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Friday Links #316

Programming

• [A fast, simple, and flexible static site generator

  Broccoli Taco](http://broccoli-taco.com/)

• p5.js
• Building High-Quality Front-End Modules - Pony Foo
• tcomb by gcanti
• VS/TFS 2013.3 (Update 3) released - Brian Harry’s blog - Site Home - MSDN Blogs
• A curated list of angular-js directives
• ScottGu’s Blog - Free ebook: Building Cloud Apps with Microsoft Azure
• JavaScript and V8 TurboFan

• [Object pooling and thread safety

  Jon Skeet’s coding blog](http://codeblog.jonskeet.uk/2014/08/01/object-pooling-and-thread-safety/)

• ScottGu’s Blog - Azure: Virtual Machine, Machine Learning, IoT Event Ingestion, Mobile, SQL, Redis, SDK Improvements
• Json.NET - Download: Json.NET 6.0 Release 4
• JavaScript: using closure space to create real private members - Eternal Coding
• NancyFX provides an elegant web framework for ASP.NET developers - TechRepublic
• Introducing AngularFire 0.8 - Firebase
• Jonathan Channon Blog - Nancy, ASP.Net vNext, OSX and Sublime Text
• Ardalis - RGRC is the new Red Green Refactor for Test First Development
• How should I format the ECMAScript 6 generator asterisk?
• MultiDictionary becomes MultiValueDictionary - .NET Blog - SmartElk/Antler
• textarea-autosize by javierjulio
• Blast.js
• maurizzzio/t3
• Chartist - Simple responsive charts
• Anthony Steele’s blog - Patterns for web services in NancyFx
• Semantic Code Highlighting – Visual Studio Magazine
• JogDial.js - A JavaScript plugin for jog dial controls
• ngTagsInput - Tags input directive for AngularJS
• Wisembly/basil.js
• Logging JavaScript errors to your server side log - JSNLog

Applications

• Sysmon
• Another Free Browser Extension For Full Text History Search
• You aren’t using Resource Monitor enough - Scott Hanselman

• [Not Just a Lot of Talk: NPR One Sounds Smarter

  Re/code](http://recode.net/2014/08/06/not-just-a-lot-of-talk-npr-one/)

Science and Technology

• MIT to test making oxygen on Mars
• Olaf Diegel reveals first prototype of 3D-printed alto saxophone
• Continental’s Augmented Reality HUD puts information on the road

• [This $500 Display Makes Your Junker Car Feel Like a Fighter Jet

  Autopia

  WIRED](http://www.wired.com/2014/08/navdy-hud/)

• Wireless Charging, at a Distance, Moves Forward for uBeam - NYTimes.com

On the Web

• How Tesla’s battery ‘Gigafactory’ could change everything – not just electric cars
• Gmail gets official Unsubscribe button - SlashGear

• [Bing Streamlines Technical Searches

  Search Blog](http://blogs.bing.com/search/2014/08/07/technical-searches-have-been-turbo-charged/)

Stuff I Just Like

• The True Size Of The Seven Kingdoms From Game Of Thrones
• Fresh Air Plus: The relationship-saving toilet seat

Favorite Tweets

Half the world’s population lives inside this circle. http://t.co/3gm9VDFVD4 - Weird Science