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A Gentle Introduction to Prepack, Part 1
"When this guide is more complete, the plan is to move it into Prepack documentation. For now I put it out as a gist to gather initial feedback. Prepack is yet another tool that aims to compile JavaScript to equivalent JavaScript code."
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I Used The Web For A Day With JavaScript Turned Off
"Is it possible to use digital musical instruments as browser inputs? With the Web MIDI API, the answer is yes! The best part is, it’s fairly quick and easy to implement and even create a really fun project. Read article →"
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Barracoon
"A major literary event: a never-before-published work from the author of the American classic, Their Eyes Were Watching God which brilliantly illuminates the horror and injustices of slavery as it tells the true story of the last known survivor of the Atlantic slave trade—illegally smuggled from"
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guess-js/guess
"Libraries and tools for enabling data-driven user-experiences on the web. Install and configure GuessPlugin - the Guess.js webpack plugin which automates as much of the setup process for you as possible."
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darrenjacoby/itcss-starter
"Sass starter for saner, longer lasting stylesheets. The architecture is based on ITCSS, which recommends a low specificity architecture that trends upwards."
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Lazy Loading Images and Video
"The portion of images and video in the typical payload of a website can be significant. Unfortunately, project stakeholders may be unwilling to cut any media resources from their existing applications."
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A Crash-course in PHP Namespaces for WordPress Developers
"Way back in 2009, PHP 5.3 was released to the world and with it brought support for PHP namespaces — a way of easily separating your code from other developers’ code, which has since become the de facto way of encapsulating functionality across the PHP ecosystem."
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Every 405,000 years, gravitational tugs from Jupiter and Venus slightly elongate Earth's orbit, a consistent pattern that has influenced our planet's climate for at least 215 million years and allows scientists to more precisely date geological events like the spread of dinosaurs. • r/space
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r/dataisbeautiful
"68OCThe City is Alive: The Population of Manhattan, Hour-by-Hour [OC]"
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Understanding Easing (Explaining Penner’s equations) – JavaScript and ActionScript
"Despite the commonality of the classic easing equations, largely attributed to Penner, there doesn’t seem to be the in-depth examination of “how it works” that a lot of code is subject to nowadays. First, a quick clarification on the most popular easing Classes."
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Three years of staring lets scientists capture a neutron star “glitch”
"Neutron stars are the most dense form of matter in our Universe (black holes cram more stuff into a smaller space, and it's not clear if that stuff is still "matter")." read full text »Reading Today
Hubble Telescope Discovers a Light-Bending 'Einstein Ring' in Space
"The perfect circle surrounding a galaxy cluster in a new Hubble Space Telescope image is a visual indicator of the huge masses that are bending time and space in that region. The galaxy cluster, called SDSS J0146-0929, features hundreds of individual galaxies all bound together by gravity."
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T-Mobile Customer Service Fiasco
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React Router: Declarative Routing for React
"Components are the heart of React's powerful, declarative programming model. React Router is a collection of navigational components that compose declaratively with your application. Whether you want to have bookmarkable URLs..." read full text »Some Monday morning irony
In 1994 the Ku Klux Klan applied to sponsor a portion of United States Interstate 55 in St. Louis County and Jefferson County, Missouri, near St. Louis, for cleanup (which allowed them to have signs stating that this section of highway was maintained by the organization). Since the state could not refuse the KKK’s sponsorship, … Continued
Good Dog Carl
What every parent aspires for.
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Listen to this while coding/typing on the keyboard and tell me your fingers don’t start tapping with flare and pizazz. Ha! III. Rondo. Vivace
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What is Currying?
"And realized that we need a simpler tutorial to understand currying, the logic behind it, the nuances and the usage. We will be using Haskell for this tutorial, but this can be extended to any functional programming language."
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Trump’s Russia ‘hoax’ turns out to be real
"The hackers, he suggested, may have been Chinese. Or some 400-pound guy sitting on his bed. Again and again, he insisted, Russian interference was a hoax — a fiction created by Democrats as an excuse for losing an election they should have won."
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