Some of our news items deserve a second chance. Here's one from December last year that fits our "To Good", or in this case "Too Tasty", "to Miss". It demonstrates the ability of computer graphics to be so convincing that you can almost smell and taste freshly baked bread and it's all down to maths!

Get up to speed on stuff that affects you as a developer! Our weekly digest summarizes the articles, book reviews and news written each day by programmers, for programmers. This week we also have an excerpt from the newly published Raspberry Pi IoT In Python Using GPIO Zero in which our Python expert teams up with our hardware guru Harry Fairhead using the Raspberry Pi for IoT. 

Google has released a prototype AI-based tool called Chimera Painter that takes a basic sketch and turns it into a fantasy beast using machine learning.

An e-commerce application serves a clear and simple goal. To make it successful, there are several tips to keep in mind when starting a new project. Learn what they are, and create an effective e-commerce app for your, or your client's, brand.

Microsoft has a new portal for all its .NET and Visual Studio live streams. While the original Twitch and YouTube channels aren't going away, .NET Live TV provides easy access to what's currently on offer.

Electron 11 has been released with upgrades to Chromium 87, V8 8.7, and Node.js 12.18.3. The new release also adds support for Apple Silicon.

The headline news is that Apple has cut the percentage it takes from the App Store to 15%, down from 30%, but only if you don't earn more than $1 million per year across all your apps.

As programmer's our modis operandi is to use existing APIs and turn them to novel uses. In order to do this we rely on good examples of how APIs are used. This is where EG, a tool that mines codebases and shows the common, idiomatic usage examples for API methods, can help.

There's a new version of CockroachDB that has updates for developers, better security and new features including support for storing and indexing spatial data using Postgre PostGIS-compatible SQL syntax.

The PyTorch Virtual Developer Day is now available online with technical talks and version 1.7 release deep dives. The team also announced updates to PyTorch.

TypeScript has been updated with new checking flags, editor productivity updates, and speed improvements, alongside new features including support for temporal literal types.

The Open Source Security Foundation has recently launched three brand new and free courses on Secure Software Development, which are hosted on edX.

Watching two robot arms play diabolo is enough to induce diabolo envy in anyone who has ever experimented with this type of toy. The good news is that Omron is going to release the simulation model, dataset and control algorithm so that others robot arms can be trained to do similar juggling feats.

Our weekly digest lists the week's news, new titles added to our Book Watch Archive and our weekly book review. This week's featured articles are an extract from JavaScript Bitmap Graphics with Canvas about drawing Bezier curves by Ian Elliot and the history of the UK 1970's Big Board Computers.

When OpenCV launched a Computer Vision contest earlier this year, it expected to award three prizes, totalling $6,000. The competition was so popular that it has now announced six winners who share $12,000. It also plans further contests with "10X times rewards".

Microsoft has announced details a new Hour of Code lesson. In "A Minecraft Tale of Two Villages!" the task will be to bring two villages together with the power of code, learning and practicing inclusion and empathy along the way.

Servo, the open source project initiated at Mozilla to create a high-performance browser engine designed for both application and embedded use, is joining the Linux Foundation.

The Android Platform is migrating from its current build systems (Soong and Make) to Bazel. While components of Bazel have been already checked into the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) source tree, this will be a phased migration over the next few Android releases.