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Duncan Grant

@TheWebNomad

Sales Engineer Writing code mostly in JavaScript I also have a blog: https://teapaw.org/t.co/AJjgphPyqP

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Joined August 2009
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James O'Malley@Psythor17 Apr 2023
E-scooters are good and Britain should legalise them takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/e…
E-scooters are good and Britain should legalise them

E-scooters are good and Britain should legalise them

You can't uninvent the wheel

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Vue
@vuejs19 May 2020
First appearing on @thoughtworks' Tech Radar under "Assess" in 2016, Vue has advanced to "Adopt" in its 2020 edition - the journey continues! thoughtworks.com/radar/langu…
Vue.js | Technology Radar | Thoughtworks

Vue.js | Technology Radar | Thoughtworks

Vue.js has become one of the successfully applied, loved and trusted frontend JavaScript frameworks among our community. Although there are other, well-adopted alternatives, such as [...]

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Kris@roebuk14 May 2020
What did Deno get right? 🧪 Built-in testing lib ♾ Standard lib is async 🛍 No node_modules 🔡 Ships with a formatter 🕸 Browser compatible APIs (fetch 🐕, Window object) 🚫 No commonjs 🦠 Single file executable. That's a pretty solid start!
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deno@deno_community13 May 2020
🦕 Welcome to the new age to the new age welcome to ... deno.land/v1
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JavaScript: The First 20 Years wirfs-brock.com/allen/posts/…
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To all the people @skillsmatter who made us who we were, I’m very sad and sorry that @skillsmatter has gone in administration. A massive thanks to my beautiful team, who contributed so much beauty, passion, talent and experience, words cannot express my gratitude.
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GNOME@gnome24 Oct 2019
We just reached the halfway point towards our fundraising goal! We are incredibly humbled that more than 1,800 of you have donated to help us defend free software and send a message to patent trolls everywhere ☺️ #FOSS secure.givelively.org/donate…
Donate Now | GNOME Patent Troll Defense Fund by GNOME Foundation

Donate Now | GNOME Patent Troll Defense Fund by GNOME Foundation

GNOME, the free software desktop has been hit by a patent troll. It's the first time a free software project has been hit by this, and we want to send a message to all...

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GraphRM@Graph_RM30 Sep 2019
Mercoledì 9 ottobre non mancate al prossimo evento! • Apache Zeppelin e #neo4j di @santand84 • Visualizing knowledge graphs di @TheWebNomad meetup.com/GraphRM/events/26… A seguire tanto networking, birra 🍻 e taralli 🥨 in tradizione #Aperitech #KnowledgeGraph #apachezeppelin
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Last chance: the leading #event for those who use relationships, meaning & context in #Data to achieve great things is almost #soldout. #conecteddata #London in 3 days. Check our #speakers and programme, get a ticket, join us in this #learning #experience! connected-data.london
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@TheWebNomad kicks off tonight's meetup about visualising knowledge graphs with some sage advice on good data viz practices. Our best ever attended meetup #knowledgegraph #graphdb
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Ian Birrell@ianbirrell9 May 2019
This is the tactical voting map recommended by @remainutd for the Euro elections to maximise the anti-Brexit vote.
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Thomas Deely@DeelyThomas8 May 2019
#keytakeaways from @joshsh #uber #knowledge #graph presentation #KGC2019
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Rich Harris
@Rich_Harris22 Apr 2019
I didn't mean for this to come out today, but the cat it out of the bag, so... 🚨🚨🚨 SVELTE 3 IS HERE 🚨🚨🚨 svelte.dev/blog/svelte-3-ret…
Svelte 3: Rethinking reactivity

Svelte 3: Rethinking reactivity

It’s finally here

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Adrian Carr@ade_carr18 Apr 2019
A short video of #MarkLogic #SKO ( #SalesKickOff) in #Dallas #ThisIsHowWeRoll #WeAreMarkLogic and #WeAreHiring #Hiring #Jobs youtu.be/1aoHN44ieFs #OpenPositions page is here marklogic.com/company/career…
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Roger Lee@rogerdleeuk3 Apr 2019
.@dmroberts kicking off the Data provenance and lineage @MarkLogic MeetUp in London
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Prettier
@PrettierCode7 Nov 2018
We just landed HTML, Angular, Vue and MDX support among other great features in the latest 1.15 version! Grab it while it's hot and spread the word :) prettier.io/blog/2018/11/07/…
Prettier 1.15: HTML, Vue, Angular and MDX Support · Prettier

Prettier 1.15: HTML, Vue, Angular and MDX Support · Prettier

This release adds support for HTML, Vue, Angular and MDX.

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Mathias Bynens@mathias31 Oct 2018
JavaScript array destructuring implicitly invokes the iteration protocol, which comes at a cost. Now that this pattern is becoming more common (React Hooks, anyone?), @v8js is optimizing it to minimize the overhead. @bmeurer explains: bit.ly/array-destructuring-f…
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London's traffic in 1911. Red is trade, pink is passenger vehicles. Total for Old Kent Road (to the southeast) was 12k vehicles between 8am and 8pm: 2,000 cycles 1,200 electric trams 400 barrows 200 "passenger motor carriages" ...most of the rest was horse drawn...
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Jason Karaian@jkaraian15 Oct 2018
’Tis the season… to update Quartz's Christmas Creep Calculator™ qz.com/1423748/christmas-lig…
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Great courses to learn stuff: ↬ CSS Animations css-animations.io ↬ Grid Garden cssgridgarden.com/ ↬ Flex Zombies, Grid Critters mastery.games/p/flexbox-zomb… ↬ Grid Cheatsheets grid.malven.co/ ↬ Flexbox games flexboxfroggy.com/ flexboxdefense.com/
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