Wednesday, October 31, 2018

Redis Streams are a new feature in Redis 5 - useful for implementing task queues redis.io #

How Instagram Made Extreme Couponers of Us All (Couponing somehow feels like a fractal of everything on the internet) theringer.com #

Just The Good Stuff From Today's Apple Event digg.com #

MacBook Air vs. iPad Pro is a choice between the past and the future theverge.com #

Monday, October 29, 2018

Should we trust Microsoft with GitHub? tfir.io #

Some research from DigitalOcean shows that in open source new devs contribute more than older devs blog.digitalocean.com #

IBM to acquire Red Hat in deal valued at $34 billion cnbc.com #

China has been 'hijacking the vital internet backbone of western countries' zdnet.com #

Leicester City owner among five dead in helicopter crash bbc.com #

Every story in the world has one of these six basic plots bbc.com #

Remy has an interesting bash script debug story using the linux od command (neat command I wasn't aware of) remysharp.com #

Leicester City fans pay tribute to owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, who has died in a helicopter crash bbc.com #

Sunday, October 28, 2018

GraphQL - A success story for PayPal Checkout medium.com #

Leicester City owner's helicopter crashes leaving stadium bbc.com #

You can do a lot with a virtual dom library and vanilla javascript medium.com #

The digital gap between rich and poor kids is not what we expected (badly written article on an interesting topic) nytimes.com #

A good description of the main features of the Joi module used for input/output validation medium.com #

First private Chinese attempt to send rocket into space fails theguardian.com #

Friday, October 26, 2018

Introducing Hooks - feature proposal to use state and other React features without writing a class reactjs.org #

Google’s Pixel phone's new night mode looks incredible theverge.com #

Some Google execs believe that "owner relationships" (with actual people) are ok, including Andy Rubin, the ‘Father of Android’ nytimes.com #

Slavery is any system in which principles of property law are applied to people, allowing individuals to own, buy and sell other individuals, as a de jure form of property en.wikipedia.org #

Bitbucket are removing support for deploy keys in their v2 API (Jan 2019) - Go and vote for this critical issue! bitbucket.org #

China Telecom has been using poisoned internet routes to suck up massive amounts of US and Canadian internet traffic boingboing.net #

Thursday, October 25, 2018

30 Seconds of CSS - A curated collection of useful CSS snippets you can understand in 30 seconds or less 30-seconds.github.io #

When Trump Phones Friends, the Chinese and the Russians Listen and Learn nytimes.com #

Ex-Facebook security chief calls out Tim Cook and Apple's practices in China cnbc.com #

October Brings Node.js 10.x to LTS and Node.js 11 to Current! medium.com #

Apple picks Thailand for its second retail store in Southeast Asia techcrunch.com #

My father says he’s a ‘targeted individual. ’ Maybe we all are wired.com #

Wednesday, October 24, 2018

Web performance software company Cloudflare readies IPO reuters.com #

Picture-in-Picture now enabled by default in Chrome for Mac, Windows, and Linux androidpolice.com #

India’s unicorn startups concentrate on local issues in education, logistics, and lodging - international expansion soon bloomberg.com #

Dutch King Willem-Alexander warns of Brexit uncertainty bbc.com #

Investigating Implausible Bloomberg Supermicro Stories (Technical) servethehome.com #

Apple’s Tim Cook makes blistering attack on the “data industrial complex” techcrunch.com #

Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person - Alain de Botton youtube.com #

RA.644 Leon Vynehall - "Vynehall transcends his tag as a dance music producer and simply becomes a musician who's expressing himself." residentadvisor.net #

Monday, October 22, 2018

Saudi Arabia admits to journalist Jamal Khashoggi being the murdered in a 'rogue operation' bbc.com #

Google to open source the firmware used in it the Pixel 3's separate security chip wired.com #

Youth of the Apocalypse - The London hip hop group, formed by members of the Klaxons and Gorillaz huckmag.com #

GNU Kind Communications Guidelines gnu.org #

Sunday, October 21, 2018

President Trump to pull US from Russia missile treaty bbc.co.uk #

Hundreds of thousands attend London People's Vote protest - Some want deal or no deal, others want to cancel the first referendum - seems like a badly organised (though well attended) protest, or shody reporting bbc.co.uk #

Saturday, October 20, 2018

The Ultimate Guide to Execution Contexts, Hoisting, Scopes, and Closures in JavaScript tylermcginnis.com #

5 Tips to Write Better Conditionals in JavaScript scotch.io #

LoopBack 4 - Build Amazing APIs (Looks great but imo after 10 mins feels like giant ball of complexity) v4.loopback.io #

Compose to a Vertical Rhythm - "regular use of space provides rhythm in typography" 24ways.org #

