The Penta List is a curated list of great links to some of the most interesting articles we found on the web. Enjoy!
- The Vanilla Javascript Repository With stars like underscore.js, impress.js, feature.js and chart.js, this is your one stop shop for open source repositories that do NOT use any library (I’m looking at you jQuery).
- Functional Programming Jargon aims to help you understand terminologies from the world functional programming. With buzzwords like Higher-Order Functions, purity, Idempotency and Isomorphism floating around, you will find this doc very useful.
- Why I’m Not Waiting On ‘await’ (part 1) The author breaks down on why he thinks the await keyword is just a hype, and he goes through reasoning behind his thoughts to back it up.
- Pastejacking Alarming loophole(?) that allows developers to highjack your clipboard, the author demonstrated you you can use this to exploit a third party program outside of your browser, like VIM.
- @Morhaus managed to reverse engineered Facebook Messenger’s User is Typing mechanism and wrote a blog about how he did it.
- Sublime Text 3 has been released!
- Joel Spolsky’s company Fog Creek just released hyperdev, a playground for developers like JSfiddle, except it does server side code too.
- Instagram’s new API policy officially take effect June 1st, rendering many third party apps useless.
- Interesting undocumented Facebook API to identify friends in any personal photos
- Eric Elliott teaches us 3 Different Kinds of Prototypal Inheritance: ES6+ Edition
- From Digital Ocean: How To Install and Use Docker Compose on Ubuntu 14.04
- Learn to create desktop apps with Electron
- Win your coding interview
- 2 years in at Twitter’s bug bounty program
- Reddit CTO on choosing the right stack, hint: be boring
- Michael Benin gives us useful tips with Express security
- @_flynn explains why AWS Lamda is not ready for the world
- Need music while programming? Here are 7 sites to help you do that
- Twitter hacked once again! 32 million passwords has been leaked, including Ev Williams whose account was taken over this week.
- Who needs lodash? Here’s 10 lodash features that can be replaced with ES6
- jQuery 3.0 released!
- Here’s how you can spy on a Ruby program
- Hiring a blind coder is not as bad
- This paper explains when one thing is equal to another
- Eleven algorithms of image dithering
- Another programming language you should check out: Squirrel
- Fan of Harry Potter? Here are some HP Bash aliases
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