The JavaFX hidden economy http://gluonhq.com/javafx-hidden-economy/
ControlsFX is an open source project for JavaFX that aims to provide really high quality UI controls and other tools http://fxexperience.com/controlsfx/
Fx Experience: JavaFX news, demos and insight http://fxexperience.com/
Say no to Electron! Using JavaFX to write a fast, responsive desktop application https://sites.google.com/a/athaydes.com/renato-athaydes/posts/saynotoelectronusingjavafxtowriteafastresponsivedesktopapplication
Sick of Ruby, dynamic typing, side effects, and basically object-oriented programming: Abe Voelker's blog https://blog.abevoelker.com/sick-of-ruby-dynamic-typing-side-effects-object-oriented-programming/?repost2014
How to do it wrong: third-party auth, aka “social login” https://codeburst.io/how-to-do-it-wrong-third-party-auth-aka-social-login-d7f24abecef5
CS50: Introduction to Computer Science | edX https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-computer-science-harvardx-cs50x
Andy Tanenbaum, author of Minix, writes an open letter to Intel http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/intel/
Gustavo Arellano, ex-OC Weekly, on the death of the alt-weekly in general http://reason.com/archives/2017/11/04/the-death-of-the-alt-weekly-as-told-by-a
Audacity 2.2.0 adds MIDI playback, revamps menus, more help links http://www.audacityteam.org/audacity-2-2-0-released/
JSON5 is a proposed extension to JSON that aims to make it easier for humans to write and maintain by hand http://json5.org/
MINIX — The most popular OS in the world, thanks to Intel https://www.networkworld.com/article/3236064/servers/minix-the-most-popular-os-in-the-world-thanks-to-intel.html
How to Get a Programming Job Straight Out of High School (from malisper.me) http://malisper.me/how-to-get-a-programming-job-straight-out-of-high-school/
Local Storage And How To Use It On Websites – Smashing Magazine https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/10/local-storage-and-how-to-use-it/
Using the Web Storage API - Mozilla Developer Network https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Storage_API/Using_the_Web_Storage_API
JavaScript: Storing Data on The Client with LocalStorage (via Treehouse Blog) http://blog.teamtreehouse.com/storing-data-on-the-client-with-localstorage
Is Ruby on Rails Still Worth it in 2017? | Codementor https://www.codementor.io/brookecampbell/is-ruby-on-rails-still-worth-it-in-2017-5wxguk5xn
Create a Console Application in Ruby https://ruby.unicorn.tv/articles/create-a-console-application-in-ruby
React is taking over front-end development https://medium.freecodecamp.org/yes-react-is-taking-over-front-end-development-the-question-is-why-40837af8ab76
RubyMotion allows you to write apps for iOS and Android, but you have to use a Mac to do it. http://www.rubymotion.com/
A beginner's guide to Kotlin (from Bugsnag Blog) https://blog.bugsnag.com/introduction-to-kotlin/
Adopting Kotlin at Udacity https://engineering.udacity.com/adopting-kotlin-c12f10fd85d1
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