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Hacking the News General web underline.js [github/wentin] is a JavaScript library that makes underlined text look and animate beautifully. Next time someone asks for the wi-fi password, use wifi-password [github/rauchg]. AppScale [github/appscale] is an open source implementation of Google App Engine. favico.js [github/ejci] is JavaScript library that allows for useful, cool stuff to be done with favicons. And here’s how the devs at the BBC relaunched their site using React, Express and Node [bbc]. <picture> This Design Here’s an article focusing on using the < picture> element for better SVG and art direction [sarasoueidan]. littlebox [github/cmaddux] is a collection of nice, tiny icons that are super easy to use. Prog Rock SitePoint First up on SitePoint, our annual look at the programming language you should probably learn. Spoiler: this year it’s definitely COBOL. Then we have an examination of breakpoints and “tweakpoints” in Sass. And a look at the various ways UX design can go wrong. Snap It Up News/business Notify [notify] will ping you on Slack whenever your startup gets mentioned on social media. One startup getting a lot of mentions on social media is Snapchat, which is indicating it’s seeking a new round of funding that would value it at an eye-watering $19 billion [bloomberg]. The robots are coming to take our jobs, here’s how to survive once they’ve arrived [motherboard.vice]. Semi-related, a look at Lyft’s attempt to make its drivers feel like they’re part of a community [medium/backchannel] and not, you know, employees. Holy Smoke Off-topic Gamamia [gamamia] is like Product Hunt for indie games. Chrome extension Shine [chrome.google] makes Reddit look amazing. Apparently nicotine makes bees better at fighting off viruses [motherboard.vice]. It also makes them look a lot cooler when they're hanging out with their friends, which is a bonus. Finally, here are all the sounds lost to mp3 compression [theghostinthemp3]. Someone call David Lynch and tell him we've found his new score. That's it for us today, we'll be spending the rest of the day working out if nicotine helps any other animals with anything. For science, of course.