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Friday Links #344

Programming

• The New Exception Settings Window in Visual Studio 2015 - MSDN Blogs
• moll/js-concert

• [Jest

  Painless JavaScript Unit Testing](http://facebook.github.io/jest/)

• 9 New Visual Studio 2013 Extensions – Visual Studio Magazine
• Microsoft To Add React JavaScript to Visual Studio 2015 – Visual Studio Magazine
• markryd/XamlWatcher
• SolidStateProgrammer/CommonMarkBuilder
• Bitmap & BitmapSource Visualizer for Visual Studio 2013 - Home
• Introducing Module Browser – A World of Reusable PowerShell Modules at your Fingertips
• Visual Studio 2015 CTPs
• Visual Studio 2015 CTP 5
• ScottGu’s Blog - Introducing ASP.NET 5
• Visual Studio 2015 CTP 6 Overview: Big Features and Hidden Gems – Wintellect DevCenter
• Introducing the UI debugging tools for XAML - MSDN Blogs

• [The new OneDrive API

  OneDrive Blog](https://blog.onedrive.com/the-new-onedrive-api/?wt.mc_id=social_TW-OD_OD-API_facebook)

• Scrawl by fluentCODE
• The Philosophy of Ramda
• XML Aficionado: What’s new in XMLSpy Version 2015 Release 3
• Understanding .NET 2015 - Beth Massi - Sharing the goodness - MSDN Blogs
• anaka/miniMAL

Applications

• Lucidchart Is the Visio Alternative You’ve Been Waiting For

Science and Technology

• Tomatan robot rides on your shoulders, feeds you tomatoes - SlashGear
• Flow Hive makes it easy to get honey from beehives - SlashGear

• [The Foam On Your Latte Helps Keep It From Spilling

  Popular Science](http://www.popsci.com/foam-helps-keep-liquids-spilling)

• [Soon, A Giant Balloon Could Leisurely Float You To The Edge Of Space

  Popular Science](http://www.popsci.com/soon-giant-balloon-could-leisurely-float-you-edge-space)

• [Google’s New AI Plays Atari Games As Well As You Can, Or Better

  Popular Science](http://www.popsci.com/new-google-ai-plays-atari-games-well-you-can)

On the Web

• Leonard Nimoy, Spock of ‘Star Trek,’ Dies at 83 - NYTimes.com
• Google officially launches Flights, their Search-friendly travel tool - SlashGear
• Symple — $89 Planet Friendly Ubuntu Linux PCs
• Google now lets you store 50,000 tracks in Play music - SlashGear

Stuff I Just Like

• Multiversity Comics » Looking at Lettering: CAPS vs Mixed Case

• [volcano, a lenticular cloud, and the aurora

  Flickr - Photo Sharing!](https://www.flickr.com/photos/krazy_kat3/16612119546/in/photolist-rmd4xE-rm9g9x-riXsof-riVViG-r4BU9E-r4BJeu-rmc4pP-rm6S9j-riTN6E-rmbrCD-riTuf9-r4BTXu-r2RSR2-r4BQJW-rmavHV-r2RbJP-qpathb-r4zVKw-rm3Jxo-rm34vL-r4yjPG-qpkiWr-rm1W17-r2MgfF-rm6FYT-qp7bh5-r4x78m-rm6xui-rkYaYH-riNwAm-rkX44n-rkVZcg-r4tSJw-r4uH8h-r4uGBs-rkXYqJ-r2JFqk-rm483g-r2J2Vv-r4AzYe-r2HXAi-r2FK7e-6LVY9m-5KrHSS-r4yQHD-r4umow-r4A2hH-qp4tA9-r4tFN5-r2HE4e)

• Airborne - HTML5 Demo

• [This Is One Seriously Big Wels Catfish

  Popular Science](http://www.popsci.com/one-seriously-big-catfish)