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Nemil Dalal, Writer, Stanford Electrical Engineer/MBA
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- Adam Zachary Wasserman, CEO at Neonto
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SQL: One Of The Most Valuable Skills
- Craig Kerstiens, Head of Cloud Team at Citus Data 
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When Algorithms Think You Want To Die 
- Ysabel Gerrard, Lecturer in Digital Media and Society at the Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield and Tarletin Gillespie, Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research New England
#General
Getting Hooked on React Hooks
 - Ruben Martinez Jr., Web & iOS Engineer at OkCupid
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The Ultimate Guide to Meditation for Programmers
Daragh Byrne, Founder of Coding Mindfully and Delivery Lead at No Moss Co
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- Dongwoo Kim, Senior Front-end Engineer at NHN Entertainment
#JS
Black and White Image Colorization With OpenCV and Deep Learning
- Adrian Rosebrock, PhD, Author, Entrepreneur. Founder at PyImageSearch
#Python
Highlights from Git 2.21
- Taylor Blau, Infrastructure Engineer at GitHub
#Git


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