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FastCompany recently posted some rumours on possible integration of FB Messenger back to Facebook app: Until 2014, Facebook users were able to send and receive Facebook messages in the primary app. But then Facebook decided to remove the messaging feature from the app and forced users to use the dedicated Facebook Messenger app to send and receive Facebook messages. Wong speculates that the reversal of this policy is in preparation of Facebook integrating its messaging services across all its apps: Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram....

John Resig, founder of jQuery, recently raised a great discussion on how to handle Single Page Application reloading after deployment. For folks that've developed Single Page Apps - how do you deal with users leaving pages open for a *really* long time? Reload every N days? Reload after a deploy? We frequently have users attempt actions many weeks after a feature was removed! — John Resig (@jeresig) January 10, 2019 Some of the options included:...

Note: It appeared that this post was hanging in the drafts for almost a year. Only a year after, going through all the articles, that I kept aside for publishing, I finally decided to get this one in. Island escape Living in Cyprus for almost half of my life, whenever I was choosing the destination for vacations, my wife and I were picking the places that had to follow:...

In 90s Irvine Welsh published “Trainspotting”, that soon became a bestseller and was filmed by Danny Boyle. An anthem of punk subculture, and anarchy portrayed by Ewan McGregor and Jonny Lee Miller following great cast. 20 years later, the story got its continuation in “T2: Trainspotting”. Same characters, 20 years older, and somewhat wiser, facing pretty much same problems and unresolved conflicts. One of the famous monologues from the first movie intro puts an end to what life film characters have chosen:

Github recently released its annual report - Octoverse 2018. Ben Halpern descried an interesting fact about the use of emojis in in Github issue tracker. According to Github infographics in the report, “the kindest” development community is Ruby developers. In a sense of support and appreciation for other developers via the use of emojis. Some might say that this metric won’t say much about the “the kindness” of the community. So you might consider also the age distribution of the developers....

Great talk from Joe Armstrong on how they created Erlang, and how Programming community looked back in the days. Amazing, inspiring, worth watching:

Microsoft is building its own Chromium browser to replace the default on Windows 10. The software giant first introduced its Edge browser three years ago, with a redesign to replace Internet Explorer and modernize the default browsing experience to compete with Chrome and others. While the modern look and feel has paid off for Edge, the underlying browser engine (EdgeHTML) has struggled to keep up with Chromium. Microsoft is finally giving up and moving its default Windows 10 browser to Chromium....

Absolutely brilliant talk from Gary Bernhardt about JavaScript. Appearance of asm.js and all the low-level fun, that was going on in 2000’s. This science fiction / comedy / absurdist / completely serious talk traces the history of JavaScript, and programming in general, from 1995 until 2035. It’s not pro- or anti-JavaScript; the language’s flaws are discussed frankly, but its ultimate impact on the industry is tremendously positive. For Gary’s more serious (and less futuristic) thoughts on programming, try some Destroy All Software screencasts....

Rainglow published a great collection of editor themes, available for vim, Atom, sublime, XCode, etc. Darkside Theme sample

3 years ago, I wrote about this great video from Vimeo user MorskoiKotik. This time it’s a throwback to 90s nostalgia: