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Elm Europe will be a two-day conference dedicated to Elm, taking place at the EFREI Engineering School in Villejuif (near Paris, France) on June 27-28 2019. The event is organized by the Elm community, for the Elm community, with the willing of sharing knowledge, news about the language, and meeting interesting people.

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This newsletter contains the best links of the week from "Le Journal du Hacker", the participatory link aggregator of the Open Source Software French community. You will therefore find articles from the main players such as LinuxFR, but also great articles from much less known sites or blogs curated by Carl Chenet.

In this post Siri Lööf shows us how to use React Hooks to handle responsive background images.

In this article, DeveloperDrive have collected 15 places where you can learn how to code in 2019. I would add "Frontend Masters" and "Pragmatic Studio".

Free and Open Source UI Kit for Bootstrap 4, React, Vue.js, React Native, WordPress and Sketch.

Fedilab is a multifunctional Android client to access the distributed Fediverse, consisting of microblogging, photo sharing and video hosting.

SEO 101 is a free (they just want your email) SEO learning platform for beginner. This beginner’s guide is a resource to learn the fundamentals of SEO in an easy-to-understand video format.

DigiKam is an open-source photo management application that runs on Linux, Windows, and MacOS platforms and comes with tools for importing, managing, editing, and sharing photos and raw files. The last version 6.0.0 has now video support and new export tools.

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KeystoneJS is an open source framework for developing database-driven websites, applications and APIs in Node.js. Built on Express and MongoDB.

Code Shelter is a collective of volunteer software developers that aims to help with maintaining popular open source projects whose authors need a hand or don't have the time to maintain them any more.

FreedomBox is designed to be your own inexpensive server at home. It runs free software and offers an increasing number of services ranging from a calendar or jabber server to a wiki or VPN. Their web interface allows you to easily install and configure your apps.

T3 is a client-side JavaScript framework for building large-scale web applications. It’s design is based on the principles of Scalable JavaScript Application Architecture.

Do you want to run your own internet services? Email, chat, VoIP, web sites, file synchronisation, wikis, blogs, social networks, media hosting, backups, VPN. Freedombone is a home server system which enables you to self-host all of these things from your place of residence.

It’s important for websites to be aware of how users go about logging into their sites. Let’s walk through some login patterns and why Brad Frost thinks they’re not ideal. And then let’s look at some better ways of tackling login. Post written by Brad Frost.

CSS Grid is robust, flexible, and a refreshing paradigm shift from other CSS layout systems. While these are selling points for Grid, they also make it hard to learn ... Post written by Violet.

Carpe is looking for a 15hr/wk web designer (graphic design and implementation into front-end code). Carpe is a fast-growing startup that's bringing effective sweat solutions to millions of people who previously had to put up with sweaty hands, feet, and other body parts - our products are already in CVS, about to launch in Target, and are among the leading antiperspirants on Amazon.

As well as helping to maintain and update an exciting catalogue of bespoke projects, you will get to develop custom back-end solutions for exciting new websites while working with a very passionate team. You'll get to develop with our own flexible custom CMS as well as working with the latest PHP frameworks.

I am pleased to see that an awareness of this problem is emerging in the media. Indeed open source is everywhere, in our mobile, in our car, in Bank, Hospital ... and nobody seems to care about its web developers sustainability.

James Quick has selected for us eleven JS extensions for your Visual Studio code editor.

The LoRa Server project provides open-source components for building LoRaWAN networks. Together they form a ready-to-use solution, including an user-friendly web-interface and gRPC and REST APIs.

YGLF is a series of community events built by developers for developers, a non-profit conference aimed at delivering high-quality content on the hottest topics that cutting edge front-end developers need to know. Bringing in internationally recognized speakers and attendees, with the young and vibrant atmosphere of the front-end community, YGLF creates a buzzling bustle of software engineers from around the globe.

Technicals talks, workshops, and an evening afterparty sponsored by GitHub. Whether you're a year into your first dev job or you're finally considering a coding bootcamp, come for the inspiring content and stay for the incredible community.

The open source ecosystem is awesome and Apexo is a good example. Apexo keep your dental clinic records at your finger tips with a beautifully designed application that meets most needs of any dental clinic. From patient records, history, appointments and scheduling, to finances and detailed reports.

