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Curiosity Digest #6

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.NET Announcing ML.NET 0.11 – Machine Learning for .NET. This, along with Blazor, is at the top of my Curiosity ToDo List. I work a lot in C#, and it's nice to see the tools and libraries for machine learning that were almost exclusive to Python making their way to the .NET world. JavaScript WebGazer - an interesting project that attempts to use your webcam to do eye tracking with JavaScript. I, of course, was curious, but on the one laptop I've tried so far, I didn't have much luck. between 20 and 50% accuracy. But, I'll keep an eye on it... Introduction to Hoisting in JavaScript - And explanation of one of the most confusing aspects of JavaScript for new programmers. Building Angular and React Applications Together With Nx - Dogs and cats sleeping together! You Can Do That? Use Chrome  (the browser) as an IDE - I was aware of most of these features, but I never was curious enough to use my browser as an Integrated Development Environment. Super c...

Curiosity Digest #5

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An Absurd Illustration from https://absurd.design/ World Wide Web World Wide Web Turns 30 JavaScript Get JavaScript Grammar for Free  - New book with some interesting JavaScript Visualizations. You can secure a free copy if you act quickly! How to use the apply(), call() and bind() methods in JavaScript  - A nice introduction into those mysterious methods in JavaScript that let you do things with JavaScript that you weren't sure you could do. React Dynamic Document Head with React Helmet - We all know how to make the body of our React Web Apps change with the state, but what about the information in the head? Could me useful! Gadgets Motorola Razr Foldable Phone Software Features Leaked - I had a Razr phone, and then later a Droid Razr (which even with the higher battery capacity version was very thin for its time). Now, in the age of foldable displays, the Razr is (hopefully) making a comeback in the form of an Adroid Flip Phone. This one may ...