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July 18 - 24, 2019
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How AI Discriminates Why Do Some Languages Always Come Top? Refactoring to Kotlin Codelab Next.js Adds Built-In Zero-Config TypeScript Support Tuesday 23 July State of AI 2019 Report NativeScript 6 Goes Webpack All The Way Alan Turing On £50 Note Moonlight Tribute To Margaret Hamilton's Apollo Code Saturday 20 July Hasura's Guide to GraphQL Facebook Releases Hermes JavaScript Engine Vent Your Frustration in the MDN Developer and Designer Survey Thursday 18 July FaunaDB Adds Native GraphQL Support 
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The pseudo file system is mysterious - well not really. It is the place that Linux/POSIX puts everything that you can access from user mode. The confusing part is that it all pretends to be a set of directories and files even though it isn't. This extract is from my book on using C in an IoT context. 
Fractals encompass interesting pure math and computing - and are very pretty to look at. It is almost a rite of passage that every programmer has to face - write some sort of fractal viewer! 
“Survival of the Best Fit” is a game developed by New York University that demonstrates practically how Machine Learning algorithms can make decisions based on bias. 
JavaScript, Java and Python are again the top three languages in the RedMonk language rankings. While this might seem non-news, it is in fact very good news for devs. 
Learn how to convert Java to Kotlin using Kotlin's idioms with Google Developers Codelabs. Refactoring to Kotlin, which is available in English, Brazilian and Chinese, provides a guided, hands-on coding experience in a running time of just less than an hour. 
Next.js version 9 has been released with built-in support for zero-config TypeScript, along with automatic static optimization and API routes. Next.js is a toolkit for universal, server-rendered (or statically pre-rendered) React.js applications. 
An insightful report on the future of AI has recently been published on SlideShare. It consists of 130 slides covering the most important machine learning research, industry and political developments over the past 12 months and includes a new section on China and here we look at its most important points. 
NativeScript 6.0 has been released with more support for Webpack and faster delivery of patches. 
The next £50 bank note, the highest denomination issued by the Bank of England, honors Alan Turing. This news prompted The Times to write a new obituary for "this enigmatic genius".
This week marks the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 moon landing and we have all been experiencing (again) watching Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin setting foot on the moon. Google not only provided us a Google Doodle, it also produced a massive portrait of Margaret Hamilton, in moonlight, to mark her role in landing mankind on the moon. 
Hausura has provided a mini course on the basics of GraphQL which will be of interest to anyone who want to get to grips with the open source Graph QL engine.
Facebook has released Hermes, a JavaScript engine designed to make native Android apps built using the React Native network load faster. Hermes, which has been open sourced under a MIT license, is described as featuring ahead-of-time static optimization and compact bytecode. 
What are your bugbears about developing for the web? Let Mozilla be your agony aunt and express your frustrations in the hope that browser vendors and WC3 will take notice of the MDN Developer and Designer Survey. 
FaunaDB has been updated with a GraphQL API, a web-based version of the Fauna shell, and support for role-based access control.