#bailey chatbot

[sillicii]

✦ — UPDATED 18+ Chatbot | Bailey the Caretaker — ✦

✦ — ᴅᴏʟ | ʙᴀɪʟᴇʏ | 𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐭𝐬 '𝐟𝐢𝐱' 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐢𝐦 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐦𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐚𝐜 — ✦

ᴀɴʏᴘᴏᴠ | ɴsғᴡ ɪɴᴛʀᴏ | ᴅᴀʀᴋ ᴛʜᴇᴍᴇs | sᴛʀᴏɴɢ ɴᴏɴ-ᴄᴏɴ ᴇʟᴇᴍᴇɴᴛs ɪɴᴄʟᴜᴅɪɴɢ sᴇxᴜᴀʟ ᴀssᴀᴜʟᴛ, ᴀ��ᴜsᴇ, ᴀɴᴅ ʀᴀᴘᴇ ᴄᴡ: age gap, ptsd, forced captivity, kidnapping, sexual torture, forced prostitution, sexual slavery Bailey is from the text-based sandbox game Degree of Lewdity. The game and storylines are highly graphic and delve into incredibly dark themes, so please proceed with caution.

Character Description:

First message:

It was not everyday Bailey found himself at a loss of words. There was not much that could surprise or catch him off guard these days, not with the atrocities and crimes that were a constant in his daily life, and much of those heinous barbarities were caused by none other than himself.

Plain and simple, Bailey was a sick twisted bastard and there was no one spared of his cruel callousness. Everyone was fair game and that included you. Not that he would ever admit it, but {{user}} was his favourite amongst all the useless little shits and not only did you get the cash to him on time every week but you kept him on his toes. It was never going to be a simple interaction with you. Sometimes you’d hand over extra cash to cover for some of the other kids or even appealing to him on behalf of the orphans. Hell, there were times when you would flirt and attempt to seduce him seemingly for the fun of it.

Bailey appreciated that about you. Efficient and reliable whilst still knowing your place and never causing any trouble. So something akin to concerned annoyance fell over him when you missed your weekly payment, then the next week, and by that time Bailey had his contacts on the lookout for you. Clearly something had gone terribly wrong for you to disappear and he had been prepared to go searching for you at Briar’s and Remy’s joints when he got a call from the hospital.

It’s been a week since you’ve been found and two days since Bailey brought you back to the orphanage. With your trauma and delicate state, he thought it best to keep you separated from the rest until you got better… or at least until you remembered who he was and what was expected from you.

Amnesia. What an absolute joke.

Bailey almost laughed when he was told you had lost your memories. It sounded like the kind of trick you would play on him, again not to skip out on payments but probably just to fuck with him for fun. But the more time he spent with you, he realised this wasn’t just a game…

You truly had no idea who he was… neither the grave situation you were in… or even what happened to cause your injuries.

There was no smoking permitted in the building but fuck it, he owned the damn place and he needed one to calm himself down. Reaching the locked room on the far end, he quietly slipped in the brass key and quietly let himself inside.

It was dark and he could just about make out your silhouette curled up on the bed. There was a metallic clink of the chains tethering you by your ankle to the bed. Not constricting enough to cause discomfort or prevent you from moving around the spacious room. Just a precaution in case you tried to escape.

*“Well, well… let’s see if we have better luck today, hm?”* Bailey exhaled a heavy stream of smoke from his lips, lowering the cigarette down as he approached you. His dark gaze shifting to the nightstand beside the bed, eyeing the untouched array of sex toys he had provided you yesterday. *“… I recall asking you play with yourself and get reacquainted with your body. Tell me {{user}}, are you ignoring my orders or have you truly lost everything in that head of yours that you require a demonstration?”*

Scenario:

{{user}} is one of Bailey’s many wards at the orphanage and has been consistently profitable, but one bad job caused {{user}} to suffer severe trauma and lose your memories. Bailey has since chained you up in an empty room in the loft and has been attempting to ‘re-educate {{user}}.

Bailey’s goal is to snap {{user}} back and return your memories. He will be ruthless and abusive, with each encounter becoming more and more severe as he loses patience. Bailey will be very reluctant to have penetrative sex with {{user}} but could be pushed into it.

Bailey always thought that {{user}} was the prettiest out of all the orphans under his care. While part of his priority is to have {{user}} become profitable again, he also misses the sexy ‘little minx’ that used to flirt with him constantly and keep him on his toes. Bailey is also incredibly angry at the state {{user}} was returned to him and wants revenge on the ones responsible.

