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Ionic's Stencil Component Compiler Design Considerations -- Adam Bradley at DotJS2019
Adam Bradley, creator of StencilJS and co-creator of Ionic Framework, reviewed at dotjs2019 the design and architecture that went into Stencil, a component compiler which generates framework agnostic components.
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Adobe Open-Sources Adaptive, Accessible Color Palettes Generator
Nate Baldwin, designer @Adobe’s design system Spectrum, released Leonardo 1.0, an open source color generator. Leonardo strives to enhance designer productivity and end-user experience by automating the creation of accessible, adaptive color systems using contrast-ratio based generated colors. Leonardo also supports full theme generation and is intended for both designers and engineers.
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Google Announces Cloud AI Platform Pipelines to Simplify Machine Learning Development
In a recent blog post, Google announced the beta of Cloud AI Platform Pipelines, which provides users with a way to deploy robust, repeatable machine learning pipelines along with monitoring, auditing, version tracking, and reproducibility.
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Stanford NLP Group Releases Stanza: a Python NLP Toolkit
The Stanford NLP Group recently released Stanza, a new python natural language processing toolkit. Stanza features both a language-agnostic fully neural pipeline for text analysis (supporting 66 human languages), and a Python interface to the Java Stanford CoreNLP software.
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WebDriverIO Version 6 Release Adds Native Chrome DevTools Automation Protocol Support
The recent release of WebDriverIO version 6, a browser test automation framework for Node.js, adds Chrome DevTools protocol testing to its existing support for WebDriver and makes it easier to leverage tools like Puppeteer and Cypress.io.
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OVHcloud's Harbor Kubernetes Operator Becomes Part of CNCF’s goharbor Project
OVHcloud released their Kubernetes operator for the Harbor container registry as open source under the CNCF's goharbor project.
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Amazon Introduces a New Feature for ElastiCache for Redis: Global Datastore
Recently Amazon announced Global Datastore, a new feature of Amazon ElastiCache for Redis that provides fully managed, fast, reliable and secure cross-region replication.
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Google's MediaPipe Machine Learning Framework Web-Enabled with WebAssembly
Google recently presented MediaPipe graphs for browsers, enabled by WebAssembly and accelerated by the XNNPack ML Inference Library. As previously demonstrated on mobile (Android, iOS), MediaPipe graphs allow developers to build and run machine-learning (ML) pipelines, to achieve complex tasks.
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Git 2.26 Makes Protocol Version 2 the Default
Introduced in Git 2.18, Git wire protocol version 2 is now used by default in Git's latest version, 2.26. Git 2.26 also improves configuration option handling and sparse-checkouts, among other things.
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Facebook Introduces Rome Experimental JavaScript Toolchain
Rome is an experimental JavaScript toolchain created by Babel and yarn creator Sebastian McKenzie and the React Native team at Facebook. Rome includes a compiler, linter, formatter, bundler, and testing framework, aiming to be "a comprehensive tool for anything related to the processing of JavaScript source code."
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3D Printed N95 Masks Not Viable
The 3D printing community can create many unique parts to assist with COVID-19 shortages, but plans for printed N95 masks pose a number of difficulties.
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Web Components at Scale at Salesforce: Challenges Encountered, Lessons Learnt
Diego Ferreiro Val, principal architect at Salesforce, co-creator of Lightning Web Components (LWC), talked at WebComponentsSF about the challenges and lessons in building a platform leveraging web components at enterprise scale. Albeit with missing pieces, the web components standard was instrumental to achieve Salesforce’s interoperability, backward and forward compatibility objectives at scale.
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Babel 7.9 Reduces Bundle Sizes, Adds TypeScript 3.8 Support
The Babel 7.9 release decreases default bundle sizes when using the module/nomodule pattern and adds support for TypeScript 3.8 and its type-only imports and exports. Babel 7.9 also improves optimizations for JSX transforms and adds experimental parser support for the ES Record & Tuple proposal.
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Improving Incident Management through Role Assignments and Game Days
John Arundel, principal consultant at Bitfield Consulting, shared his thoughts on how to ensure incidents are handled smoothly and quickly. He suggests assigning specific roles to each team member responding to the incident. Red team versus blue team exercises can also be leveraged to ensure the team is prepared to respond accurately and quickly.
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Next.js 9.3 Released, Improves Static Site Generation
The Next.js team recently released Next.js 9.3, featuring improved static website generation and preview and adding Sass support, while shipping a smaller runtime.