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😱 Google Chrome Turns 17: A History

A fantastic walkthrough of Chrome’s origins and its evolution over the years. Addy looks at key milestones (multi-process architecture for example), security, its steps into the world of AI, and more.

Addy Osmani
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CHALLENGE

console.log('1');

setTimeout(() => console.log('2'), 0);

Promise.resolve().then(() => console.log('3'));

queueMicrotask(() => console.log('4'));

setTimeout(() => console.log('5'), 0);

Promise.resolve().then(() => {
console.log('6');
return Promise.resolve();
}).then(() => console.log('7'));

console.log('8');
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πŸ‘€ Peaks.js 4.0: UI Component for Interacting with Audio Waveforms

A project originally spawned from the BBC’s R&D department, Peaks renders audio waveforms to a canvas element and allows scrolling, zooming, and the sort of things you might otherwise see in an audio editor. LGPL licensed.

Chris Needham et al.
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class CustomError extends Error {
constructor(message) {
super(message);
this.name = 'CustomError';
}
}

try {
try {
throw new CustomError('inner error');
} catch (e) {
console.log(e.name);
throw new Error('outer error');
}
} catch (e) {
console.log(e.message);
console.log(e instanceof CustomError);
}
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🎨 Eyecons is a VS Code icon theme that automatically adapts the color of icons to fit your editor's main theme – well, from this list anyway.
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const original = {
name: 'Sarah',
scores: [85, 92, 78],
details: {
age: 25,
city: 'Portland'
}
};

const copy1 = { ...original };
const copy2 = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(original));

copy1.name = 'Emma';
copy1.scores.push(95);
copy1.details.age = 30;

console.log(original.name, original.scores.length, original.details.age);
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😭 A Major Supply Chain Attack Hits the npm Ecosystem

In July, Socket warned us about a phishing campaign targeting npm package publishers. Sadly, a prolific package author (among others, like DuckDB, who explain how the attack worked on them) fell victim to the scam, resulting in some popular packages becoming compromised (like Chalk, debug, and others).

Gooding, Brown, et al. (Socket)
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