Tuesday 21st January, 2020 #
- vocab10k.com - An interesting web tool for learning english used by professionals / in business
- The best word of mouth strategies I've come across
- CloudSavings - A simple interface to save on AWS Bills
- TypeScript's Secret Parallel Universe - TypeScript is weird in some places, also I’ve noticed that around 70-80% of freelance posting on job boards have typescript as a requirement - Do these projects really need typescript? I don’t know, but it looks like we’re all going to be writing in TypeScript in the near future, why not just write everything in C++?
- Opera appears to be involved in shady money lending in Africa, I didn’t read the whole article but the main bullet points are quite alarming - I also didn’t know Opera is owned by a chinese company
- Why Google thinks we need to regulate AI - Piece written by Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai
- deno (javascript runtime written by Ryan Dahl creator of NodeJS) has quite a lot of built in tools - dependency inspector, code formatter, bundler, runtime type info, test runner, command-line debugger, and a linter - I’m quite liking the idea of these built in tools but also I’m curious to know if it’s possible to use alternatives if you want to for whatever reason