Apple CEO Tim Cook Is Calling For Bloomberg To Retract Its Chinese Spy Chip Story buzzfeednews.com #

G4S announces high-security ‘vault storage’ for holding crypto (also run prisons, detention centers, and vault storage of cash) cointelegraph.com #

Friday, October 19, 2018

Using MongoDB as realtime DB with nodeJS medium.com #

Schnack - Simple node app for Disqus-like drop-in commenting on static website github.com #

The Bosnians who speak medieval Spanish bbc.com #

Encrypted SNI Comes to Firefox Nightly - "do you want the person at the coffee shop next to you to know you’re visiting cancer.org?" blog.mozilla.org #

How to find the best open source Node.js projects to study for leveling up your skills coreycleary.me #

Six random insights from Henry Rollins’ 2018 Travel Slideshow rolfpotts.com #

Thursday, October 18, 2018

Twitter Posts Millions of Tweets Linked to Russia, Iran bloomberg.com #

Apple launched a new privacy website that lets you find all the data the company has on you cnbc.com #

Search engine Baidu becomes first China firm to join U.S. AI ethics group reuters.com #

Cannabis in Canada - How it went down on Legalisation Day, Amnesty for past convictions, pot jokes bbc.co.uk #

Wednesday, October 17, 2018

Saudi Money Flows Into Silicon Valley - and With It Qualms wsj.com #

fancy-border-radius - tool to build organic-looking shapes using border-radius 9elements.github.io #

Canada becomes second country to legalise recreational marijuana bbc.com #

Is the EU really united over Brexit? bbc.com #

Tuesday, October 16, 2018

A Genocide Incited on Facebook, With Posts From Myanmar’s Military nytimes.com #

Amazon's Jeff Bezos Says Tech Companies Should Work With the Pentagon wired.com #

IRL (In Real Life) add blockers in sun glasses - block billboard adds and screens producthunt.com #

A sensible, free guide to negotiating book contracts by the nonprofit Authors Alliance boingboing.net #

Can't drag bookmarklets to the bookmarks bar (Chrome) - This just started happening for me today - How can that be? bugs.chromium.org #

MongoDB switches up its open source license - introduces the Server Side Public License (SSPL) techcrunch.com #

Polar - A powerful offline browser for Mac, Windows, and Linux for managing all your web content, books, and notes getpolarized.io #

33 concepts every JavaScript developer should know github.com #

MongoDB Issues New Server Side Public License for MongoDB Community Server mongodb.com #

Monday, October 15, 2018

Genome hackers show no one’s dna is anonymous anymore (60% of Europeans can be identified) wired.com #

Facebook drove Egypt's revolution - Now it's being used as a weapon to oppress women wired.co.uk #

Twitter is being investigated over its collection of data in its link-shortening system theblogroom.com #

Military leaders are starting to freak out over Russia’s information warfare dominance taskandpurpose.com #

Sunday, October 14, 2018

Silicon Valley’s Saudi Arabia Problem - Technology companies can no longer turn a blind eye to the human rights abuses of one of their largest investors nytimes.com #

Interesting article that observes some signs that Google might be looking to drop the Android brand 9to5google.com #

Edward Curtis: Was this the most ambitious photo project ever? bbc.com #

Epic photographic odyssey that documented Native Americans bbc.com #

Lewis Hine - The child labour photos that led to change bbc.com #

Lewis Hine and the photos that changed America bbc.com #

Saturday, October 13, 2018

New Issue - universal-analytics - Creating client-side and server-side views using custom dimensions doesn't work for transactions github.com #

Google releases open source vpn software called Outline - secure access to the open web (Node.js code base) opensource.googleblog.com #

How To Automate Database Migrations in MongoDB Using Nodejs 101node.io #

accesscontrol - Role and Attribute based Access Control for Node.js github.com #

Latest Revision to ARM Instruction Set Includes Optimizations Just for JavaScript daringfireball.net #

Friday, October 12, 2018

Lets-build-express - how to create the express library from scratch github.com #

Kanye - 'Trump hat made me feel like Superman' bbc.com #

Pro-privacy search engine DuckDuckGo hits 30M daily searches, up 50%%20in a year techcrunch.com #

CommonSense Robotics launches micro-fulfillment center in Tel Aviv venturebeat.com #

U.K., Netherlands Lead EU Push for New Cyber Sanctions bloomberg.com #

PayPal partners with Walmart to offer in-store balance withdraws, deposits zdnet.com #

The Music Modernization Act has been signed into law theverge.com #

Facebook purged over 800 U.S. accounts and pages for pushing political spam washingtonpost.com #

In Gary Hustwit’s new documentary “Rams,” the legendary industrial designer indicts the world he helped create fastcompany.com #

Thursday, October 11, 2018

Microsoft vows to protect Linux from future patent wars by joining the Open Invention Network geekwire.com #

