Still pretending you know the differences between JavaScript and Typescript?

Mar19
by on March 19, 2022 at 10:00 am
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This article was originally published on .cult by Piumi Gunawardhana. .cult is a Berlin-based community platform for developers. We write about all things career-related, make original documentaries and share heaps of other untold developer stories from around the world. In the beginning, there was JavaScript. The popular scripting language we all know and love. Ever since its creation, it’s been the dominating language for web development. Then two decades later, Microsoft introduced TypeScript, a superset of JavaScript, designed for the development of large web applications. If you know anything about Typescript and JavaScript, you’ll know they’re not competing forces. They…

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Are contact tracing apps a thing of the past?

Mar18
by on March 18, 2022 at 4:00 pm
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It may feel like a long time ago, but it’s only nine months since the UK was in the grips of the “pingdemic”. Back in the summer of 2021, lifting COVID restrictions saw the country’s contact-tracing apps – the NHS COVID-19 app in England and Wales, the StopCOVID NI app in Northern Ireland, and the Protect Scotland app – notify hundreds of thousands of people of their need to isolate, causing widespread disruption. Fast-forward to the spring of 2022, and these apps today get little attention. In England in particular, now that living with COVID is the aim and isolation…

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