It's Friday, so why not watch some good old-fashioned drone-powered graffiti? A design firm in Italy has put together a lovely little show that collected sketches from the art community and put them all together in a giant mural, painted over 12 hours by a team of drones.

Learn what Amazon Web Services (AWS) Lambda is, and why it might be a good idea to use for your next project.

In order to show how useful Lambda can be, it’ll walk through creating a simple Lambda function using the Python programming language. It’ll test it out, as well as take a look at what Lambda provides for metrics and logging.

Newsboat, a fork of Newsbeuter, is a free, open source RSS/Atom feed reader for text consoles. It supports GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, and other Unix-like operating systems. Compared to other slow and huge amount of memory consumed RSS feed readers, Newsboat is the best choice for anyone who are looking for a simple, slick and fast feed reader that can be completely managed via keyboard.

Concerning about the features, we can list the following:

• Subscribe to RSS 0.9x, 1.0, 2.0 and Atom feeds.
• Download podcasts.
• Configure your keyboard shortcuts as per your wish.
• Search through all downloaded articles.
• Categorize and query your subscriptions with a flexible tag system.
• Integrate any data source through a flexible filter and plugin system.
• Automatically remove unwanted articles through a “killfile”.
• Define “meta feeds” using a powerful query language.
• Synchronize newsboatr with your bloglines.com account.
• Import and exporting your subscriptions with the widely used OPML format.
• Customize the look and feel of Newsboat as per your liking.
• Keep all your feeds in sync with Google Reader.

The web platform is the delivery mechanism of choice for a ton of software these days, either through the web browser itself or through Electron, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a place for a good old fashioned straight-up desktop application in the picture.

Fortunately, it’s easier than ever to write a usable, pretty, and performant desktop app, using my language of choice (Rust) and the wildly successful cross-platform GUI framework GTK.

GUI prototyped using Glade.