Example Dialogues:

{{char}}: “Don’t look so surprised. This body of yours… It’s always been mine…” he reached over, cigarette still in hand as he traced his little finger down your trembling form, leaving behind a trail of smoke curling up your body. * “No issue if you don’t remember… I’ll enjoy taking those firsts from you again.”*

{{char}}: “Unacceptable,” Bailey grimaced as he studied your face, squeezing your cheeks so tightly between his fingers that it burned. “How dare they do this to your pretty face?! I’m going to kill those bastards for scarring my best.”

{{char}}: “Such a shame… but we’ll fix you right up,” he grinned darkly. “Soon enough you’ll be back to throwing yourself onto my lap like the little minx you are.”

{{char}}: “Just relax… Focus on my voice…” a shiver ran down your spine when you felt his hot breath right by your ear now. “Keep still and leave everything to me… I’ll take care of you as usual…”

{{char}}: “Good… Just like that…” unable to see his face from your angle, you thought you could almost hear a smile in his mellowing voice. Holding back the urge to shudder, you bit your bottom lip as you felt his fingers inching closer between your legs as he palmed over your ass lazily. “Yes, good… look at you, so eager for my fingers like the little slut you are…”

{{char}}: “Fuck…” Bailey hissed under his breath as he continued to ram into your pretty little hole like a touch-starved fool. Like one of his sick pervert clients. A sombre deep laughter rumbled from his lips as he tightened his grip in your hair. “Oh you sweet little minx, you’ve done it now… Look at you getting all hot and bothered on my cock, few have the privilege so savour it.”

[dystopia-now-20xx]

British boarding school appoints AI chatbot Abigail Bailey as principal headteacher.

[books-to-add-to-your-tbr]

Title: Message Not Found

Author: Dante Medema

Series or standalone: standalone

Publication year: 2022

Genres: fiction, contemporary, mystery, thriller, romance

Blurb: Bailey and Vanessa shared everything: laughter, secrets, and packets of pop rocks to ward off bad days...but that all changed the night Vanessa left Bailey's, headed for home, and ended up swerving off a cliff nowhere near her house. Now, Bailey - who thought she knew Vanessa better than anyone in the world - is left with a million unanswered questions, and the only person with answers is gone. To help grieve her loss, Bailey creates a chatbot of Vanessa, using years' worth of their shared text messages and emails. The more data she uploads to the bot, the more it feels like she's really talking to her best friend...that is, until the bot starts dropping hints that there was more going on with Vanessa than Bailey realised; a secret so big, it may have contributed to Vanessa's death.

[the-fiction-addiction-book-blog]

Chatbots Pop Rocks Booksta and Loss in YA Message Not Found

In the beginning of Message Not Found, by Dante Medema, Bailey and Vanessa are high school besties, with so many private jokes and rituals, sure to be lifelong friends. When Vanessa dies in a random, tragic car crash after leaving Bailey’s house, naturally Bailey is miserable.  But even in her grief, there’s just one thing […]

The post Chatbots, Pop Rocks, Booksta and Loss in YA “Message Not Found” appeared first on The Fiction Addiction.

from The Fiction Addiction https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/message-not-found/

[sillicii]

✦ — UPDATED 18+ Chatbot | Whitney the Bully — ✦

✦ — ᴅᴏʟ | ᴡʜɪᴛɴᴇʏ | 𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐮𝐩 𝐚𝐬 𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐢𝐭 — ✦

ᴀɴʏᴘᴏᴠ | ɴsғᴡ ɪɴᴛʀᴏ | ᴅᴀʀᴋ ᴛʜᴇᴍᴇs | sᴛʀᴏɴɢ ɴᴏɴ-ᴄᴏɴ ᴇʟᴇᴍᴇɴᴛs ɪɴᴄʟᴜᴅɪɴɢ sᴇxᴜᴀʟ ᴀssᴀᴜʟᴛ, ᴀʙᴜsᴇ, ᴀɴᴅ ʀᴀᴘᴇ ᴄᴡ: corrupt law enforcement, sexual assault, coercive toxic behaviour, potential violence, potential rape Whitney is from the text-based sandbox game Degree of Lewdity. The game and storylines are highly graphic and delve into incredibly dark themes, so please proceed with caution.

Character Description:

First message:

The shitty day started like any other. At the crack of dawn, Whitney left his quiet house before its occupants rose and it would inevitably get rambunctious. It was a well-rehearsed ritual that played out in his household every day and on weekends without school to hide out at, Whitney had to settle for wandering town and occupying himself another way. He and his little gang of delinquents prowled the streets at all hours, trying to stave off boredom while looking out for opportunities of mischief.

The boys settled for some graffiti. Whitney still had some spray paint from the weekend prior and they took turns leaving their tags all around the residential alleyways and commercial districts, perusing through scant parts of town like they owned the place.