Putting the Trust in NHS Trust - NHS England staff must explain if they refuse to have flu jab bbc.co.uk #

Wednesday, October 10, 2018

New Evidence of Hacked Supermicro Hardware Found in U.S. Telecom bloomberg.com #

SoundCloud finally lets more musicians monetize four years later - SoundCloud Premier techcrunch.com #

Four Electronic Artists Reflect on the Influence of Composer Laurie Spiegel daily.bandcamp.com #

Netlify just got $30 million (Kleiner Perkins) to change the way developers build websites techcrunch.com #

Chinese fraudsters scammed Apple out of free iPhone parts engadget.com #

Monday, October 8, 2018

Interpol Chief, Detained by China, Resigns Under ‘Supervision’ of Party Watchdog nytimes.com #

The ghostly radio station that no one claims to run bbc.com #

What are shorts and why does Elon hate them? wired.com #

John Gruber on the Bloomberg hacked chips story - "This is only beginning. Apple is not letting this go" daringfireball.net #

Sunday, October 7, 2018

Should a Collapsing America Just Break Up? (Some of these issues are global imho) eand.co #

Bytedance rises as Facebook falls, takes over most valuable startup from Uber medium.com #

The Dutch Reach - A no-tech way to save bicyclists’ lives nytimes.com #

New North American trade deal has bad news for Canadian copyright eff.org #

New Issue - node - JSON error when building docs github.com #

New Issue - express-rate-limit - Upgrading to v3 - How to implement rate limiting with slow down? github.com #

New Issue - npm - npm install --production tries to install devDependencies with node v10.11.0 (npm v6.4.1) npm.community #

Critical Path Driven Development - Distributed traces, cross-stack debugging and visibility medium.com #

New Issue - express-redis-cache - Cache always skipped when redis client created earlier is specified github.com #

Saturday, October 6, 2018

Node.js Foundation and JS Foundation Announce Intent to Create Joint Organization to Support the Broad Node.js and JavaScript Communities linuxfoundation.org #

More on that weird Bloomberg spy chip story reveals the murky world of national security reporting techcrunch.com #

Thursday, October 4, 2018

Amazon Warehouse Workers Lose Bonuses, Stock Awards for Raises bloomberg.com #

Breitbart and Infowars join the Daily Mail as banned from being used as a source for facts on Wikipedia motherboard.vice.com #

'Trump alert' - US mobile phone owners get test message bbc.com #

Japan set to allow gene editing in human embryos (US, China and UK already do it) - Do we really want to live in gene editing arms race based societies? nature.com #

IMHO concentrate on people of all ages spending at least as much outdoor time as inmates and chickens (perhaps gene editing can wait?) huffingtonpost.com #

With all the talk about social credit scores etc, the only metric that is important: Number of minutes spent outdoors per day en.wikipedia.org #

Hey leaders of the world - instead (or in addition to) minimum wage, how about introducing a minimum number of minutes per day spent outdoors? en.wikipedia.org #

Weird story about a Bloomberg special report on China hardware hacking Amazon and Apple that everyone denies except for Bloomberg bbc.com #

As we charge forward into an AI gene editing future let's remember that it's only been a few decades since the horrible policies of Eugenics en.wikipedia.org #

Tuesday, October 2, 2018

Inventor of JavaScript Brendan Eich writes to the US Senate: we need a GDPR for the United States brave.com #

Chrome 70 - Trustworthy Chrome Extensions, by default (access lists, no obfuscated code) blog.chromium.org #

The Internet Archive fixes more than 9 million broken links on Wikipedia blog.archive.org #

The Internet Archive's annual bash is tomorrow - Building a Better Web blog.archive.org #

Amazon increases minimum wage for all U.S. workers to $15 an hour techcrunch.com #

Physics Nobel won by laser wizardry – laureates include first woman in 55 years nature.com #

What’s the Cost of Buying Links in 2018? ahrefs.com #

InfoWars publisher Alex Jones sues PayPal bbc.co.uk #

Interesting name for a company Free Speech Systems, sounds like a software company en.wikipedia.org #

Monday, October 1, 2018

China's Muslim Uighurs 'crackdown' - Dealing with Islamic extremism by putting everyone in rehabilitation camps bbc.com #

"We used to sit and eat together, but now they behaved like they were not aware of what they were doing, like someone who had lost their memory after a car crash" bbc.com #

Over the last 60 years in the UK the price of food has halved while the price of housing has doubled bbc.com #

Nafta - US and Canada reach new trade deal bbc.com #

Independent Music Podcast #200 – Shackleton, Jerusalem In My Heart, Etienne Jaumet, Tomás Urquieta, Lucinda Chua independentmusicpodcast.net #

A look at the resilience of audio and specifically podcasting medium.com #

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