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Weekly Digest 29/2022

Welcome to my Weekly Digest #29 ☀️

This weekly digest contains a lot of interesting and inspiring articles, videos, tweets, podcasts, and designs I consumed during this week.


Interesting articles to read

The case for using Sass in 2022

With CSS adding a lot of equivalent features, is Sass relevant? The answer is still Yes, it is far from obsolete, despite what some folks might tell you.

The case for using Sass in 2022

Help Me Help You: A Guide to Asking for Help

It’s not overly difficult at the end of the day: be kind and provide relevant information so people have a good overview of the context. Then be patient until someone picks it up.

Help Me Help You: A Guide to Asking for Help


Some great videos I watched this week

CSS Variable Secrets

By now most developers use CSS custom properties on the regular, but few understand them deeply enough to harness their full power. Lea will take you on a journey from the practical to the mind-blowing, and from the widely implemented to the cutting edge, demonstrating a host of tips, tricks, and gotchas relating to CSS variables.

by Lea Verou

Overloads vs generics: which is better?

by Matt Pocock

Carbon Lang… The C++ killer?

Carbon is a new early-stage programming language from Google designed as a successor to C++ for low level systems development. It has full interoperability with Cpp, along with improved memory safety, generics, and a cleaner syntax.

by Fireship


Useful GitHub repositories

ML Course Notes

Sharing course notes on all topics related to machine learning, NLP, and AI.

GitHub logo dair-ai / ML-Course-Notes

🎓 Sharing course notes on all topics related to machine learning, NLP, and AI.

🎓 ML Course Notes

A place to collaborate and share course notes on all topics related to machine learning, NLP, and AI.

WIP denotes work in progress

🆕 denotes recently published notes

MIT 6.S191 Introduction to Deep Learning (2022)

Website | Lectures by: Alexander Amini and Ava Soleimany

Lecture Description Video Notes Author
Introduction to Deep Learning Basic fundamentals of neural networks and deep learning. Video Notes Elvis
RNNs and Transformers Introduction to recurrent neural networks and transformers. Video Notes Elvis
Deep Computer Vision Deep Neural Networks for Computer Vision. Video Notes Elvis
Deep Generative Modeling Autoencoders and GANs. Video Notes Elvis
Deep Reinforcement Learning Deep RL key concepts and DQNs. Video Notes Elvis
Limitations and New Frontiers Limitations and New Frontiers in Deep Learning. Video WIP Elvis
Autonomous Driving with LiDAR Autonomous Driving with LiDAR. Video WIP Elvis

CS224N: Natural Language Processing with Deep Learning (2022)

Website

Lecture Description

fireworks.js

A simple fireworks library! Ready to use components available for React, Vue 3, Svelte, Angular, Preact, Solid, and Web Components.

GitHub logo crashmax-dev / fireworks-js

🎆 A simple fireworks library! Ready to use components available for React, Vue 3, Svelte, Angular, Preact, Solid, and Web Components.

A simple fireworks library! | fireworks.js.org

GitHub Workflow Status GitHub npm npm npm bundle size


Table of Contents

Warning
This readme refers to upcoming v2 version, read here for v1 documentation.

Features

Browsers support

IE / Edge
Edge
Firefox
Firefox
Chrome
Chrome
Safari
Safari
iOS Safari
iOS Safari
Opera
Opera
Yandex
Yandex

Demo

You can play with fireworks-js at fireworks.js.org or codesandbox.io

Installation

npm install fireworks-js
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yarn add fireworks-js
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pnpm add fireworks-js
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Package Status Description
fireworks-js Vanilla JS
@fireworks-js/react React component
@fireworks-js/preact Preact component
@fireworks-js/solid Solid component
@fireworks-js/vue Vue 3 component
@fireworks-js/svelte Svelte component
@fireworks-js/angular Angular component
@fireworks-js/web Web components

Usage

fireworks-js

import { Fireworks } from 'fireworks-js'
const container = document.querySelector('.container')
const fireworks = new Fireworks(container, { /*
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dribbble shots

Torial :: E-Learning Dashboard

by [UnArshia](https://www.notion.so/Weekly-Digest-29-2022-b7ab8c7ddf064a9fa032869e4bfa5aa7)

by UnArshia

Bumdek - Dating App

by [Habibi](https://dribbble.com/shots/18870309-Bumdek-Dating-App)

by Habibi

Social Media App

by [Sajon](https://www.notion.so/Weekly-Digest-29-2022-b7ab8c7ddf064a9fa032869e4bfa5aa7)

by Sajon


Tweets


Picked Pens

Pure CSS Woman With Long Earrings

by Asyraf Hussin

What's really going on?

by Jhey


Podcasts worth listening

Call with Kent – Lack of experience when problem solving

Is there anything that helped you "think better" or "think clearer" to solve issues?


Thank you for reading, talk to you next week, and stay safe! 👋

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