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Friday Links #362

Programming

• The Future of Programming: WebAssembly & Life After JavaScript
• Coder’s Block Blog / Checkbox Trickery with CSS
• Google has quietly launched a GitHub competitor, Cloud Source Repositories

• [JS.ORG

  STATS](http://stats.js.org/)

• MeshJS - A featherlight data synchronization library for creating powerful applications
• Did Famous Finally Get It Right? -Telerik Developer Network
• Wallaby.js Introduction: What is wallaby.js?
• Save the Date: Visual Studio 2015 RTM on July 20th
• d3/d3-time
• cellauto.js
• Adding a Pivot Table to HTML5 Apps -Telerik Developer Network
• Unleashing C# Generic Constraints with Extension Methods

• [Build Time Code Generation in MSBuild

  mhut.ch](https://mhut.ch/journal/2015/06/30/build_time_code_generation_msbuild)

• Elm for the Frontend, Right Now
• Release Dates and Compatibility: Visual Studio 2015 and the Windows 10 SDK

Applications

• Download LINQPad

• [How to Get a Windows 7 Start Menu in Windows 10

  Gizmo’s Freeware](http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/how-get-windows-7-start-menu-windows-10.htm)

Science and Technology

• Forensic test pins down ‘time of death’ - BBC News
• 3 New Kinds of Battery That Just Might Change the World

• [Long-Range Nissan Electric Car Gets Pumped At Annual Shareholders Meeting

  CleanTechnica](https://cleantechnica.com/2015/06/27/long-range-nissan-electric-car-gets-pumped-at-annual-shareholders-meeting/)

• Sliden’Joy gives your laptop two additional portable screens

On the Web

• Click the Listen Link Twice for a Slow Pronunciation in Google Translate

Stuff I Just Like

• ‘Avengers: Age Of Ultron’ Meets ‘The Wizard Of Oz’ Is A Dream Come True
• The surprisingly uncomplicated racist history of the Confederate flag
• Wikipedia Encyclopedia as a Printed Book
• 12 Interesting Facts You Never Knew About Superman
• Misquotes and memes: Did Ben Franklin really say that? – ScienceDaily