Neural nets colorize B&W photos, MDN docs go cross browser, & iFrames get easier

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The most impressive story this week comes from Emil Wallner, who shows how to use Neural Networks to colorize black and white photographs . Also check out the original post where a user used a similar bot to troll a colorization subreddit -- very cool work. I wonder what would happen if you only trained the NN with HDR images? Related, and also cool is this Perceptually uniform color spaces , just to scratch your programmatic color theory itch.

Mozilla , Microsoft , Google , Samsung, and the W3C are collaborating to make the MDN web docs fully cross browser. MDN easily has the best html/css/js documentation on the net, and with this new partnership they are hoping to make it accurate for all the big browsers. A Product Advisory Board has been formed to guide the partnership.

Have you ever thought the ‘top talent’ on your team could be holding a project back? You are not alone. Jonathan Solórzano-Hamilton tells a story about how firing the top talent on his team was the best decision they ever made. Make sure to read the whole article, and the 🔥🔥 mixed opinions🔥🔥 in the comments. Also, read Tony Robinson’s response , and the conversation about his response on the orange website.

Having trouble understanding Modern Javascript? You are not alone. Luckily, Peter Jang has explanation of Modern Javascript that even a Dinosaur can understand. Read the article and learn about using a package manager, transpiling code for new language features, and using a task runner.

PayPal introduced a new open source suite to make cross-domain iframes and requests easier. The tools in the suite include grumbler , post-robot , xcomponent & more. Take a look at the whole suite. Great for all your ifame needs, can’t wait to try this one!