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ElixirConf 2017 was this week. Go take a look at some of the talks like Thinking in Ecto and Writing an Editor in Elixir . You can take a look at the schedule or watch all of the talks . [ed. I’m giving a talk on the Firestorm Forum in a few hours.]

PHP, C#, and Java see little to no growth over the past 6 years. Python has skyrocketed in popularity and use. For the first time Python is more popular than Javascript according to Stackoverflow trends tool, and future traffic only predicts even more popularity for the language.

Facebook announced Yarn 1.0. The package manager is now averaging right below 3 billion package downloads per month. New features in Yarn 1.0 include Yarn Workspaces, Auto-merging of lockfiles and selective version resolutions.

Sean Han built an app to illustrate how a blockchain works. You can install the app via command line or try it out in the browser. Learn about blockchain basics in a fun way, and read about what keeps a blockchain immutable.

Alex Devero has six simple tips for you on how to write clean code. Top tips include making code readable, using meaningful names for variables, and letting every function or method only perform one task. Alex argues that your code will be easier for team onboarding and easier to follow if you follow his six tips. Read all of his tips and get started writing some clean code.

Headless Chrome is way faster than PhantomJS , shows @Hartator. In his tests, he shows Headless Chrome is more than twice as fast as PhantomJS while consuming a third less memory. Switch now, double your integration speeds?

Development Dregs

• Every Programmer Should Know

• Riak and the demise of Basho - TLDR Bet365 saved Riak

• Time for Makefiles to Make a Comeback

• How Python does Unicode

• Some Were Meant for C - Don’t agree, but well argued viewpoints always welcome

• Facebook Like buttons account for 16% of website’s code - It's not paranoia if they're really after you.

• The zen of Just Writing CSS - Let’s be honest, writing CSS usually looks like this

• Missed optimizations in C compilers

• Introduction to Go's Assembly language using annotated example programs. - Good introduction if you are new to Go

• C++17 is formally approved - Finally.

• Why favor PostgreSQL over MariaDB / MySQL - Just use PostgreSQL

• Set up a OAuth 2.0 server - great pictures explaining how oauth works

• Build a Simple Database - learn you some database basics

• The sudden death and eternal life of Solaris

• LLVM 5.0.0 Release Notes

• Visualizing Entropy in Binary Files - short read, neat how the image size drops as complexity goes up

• Rust 2017 Survey Results - flawed survey, a quarter of the respondents aren’t Rust users

• Datamining Pokémon - gotta mine them all!

Dive Deeper - Deep Learning, Machine Learning & AI

• How do you convince an artificial intelligence it’s OK to die?

• Michelangelo - Uber’s Machine Learning Platform

• Technical Book on Deep Learning

• Facebook and Microsoft introduce new open ecosystem for interchangeable AI frameworks

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