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ISSUE #4 - JANUARY 25th

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#READ

Microsoft to buy Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion

Activision Blizzard has pulled the trigger on a $68.7B all-cash deal with Microsoft despite ongoing turmoils.

Prioritizing health and balance over Docz

Learn about Pedro Nauck (creator of docz) and how he transitioned from anxiety-filled days to a more sustainable, creative lifestyle.

The Internet Changed My Life

Maxime Chevalier shares her story of how she got started in coding despite having a tough and difficult childhood.

Fastest-growing OSS startups in Q4 2021

Q4 2021 snapshot of ROSS Index featuring the fastest-growing open-source startups by Github stars growth of their repositories

Open source developers, who work for free, are discovering they have power

Many of the devices and apps you use on a daily basis are built on open source software, which is maintained by one or two developers who aren't paid for their time..

Dev corrupts NPM libs 'colors' and 'faker' breaking thousands of apps

The users of the popular open-source libraries 'colors' and 'faker' were taken aback when applications, that used these libraries, printed gibberish data and crashed. Find Out Why!

#WATCH

The "Tesla Bot," a 1.7-meter, 56-kilogram robot, was unveiled by Musk. He claims the bot will have a screen in front of its face that will display information. According to the CEO, the humanoid robot will be able to deadlift and carry heavy weights

Anyone can fly with EVTOL Jetson One from the Swedish company Jetson.Jetsons motto is to make everyone fly. Check out their official website for more information.

Check out how engines survive excessive heat, despite rocket engines generating large amount of heat while functioning.

#EVENT

Concurrent coding with "Devsession"

Ramón, Aram, and Joshua will discuss about the use cases of Devsession, a collaborative tool for improving the concurrent coding experience between the team members.

#LEARN

Programmer Uses NSA Tool to Liberate Legendary Super Nintendo Emulator

For more than a decade, the long-rumored SNESticle was hidden in a GameCube game. Now, a programmer has devised a method for SNESticle to run on its own.

Nobody Pronounces the 'B' in 'Debt'

Debt is derived from the Middle English word dette, which is derived from the Old French dette or dete. Some scholars believed it should be a tribute to the word debitum. Check out this fascinating article about the origins of word "debt".

Animals Laugh Too: UCLA Study Finds Laughter in 65 Species, from Rats to Cows

Check out this fascinating article about how scientists and researchers discover animal laughter in 65 different species.

#FUN

⛽ Gas Pump Golf ⛳

Gas Pump Golf. Specifically, the game in which you pump gas,have fun and beats the score. There used to be a lot of high scores. Then it was hacked by Hacker News.Check out this intersting game.

Shade Map App

Check out this fascinating web map application that depicts solar shadows on an interactive 3D web-based map. For any point in time, anywhere on the planet.

Looptap - A minimal addictive game to waste your time.

Check out this very intriguing and simple game created by Vasanth to loose track of time. It's similar to the coogyloop app, but for the web.

#CODE

Learn and Test DMARC

Check out this cool tool called "learndmarc," which visualizes email server communication and will help you understand what SPF, DKIM, and DMARC do and how these mechanisms work.

How we handle 80TB and 5M page views a month for under $400.

Check out this fascinating article about how engineers of Poly Haven manage the massive server workloads at a fraction of the cost.

The Arch Linux Handbook

Farhan (from FreeCodeCamp) just published an entire book on Arch Linux. If you want to get into the most customizable Linux distribution, this book will show you how to install it and season to taste.

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