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[Link] Code Wrong: Expand Your Mind

Read: 30/1/2022 hackaday.com

The really nice thing about doing something the “wrong” way is that there’s just so much variety! If you’re doing something the right way, the fastest way, or the optimal way, well, there’s just one way. But if you’re going to do it wrong, you’ve got a lot more design room.

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[Link] Keep a Changelog

Read: 17/11/2021 keepachangelog.com

To make it easier for users and contributors to see precisely what notable changes have been made between each release (or version) of the project. People do. Whether consumers or developers, the end users of software are human beings who care about what's in the software.

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[Link] Does ES6 make JavaScript frameworks obsolete?

Read: 14/11/2021 stackoverflow.blog

Every time JavaScript goes through a major update, we seem to repeat the same cycle. At first, developers are delighted by the new features. They move back to coding directly in JavaScript, and frameworks become less popular.

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[Link] Deep dive into Node.js Architecture

Read: 7/11/2021 dev.to

In this article, we are going to deep dive into Node.js architecture and understand the asynchronous nature of Node.js. Let's dive into it.

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[Link] Trojan Source attack: Code that says one thing to humans tells your compiler something very different, warn academics

Read: 3/11/2021 www.theregister.com

Updated The way Unicode's UTF-8 text encoding handles different languages could be misused to write malicious code that says one thing to humans and another to compilers, academics are warning.

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[Link] Python Ditches The GILs And Comes Ashore

Read: 3/11/2021 hackaday.com

The Python world has been fractured a few times before. The infamous transition from version 2 to version 3 still affects people today, and there could be a new schism in the future.

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[Link] The 14-Year-Old Who Founded Girls Who Hack Is Inspiring the Next Generation of Hackers

Read: 25/10/2021 www.vice.com

Bianca Lewis, or as she is known in the hacker world: BiaSciLab, is part of the next generation of hackers. At 14 years old, she has already made a name for herself in hacker conference circles when a few years ago, she was among a group of kids that hacked into an election reporting system.

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[Link] Supply Chain Attack: NPM Library Used By Facebook And Others Was Compromised

Read: 25/10/2021 hackaday.com

Here at Hackaday we love the good kinds of hacks, but now and then we need to bring up a less good kind. Today it was learned that the NPM package ua-parser-js was compromised, and any software using it as a library may have become victim of a supply chain attack.

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[Link] In Search Of The First Comment

Read: 25/10/2021 hackaday.com

Are you writing your code for humans or computers? I wasn’t there, but my guess is that at the dawn of computing, people thought that they were writing for the machines.

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[Link] 5 Most Powerful One-Liners You Should Know in Python Programming

Read: 25/10/2021 towardsdatascience.com

Python offers a unique set of features! Python programmers use them to write code quickly and in a more Pythonic way.

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[Link] 3 Not So Common Yet Functional Python Libraries for Data Science

Read: 25/10/2021 towardsdatascience.com

One of the reasons why Python dominates data science is the rich selection of libraries it offers to the users. The active Python community keeps maintaining and improving these libraries which helps Python to stay on top.

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[Link] Hackers Have Started to Invade the Battlefield 2042 Beta

Read: 17/10/2021 www.ign.com

After months of confidence from the Battlefield development team on Easy Anti-Cheat, images and videos have already started to circulate online of hacking during the Battlefield 2042 Beta.

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[Link] Two Pandas functions you must know for easy data manipulation in Python

Read: 9/8/2021 towardsdatascience.com

I do a lot of data work — some of it data science, some of it data visualisation, some of it data adjacent — like messing around with sports analytics. All of it is done in Python, and almost always Pandas is involved for data manipulation.

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[Link] Microsoft's new 'power app converging model' hits public preview with Custom Pages

Read: 30/7/2021 www.theregister.com

Microsoft's Custom Pages, an effort to converge its two different low-code Power App platforms, are now in public preview - though it is more hybrid than truly converged.

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[Link] NPM is Now Providing Malware – or was until recently

Read: 30/7/2021 www.theregister.com

Another malicious library has been spotted in the JavaScript-oriented NPM registry, underscoring the continued fragility of today's software supply chain.

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[Link] Python Access Modifiers: Public, Private, and Protected Variables

Read: 20/4/2021 hackernoon.com

Using access modifiers is part of the daily job of any OOP developer but things are a bit complex in python ... or maybe a bit simpler. Does python have any access modifiers?

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[Link] The Healing Power of Javascript

Read: 7/4/2021 www.wired.com

A little over a year ago, as the Covid-19 lockdowns were beginning to fan out across the globe, most folks grasped for toilet paper and canned food. The thing I reached for: A search function. The purpose of the search function was somewhat irrelevant. I simply needed to code.

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