Simplify Web Worker code with Comlink

"It’s not a fantasy, we can make it a reality with Comlink. Comlink is a small (1.6k) RPC library for workers. This guy made it. His name is Surma, he's a Google colleague of mine. Comlink provides an RPC layer to call methods from a worker on the main thread."

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The Great Barrier Reef has had five near-death experiences in the past 30,000 years

"Thirteen thousand years ago, as the last ice age ended, entire stretches of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef perished. Rising sea levels blanketed the world’s largest collection of corals with sediment coming off the newly inundated land, blocking the sunlight corals need to grow."

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I built a PWA and published it in 3 app stores. Here’s what I learned.

"Summary: Turning a web app into a Progressive Web App (PWA) and submitting it to 3 app stores requires about a month of work, a few hundred dollars, and lots of red tape. The process was both painful and enlightening. Here’s what I learned."

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My Struggle with Testing Code

"Brad Frost recently shared a post called “My Struggle to Learn React”. Inspired by that, I thought I’d share something I’m bad at: Testing Code. This has been on my “List of Shame” for a long time."

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Tips for Getting Started Developing for Web Accessibility

"This page introduces some basic considerations to help you get started developing web content that is more accessible to people with disabilities. These tips are good practice to help you meet Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) requirements."

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What Are The Best WordPress Multi-Purpose Themes In 2018 ?

"Looking for some WordPress Themes for Business/Agency/Corporate Websites. That helps in building homepage mockups fairly quickly. Why avoid Avada and Divi? I’ve heard that packaged in page builders are bad, but I don’t understand why."

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The Slow Death of Internet Explorer and the Future of Progressive Enhancement

"My first full-time developer job was at a small company. We didn’t have BrowserStack, so we cobbled together a makeshift device lab. Viewing a site I’d been making on a busted first-generation iPad with an outdated version of Safari, I saw a distorted, failed mess."

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I used to recommend commercial themes as a cost effective solution for clients with small budgets, but with the prevalence of bundled page builders I can no longer in good consience do so. • r/Wordpress

"I am a big fan of custom products built from scratch, but obviously not everyone has that kind of budget."

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The Yogi masters were right – breathing exercises can sharpen your mind

"It has long been claimed by Yogis and Buddhists that meditation and ancient breath-focused practices, such as pranayama, strengthen our ability to focus on tasks. A new study by researchers at Trinity College Dublin explains for the first time the neurophysiological link between breathing and attention." read full text »

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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