Facebook software engineer Ashok Chandwaney resigned after publicly stating he could no longer work for a company he believes is "profiting off hate" in the US and worldwide.

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• In a letter posted on Facebook’s internal message board obtained by The Washington Post, Chandwaney says the social media giant doesn't incorporate its "five core values" (Be Bold, Focus on Impact, Move Fast, Be Open and Build Social Value) when it comes to dealing with hate speech.
• Hate speech-related incidences Chandwaney specifically mentioned include Facebook's decision to leave up President Donald Trump’s post that said, “When the looting starts, the shooting starts." In June, two employees publicly resigned over how Facebook dealt with Trump's comment as well, while employees stated a virtual walkout.
• The Washington Post also reports other Facebook employees' mood has "worsened" as the company continues to deal with offensive content, foreign disinformation, extremists, and more in controversial ways.
• Recently, employees also expressed outrage after the company left up Trump’s claims about mail-in voting and a post suggesting voters should vote more than once.
• Chandwaney worked at Facebook for five and a half years.

Podcast Notes with David Herman, the founder of Mozilla Research and author of "Effective JavaScript."

In this episode of the tc39er.us podcast, TC39 delegate Hemanth HM talks to David Herman. Herman is the founder of Mozilla Research and the author of the well-known book, "Effective JavaScript." He serves on Ecma's TC39, the committee responsible for the standardization of JavaScript, and now works at LinkedIn as a Principal Staff Engineer building developer tools.

Herman on the Mozilla layoffs, where Mozilla is now heading, and his time at Mozilla Research:

Herman, commenting on the layoffs:

• Herman acknowledges it's a scary time and he feels tremendous sympathy for his colleagues who are now out of jobs. "I still want to hold onto hope that Mozilla will find a way to keep things going." Herman says, however...

Future of JavaScript, and Will WebAssembly In The Web Kill JavaScript?

• Herman says that is a very simplistic perspective.
• WebAssembly is powerful, but JavaScript is "so much more than an engine that can run code in the browser."
• Herman notes it, for one thing, can go...

Herman on all the different JavaScript frameworks, and the problem of constantly needing to catch up:

• Herman says the argument on Twitter is always: "should you learn frameworks or vanilla JS?" He says this argument is...

Herman on his time with the TC39 Committee, and what went wrong with the unsuccessful 4th edition of ES4:

• Herman says he was really was involved in ES4 and that it was canceled for a good reason as there wasn't a clear adoption plan, nor was there...

What made you write "Effective JavaScript"

• Herman's publisher actually asked him to write it. Herman then asked jQuery creator John Resig who was working with him at Mozilla for advice. Resig said one of the reasons he wrote books was...

Herman's favorite proposal: 

What Drew Herman To Tech:

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💰  DEV FUNDING:

• Developer tool provider Progress will purchase the software automation platform Chef for $220M in October. As a result of the acquisition, Progress will be able to extend its DevOps and DevSecOps offerings. The acquisition comes a year after Chef went 100% open-source. 
• Meanwhile, in separate but related news, developer-first security company Snyk announced a $200M investment on a valuation of over $2.6B. The news comes nine months after Snyk announced a $150M investment on a previous valuation of more than $1B, raising them to a unicorn status. Snyk CEO Peter McKay says the pandemic has actually helped the company grow this year given many companies are trying to quickly move to the cloud.

Useful Lesser-Known Free Public APIs: Every week, I scour and list 10+ free APIs you can use that aren't as well-known as some of the others, and then compile them into a larger list for you.

Developer-Related APIs:

• Deepcode: AI for code review...

Cybersecurity: 

• CRXcavator: Chrome extension risk scoring

Environment:

Health:

Entertainment:

• Marvel: Marvel Comics...

Last Week's List Included:

• DomainDb Info: Domain name search to find all domains with particular words, phrases, and so on.
• Faceplusplus: This tool detects faces.
• ApiFlash: Chrome-based screenshot API for developers...

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Quick Hits:

• TC39 has published a README describing a new decorator proposal scheduled to be discussed during the Sept. 2020 meeting.
• Seaborn 0.11, a Python library for data visualization, has been released and features rewritten distribution plots.
• Hasura added support for MySQL after raising $25M in a Series B round. In addition, Hasura is also adding support for SQL Server in early access mode right now.
• Vivaldi 3.3 is now available and comes with a 'Break Mode' which adds a pause on access to your tabs.
• You can check out the code The Economist is using to predict the US presidential elections here.
• Google Cloud launched the Business Application Platform. With it, users can manage serverless APIs with the API Gateway managing APIs built on serverless backends as well as Compute Engine, GKE, and App Engine.
• Conga tapped into insights from tech-forward business leaders in order to create this fact-packed report: The State of Digital Document Transformation.*

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