Why General Inheritance is Flawed and How to Finally Fix it

Cache the directionality of the HTML element

Creating and morphing Lego faces with neural networks

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Howdy Here's the extra issue for missing Wednesday. Have a great weekend! ==================================================================== Why General Inheritance is Flawed and How to Finally Fix it Published: 8 December 2021 Tags: java Uncontrolled inheritance can start to suck a lot because it leads to a convoluted web of dependency. In this explanatory article, Per Minborg discusses when Java classes and methods should be made final and other general good practices for controlling composition in your software. ==================================================================== Cache the directionality of the HTML element Published: 3 December 2021 Tags: html, css "All HTML elements have their own directionality". This directionality dictates the direction in which text goes (left to right or right to left), which is useful for different languages. In this concise article, Miyoung Shin outlines how element direction caching was achieved in Chromium. ==================================================================== Creating and morphing Lego faces with neural networks Published: 3 February 2020 Tags: machine learning Ever wanted to generate new Lego faces using AI? Well Ivan Echevarria's extensive article goes into the nitty-gritty of implementing a variational autoencoder to generate novel Lego faces and/or morphing between them. Want to help? Thank you for reading! If you enjoy the newsletter, I would really appreciate you helping me spread the word by forwarding this to your friends and colleagues! If you want to discuss or comment on this issue, head on over to this page at A Byte of Coding. You can also subscribe there if you're new! Have comments or feedback? Just reply to this email or hit me up on Twitter @AByteOfCoding. Email landed in your promotions tab? Please move it over to primary so you don't miss the latest issues in the future. Thanks for your Support!  Thanks to sponsors and supporters like Євген Грицай, Scott Munro, zturak, pek, Emil Hannesbo, and Joe Hill this newsletter is provided to you for free. If you'd like to also show your support and buy me a monthly meal, you can donate on the Patreon page. It's not necessary, but it lets me know that I'm doing a good job and that you're finding value in the content.

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