On monday, Microsoft announced an agreement to acquire GitHub, the world’s leading software development platform. Satya shares what the acquisition means for our industry and for developers. ◯ Somebody was going to acquire GitHub, could do worse than MSFT
◯ Worried about “centralization”? GitHub is already centralized, has been for a while, a move to GitLab won’t help
◯ Microsoft has emphasized openness since Satya took office in 2014
◯ Satya renewed the company, he’s been doing right by developers ever since he took office, investing in open-source and community, opening up toolchains (soo many) and processes, and embracing Linux (WSL, for one)
◯ GitHub is in great hands now.
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How do you feel about the GitHub acquisition?  Babel 7.0.0-beta.49 has been released, and, with it, support for private fields. Josh walks us through a refactor and links to a few reference articles. |
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Generate tiny SVG placeholder files for your images using sqip as a CLI or a Node.js module. |
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Programming with dates, times, and timezones is hard. But here’s some help. |
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Daan invented Koka, a strongly typed function-oriented language with (side) effect inference. Also check out the research paper he’s published on the topic |
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Dan has a fresh view on what smart home security means. You’re probably uninteresting and not worth a targeted attack – Dan argues. |
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Yet another tiny jQuery clone. Yes, these are pretty trite, but I’d encourage writing up your own jQuery clone at some point (here’s mine), as it’ll teach you a thing or two about the native DOM Web API and cross-compatibility. |
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