The Millions Top Ten: August 2019
We spend plenty of time here on The Millions telling all of you what we’ve been reading, but we are also quite interested in hearing about...
Top programming languages in 2019: Python sweeps the board
The latest programming language ranking from IEEE Spectrum maintains the same findings from last year’s report: Python is king for a majority of ranking metrics. The...
Manifold: Java Access Control, Stop the Insanity!
Crazy Talk You use access modifiers as a means to separate API from implementation (aka encapsulation). The modifiers provide a clean way for you to tell...
Uizard scores $2.8M seed round for its app wireframe to prototype dev tool
Uizard, the Copenhagen-based startup that is using “machine intelligence” to quickly turn app sketches into prototypes, has raised $2.8 million in seed funding. The round is...
The Vivaldi browser lands on Android
Vivaldi has long billed itself as a browser for advanced users who want to be able to customize their browser to their heart’s content. With that...
9 tips for developers to improve JavaScript performance significantly
Performance is a deciding factor in the success (or failure) of any web application. Frequent web crashes and long waiting times are annoying for visitors. Kissmetrics...
Weekly round-up: Java 12 syntax in Java 8, R language, Golang & more
Jabel: All the syntax of Java 12, targeted to Java 8 Last week we discovered a really interesting project: Jabel. Not everyone migrates to the latest...
DHL expands Africa eShop online retail app to 34 countries
DHL has expanded its DHL Africa eShop business to 13 additional markets, upping the presence of the global shipping company’s e-commerce platform to 34 African countries....
Freeda raises another $16 million for its media brand for women
Italian startup Freeda Media has raised a $16 million Series B round. Existing investor Alven is leading the round, with Endeavor Catalyst, UniCredit and others also...
Sontag in Sarajevo
What was at stake in Sarajevo was not only the fate of a people and a country. Sarajevo was a European city—and Europe, David Rieff wrote,...
