New Scotiabank animation pops up in theatres

Banking brand sees potential for its popcorn characters to live on in future ads

Amazon experiments with monthly Prime subscriptions

The American branch is introducing a $10.99 per month option that offers the full array of Prime features on a rolling contract basis.

By: Matt Kamen,

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Finally, CSS In JavaScript! Meet CSSX

JavaScript is a wonderful language. It's rich, it's dynamic, and it's so tightly coupled to the web nowadays. The concept of writing everything in JavaScript doesn't sound so crazy anymore. First, we started writing our back end in JavaScript, and then Facebook introduced JSX, in which we mix HTML markup with JavaScript. Why not do the same for CSS?

Imagine a web componentdistributed as a single .js file and containing everything - markup, logic and styles. We would still have our basic style sheets, but the dynamic CSS would be a part of JavaScript. Now this is possible, and one way to achieve it is with CSSX. CSSX is a project that swallowed my spare time for a month. It was challenging and interesting, and it definitely pushed me to learn a lot of new stuff. The result is a set of tools that allows you to write vanilla CSS in JavaScript.

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Web Development Reading List #133: Workflow Tools And The Aesthetics Of Invisible Code

I write about it often, but it's a topic that makes me love my job, it's the reason why communities work and why great people are great. I'm talking about honesty and ethics in everything we do, in how we live.

Reading about corruption, tax avoidance tricks, wars, and also about poorly written code or bad user experiences has taught me a lot. Looking back at projects where I stood behind the idea and business model and at projects that I saw only as money-making work showed me that sticking to my ethical principles and being honest makes me feel better, which leads to better work.

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Intel demos 3D XPoint, showcases Optane's 2GB/s performance

Intel's Optane is making waves as a high-end, next-gen storage solution -- but its raw performance over NAND isn't quite as high as the company is claiming it is. Optane's reliability and long-term scaling could be where it shows its strengths as opposed to shorter-term performance comparisons.

Vividata reveals readership stats on Canadian media

Print audience remains strong but so is the move towards digital, research suggests

Twitter gentrification, LSD brains: Podcast 263

We find out how social media data can be used to spot what areas of London are being gentrified and speak to the lead researcher on a major new study into the effects of LSD on the brain.

By: WIRED.co.uk,

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