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Friday Links #385

Programming

• Victory
• Aurelia Repaint Performance Rules

• [Introducing Bliss: A 3KB library for happier Vanilla JS

  Lea Verou](http://lea.verou.me/2015/12/introducing-bliss-a-3kb-library-for-happier-vanilla-js/)

• Measure Anything, Measure Everything - Code as Craft
• documentationjs/documentation
• sindresorhus/xo
• Angular Light
• Microsoft Edge’s JavaScript engine to go open-source
• NDJS installer framework
• 5 Reasons to Fall in Love with Angular Material – One Hungry Mind
• dry.ly
• An Introduction To PostCSS – Smashing Magazine
• Announcing the Git Credential Manager for Windows 1.0 - Microsoft Application Lifecycle Management - Site Home - MSDN Blogs
• How to build Minesweeper using Angular 2 and Immutable.js

• [Getting Started

  d3.compose](https://csnw.github.io/d3.compose/)

• Vizir/d3_water_drop_chart
• fulcrumapp/geojson-dashboard

• [Interactive strip plots for visualizing demographics

  Maarten Lambrechts](http://www.maartenlambrechts.be/interactive-strip-plots-for-visualizing-demographics/)

• Why I’m Excited About Native CSS Variables — Philip Walton
• embed.js - Daily Javascript
• charto/bigfloat
• HYBICON - Better together

• [PostSharp Blog

  Announcing PostSharp 4.2 RTM](http://www.postsharp.net/blog/post/Announcing-PostSharp-42-RTM)

• Announcing Open Live Writer - Scott Hanselman
• Angular-trix - A rich wysiwyg text editor directive for angularjs.
• Khaos - Easily generate oft-used project templates.
• ngMessageFormat - Angular’s unheard feature

• [Blog—Building a cross-platform desktop app with NW.js, React & Flux

  Finch](https://meetfinch.com/blog/cross-platform-app-nwjs-react-flux)

• Announcing Rust 1.5 - The Rust Programming Language Blog
• JavaScript Developer Survey Results

Applications

• [Is Astroneer The Next Minecraft?

  Popular Science](http://www.popsci.com/is-astroneer-next-minecraft)

Science and Technology

• Revolutionary steel treatment paves the way for radically lighter, stronger, cheaper cars
• German plasma success raises nuclear fusion hopes - BBC News

On the Web

• Updated: Top 10 Worst Anti-Science Web Sites
• Grab your popcorn! Best movie trailers of 2015 in a mashup video - CNET

• [Google Is 2 Billion Lines of Code—And It’s All in One Place

  WIRED](http://www.wired.com/2015/09/google-2-billion-lines-codeand-one-place/)

Stuff I Just Like

• Santa qualifies as a superhero, says physics professor - CNET
• This is the last crazy airplane-landing video you ever need to see - CNET

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— Jon Kuperman (@jkup) December 4, 2015