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Today, Johannes Weber and I are launching a new weekly email newsletter: ES.next News . The concept is simple: you get 5 links related to ECMAScript 6/2015+ per week, via email. Subscribe now, it’s free: Email : one email per week, each Tuesday. You can check out a sample issue . Twitter : all links that will be in the newsletter plus a few more, spread out all over the week. We see ES.next News as complementary to JavaScript Weekly (which we recommend, but are not affiliated with). The former is more focused, the latter is more comprehensive. Happy reading!

Quoting “ News is bad for you – and giving up reading it will make you happier ” (by Rolf Dobelli for The Guardian): In the past few decades, the fortunate among us have recognised the hazards of living with an overabundance of food (obesity, diabetes) and have started to change our diets. But most of us do not yet understand that news is to the mind what sugar is to the body. News is easy to digest. The media feeds us small bites of trivial matter, tidbits that don't really concern our lives and don't require thinking. This has been on my mind for a long time: Most of the stuff you learn via the news is just as relevant for your actual life as, for example, the politics of Westeros . It’s too far away to matter, a single incident (that we can’t help but generalize), too limited a perspective (a single person writing about a general issue), etc. The uselessness of that knowledge can be easily demonstrated by looking at a newspaper from a year ago: how much of its content is sti...