Crypto-jackers are still active after Coinhive’s closure

Coinhive – the popular cryptocurrency mining script closed down early this year but this does not mean that the illegal practice of crypto mining subsided too. According to a report by Malwarebytes, cybersecurity firms blocked over 200,000 requests that tried to connect with Coinhive after it...

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Facebook to Make AI More Inclusive By Focusing On Algorithm Development, User Studies and System Validations

The second day of Facebook’s annual conference, F8 2019 had its focus on how the platform is trying to beat online abuse using technologies. The Company last year said that Artificial Intelligence is an important factor to keep its platforms safe. In the opening keynote, Mike Schroepfer (Chief...

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Collective Minds – Courses

Great looking Landing Page with good whitespace promoting the upcoming 5-day Instagram course by Collective Minds.

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Startup Calculator

Fascinating One Page web app forming an interactive Startup Calculator with real-time results are you tweak the metrics.

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Chippewa

‘Chippewa’ is a free minimal Landing Page HTML template for a camp or tour. Features include a spacious design with lovely images and alongside text followed by the rates and enquiry form. Thanks for this minimal freebie Papaya team!

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Huddle

‘Huddle’ is a free Landing Page HTML template for a conference or event. Features include intro info, big preview image, speakers, sponsors, testimonials and book buttons (you could link out to services like Shopify or Gumroad). Thanks for this rad freebie Papaya team!

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Babylon.js 4.0, Electron 5.0, and standing up for the ternary operator

#435 — May 3, 2019 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly Babylon.js 4.0: The (Very) Powerful WebGL Graphics Engine — Such a significant release that they’ve released a 2 minute video trailer for it! With 4.0 Babylon has gone fully modular, so it’s more efficient than ever to distribute to end users. Want to play? Enjoy this editable live demo. Microsoft Visual Studio Code Previews Support for 'Remote Development' — The VS Code editor is getting an exciting new feature, the ability to work directly with remote workspaces (running either WSL, Docker containers, or physical machines or VMs over SSH). VS Code Team Using Competency Mapping to Unlock Skills in Your Org — Free, Online Talk - May 15th. Big Nerd Ranch sponsor Electron 5.0.0 Released — Just 3 months after 4.0, Electron 5, the popular system for building Node and Web technology based desktop apps, is here. It’s mostly a dependency bump release, but with Node 12 and Chromium 73 now under the hood, that’s no bad thing. Electron.js Team Editor.js: A Block-Styled Editor with JSON Output — Typical WYSIWYG editors output raw HTML markup but Editor.js keeps things organized into ‘blocks’ which are then returned in structured JSON which makes the content easier to sanitize or transform. CodeX Shimport 1.0: Use JavaScript Modules in All Browsers? — Allows you to use JS modules in all browsers, including dynamic import(). We first linked this when it was entirely experimental but it’s just had its 1.0 release, so have a play. Rich Harris Easy Automatic npm Publishes — npm and Node powerhouse Isaac Z. Schlueter says he hasn’t “manually typed npm publish in a while” and explains how he’s semi-automated his npm publishing process. Isaac Z. Schlueter 💻 Jobs JavaScript Developer at X-Team (Remote) — Join the most energizing community for developers. Work from anywhere with the world's leading brands. X-Team Senior JavaScript Developer - Kontist (Remote) — Join our team of full-stack JavaScript developers and shape the future of banking. Kontist Have You Tried Vettery? — Vettery specializes in tech roles and is completely free for job seekers. Create a profile to get started. Vettery 📘 Tutorials and Opinions In Defense of the Ternary Statement — Code similar to expression ? true_result : false_result is known as a ternary expression. Much maligned, is it possible to use them in JavaScript without getting into an unreadable mess? Burke Holland 'I just shipped Promise.allSettled in Chrome 76' — Promise.allSettled is like Promise.all but doesn’t short-circuit if any supplied promise is rejected. Sathya Gunasekaran on Twitter New Features in Node 12 You Shouldn't Miss — Node 12 came out last week, and this post reflects on some of the new features. Máté Huszáarik ▶  How Facebook is Building the New Facebook.com with React, GraphQL and Relay — The forthcoming redesign is fully powered by React and Relay and this 35 minute talk digs into the technicalities. Facebook for Developers Replace Tedious Coding with MongoDB Stitch and Public APIs MongoDB sponsor The Perfect Unit Test — You might recognize Jack’s name if you’ve been a long time subscriber as he used to write a lot of great posts. He’s back now with some basic tips on how to craft better unit tests. Jack Franklin Deeply Understanding async and await with Examples — One more for beginners, but it’s a perennial topic covered well. Arfat Salman beginner Array.push is 945x Faster Than Array.concat? — Also worth checking out the comments on this one. Shi Ling Why I Prefer React Over Vue Sebastian De Deyne An Introduction to Vue.js Render Functions (with Examples) Charles Ouellet 5 Things You Didn’t Know About React DevTools Kristofer Selbekk Serving Vue.js Apps on GitHub Pages Muhammad Usman 🔧 Code and Tools Textblock: Set Continuously Responsive Typography — A JS library that adjusts the size, leading, line height, and other factors of text to make it ‘continuously responsive’. Glyphic sql.js: SQLite Compiled to JavaScript (and Webassembly) — Naturally experimental, 1.0 just dropped with Webassembly support and based upon the latest SQLite version (3.28.0). Want to play? Here’s a live demo. Alon Zakai Automate Your Code Reviews — Codacy flags errors in your code so you can fix them quickly, directly from your current workflow. Get started today. Codacy sponsor Relay 4.0.0 Released: A Framework for Building Data-Driven React Apps — “Simply declare your data requirements using GraphQL and let Relay figure out how and when to fetch your data.” Facebook jQuery-CSV: A jQuery CSV Parser Plugin — A jQuery plugin(!) you say? Yes, but this is a very well optimized, battle tested, and spec compliant CSV parser and its 1.0 release today “marks the first – and likely only – stable LTS release of this library” so.. congratulations are in order. Evan Plaice Glide: A Dependency-Free ES6 Slider and Carousel — A lightweight, flexible and fast straightforward slider. Demo here. Jędrzej Chałubek jQuery 3.4.1: A Bugfix Release — Bugs squashed include focus/blur triggering in IE, checking element attachment in iOS 10.0-10.2, and loading with AMD. 3.4.0 was released last month if you missed that. Timmy Willison DeepScan Makes Your JavaScript Better — Use this static analysis service to find problems in your JavaScript, TypeScript, React & Vue on GitHub. Try it free. DeepScan sponsor vue-qrcode-reader: Vue.js Components for Detecting and Decoding QR Codes Niklas Gruhn Dotenv 8.0: Load Environment Variables From `.env` in Node Scott Motte Ember Charts 2.0: An Easy to Use Charting Library for Ember.js Addepar

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