There's a new theme for this year's Hour of Code. While anyone can engage in an Hour of Code activity at any time, Its prime time is in Computer Science Education Week, which takes place December 9-15, 2019 with thousands of events planned around the world.

Coursera is running a Black Friday promotion offering a 10% discount on their first course to new users on selected courses. So if you've not previously signed up, here is an incentive that is  available from now until November 29th..

PostgREST,  a standalone web server that turns your PostgreSQL database directly into a RESTful API has been updated with improvements to full text search and support for embedding views.

If you want to get to grips with Raku, formerly Perl 6, there is a 30- part YouTube playlist to get you started with it.

We don't normally talk about Alpha releases, but this one is important because it gives the direction that Android development is being pushed in. The shock is that it deprecates much of what we've learnt already and introduces yet another approach.

A new database designed to help data science teams make faster discoveries by giving them a more powerful way to store, update, analyze, and share large sets of diverse data has been released.

Google's Dart has increased support for native, ahead-of-time (AOT) compilation for Linux, Windows and MacOS. The extra support comes from an extension of Dart's existing compiler set called dart2native, which can be used to create command-line programs.

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative has announced funding for over forty open source tools that are essential to biomedical research. There will be two more opportunities for OSS projects to request funding, with the second round opening next month.

A set of guides detailing the ins and outs of launching, managing, maintaining and contributing to open source projects has been made available. Although created and curated by GitHub, with input from outside community reviewers, they are not exclusive to GitHub products.

Microsoft has announced that you'll be able to run .NET code in Jupyter Notebooks, specifically C# and F#, and therefore ML.NET as well. The new support is enabled by the .NET kernel for Jupyter and Try .NET.

The most bizarre announcement made at GitHub Universe 2019 was that GitHub is planning to store every open source GitHub repo in disused mine on the Svalbard, a remote island closer to the North Pole than to the Arctic Circle.

In an unexpected turn of events, the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear Google's petition asking for a judicial review of the copyright issues stemming from the Oracle v Google lawsuit. This will impact the future not only of Android but software in general.

If you want to get up to speed on stuff that affects you as a developer, our weekly digest summarizes the articles, book reviews,and news written each day by programmers, for programmers. In this week's featured article, Harry Fairhead writes in Assembler. We also have a puzzle set by Joe Celko in his series Sharpen Your Coding Skills. 

GitHub Universe, its annual user event, took place this week. Here is a round up of its notable announcements inclding the launch of GitHub SecurityLab which  aims to bring together security researchers across the industry to secure the open source ecosystem.

An optimization tool for Machine Learning (ML) that automates many of the tedious parts of the model building process has been released in an open source version by LG. Auptimizer is designed to run and record sophisticated hyperparameter optimization (HPO) experiments to assist with fine tuning ML models.

Brave, the open-source Chromium-based browser that features ad-blocking together with a blockchain-based digital advertising platform, has emerged from its beta. Version 1.0 encompasses iOS devices as well as Android and desktop. 

A new portal for Go developers has been launched by the Go Developers Network. Go.dev is described as providing learning resources to get started with the language, featured use cases, and case studies of companies using Go.

Making the headlines in the latest State of the Octoverse report comes the news that Python has replaced Java as the second most popular language. This just goes to confirm a phenomenon that we've already know about.