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2018/08/30 #

Today’s links:

  • 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 www.reuters.com #

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

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

  • 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 www.bbc.com #

2018/08/29 #

Today’s links:

  • 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 www.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 www.rollingstone.com #

2018/08/28 #

Today’s links:

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

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

2018/08/27 #

Today’s links:

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

2018/08/26 #

Today’s links:

  • Papal visit to Nock, Ireland - Pope begs forgiveness for clerical sex abuse www.bbc.com #

  • Brexit - No-deal 'risks break-up of UK' - Herman Van Rompuy www.bbc.com #

2018/08/25 #

Today’s links:

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

  • What's really behind the global rise in working longer and longer hours www.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 #

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

2018/08/24 #

Today’s links:

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

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

2018/08/23 #

Today’s links:

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

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

2018/08/22 #

Today’s links:

  • 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 www.buzzfeednews.com #

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

2018/08/21 #

Today’s links:

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

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

2018/08/19 #

Today’s links:

  • Trump on social media - "Let everybody participate, good & bad, and we will all just have to figure it out!" www.politico.com #

  • We’re Living in a Fake World - Advertising is the reason medium.com #

  • JAMstack - Modern web development architecture based on client-side JavaScript, reusable APIs, and prebuilt Markup jamstack.org #

2018/08/17 #

Today’s links:

  • Dokku helps you build and manage the lifecycle of applications - The smallest PaaS implementation you've ever seen dokku.viewdocs.io #

  • Sigil - Standalone string interpolator and template processor (useful to build configs in bash scripts) github.com #

2018/08/16 #

Today’s links:

  • Native Lazy Loading Coming to the Web Platform twitter.com #

  • nanobox.io - Run any app on any cloud (snazzy looking containerisation implementation) nanobox.io #

  • 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 #

2018/08/15 #

Today’s links:

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

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

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

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

2018/08/14 #

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Today’s links:

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

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

  • Kikagaku Moyo / 幾何学模様 - Masana Temples - 09 Gatherings www.youtube.com #

2018/08/12 #

Today’s links:

  • 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 www.theverge.com #

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

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

2018/08/11 #

Today’s links:

  • 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 #

2018/08/10 #

Today’s links:

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

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

2018/08/09 #

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 #

Today’s links:

  • 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 #

2018/08/05 #

Today’s links:

  • 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 :( www.linkedin.com #

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

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

2018/08/04 #

Today’s links:

  • 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 #

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

2018/08/02 #

Today’s links:

  • How we spent 30k USD in Firebase in less than 72 hours - Why it's important to be careful when using metered cloud services hackernoon.com #

  • How to tell the difference between persuasion and manipulation aeon.co #

2018/08/01 #

Today’s links:

  • taskbook - Tasks, boards & notes for the command-line habitat (Looks very interesting) github.com #

  • Augur - the blockchain betting networks where you can bet on anything even assassination www.coindesk.com #

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