Location Tracking, Developers Unionizing, and More…

Welcome to another edition of the Dev Digest. This week, we have a mix of news, tutorials, and long reads all about technology, programming, and becoming a better developer. We’ll start off with top stories from this week:

Top Stories

• Another vulnerability, in the same class as Meltdown and Spectre, has been discovered in Intel and AMD chips
• An easily found bug allowed anyone to track the location of cell phones from four top U.S. carriers
• App developers are forming a union to force collective bargaining with Apple

Developer Tips

• Electron is dominating the desktop app game in recent years
• DZone has 10 tips to become a better Java developer
• Here’s an interesting technical how-to on integrating Firebase Authentication with React Router
• If you’re interviewing for a developer role, there are some things you probably shouldn’t say in your interview

Interesting Reads

• How Dropbox does code testing
• The Netflix blog does a deep dive on how its developers work on an idea from design to build to operation to support
• Scott Hanselman built, installed, and operated a .NET Core and ASP.NET Core 2.1 in Docker on a Raspberry Pi — and it works!

Tips from Intertech

• We recently announced the 2018 Intertech Foundation Scholarship winner
• We recently put together a master list of resources for learning React and React Native

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Originally published at Intertech Blog.