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Power People Platform

Power People Platform is a great library of diverse 3D avatars to use in your designs and UX personas. The library features 12 different characters, everyone with 3 different skin colors, 6 hair colors, 5 dresses, 23 dress colors and endless background colors

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Javascript Data Structures & Algorithms

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A very handy github repository of javascript code illustrating the many data structures and algorithms taught in computer science, from graph traversal to encryption and machine learning.

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Functional Programming Beginners Guide

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Codeburst published a handy beginners guide to functional programming, which describes the fundamentals including pure functions and recursion.

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Adobe Flash EOL Nightmares

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On December 31, 2020 Adobe Flash reached its official End Of Life (EOL) and on January 12, 2021 Adobe disabled Flash from running. Despite months of warnings and notices, some users did not migrate away from Flash in time and have been forced into some questionable decision making in order to keep critical services running.

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CSS Grid Layout Generator

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Layitout.com is a handy CSS grid layout tool that generates all the CSS and HTML code based on the grid that you can build visually using the tool.

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Computer Science Course YouTube Videos

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Laconicml.com have put together a list of free YouTube videos and playlists that cover the topics of a full computer science degree course.

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Database Deepdive For Developers

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Jaana Dogan posted a deepdive on 17 topics that can help developers better understand the inner workings and exception scenarios when working with databases, such as the realities of ACID, latency issues, and clock skews.

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Netflix 40ms Bug

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John Blair, partner engineer at Netflix, published an interesting post about tracking down a bug in the Netflix Android application that was causing playback to stutter on a set-top box. Turns out an extra 40ms delay in thread management by Android was bubbling up to cause the playback to stutter. What I found interesting is the process of exploration using logging that John used to narrow down the delay.

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Web Almanac 2020

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The HTTP Archive has published the 2020 Web Almanac, which combines the raw stats and trends of the TTP Archive with the expertise of the web community in order to document that latest start of the art on the web, from web development languages, to UX and deployment.

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