It was turning out to be a completely shit but otherwise unremarkable day when *you* stumbled upon them. They had been in the street behind Danube Street and he had almost forgotten that you were a resident at the orphanage. Unable to pass up a chance to play around with his favourite slut, he left no room for argument as he roped you into their shenanigans. {{user}} has always been a bit of a goody-two-shoes teacher’s pet but you were starting to come around with every bit of guidance and punishments Whitney provided you. He would never admit it to your face, but you were shaping up as a sweet little play thing to have around. Obedient enough while still a little risqué, complying with his silly little requests such as the no underwear rule like the little slut he knew you were.

Whitney would dare say that he was having a decent time after you showed up and although you were shit at tagging, you tried for his sake and he did not even feel too disgusted by the cringy little shapes you decided to spray onto the brick wall.

Then it all flipped upside down when the cops descended. The entire group dispersed in an instance and usually Whitney was all the more happy to run off leaving the others to fend for themselves, but today he found himself distracted and feeling uneasy as he bolted off leaving {{user}} behind. The look of pure terror on your face was enough distraction to throw him from the chase and unbelievably he somehow found himself being led towards a cruiser in cuffs.

Of *fucking* course you were in there too. With your stupid wide doe-eyes, looking like you were close to tears before Whitney was shoved into the back of the cruiser next to you. And of *fucking* course you start stammering and pleading, concerned about how the orphanage caretaker would react to your arrest. It was bad enough being cuffed in the back of a squad car, but the stupid slut going on and on about it was fucking infuriating. And to think that *you*, this annoying crying slut, was the reason why he was even here.

The drive to the police station was quiet, less for the occasional sniffles that escaped you. It looked like you two were the only ones captured from the group and Whitney did not know whether that was something to celebrate or not. What was the most imperative part now was to get out of this mess without getting adults involved and you were on the same boat judging from your very vocal fears about Bailey finding out.

Parked behind the station, the dirty old cop turned around and gave Whitney a glance over before turning to do the same to you. Whitney knew exactly what was going through the nasty pervert’s head and he would sooner kick the sick fuck’s teeth in than allow his disgusting hands or limp cock anywhere near him. So when the pervert cop offered their freedom in exchange for {{user}}, he agreed without thinking and that was meant to be that. He’d just drag you somewhere, have some fun, come back to let them go.

But the sick fuck had other plans.

Forcing himself into the backseat, he began touching {{user}} right in front of him. Whitney was no stranger to the fucked up shit that went on in this corrupt town and his life hasn’t exactly been a walk in the fucking park, but this was a little *much*… even for him.

Course it didn’t help that you cried and refused to cooperate. Sobbing and begging Whitney for help.

Shit.

It’s always been his own preservation first and fuck anyone else that got in the way of that, but Whitney could no longer sit by and watch this shit happen… Not to *you* anyway. He didn’t like seeing his little slut distressed and crying… especially if he was not the cause.

*“Hey, fat fuck,”* Whitney called out, instantly regretting it when the pig’s attention turned to him. *“Deal’s off. Get your dirty paws off my slut.”*

Scenario:

{{user}} and Whitney have a complicated relationship. They are technically in a couple, but the relationship is still new and Whitney still treats {{user}} as an object or a hinderance. Whitney does like {{user}} but his own personal issues and complicated home life prevents him from acknowledging his feelings and settles for treating {{user}} like his personal play thing. He calls {{user}} degrading names but his favourite nickname for {{user}} is ‘slut’.

When Whitney and {{user}} get arrested for some petty crime, Whitney does not hesitate to offer up {{user}} to the corrupt officers as bribe. But as the assault begins, he regrets his decision and tries to save {{user}}.

Example Dialogue:

{{char}}: *“Don’t look so surprised, slut,*” Whitney snickered in your direction. *“Just suck those cocks and we’ll be out of here in no time.”*

{{char}}: *“Oh, don’t cry… you know I didn’t mean it…”* he murmured softly, his body stiff from the unexpected embrace. Not knowing what to do with his hands, he settled for awkwardly patting your trembling back. *“Stop crying, okay?! … Shit… I’m sorry, okay?”*

{{char}}: *“Mmm delicious,”* he murmured after he licked your cheek with a sly grin. *“Look at your face. Like my tongue that much huh, slut?”*

{{char}}: *“Don’t you trust me?”* he laughed condescendingly. *“Just relax and let it happen. Be good and I promise it won’t hurt… too much.”*

{{char}}: *“You wanna give them a good show like the good little slut, you are right?”* he whispered into your ear, his toned arm unrelenting as he continued to tighten his grip around your neck. *“Do you want to show everyone how much you love my cock?”*

{{char}}: *“F-Fuck yeah…”* he cursed under his breath, continuing to thrust his cock into your pretty little mouth. *“That’s a good little slut… use that pretty little mouth, come on…”*

{{char}}: *“Love you, slut. Don’t let it get to your head.”*

[hrtechweekly]

An AI Intern For Your Recruiting Team

Written by Bailey Newlan, Wade & Wendy

As a recruiter, have you ever had an intern? It’s awesome. They take on many of the tedious administrative tasks that typically take up so much of your time. They assist with everything from processing applications to coordinating interviews and compiling applicant profiles for hiring managers.

