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Today’s links:

• Spotify is buying Bill Simmons’s The Ringer, a podcast-centric media company www.vox.com #

• Berlin Film Festival 2020 Preview - New Hands, Same Old City directorsnotes.com #

• Chrome adopting new video ads rules that will also affect YouTube www.slashgear.com #

• Welfare surveillance system violates human rights, Dutch court rules - Informative article that ends with the disturbing factoid that Daniel Dines, the world’s first “bot billionaire” wants a robot for every person www.theguardian.com #

• Postgres for those who can’t even, part 1 rob.conery.io #

• Postgres for those who can’t even, part 2 – working with node and json rob.conery.io #

• An investigation shows that UK councils let firms track visits to webpages on benefits and disability www.theguardian.com #

• Jeff Weiner Updates His LinkedIn Profile - After 11 years as CEO, he is passing the reins to deputy Ryan Roslansky, and will become executive chair www.wired.com #

• Apple Adds Universal Purchases for iOS, tvOS and macOS Apps in Xcode 11.4 www.macrumors.com #

• The science of friction - and its surprising impact on our lives - I didn’t know the word Tribology, or that there was an entire area of science devoted to it, interesting talk www.ted.com #

• Ultimate guide to concurrent logging in Node.js - Show how to use NodeJS domains to pass context to independently executing tasks, so your debug logs can write out the current context that includes details about which task is creating the log message itnext.io #

• Testing Node serverless applications - AWS Lambda functions - A well written article with nice examples, demonstrating that although not totally straight forward, if you structure your code carefully it's possible to write well tested lambda functions blog.logrocket.com #