[BAWD #60] Open Source Festival and Android Curriculum
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Hugging Face is the AI community building the future. You get to build, train and deploy state-of-the-art machine learning models powered by the reference open-source.
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Good Tidings 🔊
#OSCAFest22 is a high-profile event that would attract student delegates, developers, and corporate organizations on a large scale. It entails a series of talks, technical sessions, and awareness of free and open-source software. You should check here for more general and sponsorship details or submit a talk before the 26th of this month.
Here are some curriculum resources (created by the experts at Google) you can use to teach Android app development using the Kotlin programming language at your school or in your local community.
Ajim Capital has decided to launch a $10M fund to invest in African tech startups, allowing entrepreneurs to focus on growing their businesses instead of worrying about funding.
When a company is accepted into the Y Combinator program, they now get an investment total of $500,000. Learn more in the new YC standard deal.
Spotify is hiring a Market & Strategy Operations Lead, Sub-Saharan Africa, responsible for business analysis and insights, business planning, regional operating processes, and leading cross-functional projects by building positive relationships across the company.
The Google Research Residency program in Ghana is now open for applications. For 18 months, you will get to work with Google researchers on advancing the field of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.
Join the Sustain Podcast for conversations about the health and sustainability of the open-source community. The goal is to make sure that the culture of open source continues, grows, and ultimately sustains itself.
Here’s a curated list of project-based programming tutorials you can use to learn how to build applications from scratch.
Starting in January 2022, Kaggle will award up to three $1000 monthly prizes to data scientists and ML researchers who share high-quality community content using Google technologies.
You should check out this LinkedIn post to learn what nobody tells you about software documentation.
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Want to learn how to build the future of global e-commerce with headless commerce APIs? Check out the Commerce Layer developer’s hub or join the slack community.
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Dev Term of the day 💾
Scaling: This is adjusting the computing power of servers, usually to increase the server’s capacity to perform better and meet the demands of a workload. Learn more here (text) or here (video).
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Getting Things Done by David Allen and David Kelvin Allen.
Featured Tweets and Videos 😍
I might be back on Twitter now, but I still enjoy sharing videos, and I hope you found them helpful. So I’m experimenting with sharing some cool tweets and some of my favorite videos from YouTube each week. So do let me know what you think, please :).
![This feature is about identifying capture groups via names.
// Without named capture groups
const re = /(\d{4})-(\d{2})-(\d{2})/;
const match = re.exec('2021-03-04');
console.log(match[1]); // → 2021 (year)
console.log(match[2]); // → 03 (month)
console.log(match[3]); // → 04 (day)
// With named capture groups 🔥
const re = /(?<year>\d{4})-(?<month>\d{2})-(?<day>\d{2})/;
const match = re.exec('2021-03-04');
console.log(match.groups.year); // → 2021
console.log(match.groups.month); // → 03
console.log(match.groups.day); // → 04
// ... and with destructuring assignment 🔥🔥🔥
const [match, year, month, day] = re.exec('2021-03-04');](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_600,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fpbs.substack.com%2Fmedia%2FFJIIQYaUYAMtGB9.jpg)
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“Having fewer choices decreases anxiety”–Anon
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