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Friday Links #370

Programming

• Converting ES6 Maps to and from JSON
• Roaming Extension Manager: Control and Consistency down to the last Extension

• [Projects

  Lea Verou](http://lea.verou.me/projects/)

• Making Angular.js Real-Time with Pusher - Pusher
• dataminr/window-manager
• Simple Notifications by shaundon
• Pure CSS Bars
• Descartes, Berkeley and Functional Reactive Programming
• Git Bisect: Bug hunting on steroids
• Rocking Your Mocks - Magenic’s blog brings ideas from the technology industries thought leaders
• Validating User Input on a Form in Angular JS - Evangelism - Infragistics.com Blog
• Fiddler and FiddlerCore Certificate Generators Explained
• GitHub Universe: The Big Bang
• Sequence.js - The responsive CSS animation framework
• cmpolis/smart-table-scroll
• IT Hare on Soft.ware
• Announcing Package Management support for VSO/TFS
• ScottGu’s Blog - Announcing Great New SQL Database Capabilities in Azure

• [Creating your own browser with HTML and JavaScript

  Microsoft Edge Dev Blog](https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2015/08/27/creating-your-own-browser-with-html-and-javascript/)

• Git Experience Futures - Microsoft Application Lifecycle Management
• algebra.js by nicolewhite

• [Cohesive Colors

  A tool for creating more cohesive color schemes.](https://javierbyte.github.io/cohesive-colors/)

• Why We Should Stop Using Bower - And How to Do It

Applications

• PDF to Word Converter – 100% Free

• [Slack updates their desktop app for Windows 10 with notification support and more

  Windows Central](http://www.windowscentral.com/slack-desktop-app-windows-10-notifications?utm_source=wpc&utm_medium=twitter)

Science and Technology

• Just how big is a blue whale’s heart? See for yourself - CNET
• Super-low loss quantum energy transport could revolutionize sunlight to energy conversion

• [Exclusive: Secretive fusion company claims reactor breakthrough

  Science/AAAS

  News](http://news.sciencemag.org/physics/2015/08/secretive-fusion-company-makes-reactor-breakthrough)

• Cheaper, better LED technology – ScienceDaily

On the Web

• Make an Easy Switch to Chromebook Now (and Never Look Back)
• 5 Sites That Will Change How You See The World
• Comcast to cover entire US footprint with Gigabit Internet by 2018 - SlashGear

Stuff I Just Like

'Petition for this to become the new 'Loading' GIF.' I can get behind that idea. pic.twitter.com/nXxNfoekPa

— Deanna (@tvchiquita) August 26, 2015