How Jupiter May Have Gifted Early Earth With Water

"When it comes to the early days of our solar system, Jupiter holds a dubious reputation. In some ways, the giant served as Earth’s protector, its gravity launching dangerous debris away from the rocky planets."

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Grid

"CSS Grid is a two-dimensional layout system created specifically to tackle grid-based user interfaces on the web. Grids are fundamental to the design of layouts."

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What’s Next for Mobile at Airbnb

"This is the fifth in a series of blog posts in which we outline our experience with React Native and what is next for mobile at Airbnb. Even while experimenting with React Native, we continued to accelerate our efforts on native as well."

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Sunsetting React Native

"This is the fourth in a series of blog posts in which we outline our experience with React Native and what is next for mobile at Airbnb.Where are we today?"

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Building a Cross-Platform Mobile Team

"This is the third in a series of blog posts in which we outline our experience with React Native and what is next for mobile at Airbnb.In addition to the countless technical pros and cons of React Native, we learned a ton about what React Native means for an engineering organization."

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React Native at Airbnb: The Technology

"This is the second in a series of blog posts in which we outline our experience with React Native and what is next for mobile at Airbnb. React Native itself is a relatively new and fast-moving platform in the cross-section of Android, iOS, web, and cross-platform frameworks."

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React Native at Airbnb

"This is the first in a series of blog posts in which we outline our experience with React Native and what is next for mobile at Airbnb. When Airbnb launched 10 years ago, smartphones were in their infancy."

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A stand against the “easy” nodejs backend

"Now, that’s not to say that we think pal is hard to learn—quite the opposite! (As far as we can tell, folks find it delightful.) We just acknowledge that we have probably not solved all the hardest problems that you have in front of you as you embark on authoring your next web service."

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Few Tips That Will Make Your PWA on iOS Feel Like Native

"On 30th of March long awaited iOS 11.3 update was released, with support for basic PWA features on iPhones and iPads – service workers and app manifest files. As it is great to finally have a support for those, user experience of Progressive Web Applications on iOS is still not perfect."

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Designing very large (JavaScript) applications

"This is a mildly edited transcript of my JSConf Australia talk. Watch the whole talk on YouTube. Hello, I used to build very large JavaScript applications. I don’t really do that anymore, so I thought it was a good time to give a bit of a retrospective and share what I learned."

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New CSS Techniques at the Component Level, Part 1 of 2: CSS Grid

"In this two-part series, we’ll explore new CSS techniques to see how they can be used on a more granular component level, and the unique benefits these approaches offer. To kick things off, let’s take a look at CSS Grid."

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Why We Moved From NoSQL MongoDB to PostgreSQL

"A couple of years ago, we moved our code base to a monorepo, which helped us scale tremendously in terms of code reuse and overall speed of development. We are extremely proud of our ability to run a resilient service that has 99.99% availability with zero downtime upgrades."

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Here's Why Calling .map() on a Constructed Array Doesn't Work

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CSS Top 10 Articles for the Past Month (v.June 2018)

"For the past month, we ranked nearly 1,000 CSS articles to pick the Top 10 stories that can help advance your career (1% chance). As an article ranking service for professionals, we take quality very seriously and make sure each article you read is great."

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State of React Native 2018

"It's been a while since we last published a status update about React Native. At Facebook, we're using React Native more than ever and for many important projects. One of our most popular products is Marketplace, one of the top-level tabs in our app which is used by 800 million people each month."

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How to use React (and Redux) with your crufty old CMS

"There are a lot of React (and Redux) tutorials on the web. And that’s a good thing. But most of them make an assumption. They assume you’re creating a single-page web application (SPA). It’s not a bad assumption. But it doesn’t always hold true."

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Trump celebrates Singapore accord with North Korea, but substance has yet to be revealed

"An ebullient President Trump flew home Tuesday with what he called a “very, very comprehensive” agreement with North Korea, even as lawmakers, analysts and allies congratulated the effort but questioned the substance of what had been achieved."

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Ajit Pai Is Twisting the Meaning of the “Open Internet”

"Monday, June 11, was the first day of the end of the open internet. It was the day that the Federal Communications Commission’s repeal of the Obama-era network neutrality rules became official, a move piloted by FCC Chairman and Donald Trump appointee Ajit Pai."

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Learning Programming Languages with Spaced Repetition

"The spacing effect shows that the most efficient way to learn material is to expose yourself to it at increasing intervals, instead of cramming. Spaced repetition learning uses this effect to show you flashcards at intervals optimised for knowledge retention."

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Becoming a dramatically better programmer

"In our first week, we were told that the RC faculty wanted to do one thing above else – to remove any obstacles in the way of us becoming dramatically better programmers. But what does that mean? What does getting dramatically better actually look like?"

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