Google IO & PyCon Do Not Disappoint, DIY Pool Table (With JavaScript) & Cool Stuff in FireFox 60

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This week we saw Google IO 2018. The most contentious demo was Google Duplex pretending to be a human when it makes appointments for you. Flutter saw some nice talks . If you build Android apps, you’ll be interested in checking out Android Jetpack . Also, Android Things officially released version 1.0 . Read all of the updates on techradar or take a look at Google’s official recap. P.S. In light of Duplex, if you haven’t read Daniel Suarez’ Daemon you should.

PyCon 2018 is rolling as well! Checkout Christy Heaton’s talk on Spatial Analysis or Nicholas Tollervey’s talk on How to Make a Kids’ Code Editor. You can see the talks available , but they haven’t uploaded them all yet. The conference goes through Sunday, so if you’re in Cleveland, go to it!

Potch on Mozilla Hacks wrote up on some new features in Firefox 60 that include ES Modules, text-stroke, and a Web Authentication API. Read the full article. There is also some good stuff about cookies and ESR in there.

Chen Shmilovich made a very nice looking Pool game with JS and HTML5. Chen dives into how to center game images, how to position the mouse, and the mechanics of the Pool stick. Watch a demo of the game , a tutorial of how to build it , or check out the code.

Dregs

Nerves v1.0 Released - Get started or watch some people talk about it.
6 things I’ve learned in my first 6 months using serverless - Solid Orange Site Discussion as well.
Learning Erlang as an Experienced Developer - It’s nice to hear the opinion of someone experienced with C++, Python & Rust talk about Erlang.
Moving Fast and Securing Things - Feedback is good.
12 Manager READMEs - Managers’ expectations at companies Slack, Unity or Shopify, in a dialogue you are likely familiar with.
More fun with reactive-banana-automation - Who doesn’t automate their house with Haskell?
Hands-down the best SQL Injection attempt I've seen
Are interruptions really worse for programmers than for other knowledge workers? - If you are extremely organized, they don’t have to be. It’s really hard though.
Kanban board built with Rust and Elm - Huzzah Electron alternatives! Please keep them coming. Simple, but that is why we like it.
Winning Entries: 25th International Obfuscated C Code Contest (2018) - Spooooiiilllers too!
Reported malicious module: getcookies - someone attempted to be naughty on npm and got caught, quickly this time.
Core Erlang by Example - Björn Gustavsson showing us part of the compiler phase for Erlang.
Advanced Types in Elm - Extensible Records - This is part II of the series, check out part I on opaque types if you like this one!
The realities and challenges of hiring remote
New CSS Features That Are Changing Web Design - The direction CSS is going is great. I hope it continues to thrive and become better with tools like CSS Grid and Flexbox.

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