Facebook is working on a new layout for the Stories composer

According to tech blogger and app researcher, Jane Manchun Wong, Facebook is currently making some changes to the existing layout of its Stories feature. In her Twitter handle, she revealed that the new layout will feature a bottom bar for adding Stickers, Text, Effects, and Draw. Additionally,...

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IGTV Just Become So Much Better with the New Features and Design

Instagram is one of the most developing and growing social media platform right now. If we talk about what’s hot, Instagram is the only network that will help you get your news without making it boring and lengthy. As the social media apps are growing, The TV has taken a back seat somewhere in the...

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Pixi.js 5.0, Node 12.3, and using `reduce` for more than adding numbers

#438 — May 24, 2019 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly Functional JavaScript: How to Use reduce for More Than Just Numbers — Eric Elliott calls it “one of the most versatile functions that was ever discovered” but a lot of developers struggle with reduce beyond basic use cases. If that includes you, this tutorial goes into more depth. James Sinclair Pixi.js 5.0: Create Beautiful 2D Web Experiences — Boasts the ‘fastest, most flexible 2D WebGL renderer’ to let you take advantage of hardware acceleration without getting involved in WebGL or 3D concerns. Check out demos for what the code looks like and what you’d use it for. There’s also a Pixi Playground for quickly crafting your own experiments. PixiJS Get the Fastest App Deployments. Get Started Free — Unlike most Continuous Integration (CI) solutions, Buddy only re-builds the parts of your application that have changed and deploys your updates in seconds to any app store. Start building better apps faster with Buddy. Buddy sponsor Tornis: Watch and Respond to Changes in the Browser's Viewport — A JavaScript library that tracks pointer position, viewport size, scroll position, etc. and lets you perform actions based upon them. Robb Owen Node 12.3 Released with WebAssembly Module Support — It’s experimental, but use --experimental-wasm-modules to be able to do, say, import './module.wasm'. Here’s some documentation on how they work if you want to give it a try at this early stage. Node.js Foundation WebAssembly at eBay: A Real-World Use Case — Notes on how the eBay engineering team approached building a better barcode scanner using WebAssembly to replace a pure JavaScript version. eBay Engineering JavaScript Clean Code: Some Best Practices — You might not sign up for all of these, but these ‘Uncle Bob’-inspired tips might help you think more about how you name things and structure your code. Milos Protic 💻 Jobs Front-End Engineer - Apple Inc. 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Paolo Mioni Truly Reactive Programming with Svelte 3.0 — The latest release of Svelte, a compile-time Web framework, seems to have really struck a chord with developers. Ovie Okeh See Why 1.2M Developers Are Building With Mapbox GL JS — Mapbox is making it easier than ever to build, implement, and render amazing maps across mobile and web projects. Mapbox sponsor How to Build a Tic Tac Toe App with TypeScript, React and Mocha — Learn how to compose a tic-tac-toe app with React and TypeScript components. Josh Kuttler Three.js Fundamentals: A Tutorial — This is a very extensive and impressive set of tutorials on using Three.js to create browser-based 3D experiences. Greggman Approaches to Handling Errors in Vue.js Apps Raymond Camden 🔧 Code and Tools Rough.js: Draw Web Graphics with a Hand-Drawn, 'Sketchy' Appearance — Supports both drawing on Canvas or using SVG. Yes, it's a classic, but it keeps getting updates.. most recently with support for dashed, sunburst, and zig-zag fills. 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Thousands of Users’ Private Information Exposed by Another Flaw in Instagram

Thousands of Instagram users’ contact details have been exposed by the website of Instagram from many weeks, as discovered by a security researcher. Data scientist and business consultant, David Stier found out that when a user’s profile is loaded in a web browser, its source code has the email...

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SitePoint Premium New Releases: Webpack, TensorFlow, Swift & Parcel

We’re working hard to keep you on the cutting edge of your field with SitePoint Premium. We’ve got plenty of new books to check out in the library — let us introduce you to them. A Beginner’s Guide to Webpack When using JavaScript module bundler webpack for the first time, it can be difficult to […]

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Are AI-based digital assistants reinforcing harmful gender stereotypes?

A new study published by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) claims that artificial-intelligence powered voice assistant culture is reinforcing harmful gender stereotypes. The paper published by the UN argues that most of the voice assistants are on the...

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Apple is working on "Private Web Ads" feature to make web ads truly private

Apple's John Wilander announced that they are working on a new technology called Privacy Preserving Ad Click Attribution. It is designed to help marketers track the success of ads without further individual users activity. The usual ad click attribution works through cookies and tracking...

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