ES6 In Depth revisited, Hubs by Mozilla updated, plus the release of 'Stealing Ur Feelings'

ES6 In Depth: A JavaScript series revisited This 17-article series takes an up-close look at many of the new features in the 6th Edition of the ECMAScript standard, ES6 for short. Although ES6 is no longer today's news, the In Depth posts are still some of the best explainers for JS features like Iterators and the for-of loop, Detructuring, Modules, and more. Read On Other News Exploring Collaboration and Communication with Mozilla Hubs With the WebXR API, and other advancements in Mixed Reality, we are able to explore ways to feel more present with others through technology. Hubs by Mozilla is built on top of WebRTC and supports real-time conversations between users in a shared virtual environment. Users embody 3D models in the glTF format called avatars, and you can access the environment directly from your browser. A VR headset is optional. The code powering Hubs is available online on GitHub under the MPL and we welcome contributions from the community. Learn More → Introducing ‘Stealing Ur Feelings,’ an Interactive Documentary About Big Tech, AI, and You Noah Levenson's six-minute documentary explains the science of facial emotion recognition technology and demystifies how the software picks out your features to understand if you’re happy, sad, angry, or disgusted. Using the same AI technology described in corporate patents, 'Stealing Ur Feelings' analyzes viewers' faces as they watch the film in real-time and uses dark humor to expose how social apps can apply AI to profit off users’ faces and emotions. Click Here → How to Present an Easy-to-Follow Tech Demo New York Times front-end developer Angie Siu delivers a quick and effective guide to presenting a tech demo. Whether your audience is a small group of team-mates, or an international conference audience, you can't go wrong setting context and articulating the problem you're solving. Check It Out → Firefox Developer Tools Tip  Look through the eyes of your visitors... It can be difficult to remember how one of your pages will look to someone who has color vision deficiency. Starting with Firefox 70, the Accessibility Inspector allows you to emulate various color vision deficiencies. Click the drop-down next to "Simulate" and choose one of the 7 options. Simulate Now → On MDN 1. Getting started on MDN 2. CSS flex-grow 3. CanvasRenderingContext2D.getTransform() Events View Source Conference, Amsterdam - Sept 30 - October 1 Mozilla invites front-end developers and designers to participate in this two-day, intimate, single-track conference. At View Source, we bring together visionary speakers to look at the web from technical and design perspectives, across platforms and devices. Register now → Fronteers, Amsterdam - October 3 - 4 2019 One of Europe’s premiere conferences on front-end web development, organised in Amsterdam yearly since 2008. It's a single-track community-driven two-day event. Read more → Concatenate, Lagos, Nigeria & Nairobi, Kenya - Oct 9 - 15 2019 A free conference for African developers with speakers from around the world, and sessions in two countries. Read more → JSConf Colombia, Medellín, Colombia - October 18 - 19 2019 Two days, twenty-four speakers. Talks in English and Spanish, from around the world, and around the region. Plus, a stellar lineup that includes Mozilla Tech Speaker Eva Ferreira. Read more → RustFest Barcelona 2019, November 9 - 10 2019 A conference dedicated to the Rust programming language. Tickets are now on sale. Register now → Web.Conf Asia 2019, Hong Kong, November 20 - 23 2019 Back for its third edition, Webconf will host another fantastic line-up, have multiple workshops, and show off an epic new venue in November. Register now → Web Clerks, Vienna, Austria - November 25, 2019 A single-day, single-track community-driven conference for designers, developers, and makers of the web. Register now → You're receiving this email because you subscribed to the Developer Newsletter. You can unsubscribe or manage your communication preferences at any time. Join Firefox  |  Go Mobile 331 E. Evelyn Ave. Mountain View, California, USA 94041