“NgRx Entity—Complete Practical Guide” and other tweeted links…

NgRx Entity - Complete Practical Guide. By angular-university [bit.ly]

I agree w/ @Elijah_Meeks ([medium.com]) & @enjalot ([medium.com]) that #d3js is a collection of tools to help with different aspects of #dataviz. Building on that, I tried to place APIs based on when I might use them and how they might feed into each other. [twitter.com]

We’re finally finished removing jQuery from [github.com] frontend. What did we replace it with? No framework whatsoever: • querySelectorAll, • fetch for ajax, • delegated-events for event handling, • polyfills for standard DOM stuff, • CustomElements on the rise.

Cool Backgrounds: Explore a beautifully curated selection of cool #backgrounds that you can add to blogs, websites, or as desktop and phone wallpapers. [coolbackgrounds.io]#Webdesign

The CSS that let's you enlarge the first letter or handful of letters in a paragraph (to make a drop cap or raised cap)… it's been called initial-letter, now changed to initial-letters — what else could we call it? Don't want to use drop-cap. Needs to work for all languages.

CSS at 9AM display: flex; align-items: center; justify-content: center; CSS at 4AM position:absolute; left: -18.245555px; top: -24.99999998px;; margin-left:5.333333px; /* ajdustment / margin-top: -0px; / idk???? */

I’m product managing a team that makes lots of small, rad, quick UX wins across GitHub and it’s amazing. Let me know if you’ve got any little UX nits on the site that I should look into!

Have you ever visited a web page and wondered how all that underlying <code> becomes visual? Here’s an A W E S O M E (and fun) read from @linclark of what goes on under the hood of web browsers⚡️ Thanks for the link @jensimmons[hacks.mozilla.org]

Very informative @Hanselminutes podcast about Blazor: [hanselminutes.com] Thanks @shanselman and @stevensanderson for the info!

@endy_tj@Hanselminutes@shanselman@stevensanderson .@stevensanderson takes the time to point out that WebAssembly simply adds more languages to the JIT-compilation experience that JavaScript already enjoys

How to make YouTube five times faster if you don’t use Chrome [theverge.com] via @Verge

Microsoft, Google and Facebook working together to enable transfer of data between online services - [mspoweruser.com]

Stuff you can do with CSS pointer events [codepen.io]

Google launches “Shielded VMs” to protect cloud servers from rootkits, data theft [arstechnica.com]

i am very impressed (yet seeing room for improvement) for this relatively new audit feature in npm; …wondering whether an audit feature was in yarn much earlier [[github.com]] [twitter.com]

“A security audit is an assessment of package dependencies for security vulnerabilities.” [docs.npmjs.com][twitter.com]

New release of Ionide (3.24.2) includes background symbol caching. It's highly experimental feature that potentially can make finding all references really fast. You can enable it with FSharp.enableBackgroundSymbolCache option - testing appreciated. #fsharp[twitter.com]

In collaboration with the @Code team, we've launched a graphical editor embedded directly in Azure #CloudShell. Learn more: [msft.social]

Are people really pinging their Serverless functions every 5 minutes to avoid cold starts? I thought scaling to zero and only paying for what you use was the main selling point. [serverless.com]

there is a dollar left for my @Azure virtual machine 😬: [twitter.com]

down to 90¢ 😬😬 [twitter.com]

I started working on outliners in 1978, which is (gulp) forty years ago. But today I learned something very basic about outliners. Something that I didn't understand before. I will write it up. But I find this astounding. I thought I knew it all. ;-)

NULL is Not The Billion Dollar Mistake. A Counter-Rant [buff.ly]

We've all been there—You're in the zone and just when you're ready to merge, you realize a lot has happened in the master branch since you last checked it. Now, GitHub Desktop notifies you and allows you to merge the latest from the master in seconds. [blog.github.com]

more git tricks [stackoverflow.com][twitter.com]

Scientists perfect technique to boost capacity of computer storage a thousand-fold: New technique leads to world’s densest solid-state memory that can store 45 million songs on the surface of a quarter [sciencedaily.com]

Announcing F# 4.5 Preview [blogs.msdn.microsoft.com]

BBC News - Singapore personal data hack hits 1.5m, health authority says [bbc.co.uk]

It's time for schools to teach Python, not Java, as their main intro to computer science. Along with being easier to learn and actually able to run anywhere on anything (like Basic back in the day), it's the dominant language of AI and computer vision [economist.com][twitter.com]

Once you master the art of delegation and outsourcing, you’ll discover there’s a whole section of your brain that’s been dormant. - Creative ideas start to flow.🔥 - Architectural level outburst of detail to what you’re passionate about.🚀 - Ability to take care of yourself 😍

software isnt eating the world humans are eating the world software is just the cutlery

I’ve asked multiple entrepreneurs this week how long it took to find product/market fit. Answer: two years. I followed up asking how long it took to get to $1M ARR from scratch. Answer: four years. Settle in, it’s a long journey.

Hi salaried people. Please don't get annoyed when a self-employed person sends you their rates in response to your invite to a 3.5 hour meeting where you want to 'share ideas'. That's called consulting, and if I do it for free, I can't pay my rent. #freelancelife

As Amazon has cracked down on fake reviews, some sellers are leaving five-star, fake-looking reviews on rival listings so they trigger Amazon’s scam-detecting algorithm and get the rival seller suspended [wsj.com]

Researchers have developed a potential replacement for plastic packaging film, made from material found in crab shells and trees #tictocnews[twitter.com]

The mathematician Carina Curto became disillusioned with string theory. In neuroscience, she found the intellectual satisfaction she wanted. [buff.ly]

Some random thoughts... Is broken software a reflection of... a broken culture? dysfunctional team dynamics? a broken business model? overestimating technical knowledge? a broken process? lack of product development knowledge? Is it a mix of all of these above? What else?

@sharifsbeat ✳ lack of a coherent, strategic technology portfolio ✳ deliberate and irresponsible increase in technical debt as a brutish scheme to save money by allowing the enterprise to age

Paul Thurrott’s Short Takes: Microsoft Earnings Special Edition [petri.com]

Asus, Philips, and others fined for price fixing in Europe [theverge.com] via @Verge

El Segundo-based Mattel to cut 2,200 jobs [abc7.com] via @abc7

Analysis | Millions of educated, experienced workers have been tossed aside by a strong economy [washingtonpost.com]

About Half of Google's Workers Are Contractors Who Don't Receive the Same Benefits as Direct Employees @slashdot[tech.slashdot.org]

“Two city legislators on Tuesday are expected to announce legislation banning on-site workplace cafeterias in an effort to promote and support local restaurants.” [sfexaminer.com]

Hackers Breached Virginia Bank Twice in Eight Months, Stole $2.4M @slashdot[it.slashdot.org]

“Security is a process, not a project—it’s never done. We will continue to work to improve the security of the npm Registry and the code you write, and we’re excited by what’s in the works in coming weeks and months.” [blog.npmjs.org][twitter.com]

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