Developer Tools Weekly

Articles

• Computer Stuff They Didn't Teach You #6 - Git Rebase vs Merge explained
  Scott Hanselman's series about things that "they didn't teach you in school" is great, and it focuses on the things that we never really get taught. Well, Scott's teaching us - and this time it's how git merge and git rebase work, and how they're different.
  Scott Hanselman
• Manually Trigger Actions Workflow in GitHub
  When GitHub Actions was introduced, it was created as a way to automate workflows when actions happen in your repository. But one of the things missing was the ability to run workflows manually. Now, GitHub has introduced that functionality.
  Abel Wang
• C# 9 Deep Dive: Init-only features
  It's impressive to see the .NET platform continuing to innovate after almost twenty years. The new init-only functionality makes it easier to make properties and accessors that can only be created at initialization time, so that it's easier to create immutable objects.
  Dave Brock

In Brief

• Introducing GitHub’s OpenAPI Description GitHub
• Fork: Collapsible git graph Git
• Write Object-Oriented TypeScript Well TypeScript

New Releases

• Node v14.7.0 (Current) JavaScript
• ESLint v7.6.0 released JavaScript
• GitLab Patch Release: 13.2.2 GitLab
• IntelliJ IDEA 2020.2 is released! Java

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