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Thursday, August 30, 2018

Picular - Google, but for colors (extracts colors from a google search, strange results sometimes) picular.co #

Germany, seeking independence from U.S., pushes cyber security research reuters.com #

‘Overtourism’ Worries Europe - How Much Did Technology Help Get Us There? nytimes.com #

Picasso’s Incredible Childhood Paintings Reveal a Different Side of the Modern Artist mymodernmet.com #

Emails while commuting 'should count as work' bbc.co.uk #

The World’s Oldest Blockchain Has Been Hiding in the New York Times Since 1995 motherboard.vice.com #

JavaScript Promises with Node.js - Really clear explanation of how promises work in node itnext.io #

hiproxy - lightweight proxy tool for Front-End developers based on Node.js that supports an NGINX-like configuration github.com #

Dutroux murders - Belgian child-killer's letter angers parents bbc.com #

Wednesday, August 29, 2018

Trump points out Google's biased algorithms nypost.com #

World’s leading human rights groups tell Google to cancel its China censorship plan theintercept.com #

Why is the USA one of the only countries that has no known Right to Food human right? en.wikipedia.org #

Facebook insiders describe intolerant liberal culture, often policed by mobs, seeks political diversity nytimes.com #

Paystack, with ambitions to become the Stripe of Africa, raises $8M from Visa, Tencent… and Stripe itself techcrunch.com #

Virtual Organized Crime - DJs are playing motion captured sets in Grand Theft Auto nightclubs rollingstone.com #

Tuesday, August 28, 2018

Tech Industry Pursues a Federal Privacy Law, on Its Own Terms nytimes.com #

How much electricity is consumed by Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, Litecoin, and Monero? ofnumbers.com #

UK to start work on satellite system to rival EU's Galileo reuters.com #

Paul Irish - Debugging Node.js with Chrome DevTools medium.com #

New Repo: nockback-test - how to mock an api using nock record/playback feature github.com #

Food is any substance consumed to provide nutritional support for an organism en.wikipedia.org #

Monday, August 27, 2018

Tesla to stay publicly traded, Elon Musk says company is 'better off' cnbc.com #

YouTube to start rolling out non-skippable 15-20 seconds ads - sites "more money for creators" mashable.com #

Who needs democracy when you have data? Here’s how China rules using data, AI, and internet surveillance technologyreview.com #

Saturday, August 25, 2018

Stimulus - A modest JavaScript framework for the HTML you already have (from the creators of basecamp/37signals) stimulusjs.org #

Trump’s base may not like him, but they’re not about to ditch him theguardian.com #

What's really behind the global rise in working longer and longer hours bbc.com #

The Approval Economy - On infrastructure, advertising, and social norms zandercutt.com #

Sleepless City Streets of Rainy Tokyo Nights Lit by Electric Neon Signs mymodernmet.com #

How pioneering DJ Grandmaster Flash hacked together his first mixer boingboing.net #

Friday, August 24, 2018

'Xbox All Access' looks like a new subscription service with Xbox Live, Game Pass, and a console windowscentral.com #

The 30% Tax - The Netflix App Store bypass is the start of the insurgence of the subscription bundling business avc.com #

Shortwave - Looks like an interesting modern podcasting platform with lots of useful transcoding tools goshortwave.com #

Uzbekistan's secret underground in pictures - art, architecture and nuclear-blast protection in Central Asia’s oldest subway system theguardian.com #

Thursday, August 23, 2018

Creator Arcade - music education platform to learn and get feedback from world's best DJ's, music producers, and engineers (IH interview with founder) indiehackers.com #

Former Facebook CSO says it's likely that the U.S. elections will become the world cup of information warfare lawfareblog.com #

Typeography exploration at the BBC - An Exploration of Variable Fonts blog.prototypr.io #

Type designer David Jonathan Ross has an interesting website with "Font of the month club" djr.com #

UK Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn proposes a publicly-funded alternative to Facebook techcrunch.com #

Chinese Surveillance State Is Basically The US Surveillance Apparatus Minus The Constitutional Rights techdirt.com #

More Than A Billion Downloads of Node.js medium.com #

Wednesday, August 22, 2018

Netflix updates it's billing system to bypass iTunes and Google techcrunch.com #

Facebook implements trust scoring for all users, but it can't tell you about the system in case you try to fix it thenextweb.com #

Jack Dorsey On Deleting Tweets, Banning Trump, And Whether An Unbiased Twitter Can Exist buzzfeednews.com #

Schools are mining students' social media posts for signs of trouble wired.com #

mock-stripe-server - Mock Stripe API Server github.com #

Stripe Mock Webhooks - Quickly test Stripe Webhooks against your application without hitting Stripe or requiring internet connectivity npmjs.com #

Tuesday, August 21, 2018

Venezuela just devalued the bolívar by 95% and pegged it to a cryptocurrency businessinsider.com #

It’s Not Technology That’s Disrupting Our Jobs - A reflection on the gig economy nytimes.com #

Skype’s end-to-end encrypted Private Conversations feature now available across platforms mspoweruser.com #

A Giphy story - We Love Jurgen Klopp! giphy.com #

Twitch to start showing ads, the $9/month Turbo plan will keep ad-free viewing theverge.com #

Karma raises $12 million for marketplace that helps restaurants and supermarkets reduce food waste venturebeat.com #

EU to fine social media platforms that take more than 1 hour to remove extremist content thenextweb.com #

