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It's possible to write CSS that will work in all browsers, regardless of age. Jen Simmons details this process in seven videos: how to use the latest CSS technologies like CSS Grid, without compromising users older browsers. All the videos can also be found out the mozilla outreach youtube channel, Layout Land.
It ends up keeping your GitHub green (active) isn’t as important as you might have thought. 17% of users on GitHub pushed no code publicly last year. If you still aren’t feeling good about yourself, only 1.4% of users pushed more code greater than 100 times. In Ben Frederickson’s neat piece, ‘Why GitHub Won't Help You With Hiring’, you can also mess with an interactive graph to see how your number of followers compares with your friends, coworkers, and ofcourse Linus Torvalds.
To all AR/MR sound designers, developers, and creatives who wish to experiment and push the boundaries of augmented audio: Sennheiser is creating tools for you.
A live demo application and tutorials will be premiered at SXSW, with sessions running everyday March 10th through 14th at the Sennheiser AMBEO booth #908, as part of the AR/VR SXSW Track.
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Tools for automated testing, like Travis CI, are great. However, when automated testing is a 100% use case, coding without similar tools can be intimidating. Nader Safadi goes a step further and refers to coding without automated testing tools is a "Paralyzing Fear." Nader discusses how his team uses testing tools like Elm-Tests, WDIO and SimpleTests, and how using this tools has led him to an insecurity without their presence.
Want to solve a fun problem with Ecto.Multi? Probably not, but after reading Lena Feldberg’s post about it you will no longer worry, and instead love Ecto.Multi. Take a look at the the NomNomsFarm GitHub Repo to see the toy elixir app that was built with GraphQL. If that was not fun enough for you try ‘Solving a Mysterious Heap Corruption Crash’ with Agnes Vasarhelyi.
Mozilla has started an experiment in hopes of reducing bias during code reviews. The two part experiment aims to anonymize PRs and gather information on how blind reviews work. The project’s goal is to fight unintentional bias based off things like gender and race.
RedMonk’s programming language rankings are in. They rank based upon factors including number of pull requests, exclude forks, and historical rankings JavaScript landed on top, followed by Java and Python. However, RedMonk has some very interesting things to say about Go, Kotlin, Powershell and Rust, so make sure to check out the whole read.