# A is for Effort

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In this episode:

- Polymer summit happened, [watch the talks](https://summit.polymer-project.org/schedule).
- Especially [Surma \& Monica's supercharged](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHJwRWrexqg).
- How Jake [sweated through supercharged](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Tr-scf7trE).
- Service workers are being [implemented in Safari](https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=174541).
- Jake built a [silly PWA](https://f1-start.glitch.me/), [endorsed by F1 world
  champions](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fgGJ-M6X2s).
- Surma built [Tinder for bananas](https://tinderforbananas.com/).
- [CSS animation worklets and custom layouts](https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2016/05/houdini).
- [CSS shadow parts](https://tabatkins.github.io/specs/css-shadow-parts/) for styling the shadow DOM.
- What has Flash ever done for us?
- Jake uploaded [an old Flash intro he built](https://cv-ppguyzgojs.now.sh/).
- Do we cultivate impostor syndrome as if it's a good thing?
- [Admitting what we don't know](https://twitter.com/jaffathecake/status/835963707368869890) is a good thing.
- Surma knows the difference between align-items and justify-content.
- Surma [pitches tasklets](https://github.com/GoogleChrome/tasklets).
- No, nanotasks aren't a thing.
- Abortable fetch in [Firefox](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1378342) \& [Edge](https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/platform/issues/13009916/).
- [Web platform tests](https://github.com/w3c/web-platform-tests) are great.
- And, what would you do if you sat on a wet seat?

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