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ISSUE #17 - June 18th

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Our Rewards Platform was launched on Product Hunt last week! We finished with over 1000 upvotes. It would mean the world if you could keep supporting us. And don't forget to mint your NFTs!

#READ

Bill Gates on economic turbulence, crypto and whether we can still avoid climate disaster

Bill Gates discusses on stage at TechCrunch Sessions: Climate 2022, a wide-ranging conversation that featured an updated assessment of progress on reducing + mitigating climate change.

Inside Europe’s fight for ethical AI

France wants to expand the scope of the EU's groundbreaking new Artificial Intelligence Act. Find out more about whether the plans and proposals went far enough.

Why sounds and smells are as vital to cities as the sights

Researchers like David Howes are investigating into how nonvisual information shapes the character of a city and influences its livability all over the world.

The Smallest CSS

What’s the smallest amount of CSS that you can write to make HTML look halfway decent? Robin Rendle, a frontend developer, attempted it after removing all styles from his website and reverting back to Eleventy. Here's what he's come up with thus far.

#WATCH

WebDev 101: a comprehensive introduction to the world of web development in which Fireship will walk you through the 101 concepts you need to know in order to begin your web development adventure.

This course will give you an introduction to machine learning concepts and neural network implementation using Python and TensorFlow. Kylie Ying explains basic concepts, such as classification, regression, training/validation/test datasets, loss functions, neural networks, and model training.

In this video, Rutgers University mathematician Alex Kontorovich takes us on a journey through the continents of mathematics to discover about the awe-inspiring symmetries at the heart of the Langlands program, including how Andrew Wiles solved Fermat's Last Theorem.

In this video, Dr. Károly Zsolnai-Fehér will lead you through the paper "Imagen: Photorealistic Text-to-image Diffusion Models with Deep Language Understanding," in which he will discuss the AI image generator, which was created by Google.

#CODE

A Very, Very Tiny Grammar of Graphics

If you’ve ever wondered how frameworks like Observable Plot, ggplot2, or Vega-Lite work, you’ve come to the right place!

Fun CSS-only scrolling effects for Matterday

Learn more in-depth on how some amusing parallax scrolling effects were created with CSS-only for a recent Netlify project.

Component Encyclopedia

Explore the world’s UI components to learn techniques that actually work.

#NEWS

Internet Explorer, star of Windows, dies at 26

Internet Explorer is dead. Microsoft is retiring IE after nearly 27 years. The aging web browser is being sunset in favor of Microsoft Edge, with support being officially withdrawn for IE 11.

Apple signs 10-year streaming deal with Major League Soccer.

Starting in early 2023 through 2032, fans can watch every live MLS match by subscribing to a new MLS streaming service that will be available exclusively through the Apple TV app.

Wave of Discord Hacks Is Making the Crypto Crash More Painful for Investors

Dozens of hacks have targeted NFT project Discords in recent weeks amid a crypto crash that's only getting worse.

Adobe releases open source toolkit to counter visual misinformation

Adobe is announcing the release of a three-part open source toolkit to quickly get the technology into developers’ hands and out in the wild.

#LEARN

Add motion to your apps with a single line of code.

AutoAnimate is a zero-config, drop-in animation utility that adds smooth transitions to your web app. You can use it with React, Vue, Svelte, or any other JavaScript application.

Building an Inter Dimensional Video Player for Lord Huron

An interactive music video which allows you to slide seamlessly between the dimensions of two kindred tracks.

The balance has shifted away from SPAs

There’s a feeling in the air. A zeitgeist. SPAs are no longer the cool kids they once were 10 years ago.

#OSSSpotlight

Keploy - No code API testing platform

Keploy is a fully open source no-code API testing platform that generates tests-cases and data-mocks from API calls.

OLSF - A reference implementation of a neutral replicated state machine.

0L is open, permissionless, and community governed project. Inspired by Satoshi, and informed by experience, 0L combines state of the art blockchain technology with truly decentralized governance.

Reactplay: A opensource platform that helps you learn ReactJS faster with hands-on practice model.

Reactplay is an open-source web app that helps you learn ReactJS faster with a hands-on practice model. It is a collection of ReactJS projects that you can use to learn ReactJS.

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