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Apple released a 900 page book on Swift. Targeted at beginning programmers, App Development with Swift walks one through everything they need to know to get started with the great Swift programming language. The book includes video tutorials and has strong early reviews.
Neural Networks are generating code from screenshots of the UI you want. Pix2Code is a paper showing the state of the art in converting an image of a User Interface into working code . They use 3 Neural Networks to infer the meaning of the image. No code is yet provided by the author.
Node.js released version 8.0. Featuring async_hooks, zero-filling buffers, and major improvements for debugging. The Node.js API is now available behind a flag, which will lead to a future in which native modules don’t break with each release. Read the announcement on medium or on their blog post .
Nicky Case made an interactive tribute to Fireflies. Scroll through the project to learn more about how fireflies coordinate with each other. This was a hit on hackernews and don’t forget to look at the source code to see how she did it.
Dan Wang has 11 reasons why people aren’t majoring in Computer Science. The first being, Computer Science is hard. The author buries the lead that most CS degrees are out of date before you start them, let alone when you graduate. Other top reasons include not needing a CS degree to be a developer, and people not being market-driven when considering a major in college.
Development Dregs
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Simple and Happy; is Clojure dying, and what has Ruby got to do with it?
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ActivityPub: a federated social web standard - the orange website has good comments around this!
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An empirical study on the correctness of formally verified distributed systems - when your software has no bugs, but your assumptions do! Still better than not verifying...
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Open Adventure - esr published the source code for Colossal Cave Adventure , one of the earliest text adventure games.
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I made a discovery: SVG and SVG animations in the JS console are doable!
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Build an 8-bit computer from scratch - Every developer should do this once.
Dive Deeper - WebAssembly
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WebAssembly: Mozilla Won - Chrome won, Mozilla won; whatever. Trophies for everyone!
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