Hello Everyone,
I hope everyone is doing well. In this newsletter, I will be sharing the following news articles that I have collected over the last week and I hope you guys will find those interesting to read.
Technology
As we all know SQL is a very important skill when it comes to gathering data for data analysis and this blog does a great job of teaching enough SQL to get you up to speed when doing data analysis.
HTML was the first thing I learned when I started my programming journey and this blog post does a good job of covering HTML elements that we might have missed when learning HTML such as <meter> , <base> and etc.
These are the slides from Joe Damato’s talk at Deconstruct 2017, titled “All programmers must learn C and Assembly.”
This talk covers: C, assembly, system calls, operating systems, kernels, and more!
An interesting talk covering the features of modern C and what we can learn from it. Definitely worth listening !!!
Texas Instruments is known for making popular graphing calculators and we all have used those calculators at some point when taking high school math classes. Now they have added the power of Python to our calculators making it more accessible to learn Python.
Learning UNIX tools can be over whelming when first starting out but this blog post does a good job of explaining how you can learn UNIX tools.
Project Showcase
This tool allows you build slides using simple markdown.
An open source tool released by Google for tool writing better scripts using JavaScript.
A collection of services with great free tiers for developers on a budget.
NOTATIONAL VELOCITY is an application that stores and retrieves notes.
It is an attempt to loosen the mental blockages to recording information and to scrape away the tartar of convention that handicaps its retrieval. The solution is by nature nonconformist.Its a great note-taking tool which has a powerful search feature
Google just made it easier when searching for datasets. By using this tool you can find datasets just like how you perform google search.
Business/Miscellaneous
“One hundred years ago, a retail giant that shipped millions of products by mail moved swiftly into the brick-and-mortar business, changing it forever. Is that happening again?”
Before internet, mail was popular and it was used for communication,sending money , items and much more. By the help of mail Sears became the retail giant back in the day.
“Germany does a better job on innovation in areas as diverse as sustainable energy systems, molecular biotech, lasers, and experimental software engineering.”
An interesting article posted on Harvard Business Review comparing US and Germany in terms of innovation. It was really interesting to see how Germany excels at innovation and applies to every industry.
A new movement started by Redditors to make sure they preserve the knowledge and make sure everyone has access to it.
I would highly suggest checking out r/datahoarder on Reddit.
We all know there’s new fight going on between Apple and Facebook over privacy. Basically giving the power to consumers to make a decision whether they want to get tracked by the apps they install on their phone or if they don’t want to get tracked by the those apps.
Lastly, I hope you enjoyed reading this newsletter and got a chance to learn something new.
If you have any interesting news articles or blog posts to share feel free to send those and I would be happy to include them in the next newsletter.
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Anyways, Happy Monday and I hope you guys have a great rest of your week.
Regards
Muhammad