Essential Reading For Engineering Leaders

- Chris Ferdinandi

JavaScript
Accessibility

tl;dr: Web pages built with popular JS frameworks are more likely to have accessibility issues. Lack of education & rise of inexperienced developers are causes. The article runs through examples of these issues and solutions to the ongoing problem.

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What is Pika?

- Fred K. Schott

JavaScript

tl;dr: Pika's mission is "to make modern JavaScript more accessible by making it easier to find, publish, install, and use modern packages on npm."

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Bringing Black And White Photos To Life Using Colourise.sg

- Preston Lim

JavaScript
ML

tl;dr: Using a deep learning technique called GANs, Colourise.sg predicts the color values at each pixel in black & white images. The model is trained on old Singaporean photos. In order to create accuracy, colorization requires historical, geographic, and cultural context. Below is an example, you can try the tool here on your own B&W photos.

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Handtrack.js: Hand Tracking Interactions In The Browser Using Tensorflow.js & 3 Lines Of Code

- Victor Dibia

JavaScript

tl;dr: This JS library allows you to detect hands. no ML experience needed, just plug and play. It's in early stages but a lot of value can be built using this.

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Handling Time Zone in JavaScript

- Dongwoo Kim