The Lollipop Cloud project is an attempt to make hosting personal internet services such as a website, contact list, remote file storage, or a calendar more accessible to users through open source technology and ARM Computing.

UnDraw provides tons of open source illustrations to design your landing page, corporate website or whatever you want.

Leon is an open-source personal assistant who can live on your server. He does stuff when you ask for it. You can talk to him and he can talk to you. You can also text him and he can also text you. If you want to, Leon can communicate with you by being offline to protect your privacy.

Serposcope is a free and open-source rank tracker to monitor websites ranking in Google and improve your SEO performances.

Podmap is an open-source app whose goals are: to map the world’s podcasts, to help you discover podcasts produced near you and to help you discover where your favorite podcasts are created.

In this post, Chen Hui Jing,front-end designer and developer, shows us in detail how to build a minimalist HTML/CSS slides.

Ovide is an experimental writing and publishing tool. It is made for context-intensive and polymorphic scholarly publishing activities. It is built on the shoulders of the peritext ecosystem and the quinoa project.

Paged.js is an open-source library to paginate content in the browser. Based on the W3C specifications, it’s a sort of polyfill for Paged Media and Generated Content for Paged Media CSS modules.

Termino is a alternative to Doodle and help you build a meeting poll to coordinate and share appointments.

Frelm is another way of discovering Elm packages and an alternative to the official Elm package site . With Frelm you can search libraries, modules or repositories and filter by Elm version.

After the success of the State of JavaScript survey Raphaël Benitte and Sacha Grief have decided to take on the CSS world! CSS has been around for a while but lately it's seen a lot of really big evolutions, both in the language itself (CSS Grid, Flexbox…) and the ecosystem (CSS-in-JS). And there's also the whole "great front-end divide" issue… So hopefully this survey will help developers everywhere identify the latest trends and make decisions on what to learn next.

A proposed standard which allows websites to define security policies. security.txt defines a standard to help organizations define the process for security researchers to disclose security vulnerabilities securely.

Sails is the most popular MVC framework for Node.js, designed to emulate the familiar MVC pattern of frameworks like Ruby on Rails, but with support for the requirements of modern apps: data-driven APIs with a scalable, service-oriented architecture

Glide.js is a dependency-free JavaScript ES6 slider and carousel developed by Jędrzej Chałubek. It’s lightweight, flexible and fast. Designed to slide. No less, no more

Kamran Ahmed has developed this light-weight, no-dependency, vanilla JavaScript engine to drive user's focus across the page.

Eleventy is a simpler static site generator and JavaScript alternative to Jekyll. It’s zero-config by default but has flexible configuration options. Eleventy works with your project’s existing directory structure.

In this post, Mohamad Abdullatif comes back on the "this" keyword used in JavaScript and very confusing for beginner learners

Buefy is a lightweight and reponsive UI components for Vue.js based on the Bulma CSS framework.

An evolving how-to guide for securing a Linux server that, hopefully, also teaches you a little about security and why it matters

Invoice Neko is a self-hosted open sourced invoicing system built on a modern backend with a focus on delivering a good user experience throughout the application

Goodlord exists to make renting simple and transparent for everyone. Our small, self-organising squads build the platforms and tools to help us achieve this mission. We're disrupting an industry, so there's plenty of thorny, real-world problems to solve on behalf of the agents, landlords and tenants that use our system.

Have a passion for development within the games industry? Working within a fast moving industry, you will be directly involved in delivering cutting edge software for a variety of devices. We are looking for someone who lives and breathes technology, and would love the opportunity to get into native app development, API integration, cloud based computing and a variety of other exciting projects.

Python Pizza is a micro conference organized by the Python Berlin Community.
We bring the Python Community together for some amazing original Pizza™ and Python Talks. We believe in and encourage practical sessions, in which developers share their experience and lessons from real-world projects, each talk is 10 mins long.

Posteo is an alternative to Gmail and proposes 2 GB email account, upgradeable, IMAP/POP3, 50 MB attachments, calendar and address book (synchronisable), 100% green electricity from Greenpeace Energy. All saved data can be encrypted at the click of a button.

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