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Hey everyone,

Before anything else: if you're in Ontario, or anywhere the smoke has drifted to this week, we're thinking of you. It's been a rough few days across a lot of the map, and we hope you and yours are safe and indoors.

On to lighter things.

I've been thinking about deadlines this week, mostly because of how differently everyone treats them. So which one are you? Start early and deliver early, or procrastinate and power through?

I'm not sure either is wrong. The plan is whatever gets it done by Sunday.

Anyway. A couple of things in here have a clock on them. Do with that what you like.

TL;DR

◉ Promos: Cybersecurity is free this weekend​

◉ Student of the Week: Ruth!

◉ Tech News of the Week: Fable 5 sticks around a little longer​

◉ Career Corner: Full Stack Developer at Constellis​

◉ Poll of the Week: Naming conventions + last week’s results!

◉ Fab Resource: Vivace - a CSS animation library​

Promos

Cybersecurity is free this weekend 🔓

This one came from you. We asked what you wanted unlocked next, and Cybersecurity took it, so it’s open to everyone for the next few days.

Normally it’s Pro-only. This weekend it’s not. Rachel and Jonathan take you through threat modelling and OWASP, authentication and identity, input and data safety, and rate limiting and throttling, in about five hours.

If you get through it, tell us how you found it. We’d love to hear whether this is a topic you want more of.

Student of the Week

This week we’re shouting out Ruth Fabian, who just wrapped the JavaScript Deep Dive course.

​She shared it on LinkedIn to mark the start of July, framing it as a checkpoint rather than a finish line. ES6+, async, OOP, modules, error handling. What stuck with her most wasn’t the syntax, it was starting to see how JavaScript actually works underneath.

She also took the time to thank the instructors, which we’re passing straight along to them.

If a course clicks for you the way this one did for Ruth, post about it and tag us.

Congrats, Ruth! 👏

Tech News of the Week

Anthropic have extended access to Claude Fable 5 on all paid plans through July 19, and Claude Code’s weekly rate limits stay 50% higher for the same stretch (https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/12/bump/).

The catch is the same as before. You can spend up to half your weekly usage limit on Fable 5, then it’s usage credits or drop back to another model.

This is the third time the date has moved, largely because Anthropic wanted a read on demand and compute before committing. Simon Willison’s take is that the uncertainty is doing them more harm than good, with OpenAI picking up users who just want to know what they’re getting.

Either way, if you’re on a paid plan there’s a bigger model sitting there this weekend.

We’re curious what you’re actually doing with it. Have you noticed a real difference in the output, or does it mostly feel like the same thing with a different label? And if you haven’t touched it at all, that’s an answer too.

Let us know!

Career Corner

​Constellis is hiring a full stack dev to work on LEXSO, a security operations platform that pulls real-time data from cameras, LiDAR, radar, and drones into one place. Remote in the US, or in-office at one of four locations.

What they’re after:

◉ React and TypeScript, including real-time visual components ◉ Python, ideally with FastAPI ◉ REST APIs, plus PostgreSQL and schema design ◉ Docker and Git-based workflows ◉ Bonus points for Kafka, WebSockets, or any IoT and robotics tinkering

Security operations is a corner of the industry a lot of devs never think to look at, and our Cybersecurity course is free this weekend if you want to get a feel for it. The React and Python courses cover most of the rest.

Poll of the Week

Last week console.log won by a landslide.

This week, one of the hardest decisions a dev makes all day:

Fab Resource

​Vivace is a CSS animation library where you write the animation as an attribute instead of a keyframe.

data-viv="@fd @sl-y" fades an element in and slides it up. Add data-viv-on="appearing" and it fires when you scroll to it. That’s the whole thing.

The kind of thing you reach for when the site works fine but feels a little static, and you don’t want to lose an evening to it. Knowing which library to pull in, and reading its docs well enough to use it properly, is its own skill.

• 18 animation keys that stack together
• Triggers for scroll, hover, click, focus, and load
• Under 7 kB, zero dependencies
• Works in plain HTML, React, Vue, or Svelte
• Handles prefers-reduced-motion out of the box

There’s a playground where you can chain a few together and watch them play, no install needed.

Meme of the Week

Forget the ticket. Just go see the guy under the IT bridge.

Wrap Up

It’s time for your weekly dose of cuteness from #scrimba-pets !🐶🐱🐍🐟

Peak focus setup: keyboard, monitor, one calico who has decided this is where she lives now.

Thank you for reading, everyone! Have a lovely week, keep calm and Scrimba on.

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