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Minecraft’s Good Trouble aims to help build a better world Minecraft: Education Edition‘s Lessons in Good Trouble includes many famous activists throughout history and the world – such as Malala Yousafzai, Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela and suffragist Emmeline Pankhurst – and learning zones that take learners of any age to many places, including Selma, Alabama, India, Pakistan, the U.K. and South Africa. The latest two lessons are on the Black Lives Matter and the U.S. civil rights movements (focused on the march across Edmund Pettus Bridge, the Greensboro Lunch Counter Sit-Ins and Rosa Parks’ protest against public segregation). There will be 10 lessons in all, releasing over the course of spring. They all reinforce how “good trouble” – the kind Congressman John Lewis was known for causing to secure the right to vote – can build a better world. In [ more… ]

Making Service Workers easier to debug for Progressive Web Applications and more With Service Workers, you are in control of telling the browser what to load from the internet and what to get from the local device. Adding service workers to your app allows you to add offline support without breaking the site for legacy browsers – following the principle of “Progressive Enhancement” that makes up the “Progressive” in Progressive Web Apps (PWA). Service Workers enable you to create better apps, but they can also be overwhelming. We worked closely with web developers to find opportunities to simplify the experience of debugging Service Workers. Based on these conversations, we’ve rolled out new improvements to Service Worker debugging that are available in Microsoft Edge 88, now in the Stable channel. When debugging them in the Network and Application panes, we found [ more… ]