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April 25, 2018

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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April 18, 2018

A complete React with GraphQL Tutorial

"I am writing a React GraphQL book which I want to release in the next months. If you are interested on following me on this journey or grabbing a copy of the book as one of its first readers, head over here to receive updates about it." read full text »

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April 15, 2018

Forms at scale: 2 years of redux-form

"After two years developing React applications at ProductReview.com.au, I think it’s time for me to share our experiences and the tools we adopted to make us more productive when dealing with forms."

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April 13, 2018

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 »

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April 10, 2018

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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April 4, 2018

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 »

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February 25, 2018

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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February 17, 2018

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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February 14, 2018

The Ideas Behind React Easy State: Utilizing ES6 Proxies

Front-end developers often refer to transparent reactivity — at the core of MobX, Vue or React Easy State — as magic, but there is nothing magical about it. It is based on a very simple idea, that I will demonstrate with the following snippet and some common sense. read full text »

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February 12, 2018

Picture of a Single Atom Wins Science Photo Contest

"A remarkable photo of a single atom trapped by electric fields has just been awarded the top prize in a well-known science photography competition. The photo is titled “Single Atom in an Ion Trap” and was shot by David Nadlinger of the University of Oxford."

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January 30, 2018

Trump’s first State of the Union address, annotated

"President Trump delivered his first State of the Union address on Tuesday. The Fix has annotated the president's speech, using Genius. To view an annotation, click on the yellow, highlighted text. Mr. Speaker, Mr."

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January 28, 2018

How Sharp Power Threatens Soft Power

"Washington has been wrestling with a new term that describes an old threat. “Sharp power,” as coined by Christopher Walker and Jessica Ludwig of the National Endowment for Democracy (writing for ForeignAffairs."

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January 26, 2018

How JavaScript works: The building blocks of Web Workers + 5 cases when you should use them

"This is post # 7 of the series dedicated to exploring JavaScript and its building components."

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January 25, 2018

Frameworks without the framework: why didn't we think of this sooner?

"You can't write serious applications in vanilla JavaScript without hitting a complexity wall. But a compiler can do it for you. Wait, this new framework has a runtime? Ugh. Thanks, I'll pass. – front end developers in 2018"

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January 21, 2018

The Death of Microservice Madness in 2018

"Microservices became a very popular topic in over the last couple of years1. 'Microservice madness' goes something like this: Netflix are great at devops. Netfix do microservices. Therefore: If I do microservices, I am great at devops."

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January 20, 2018

Upgrading a create-react-app project to a SSR + code splitting setup

"Since its inception, create-react-app is a great tool for rapidly prototyping React apps, demos and testing different features or techniques. That was, and still is, the main idea behind it."

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January 15, 2018

React, Redux and JavaScript Architecture

"The content of this article was originally presented to the Squiz Front-End Engineering group. Whether you use them or not, React and Redux are important. They have changed the way we think about structuring front-end web applications. They can be very powerful. But they are not magic."

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January 13, 2018

Decapitated Worms Regrow Heads, Keep Old Memories – National Geographic Blog

"In French Revolution-style, researchers decapitated flatworms—then did something that would give even Madam Defarge the creeps."

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January 6, 2018

Meltdown and Spectre Linux Kernel Status

"By now, everyone knows that something “big” just got announced regarding computer security. Heck, when the Daily Mail does a report on it , you know something is bad…"

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January 2, 2018

Neural Networks in JavaScript with deeplearn.js

"A couple of my recent articles gave an introduction into a subfield of artificial intelligence by implementing foundational machine learning algorithms in JavaScript (e.g. linear regression with gradient descent, linear regression with normal equation or logistic regression with gradient descent)." read full text »