IoT-programmer @IotProgrammer

Amazon's Alexa Turns 5 Launched Nov 6, 2014 and thanks to devs, who have built more than 100K custom skills, Alexa is now capable of much more than playing music and providing timers and Amazon has established itself as leader in voice-first technology. i-programmer.info/news/233-voice…

The Days Of Bitcoin Mining Are Nearly Over We are reaching peak Bitcoin and this is going to change the whole ecosystem. Some even think that it could be the end of Bitcoin as we know it. The impact of transaction fees discussed in a study from @Cornell i-programmer.info/news/136-open-…

JavaScript Canvas - Text, Typography & SVG Ian Elliot explains that for a Canvas object, drawing text is just another path to render. You can select a font and then render the shapes or glyphs it defines using stroke and fill methods. i-programmer.info/programming/ja…

Alexa Gadgets Skills Kit Available Across The Globe - The Alexa Gadgets Toolkit is now available in all locales where Alexa-enabled devices are sold. Use it to participate in the #LegoVoiceChallenge on @Hacksterio @alexadevs i-programmer.info/news/233-voice…

Python Developers Survey 2019 Wants Your Input - @ThePSF and @jetbrains are again asking Python Developers to spending ten minutes contributing answers to a set of well constructed questions. i-programmer.info/news/216-pytho…

Long Range Wi-Fi With Just Software - Researchers from @BYU, @WUSTL and @UUtah have developed a software-only way of extending the range of standard Wi-Fi. While the transmission rate is slow, it could still be useful for sensor networks. @IotProgrammer i-programmer.info/news/91-hardwa…

There Really Are No More IPv4 Addresses @ripencc which manages IP address distribution for a large part of the world, has updated its address space chart. It is clear that unless something unexpected happens RIPE will run out of addresses in November. i-programmer.info/news/81-web-ge…

The Rise and Fall of Websites Since 1996 - How the web landscape has changed over the last quarter of a century. Watch this video animation from Data Is Beautiful to discover how the websites you know have ebbed and flowed in popularity and be amazed. i-programmer.info/news/81-web-ge…

Free Course - Advanced Android With Kotlin Latest @Google course from Aleks Haecky and Sean McQuillan @objcode on @udacity is for those have mastered the basics of building an Android app in Kotlin and want to dive deeper into advanced functionality. i-programmer.info/news/150-train…

Cyber.dic - Spellchecking For Tech Terms and Acronyms Tired of your word processor red squiggling perfectly acceptable technical terms and acronyms? The cyber.dic spellcheck dictionary from @bishopfox puts an end to that! @nikosvg i-programmer.info/news/90-tools/…

AI Beats You At Rubik's Cube With Just One hand Examples of neural networks solving difficult problems are mostly simulations or game playing. Why not put put a neural network into a robot and see how well it performs? This is what @OpenAI has now tried. i-programmer.info/news/105-artif…

Bjarne Stroustrup On Why Learn C++ In a recent interview with Sonny Li @sonnynomnom and Mariel Frank @marielsmusings of @Codecademy @stroustrup advocates learning C++, the language he started to create while a PhD student in 1979. i-programmer.info/news/184-cc/13…

Mersenne Twister Considered Harmful The Mersenne Twister is a very common random number generator. It is used in C, Python, Mathematica, Excel, PHP, Ruby ... A new paper from @seba_vigna suggests it shouldn't be. i-programmer.info/news/112-theor…

Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras, and TensorFlow by @aureliengeron (@OReillyMedia) show programmers how to use simple, efficient tools to implement programs capable of learning from data. 2nd Ed updated for TensorFlow 2.0 i-programmer.info/book-watch-arc…

Perl and Raku Both Anticipating Newfound Glory @nikosvg reports that Perl 6 is going to be renamed to Raku. What will that change herald? i-programmer.info/news/222-perl/…

Python 3.8 Adds Walrus Operator The latest release of Python, 3.8, is available with many new features and optimizations. Notable improvements include a walrus operator and positional-only parameters. @ThePSF i-programmer.info/news/216-pytho…

Getting Started With Digital Logic - Logic Gates Harry Fairhead shows you how to get hands-on with logic gates without soldering. Instead we use the free open source SmartSim simulator. i-programmer.info/programming/ha…

We Still Beat AI At Angry Birds Humans! Rest easy we still beat the evil AI at the all-important Angry Birds game. Recent research by Ekaterina Nikonova and Jakub Gemrot of @UniKarlova (Czech Republic) indicates why this is so. i-programmer.info/news/105-artif…

Grasshopper Now On the Desktop Google's free learn-to-code tool for adults @GrasshopperApp has already been used by more than two million people as an Android and iOS app and now there's a desktop version together with additional content. @fearofpoets i-programmer.info/news/150-train…

Node-RED IoT Tool 1.0 Released - @NodeRED has reached version 1.0 with improvements including a new asynchronous message passing model, and a new Node Send API. i-programmer.info/news/91-hardwa…