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ISSUE #19 - July 6th

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#READ

Get hype for the first images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope

Very soon, humanity will get to view the deepest images of the universe that have ever been captured. In two weeks, the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope (JWST will release its first full-color images.

A company aims to power the world for millions of years by digging the deepest holes ever

Quaise Energy is planning to use X-rays to melt rock in order to drill the deepest holes possible and harness geothermal energy. Find out more from this article on how this company intends to generate unlimited power by drilling the hole on Earth.

Apple is not defending browser engine choice

Some folks claim that Apple’s mandated inadequacy for browsers and their engines is somehow beneficial.

Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2022

In May 2022 over 70,000 developers told stack overflow how they learn and level up, which tools they’re using, and what they want.

#WATCH

The future of humanity seems insecure. Rapid climate change, political division, our greed and failings make it hard to look at our species with a lot of optimism and so many people think our end is in sight. But humans always thought they lived in the end times. Every generation assumes they’re important enough to witness the apocalypse and then life just goes on.

In this video, you will learn how to turn your Figma UI to 3D and build a React site with Spline.

In this video Kyle will show you how to create a simple file sharing site that also includes password protected files and a download count tracker.

Fresh is a fullstack web framework for Deno that allows developers to build fast server-rendered webapps. It uses the "Islands Architecture" to limit JavaScript to specific components and can be deployed to the edge.

#CODE

How I Chose an Animation Library for My Solitaire Game

This article is designed to help front-end developer to decide which animation library to use on a project to create a full fledge Solitaire online game.

Introduction to Defensive CSS

Practical CSS and design tips that helps in building future-proof user interfaces and user experience.

Airbnb’s Trip to Linaria

Learn how Linaria, Airbnb’s newest choice for web styling, improved both developer experience and web performance.

Notes on maintaining an internal React component library

Gabe Scholz's thoughts on maintaining a component library as part of an established design system that is utilized by a large number of frontend applications.

#NEWS

NFT giant OpenSea reports major email data breach

OpenSea, the popular NFT marketplace that hit a colossal $13 billion valuation in January, is warning users of email phishing after a data breach.

Cybersecurity startups, once the VC darling, hammered by layoffs

On Friday, IronNet, a Virginia-based network security company, announced plans to let go of 55 workers, or 17% of its workforce, less than a year after filing to go public.

Pinterest has a new CEO, who has one job: to build the internet’s shopping mall

Bill Ready, the new CEO of Pinterest, will aid in the platform's transformation into a location where users may buy for goods from across the internet. In addition, he has a history of setting trends in e-commerce.

Mojo Vision Puts Its AR Contact Lens Into Its CEO’s Eyes (Literally)

This article includes an in-depth interview with Steve Sinclair, senior vice-president of product and marketing at Mojo, in which he discusses the company's advancement and lingering difficulties.

#LEARN

Make beautiful presentations in Figma

Learn how to make neat-looking slides and present them effectively using Figma.

How Netflix creates Immersive UX Design and What We Can Learn From Them

It typically takes a Netflix user 19 minutes to decide whether to watch a certain show or movie or give up after scrolling for that long. Read this article to understand more about how Netflix generates immersive user experience design.

UX Writing: Study Guide

Unsure where to start? Use the collection of links to the articles and videos available inside this article to learn how to write and present information that aligns with users’ needs and online reading behaviors.

A complete guide to using CSS filters with SVGs

This article examines the application of SVG filters. It contains a list of 17 filter primitives and an introduction to SVGs.

#OSSSpotlight

SkyOffice - An immersive virtual office

Immersive virtual office built with Phaser, ReactJS, Redux, PeerJS, and Colyseus tech stacks which works flwlessly on all PC browsers.

Laravel Pint - opinionated PHP code style fixer for minimalists.

Laravel Pint is an opinionated PHP code style fixer for minimalists. Pint is built on top of PHP-CS-Fixer and makes it simple to ensure that your code style stays clean and consistent.

YaLM-100B - Pretrained language model with 100B parameters.

YaLM 100B is a GPT-like neural network for generating and processing text. It can be used freely by developers and researchers from all over the world.The model leverages 100 billion parameters.

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