Issue #196 · January 11, 2021

GitHub repositories to improve your programming skills

“Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born”

Best 7 links of week #2, 2021

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GitHub repositories to improve your programming skills

GitHub repositories to improve your programming skills

A wonderful list of 15 different GitHub repositories aiming to help you to ramp up your coding skills in different areas: coding interview preparation, developer roadmap, public APIs, get better at Node.js, JavaScript or Python, etc...

Articles

How we built the GitHub globe

The new GitHub home page presents a fantastic animation where a 3D globe is rendered and animated in real-time based on actual commits happening as you watch! Aren't you curious to find out how this was built?

Front-end predictions for 2021

If 2020 has proven anything, it’s that predicting the future is a mug’s game. With that said, here are some interesting predictions for where front-end development is heading over the next 12 months!

Get Started With TypeScript the Easy Way

This article is intended for JavaScript developers that have heard of TypeScript and are interested in getting started with it, or anyone that has already tried TypeScript and want to give it another perspective. It will focus on minimizing the technical requirements to follow along. We will get up and running with TypeScript without opening a terminal, installing dependencies, or even initializing an NPM project.

Parametric Color Mixer

A color palette composer inspired by audio parametric equalizers. Create beautiful color palettes with a scientific precision.

Book of the week

Algorithms to live by

Algorithms to live by

by Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths

A fascinating exploration of how computer algorithms can be applied to our everyday lives, helping to solve common decision-making problems and illuminate the workings of the human mindAll our lives are constrained by limited space and time, limits that give rise to a particular set of problems. What should we do, or leave undone, in a day or a lifetime? How much messiness should we accept? What balance of new activities and familiar favourites is the most fulfilling?