XZ backdoor in Linux

Salut, web dev friends! 🧑‍💻 #

I have selected some news from the web dev world to share.

• XZ backdoor in Linux
• NanoGL from the makemepulse team
• A rant about vue-router
• Migration from Laravel to Next.js

Have a great week.

📗 XZ backdoor explained
XZ backdoor is a backdoor which had the ability to login into every Fedora, Debian and Ubuntu server. The discovery of this backdoor by Andres Freund is pure luck and the story behind it is very interesting.

📗 NanoGL
A custom WebGL framework made by the makemepulse team, with detailed instructions and explanations.

📗 Kind of Annoyed at Vue-Router Lately
A rant about how Vue-router documentation is not up to date with the Composition API.

🚀 Laravel to Nextjs
Jack Ellis wrote about easy it is to migrate from Laravel to Next.js

Web tools and Library #

🔎  Open alternative
A curated list of open source alternative to closed source software, a te time of writing they are 144 open alternatives.

🐙 Github Link Shortener
A new link shortener aimed to have a « clean »  link for your repository git and analytics to track the link like git.new/dub.

🐙 Open Panel
Openpanel is a simple analytics tool for logging events on web, apps and backend. We have tried to combine Mixpanel and Plausible in the same product.