The New York Times has an interesting piece on how they developed war game scenarios to train on-call engineers on their web platforms. The procedures have the dual result of preparing documentation and toolkits for recovery scenarios while also making engineers more confident about being on-call.
Javascript internet extraordinaire Wes Bos posted 2 videos (part 1, part 2) last week showing him working on controlling a DJI Tello drone with React and Node.js! The videos were made to help promote a new Drone giveaway by IBM developer.
Microsoft have announced plans to rebuild their Edge browser on the open source Chromium Web rendering engine. The new Edge will be available on the older Windows 7 and Windows 8 operating systems, as well as on Mac OS!
24ways have created a web development Advent calendar and are releasing some really interesting articles in the run up to Christmas like how best to secure your website or how to create your first Chrome extension.
Learning Dollars have put together a great list of 15 source code tools that can be used to help developers make sense of professional code bases, ranging from Chrome Developer Tools up to research projects to illustrate runtime events based on questions asked by the user.
UX Movement have a handy post that describes bad practices on phone form fields, along with some recommendations on how to reach the holy grail of UX; don't make users think.