California is rewriting the rules of the internet - Businesses are scrambling to keep up - Similar to GDPR in the EU but this set of regulations is called California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and will be rolled out by July 2020 latimes.com #

A personal API - Interesting idea, it would be cool to see something like this take off blog.webb.page #

A brutal year - how the 'techlash' caught up with Facebook, Google and Amazon theguardian.com #

In what scope are module variables stored in node.js? - Useful to know how code in a module gets wrapped stackoverflow.com #

Strongly typed vs More-strongly typed - Interesting article that goes a bit deep but not too deep and neatly avoids the weeds, I don’t currently use types in any of the Javascript I write (i.e Typescript) - It’s not that I won’t use types, it’s that so far I haven’t seen enough benefit to using them, if I do then I want to properly understand the trade-offs, because I think in a lot of cases it’s not worth it - Also I really like that in javascript types are optional docs.google.com #

Google’s Monopoly is Stifling Free Software medium.com #