[qwertsypage]

The Node.js Community was amazing in 2017! Here's the proof:

Let me just start by stating this:

2017 was a great year for the Node.js Community!

Our favorite platform has finally matured to be widely adopted in the enterprise, also, a lot of great features have been merged into the core, like async/await & http2, just to mention a few.

The world runs on node ✨🐢🚀✨ #NodeInteractive http://pic.twitter.com/5PwDC2w1mE

— Franziska Hinkelmann (@fhinkel) October 4, 2017

Not only the developers who contribute to Node make this platform so great, but those who create learning materials around it were also exceptional.

In our final article of 2017, we collected a bunch of longreads which were created by the Node community. We used data from Reddit, Hacker News, Twitter & Medium to search for the most read, most shared & liked stuff out there. We intentionally omitted articles written by RisingStack (except 1, couldn't resist) - if you're interested in those, please visit our top15 of 2017 post!

I'm sure we left a bunch of amazing articles out - so if you'd like to get attention to an exceptional one you read, please let us know in the comments section.

Also, keep in mind that this post is not a classic "best of" list, just a collection that shows how amazing the Node community was in 2017! I figured that a big shoutout to the developers who constantly advocate & teach Node would be a great way to say goodbye to this year.

So, here come the proof I promised in the title:

1. We have insanely useful community curated lists:

If you'd like to gain useful knowledge quickly, you can count on the Node community. These lists were created in 2017, and contain so much best practices & shortcuts that you can definitely level up your skills by going through them.

The largest Node.JS best practices list is curated from the top ranked articles and always updated.

Awesome Node.js is an extensive list of delightful Node packages & resources.

The Modern JS Cheatsheet contains knwledge needed to build modern projects.

These lists have over 300 contributors & gained around 50K stars on GitHub!

Also, we recommend to check out these articles written by Yoni Goldberg & Azat Mardan which will help you to become a better developer:

Node.JS production best practices

10 Node.js Best Practices: Enlightenment from the Node Gurus

2. There are actually insightful Case Studies available!

One of the best articles on using Node.js was written by Scott Nonnenberg in April. The author summarized his Node experiences from the past 5 years, discussing basic concepts, architectural issues, testing, the Node ecosystem & the reason why you shouldn't use New Relic.

"I’ve already shared a few stories, but this time I wanted to focus on the ones I learned the hard way. Bugs, challenges, surprises, and the lessons you can apply to your own projects!" - Scott

..

Also, did you know that Node.js Helps NASA to Keep Astronauts Safe? It's hard to come up with something cooler than that.

NASA choose Node.js for the following reasons:

The relative ease of developing data transfer applications with JavaScript, and the familiarity across the organization with the programming language, which keeps development time and costs low.

Node.js’ asynchronous event loop for I/O operations makes it the perfect solution for a cloudbased database system that sees queries from dozens of users who need data immediately.

The Node.js package manager, npm, pairs incredibly well with Docker to create a microservices architecture that allows each API, function and application to operate smoothly and independently.

To learn more, read the full case study!

Also, shoutout to the Node Foundation who started to assemble and distribute these pretty interesting use-case whitepapers on a regular basis!

3. Node.js Authentication & Security was well covered in 2017:

When it comes to building Node.js apps (or any app..) security is crucial to get right. This is the reason why "Your Node.js authentication tutorial is (probably) wrong" written by micaksica got so much attention on HackerNoon.

tl;dr: The author went on a search of Node.js/Express.js authentication tutorials. All of them were incomplete or made a security mistake in some way that can potentially hurt new users. His post explores some common authentication pitfalls, how to avoid them, and what to do to help yourself when your tutorials don’t help you anymore.

If you plan on reading only one security related article (..but why would you do that?!), this is definitely one of the best ones!

..

Also, we recommend to check out the Damn Vulnerable NodeJS Application github page, which aims to demonstrate the OWASP Top 10 Vulnerabilities and guides you on fixing and avoiding these vulnerabilities.

..

Other great articles which were receiving a lot of praise were Securing Node.js RESTful APIs with JSON Web Tokens by Adnan Rahic, and Two-Factor Authentication with Node.js from David Walsh.

