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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 machine learning course / lecture notes.

🎓 Machine Learning Course Notes

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

WIP denotes work in progress.


Machine Learning Specialization (2022)

Website | Instructor: Andrew Ng

Lecture Description Video Notes Author
Introduction to Machine Learning Supervised Machine Learning: Regression and Classification Videos Notes Elvis
Advanced Learning Algorithms Advanced Learning Algorithms Videos WIP Elvis
Unsupervised Learning, Recommenders, Reinforcement Learning Unsupervised Learning, Recommenders, Reinforcement Learning Videos WIP Elvis

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

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 stackblitz.com

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

CDN

<!-- jsDelivr  -->
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/fireworks-js@2.x/dist/index.umd.js"></script>
<!-- UNPKG -->
<script src="https://unpkg.com/fireworks-js@2.x/dist/index.umd.js"></script
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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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