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In San Francisco, contractors are potentially making more than full-time employees. On average, contract workers are making $214,000 compared to full-time workers salary $134,000. Hired.com’s data also showed contract work is up 4% since 2015. Read a full writeup on the data by the San Francisco Business Times.

Keybase launched encrypted git. The feature is end-to-end encrypted, and is a free alternative to Github private repositories. You can also clone an existing repository from GitHub, Gitlab, or Bitbucket as well.

Mozilla awarded $539,000 to OSS projects. Top awards went to Ushahidi ($194,000), Webpack ($125,000) and RiseUp ($100,000). Read more about MOSS (Mozilla Open Source Support), and recent open source projects Mozilla is supporting.

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Development Dregs

• Floating Point Visually Explained - excellent if you don’t want to have to say "mantissa".

• Practical statically typed functional programming language implementation with Go and LLVM

• Dictionary and Set Improvements in Swift 4.0

• Javascript : The Curious Case of Null >= 0 - explaining why !(null > 0) && !(null == 0) but null >= 0

• Diminishing returns of static typing & Orange Site Comments - I like the premise of the article, but I don’t particularly agree with it. Is that weird?

• Building and using a 29-year-old compiler on a modern system - sometimes you climb the mountain just because it’s there

• VSCode Integrated Terminal Performance Improvements

• From design patterns to category theory - a really nice intro to category theory by way of GoF patterns

• url-to-pdf-api Web page PDF rendering

• Lessons from migrating a large codebase to React 16 - if you’re planning the migration, you would benefit from reading this.

• Don’t Waste Your Time With MySQL Full-Text Search - s/Full-Text Search//

• Compiling vs Polyfills with Babel (JavaScript)

• Matcha - iOS and Android apps in Go - really cool

• Introducing Cloud Firestore: Our New Document Database for Apps

• Streams: a new general purpose data structure in Redis.

• Interesting Codebases & Interesting Orange Site Comments - if you like this sort of thing, check out the AOSA book .

• Style2paints - AI can paint on a sketch according to a given specific color style - pretty fast turnaround from a research paper to a usable app - I feel like we just read this paper!

• High-Level Dependency Strategies in Elm

• Intriguing CSS Level 4 Selectors

• Uncle Bob and Silver Bullets

• 6 reasons to vote for PWA

• Don’t Go to a Software Conference for the Technical Stuff

• Colony: A platform for open organizations - This takes an idea I’ve long wished would hit the mainstream, and (usefully!) sprinklines in cryptocurrency.

• Cryptocurrency Market State Visualization

• The death of "front-end developers"

Blog Posts this week from DailyDrip

• Ecto vs Activerecord

• Hello World With Js And Setting Up Your Development Environment

• Essentials For Getting Started In Javascript - A List Of Helpful Resources For A Javascript Beginner

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