4. API development with Node.js has been made even more easy:

One of the main strengths of Node.js is that you can build REST APIs with it in a very efficient way! There are a lot of articles covering that topic, but these were definitely the most popular ones:

RESTful API design with Node.js walks beginners through the whole process in a very thorough, easy to understand way.

Build a Node.js API in Under 30 Minutes achieves the same result, but it uses ES6 as well.

10 Best Practices for Writing Node.js REST APIs (written by us) goes a little further and includes topics like naming your routes, authentication, black-box testing & using proper cache headers for these resources.

5. We're constantly looking under the hood of Node.js.

Luckily, the Node/JS community delivers when you want to go deeper, in fact there were so many interesting deep-dives that it was really hard to pick out the best ones, but one can try! These articles are really insightful:

Understanding Node.js Event-Driven Architecture

What you should know to really understand the Node.js Event Loop

Node.js Streams: Everything you need to know

How JavaScript works: inside the V8 engine + 5 tips on how to write optimized code

ES8 was Released and here are its Main New Features

6 Reasons Why JavaScript’s Async/Await Blows Promises Away (Tutorial)

What were the best articles that peeked under the hood of JS/Node in your opinion? Share them in the comments!

6. Awesome new Tools were made in 2017:

Two of the most hyped tools of the year were Prettier & Fastify!

In case you don't know, prettier is a JavaScript formatter that works by compiling your code to an AST, and then pretty-printing the AST.

The result is good-looking code that is completely consistent no matter who wrote it. This solves the problem of programmers spending a lot of time manually moving around code in their editor and arguing about styles.

Fastify was introduced by Matteo Collina, Node.js core technical commitee member during Node Interactive 2017 in Vancouver.

Fastify is a new web framework inspired by Hapi, Restify and Express. Fastify is built as a general-purpose web framework, but it shines when building extremely fast HTTP APIs that use JSON as the data format.

..just to mention a few.

7. There are Amazing Crash Courses Available for Free

If you'd like to start learning Node, you can count on the commmunity to deliver free, high-quality resources that can speed up your journey!

One particular author - Adnan Rahić - received a huge amount of praise for releasing crash courses for different topics on Medium. Here they are:

A crash course on testing with Node.js

A crash course on Serverless with Node.js

We hope Adnan will continue this series and create crash courses on other areas of Node as well!

8. Miscallaneus Topics are Covered as Well

What do we mean under miscallaneus topics? Well, those are topics that go beyond the "traditional" use cases of Node.js, where the authors describe something interesting & fun they built with it.

For example there were exceptional articles released that used the OpenCV library for either face recognition or just regular object recognition.

Chatbots were a hype topic too, and there was no shortage of blogposts describing how to build them using different languages.

Building A Simple AI Chatbot With Web Speech API And Node.js was one of the most praised articles. In this post Tomomi Imura walked us through building a chat-bot which can be controlled by voice. Yep, it's pretty cool.

We also recommend to check out Developing A Chatbot Using Microsoft's Bot Framework, LUIS And Node.js too, which is the first part of a series dealing with the topic.

What other fun projects did you see? Add them to the comments section!

9. The community can attend great conferences, like Node Interactive!

Node Interactive Vancouver was a major event which provided great opportunities for it's attendees to meet with fellow developers & learn a lot about their favorite subject.

Fortunately every prezentation is available on YouTube, so you can get up-to-date even if you couldn't participate this year (just like us.)

The 10 most watched right now are:

Node.js Performance and Highly Scalable Micro-Services by Chris Bailey

New DevTools Features for JavaScript by Yang Guo

The V8 Engine and Node.js by Franzi Hinkelmann

High Performance JS in V8 by Peter Marshall

The Node.js Event Loop: Not So Single Threaded by Bryan Hughes

Welcome and Node.js Update by Mark Hinkle

Take Your HTTP Server to Ludicrous Speed by Matteo Collina

WebAssembly and the Future of the Web by Athan Reines

High Performance Apps with JavaScript and Rust by Amir Yasin

TypeScript - A Love Tale with JavaScript by Bowden Kelly

Of course this list is just the tip of the iceberg, since there are 54 videos upladed on the Node Foundations' YouTube channel, and most of them are really insightful and fun to watch.

10. Node.js is finally more sought after than Java!

Although Ryan Dahl recently stated in an interview that..

for a certain class of application, which is like, if you're building a server, I can't imagine using anything other than Go.

.. we have no reason to doubt the success of Node.js!

Mikeal Rogers, one of the core organizers of NodeConf, community manager & core contributor at the Node Foundation stated that Node.js will overtake Java within a year in a NewStack interview this summer!

