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Today's TechToks: GitHub's AI for fixing code vulnerabilities, major data leak, open-source platforms on finance, streaming and IoT, special Product Picks, and more!
TechTok by JoΓ£o Martins
August 20, 2024
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Today's Picksπ
π Introducing GitHub Copilot Autofix: AI for fixing code vulnerabilities
β‘ Full phone charge in 5min
π§ Computer with human brain cells for AI
π Closing X operations in Brazil
ποΈ ChatGPT runs for mayor
π¬ Video Generator AI version update
βοΈ From AWS Engineering: Modeling disease propagation in airports
πΊ From GitHub Engineering: Tips for a happy development
π GitHub's Trending Repositories
π Open-source IoT management
π₯ The Free Software Media System
π° An investment research platform for anyone
π‘οΈ A collection of daily cybersecurity resources
π₯ Products of the Week
π Personalized meditation guidance
π‘ Talk to escaping customers
π Simplified graph creation for data storytelling
β 9 more products to gamify productivity for free, make effective educational courses, and more.
π§ Weekly Picks
Most impactful articles and news of this week on techtok.today
Copilot Autofix analyzes code vulnerabilities, explains and provides code suggestions to fix them. Data from public beta shows faster remediation by 3x (pull request case) to 12x (SQL injections case) compared to manual approaches.
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π± Product Picks
Curated products from Product Hunt.
π₯Trending products of the week
β DeskHub
Tabletop device displaying your GitHub contribution graph, lighting a green square on days of the year that youβve done a commit. Currently on Drop #3 waitlist.
π‘ Resubscribe
Run in-app user conversations when theyβre about to leave. Find out why your users aren't converting and why they're churning.
Create pro-level graphs that drive actions, by radically simplifying how data is presented and communicated.
π Sutra
Create educational courses that generate higher engagement, completion, and peer to peer connection using AI facilitation.
π Boggl AI
AI-powered voice assistant for product management. Make requirements and customer product documents with voice recordings, integrated with Jira, Notion and more.
π« Dev Utils
A website for devs to convert data without seeing ads. Simple, fast and client-side so your data stays private.
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Weβve tried it and itβs the real deal.
Gamified productivity with Pomodoro, flow timer system, and collectible pixel monsters.
π§ Gigabrain
A deep search engine for reddit and Youtube that generates answers based on billions of discussions and videos.
π MYND
Create personalized meditation sessions with an AI buddy.
β¨ "Too long don't README"
GitHub trending repos of today
ThingsBoard is an open-source IoT platform for data collection, processing, visualization, and device management. It can provide server-side APIs with both cloud and on-premises deployments, enabling device connectivity via industry standard IoT protocols (MQTT, CoAP, HTTP).
What can you use this for? Smart energy, fleet tracking, smart farming, and smart metering.
Jellyfin is a free and open-source media system built on .NET Core that provides media from a dedicated server to end-user devices through multiple apps, offering features like transcoding, multi-user support, and app integrations.
What can you use this for? Host your personal media library, stream content, and manage and transcode media.
The OpenBB Platform is a free and open-source financial terminal that provides access to a wide range of financial data and tools, with with an open source AI financial analyst agent. It offers various data sources and APIs on equity, options, crypto, forex, macro economy, and fixed income data.
What can you use this for? Analyze stocks, macroeconomic data, and fixed income, customizable with extensions.
Repos to learn something new
A collection of tools, cheatsheets, and resources on cybersecurity. Aimed towards system administrators, DevOps, pentesters, and security researchers.
Main Chapters:
What can you use this for? Find resources often used on a cybersecurity professionalβs day, stay up-to-date with the latest blogs and podcasts, and contribute to the collection.
π©π½βπ» Engineering Blogs
Articles from engineering blogs of big tech companies
 | Improving developer experience, using AI to secure code, and customizing LLMs to boost efficiency and maintain developer flow state: Five actionable tips and strategies to supercharge developer happiness by GitHub. |
 | The article describes a spatial simulation model developed on AWS that aims to understand real-time infectious disease transmission dynamics in airport environments, identify prevention measures, and inform public health policies.
It incorporates factors like proximity, duration of exposure, and unique airport characteristics that improve upon the limitations of the Wells-Riley model. |
