Here are three links worth your time:

  1. How GitHub adapted to Google’s newly discovered SHA-1 collision vulnerability (4 minute read)
  2. Why I quit Google and built an app that teaches personal finance to kids (6 minute read)An animated guide to how Garbage Collection algorithms work
  3. Requiring modules in Node.js: Everything you need to know (16 minute read)

Bonus: We’re building a massive public dataset about people who started coding in the past 5 years (2 minute read)

Thought of the day:

“Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. So we must stretch ourselves to the very limits of human possibility. Anything less is a sin against both God and man.” — Leonardo DaVinci

Funny of the day:

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Webcomic by XKCD.

Study group of the day:

freeCodeCamp Gainsville (I’m the giant face on the monitor)

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Happy coding!

– Quincy Larson, teacher at freeCodeCamp