We are now at about 8 million estimated users and still growing at about 100 percent a year. We haven’t passed Java in terms of users yet, but by this time next year at the current growth, we will surpass. - Mikeal.

Mikeal is not alone with his opinion. There is hard data available to prove that Node is becoming more sought after than Java.

According to the data gathered by builtinnode, the demand for Node.js developers has already surpassed the demand for Java devs by the summer of 2017 in the Who is Hiring section of Hacker News!

Since Node was already adopted and is being advocated by the greatest tech companies on Earth, there's no doubt that it will remain a leading technology for many years ahead!

We hope that the Node community will continue to thrive in 2018 as well, and produce a plethora of exellent tools & tutorials.

At RisingStack, we'll keep on advocating & educating Node in 2018 as well, for sure! If you're interested in the best content we produced in 2017, take a look!

The Node.js Community was amazing in 2017! Here's the proof: published first on http://ift.tt/2w7iA1y

[iyarpage]

The Node.js Community was amazing in 2017! Here's the proof:

Let me just start by stating this:

2017 was a great year for the Node.js Community!

Our favorite platform has finally matured to be widely adopted in the enterprise, also, a lot of great features have been merged into the core, like async/await & http2, just to mention a few.

The world runs on node ✨🐢🚀✨ #NodeInteractive http://pic.twitter.com/5PwDC2w1mE

— Franziska Hinkelmann (@fhinkel) October 4, 2017

Not only the developers who contribute to Node make this platform so great, but those who create learning materials around it were also exceptional.

In our final article of 2017, we collected a bunch of longreads which were created by the Node community. We used data from Reddit, Hacker News, Twitter & Medium to search for the most read, most shared & liked stuff out there. We intentionally omitted articles written by RisingStack (except 1, couldn't resist) - if you're interested in those, please visit our top15 of 2017 post!

I'm sure we left a bunch of amazing articles out - so if you'd like to get attention to an exceptional one you read, please let us know in the comments section.

Also, keep in mind that this post is not a classic "best of" list, just a collection that shows how amazing the Node community was in 2017! I figured that a big shoutout to the developers who constantly advocate & teach Node would be a great way to say goodbye to this year.

So, here come the proof I promised in the title:

1. We have insanely useful community curated lists:

If you'd like to gain useful knowledge quickly, you can count on the Node community. These lists were created in 2017, and contain so much best practices & shortcuts that you can definitely level up your skills by going through them.

The largest Node.JS best practices list is curated from the top ranked articles and always updated.

Awesome Node.js is an extensive list of delightful Node packages & resources.

The Modern JS Cheatsheet contains knwledge needed to build modern projects.

These lists have over 300 contributors & gained around 50K stars on GitHub!

Also, we recommend to check out these articles written by Yoni Goldberg & Azat Mardan which will help you to become a better developer:

Node.JS production best practices

10 Node.js Best Practices: Enlightenment from the Node Gurus

2. There are actually insightful Case Studies available!

One of the best articles on using Node.js was written by Scott Nonnenberg in April. The author summarized his Node experiences from the past 5 years, discussing basic concepts, architectural issues, testing, the Node ecosystem & the reason why you shouldn't use New Relic.

"I’ve already shared a few stories, but this time I wanted to focus on the ones I learned the hard way. Bugs, challenges, surprises, and the lessons you can apply to your own projects!" - Scott

..

Also, did you know that Node.js Helps NASA to Keep Astronauts Safe? It's hard to come up with something cooler than that.

NASA choose Node.js for the following reasons:

The relative ease of developing data transfer applications with JavaScript, and the familiarity across the organization with the programming language, which keeps development time and costs low.

Node.js’ asynchronous event loop for I/O operations makes it the perfect solution for a cloudbased database system that sees queries from dozens of users who need data immediately.

The Node.js package manager, npm, pairs incredibly well with Docker to create a microservices architecture that allows each API, function and application to operate smoothly and independently.

To learn more, read the full case study!

Also, shoutout to the Node Foundation who started to assemble and distribute these pretty interesting use-case whitepapers on a regular basis!

3. Node.js Authentication & Security was well covered in 2017:

When it comes to building Node.js apps (or any app..) security is crucial to get right. This is the reason why "Your Node.js authentication tutorial is (probably) wrong" written by micaksica got so much attention on HackerNoon.

tl;dr: The author went on a search of Node.js/Express.js authentication tutorials. All of them were incomplete or made a security mistake in some way that can potentially hurt new users. His post explores some common authentication pitfalls, how to avoid them, and what to do to help yourself when your tutorials don’t help you anymore.

If you plan on reading only one security related article (..but why would you do that?!), this is definitely one of the best ones!

