FOUND THIS WEEK

Check out this cook demo of a webcam made of checkboxes!

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WCAG Accessibility Checklist

The A11Y Project has a very useful checklist to use for WCAG Accessibility compliance when building websites or online content.

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Woz To Clean Up Space

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is launching a company called Privateer Space that aims to clean up space debris!

Space

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Researchers at MIT and Maynooth University have created a telecoms chip that can universally error correct noise found during transmission of data on a network without needing to know the structure of the noise beforehand. Hat tip to the Maynooth part of the team who I presume had dibs on naming the chip GRAND (Guessing Random Additive Noise Decoding)!

Tech

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Fastest Growing Jobs For The Next Decade

Visual Capitalist put together a huge infographic projecting the fastest and slowest growing jobs over the next decade. Bad news for street vendors, good news for wind turbine technicians.

Business

Data Vis

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Ten Years Ago

Neal Agarwal created a neat interface on the Internet Archive that allows the user to see the homepage of a range of high profile websites on this day ten years ago.

History

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View Source

View Source is a handy tool for use on desktop and mobile that lets you see the source code of any webpage, nicely formatted and syntax highlighted.

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Questions When Joining A New Software Team

Thomas Stringer published an excellent set of questions that every software developer can/should ask when joining a new team. Some of these could really cut straight through any inefficient, or missing, onboarding process.

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Code Commenting Best Practices

Ellen Spertus lists some best practices for commenting code on the Stack Overflow blog.

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Javascript Software Design Patterns

Zeeshan Haider Shaheen over on dev.to put together a handy post describing how to implement lots of software design patterns in Javascript.