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Today, we have many good practices, principles (SOLID, DRY, KISS), GoF patterns, and more. They are all trying to help us, developers, write good, clean, maintainable, and understandable code. GRASP is an abbreviation of General Responsibility Assignment Software Patterns.It’s a set of recommendations, principles, and patterns that are really good and could make our code much better. Let’s take a look at this list: Information expert Creator Controller Low Coupling High Cohesion Pure Fabrication Indirection Protected…

In our Harry Potter-saturated world, it’s impossible for another piece of media that features a magically inclined educational establishment to avoid being compared to Hogwarts. So folks are probably getting major HP flashbacks from the first teaser trailer for The School for Good and Evil, the upcoming Netflix family fantasy film that, yes, takes place at castle that’s home to mystical kids. But though they are nominally similar, we can apparently expect some big tonal differences. Speaking during the School for…

The 2022 edition of Made in America is hitting Philadelphia this September with an expectedly stacked lineup headlined by Tyler, the Creator and Bad Bunny.Others confirmed on Tuesday to be on this year’s bill include Lil Uzi Vert, Pusha-T, Jazmine Sullivan, Kodak Black, Toro y Moi, Snoh Aalegra, and more.Made in America 2022 is set to take place from Sept. 3-4 in Philly. See more of this year’s lineup below. For tickets and related details, hit this link. A two-day tier 1 pass is $150, while a two-day VIP pass is…

In a blog post on Thursday, Meta said that it’s globally rolling out new creator tools for its TikTok competitor, Reels, on both Instagram and Facebook. The handful of new tools will make it easier for creators to skip using TikTok to edit short clips and help encourage people to create original content using Reels, which is something the team at Instagram really wants to happen. Instagram Reels will now let users import their own audio (that’s at least five seconds long) from their camera roll to their reel video.…

WARNING: spoilers for Downton Abbey: A New Era are in discussion. If you haven’t seen the film yet, you may want to refrain from reading any further. One of the questions that’s accompanied the release of each Downton Abbey movie is whether or not Maggie Smith’s Dowager Countess would be taking her final bow. With the end of 2019’s first motion picture giving Violet Crawley a terminal diagnosis, a ticking clock was set into motion for that eventual heartbreaking moment Peacock subscribers are probably still expecting.…

The Mandalorian — the popular Star Wars series from Disney+ and Lucasfilm — is already working on a fourth season. The show is set five years after the events of Star Wars: Episode III – Return of the Jedi, and helped kick start Disney's video streaming service, with more spin-off series in the works. Two seasons centred around the adventures of Din Djarin and Grogu have been released so far, with the third set to arrive in February 2023. The Star Wars series's creator has now revealed that Disney+ is already working on a…

Shenmue creator Yu Suzuki has confirmed the release of his next game – an endless, fantasy 3D shooter called Air Twister. Developed by YS Net, the studio responsible for 2019’s Shenmue 3, Air Twister is set for release June 24 on Apple Arcade. “Soar through the sky battling against invaders in this all-new fantasy endless shooter from legendary game creator, Yu Suzuki,” reads the description. “They’ll rain down their homing arrows to trace graceful arcs of light across beautiful, artfully crafted stages, before they…

French developer and publisher Dontnod Entertainment has announced that it has news coming later today regarding its upcoming projects (May 31). The news comes via the company’s official Twitter account in a post that reads, “A little birdie told us that if you come back here tomorrow, you’ll see some news from us and maybe even get some clues as to what we’ve been working on!” Dontnod’s website is currently undergoing maintenance, which may indicate that there’s at least one concrete announcement planned. Life Is…

Sorry, the old Terra can't come to the phone right now. Why? Oh, 'cause she's dead!Terra SquirmaThe dust hasn't even settled from the Terra stablecoin's meteoric crash, but the people behind it are already trying to make a new currency.Well, sort of. Yesterday, the official Terra account tweeted that "Terra 2.0 is coming" after a majority of investors voted to create a new blockchain that, confusingly, will use the exact same name.News of this new blockchain comes just over a week after the Terra stablecoin and its sister…

Pokémon Go creator Niantic this week announced its new location mapping software for AR, VPS, along with a brand new location-based social network called Campfire. Niantic's Visual Positioning System lets developers give users the option to determine their position and orientation and anchor AR content, adding locations to Niantic's AR map of the world to build their own location-based AR apps and experiences. 30,000 such public locations are available including in San Francisco, London, Tokyo, LA, NYC, and more. Niantic…