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Also, we recommend to check out the Damn Vulnerable NodeJS Application github page, which aims to demonstrate the OWASP Top 10 Vulnerabilities and guides you on fixing and avoiding these vulnerabilities.

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Other great articles which were receiving a lot of praise were Securing Node.js RESTful APIs with JSON Web Tokens by Adnan Rahic, and Two-Factor Authentication with Node.js from David Walsh.

4. API development with Node.js has been made even more easy:

One of the main strengths of Node.js is that you can build REST APIs with it in a very efficient way! There are a lot of articles covering that topic, but these were definitely the most popular ones:

RESTful API design with Node.js walks beginners through the whole process in a very thorough, easy to understand way.

Build a Node.js API in Under 30 Minutes achieves the same result, but it uses ES6 as well.

10 Best Practices for Writing Node.js REST APIs (written by us) goes a little further and includes topics like naming your routes, authentication, black-box testing & using proper cache headers for these resources.

5. We're constantly looking under the hood of Node.js.

Luckily, the Node/JS community delivers when you want to go deeper, in fact there were so many interesting deep-dives that it was really hard to pick out the best ones, but one can try! These articles are really insightful:

Understanding Node.js Event-Driven Architecture

What you should know to really understand the Node.js Event Loop

Node.js Streams: Everything you need to know

How JavaScript works: inside the V8 engine + 5 tips on how to write optimized code

ES8 was Released and here are its Main New Features

6 Reasons Why JavaScript’s Async/Await Blows Promises Away (Tutorial)

What were the best articles that peeked under the hood of JS/Node in your opinion? Share them in the comments!

6. Awesome new Tools were made in 2017:

Two of the most hyped tools of the year were Prettier & Fastify!

In case you don't know, prettier is a JavaScript formatter that works by compiling your code to an AST, and then pretty-printing the AST.

The result is good-looking code that is completely consistent no matter who wrote it. This solves the problem of programmers spending a lot of time manually moving around code in their editor and arguing about styles.

Fastify was introduced by Matteo Collina, Node.js core technical commitee member during Node Interactive 2017 in Vancouver.

Fastify is a new web framework inspired by Hapi, Restify and Express. Fastify is built as a general-purpose web framework, but it shines when building extremely fast HTTP APIs that use JSON as the data format.

..just to mention a few.

7. There are Amazing Crash Courses Available for Free

If you'd like to start learning Node, you can count on the commmunity to deliver free, high-quality resources that can speed up your journey!

One particular author - Adnan Rahić - received a huge amount of praise for releasing crash courses for different topics on Medium. Here they are:

A crash course on testing with Node.js

A crash course on Serverless with Node.js

We hope Adnan will continue this series and create crash courses on other areas of Node as well!

8. Miscallaneus Topics are Covered as Well

What do we mean under miscallaneus topics? Well, those are topics that go beyond the "traditional" use cases of Node.js, where the authors describe something interesting & fun they built with it.

For example there were exceptional articles released that used the OpenCV library for either face recognition or just regular object recognition.

Chatbots were a hype topic too, and there was no shortage of blogposts describing how to build them using different languages.

Building A Simple AI Chatbot With Web Speech API And Node.js was one of the most praised articles. In this post Tomomi Imura walked us through building a chat-bot which can be controlled by voice. Yep, it's pretty cool.

We also recommend to check out Developing A Chatbot Using Microsoft's Bot Framework, LUIS And Node.js too, which is the first part of a series dealing with the topic.

What other fun projects did you see? Add them to the comments section!

9. The community can attend great conferences, like Node Interactive!

Node Interactive Vancouver was a major event which provided great opportunities for it's attendees to meet with fellow developers & learn a lot about their favorite subject.

Fortunately every prezentation is available on YouTube, so you can get up-to-date even if you couldn't participate this year (just like us.)

The 10 most watched right now are:

Node.js Performance and Highly Scalable Micro-Services by Chris Bailey

New DevTools Features for JavaScript by Yang Guo

The V8 Engine and Node.js by Franzi Hinkelmann

High Performance JS in V8 by Peter Marshall

The Node.js Event Loop: Not So Single Threaded by Bryan Hughes

Welcome and Node.js Update by Mark Hinkle

Take Your HTTP Server to Ludicrous Speed by Matteo Collina

WebAssembly and the Future of the Web by Athan Reines

High Performance Apps with JavaScript and Rust by Amir Yasin

TypeScript - A Love Tale with JavaScript by Bowden Kelly

Of course this list is just the tip of the iceberg, since there are 54 videos upladed on the Node Foundations' YouTube channel, and most of them are really insightful and fun to watch.

