Friday, February 15, 2019

Google Maps to Soon Introduce a Feature to Automatically Delete Location History

At the Consumer Technology Association 2019 event, Google proposed several new features for Google Map app and it looks like we will soon be witnessing them on our mobile phones via the upcoming update for version 10.10. Upon experimenting with the APK files, 9To5Google reveals that Google Map is...

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Did You Know A Bug On macOS is Secretly Accessing Your Safari Browsing History

A bug in developer API has been discovered which can install malicious apps in macOS Mojave and can hack the Safari browsing data. Jeff Johnson, who developed Underpass Mac and iOS app, and also the extension, StopeTheMadness for Safari, discovered the bug which can affect all the versions...

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Does Google Assistant Show You Ads As Search Results?

Google Assistant is supposed to be the end all AI assistant in terms of Android’s current capabilities. However, a Twitter user Gennaro Cuofano ‏recently noticed that when he asked Google Assistant a question through the voice query feature, the search result that they got was an ad. This is...

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Experimenting with Bluetooth from JavaScript

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JavaScript Weekly

Replacing a 'Hot Path' in Your App's JavaScript with WebAssembly — One benefit that WebAssembly offers is predictable performance across browsers. But how do you turn a hot path written in JavaScript into WebAssembly? This is a technical piece, but there's lot of interesting stuff, including an introduction to AssemblyScript. (It also provoked an interesting discussion on Hacker News.)

Surma

Resource Prioritization – Getting the Browser to Help You — Consider using <link rel=preload> to load your key scripts at a higher priority. It’s improved Twitter Lite’s time to interactive by 36% says Addy Osmani.

Sérgio Gomes (Google)

Design for Developers ✨ New Course by Sarah Drasner — Become more self-sufficient for the entire process for execution, from concept to design to implementation. Understand the rules for designing and learn to create complex and beautiful front-end experiences.

Frontend Masters sponsor

Funding ESLint's Future — ESLint, a linter tool for JavaScript, is a key part of our ecosystem, and now there’s a plan to fund its continuing maintenance and growth. If you use ESLint at work, consider speaking to your company about helping their cause.

ESLint

▶  Ember.js: The Documentary — Whether or not you’ve used Ember or not, this is a beautifully shot mini documentary (25 minutes) and it’d be great to see more for other projects.

HoneyPot

Bluetooth Anywhere: Experimenting with Bluetooth from JS — Some fun experimenting with interacting with a Bluetooth device (a Nordic Thingy:52) in JS on various setups (desktop browser, Cordova app, and a React Native app).

Peter and Anand

Will It finally: A try/catch Quiz — You probably know how try and catch work, but how well do you know finally? Find out with 4 live examples. You’ll almost certainly learn something here.

James K Nelson

💻 Jobs

Front End Developer✌️ in Beautiful Norway🎉 — Passion for React and GraphQL? Want to move to Norway?

Crystallize

Senior Full Stack JavaScript Developer - Atlanta, GA (Full-Time) — Join our talented team building a cloud-based platform that’s helping some of America’s largest companies track things with RFID.

Strategic Systems

Try Vettery — Vettery specializes in developer roles and is completely free for job seekers.

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📘 Articles, Tutorials and Opinions

ECMAScript 2019: The Final Feature Set — A concise, factual overview.

Dr. Axel Rauschmayer

Building a Beautiful Animated News App with Vue.js and VuetifyVuetify is a Material Design component framework for Vue.

Rachid Sakara

What We've Learned About Hiring Engineering Managers — Over the last year, we have made some critical shifts in our understanding of what we believe makes a great engineering manager at CircleCI.

CircleCI sponsor

Managing Image Breakpoints with Angular — Angular has a built-in feature called BreakPoint Observer that evaluates media queries and reacts to the changing environment.

Tamas Piros

'Trusted Types' To Help Prevent Cross-Site Scripting? — A look at an experimental, Chrome-only API that aims to prevent DOM-based cross-site scripting by only letting special typed objects to make certain types of changes to the page.

Krzysztof Kotowicz (Google)

Simulating Blobs of Fluid with JavaScript and Three.js — A well presented explanation of an area where physics, programming and creativity meet.

Peeke Kuepers

How Has Testing Evolved? - Register for a Live Broadcast with Our Panel to Hear

Nrwl.io sponsor

▶  Discussing the Current State of Service Workers — Google’s Rick Viscomi and Jeff Posnick discuss where service workers are at right now.

Google Chrome Developers

▶  Discussing Maintaining Babel with Henry Zhu — Henry Zhu chats about his role maintaining Babel, the JavaScript compiler.

ShopTalk Podcast podcast

🔧 Code and Tools

Make Your Site’s Pages 'Instant' in 1 Minute — This is a neat little project, and surprisingly simple. Include a small piece of JavaScript on your pag to add just-in-time prefetching of links on your site when people hover over where they intend to go next. It's open source if you want to use the code directly.

Alexandre Dieulot

Fuse.js: A Lightweight Fuzzy-Search Library — A mature library but it’s had some key releases recently. GitHub repo.

Kirollos Risk

Backend, Frontend, Backend, and Side-to-Side — Honeybadger has your monitoring covered. We are the UGK of error, uptime, and check-in monitoring for JavaScript.

Honeybadger sponsor

Mercury Parser: Extract Content From the 'Chaos' of the Web — Extracts the useful parts from Web pages, such as titles, authors, the main content, etc.

Postlight

Next.js 8 Released: Universal React App Framework — Commonly used to build React apps that are happy server-side. Serverless support is the big feature here.

Neutkens, Davis and Ding

Split.js: Create Resizable Split Views / Panes / Frames — There’s a React component variant too.

Nathan Cahill

Three.js Ballooning Demo — A beautiful little demo of a hot air balloon flying over a 3D landscape. It’s open source, too, if you want to play with the code yourself.

Alexander Perrin


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A New Trojan Uses Antivirus Software to Steal Data

In this brave new world that is the modern internet, it can often become very difficult indeed to ascertain whether or not your data is truly secure. Viruses abound on the internet, and the fact of the matter is that if you want to protect your data you are going to have to take measures to make...

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