Monday, August 20, 2018

Twitter CEO Dorsey explains ignoring Infowars' rules violations cnet.com #

Inside Facebook’s plan to protect the U.S. midterm elections recode.net #

Wildlife photographer Paul Nicklen: ‘If we lose the ice, we lose the entire ecosystem’ theguardian.com #

RemoteOnly - Aggregates posts from several remote job boards remoteonly.io #

Wednesday, August 15, 2018

$100 Million Was Once Big Money for a Start-Up - Now, It’s Common nytimes.com #

Chinese Cops Now Spying on American Soil - China is compiling a global registry of its ethnic minorities thedailybeast.com #

We're Bad At Regulating Privacy, Because We Don't Understand Privacy techdirt.com #

Are Netflix, Amazon Video, and Xfinity just re-creating cable TV but via streaming? theverge.com #

Guide to Tracking Multiple Subdomains in Google Analytics ericmobley.net #

API Blueprint - A powerful high-level API description language for web APIs apiblueprint.org #

aglio - An API Blueprint renderer with theme support that outputs static HTML github.com #

Tuesday, August 14, 2018

Linkblog featured on 10words

Linkblog is featured today on 10words.io, currently on the homepage and will also go out via their newsletter and twitter!

To all the 10words readers - thanks for stoping by!

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A good example of a linkblog is my linkblog which I also publish using the custom domain feature so that it nicely fits in with my other web presences.

Some other examples of use are posting links to blog posts and finding a video you watched last year and the latest feature addition is the navbar globe icon. Running a linkblog is a great way to build some context around what you are doing.

This blog post wouldn't be complete without a coupon code. If you've read this far then you're at least curious, if you use coupon code 10WORDS at check out get 30% discount on your first year, and it's a 30 day money back guaranty.

Apple is encouraging app developers to move to subscription based revenue models thisisinsider.com #

YouTube is creating tools for creators to make money through membership, merchandise and even money for using specific features bloomberg.com #

The 2018 Web Developer Roadmap An illustrated guide to becoming a Frontend or Backend Developer with links to courses codeburst.io #

Sunday, August 12, 2018

Interesting piece about Amazon Auto SDK bringing Alexa to cars and the nuances of accents in voice recognition venturebeat.com #

Reminiscing about the "shared family computer" and the new realities and challenges technology is creating today theverge.com #

Twitter fleshes out a policy to address “dehumanizing” speech posted by users nytimes.com #

What are the facts on these “design systems” that has the whole industry talking? medium.com #

Resistant protocols - How decentralization evolves medium.com #

Saturday, August 11, 2018

themesfor.app - Free (Do whatever you want), fully-responsive Bootstrap 4 themes for your next startup and side-project via email themesfor.app #

Cronhub - makes sure your background jobs are up and running - "Painless Cron Monitoring" cronhub.io #

Nutrition Cards for Accessible Components - an attempt to digest and simplify the accessibility expectations when it comes to component authoring davatron5000.github.io #

ShellCheck, a static analysis tool for shell scripts github.com #

Friday, August 10, 2018

Deploying a Stateful Application on Azure Kubernetes Service (Wow Kubernetes === complicated!) blog.risingstack.com #

Hack attack can stop people's hearts bbc.com #

Sid James' final interview - Carry On star's recording found after 42 years bbc.com #

Before Lonely Planet there was an underground travel guide publishing house named BIT (1970–1980) medium.com #

Splitting - JavaScript microlibrary designed to empower you with animations, transitions and interactions with text elements splitting.js.org #

Examples of text effects built with splitting.js codepen.io #

Thursday, August 9, 2018

New Linkblog feature: navbar globe icon

The navbar globe icon feature adds a way to link to your other online sites. To set it up, simply update the url form field on your user profile page. Then a globe icon will render in your public linkblog's navbar that loads that url when clicked.

It's a minimalist way to link to your other sites from your linkblog, so visitors can find your other presences online. In the screenshot below notice the globe icon in the top right just next to the search icon, and in my case it links to my homepage, which has links to all my other online sites, so visitors have a way to find among others my blog, twitter, linkedin.

See it in action here.

Linkblog globe icon

Upwork has turned into a creepy freelancer surveillance and monitoring company buzzfeednews.com #

New Repo: freelancer - Website for freelancers to securely receive payments for services github.com #

Patreon buys Memberful but keeps it indie as patronage consolidates techcrunch.com #

Sunday, August 5, 2018

Trillion - Apple’s insanely great run… 500ish.com #

LinkedIn website won't let me update my profile picture! And there is no support email address :( linkedin.com #

Venezuela President Maduro survives 'drone assassination attempt' bbc.com #

South Korea's spy cam porn epidemic bbc.com #

This modern Seattle building doesn’t have AC - on purpose kuow.org #

Saturday, August 4, 2018

Do Americans Understand They’re Beginning to Commit The Legal Definition of Genocide? eand.co #

The Case for Genetically Engineering Ethical Humans medium.com #

So you bought a ghost town - Who is paying $12 million for an abandoned town? theoutline.com #

Friday, August 3, 2018

Apple has officially become the world's only trillion dollar publicly traded company macrumors.com #

Are people really pinging their Serverless functions every 5 minutes to avoid cold starts? twitter.com #

Build, deploy, manage modern serverless workloads using Knative on Kubernetes m.chmarny.com #

Why westerners fear robots and the japanese do not (apparently westerners believe humans "own nature") wired.com #

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