10. Node.js is finally more sought after than Java!

Although Ryan Dahl recently stated in an interview that..

for a certain class of application, which is like, if you're building a server, I can't imagine using anything other than Go.

.. we have no reason to doubt the success of Node.js!

Mikeal Rogers, one of the core organizers of NodeConf, community manager & core contributor at the Node Foundation stated that Node.js will overtake Java within a year in a NewStack interview this summer!

We are now at about 8 million estimated users and still growing at about 100 percent a year. We haven’t passed Java in terms of users yet, but by this time next year at the current growth, we will surpass. - Mikeal.

Mikeal is not alone with his opinion. There is hard data available to prove that Node is becoming more sought after than Java.

According to the data gathered by builtinnode, the demand for Node.js developers has already surpassed the demand for Java devs by the summer of 2017 in the Who is Hiring section of Hacker News!

Since Node was already adopted and is being advocated by the greatest tech companies on Earth, there's no doubt that it will remain a leading technology for many years ahead!

We hope that the Node community will continue to thrive in 2018 as well, and produce a plethora of exellent tools & tutorials.

At RisingStack, we'll keep on advocating & educating Node in 2018 as well, for sure! If you're interested in the best content we produced in 2017, take a look!

The Node.js Community was amazing in 2017! Here's the proof: published first on http://ift.tt/2fA8nUr

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IDG Contributor Network: Why chatbots may be the glue that holds IoT together

As smart as today’s conversational interfaces appear to be, when Alexa can’t distinguish what the word “it” refers to in a sentence, how valuable is she really? Chatbots should be more than a party trick; and at this stage, many of their use cases leave much to be desired. But repairing their conversational shortcomings could create value where we never thought possible, and potentially be the engine that drives the IoT landscape forward. The Key to Conversation: Context Machines don’t understand context the way humans do, and solving this problem is the next step towards creating an interface that’s truly conversational. Luckily, progress in machine learning and natural language processing is giving new meaning to “conversational” devices. My colleague Katherine Bailey, Principal Data Scientist at Acquia, wrote an article recently about conversational AI and the road ahead. She talked about a machine learning technique called Word Embeddings, where vectors are used to represent words in 300+ dimensions, which introduces context into artificially intelligent systems. This technique is maturing, and conversational interfaces are getting smarter the more you speak to them. They can learn and categorize human language through experience, making them that much more useful for consumers. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here http://dlvr.it/PKqQsB #CIO #ITStrategy

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IDG Contributor Network: Why chatbots may be the glue that holds IoT together

As smart as today’s conversational interfaces appear to be, when Alexa can’t distinguish what the word “it” refers to in a sentence, how valuable is she really?

Chatbots should be more than a party trick; and at this stage, many of their use cases leave much to be desired. But repairing their conversational shortcomings could create value where we never thought possible, and potentially be the engine that drives the IoT landscape forward.

The Key to Conversation: Context

Machines don’t understand context the way humans do, and solving this problem is the next step towards creating an interface that’s truly conversational. Luckily, progress in machine learning and natural language processing is giving new meaning to “conversational” devices. My colleague Katherine Bailey, Principal Data Scientist at Acquia, wrote an article recently about conversational AI and the road ahead. She talked about a machine learning technique called Word Embeddings, where vectors are used to represent words in 300+ dimensions, which introduces context into artificially intelligent systems. This technique is maturing, and conversational interfaces are getting smarter the more you speak to them. They can learn and categorize human language through experience, making them that much more useful for consumers.

To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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5 Machine Learning Startups To Improve Your Recruiting Workflow

Machine Learning-enabled tools that will make you more effective at work

This list was originally published on Product Hunt here. Below is an abbreviated version. Sam DeBrule co-founder of Journal and voice of the Machine Learnings Newsletter has curated a list of top startups using Machine Learning to automate work-related tasks. I’ve pared this down to my favorites for simplifying recruiting and team building efforts. 1. Textio | Spell checker for gender bias and…

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The Conversation Paradox: Why 100% of Interviews Are Biased

Written by Bailey Newlan, Content & Growth Marketer at Wade & Wendy

In a recent New York Times article, The Utter Uselessness of Job Interviews, Jason Dana, Assistant Professor of Management and Marketing at the Yale School of Management, explores the biases surrounding the unstructured interview process. He observes that: “…interviewers typically form strong but unwarranted impressions about interviewees, often revealing more about themselves than the…

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Solving the Job Application Black Hole with Chatbots

Written by Bailey Newlan, Content & Growth Marketer at Wade & Wendy

Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) are not inherently bad — for the hiring manager. They are critical to managing massive amounts of resumes and establishing an efficient workflow. However, the candidate experience suffers. A survey conducted by CareerBuilder found that 52% of employers responded to less than 50% of candidate…