, Samsung’s card similarly had no account, overdraft or account management fees. Amazon has been offering a credit card to Prime members for years, with 5% back at its own store while other companies like Venmo have recently added rewards to incentivize paying with debit cards or apps.

Google’s announcement on Wednesday could draw heat in Washington, where the company is already under intense scrutiny. Making a deeper investment in banking may rankle regulators and lawmakers who are already concerned over the tech giant’s power. Last month, the US Department of Justice filed a landmark antitrust case against Google over the company’s search and search advertising businesses.

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