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2017/08/31 #

Today’s links:

• Error handling Promises in JavaScriptwww.youtube.com #

• Promises - Part 8 of Functional Programming in JavaScriptwww.youtube.com #

2017/08/30 #

Today’s links:

• Inside a super fast CSS engine - Quantum CSS (aka Stylo)hacks.mozilla.org #

• Extract username from base64 encoded basic auth stringstackoverflow.com #

• In Our Cynical Age, No One Fails Anymore - Everybody ‘Pivots’www.nytimes.com #

• Bruce Schneier interview - On internet privacy, be very afraidnews.harvard.edu #

• Watch the original DeLorean pitch to auto dealersboingboing.net #

2017/08/29 #

Today’s links:

• CCTV + Lip-Reading Software = Even Less Privacy, Even More Surveillancewww.techdirt.com #

• The far right is losing its ability to speak freely online. Should the left defend it?www.theguardian.com #

• The Snowflake Diaries: On ‘Mansmalling’melmagazine.com #

• NKorea missile flying over Japan makes Tokyoites more waryapnews.com #

2017/08/28 #

Today’s links:

• Uncovering Somalia's forgotten music of the 1970swww.aljazeera.com #

• Ostinato Records - Afrophone stories from the Atlantic to Indian Oceansoundcloud.com #

• Refresher - CSS Positioning 101alistapart.com #

• Refresher - CSS Unitswww.w3schools.com #

• Building Resizeable Components with Relative CSS Unitscss-tricks.com #

• Efficient Database Search using MongoDB’s Full Text Searchmedium.com #

2017/08/27 #

Today’s links:

• How it feels to learn JavaScript in 2017medium.com #

• Shark-detecting drones to patrol Australian beacheswww.reuters.com #

• Semi-automated truck convoys get green light for UK trialswww.theguardian.com #

• After governance breakdown, Node.js leaders fight for its survivalwww.zdnet.com #

• Run a series of jquery callsstackoverflow.com #

• Idea Channel is Endingwww.youtube.com #

• What Are Ideas, and Who Gets to Have Them?www.youtube.com #

• x-callback-url - provides a standardized means to send data between iOS appsx-callback-url.com #

• Traveling New Zealand In A Camper Vanwww.vagabondjourney.com #

• Too Many Bars in Bishkek! A Few Days in Kyrgyzstan’s Capitalwww.goatsontheroad.com #

• Search for Substring in several fields with MongoDB and Mongoosewww.howtobuildsoftware.com #

• Full text search with weight in mongoosestackoverflow.com #

• Get value from datetimepicker bootstrap 3stackoverflow.com #

2017/08/26 #

Today’s links:

• Cooling the Earth with a cloud of small spacecraft near the inner Lagrange pointnews.ycombinator.com #

• Rumours swell over new kind of gravitational-wave sightingwww.nature.com #

2017/08/25 #

Today’s links:

• VW's Strike in Slovakia Exposes a European Dividewww.bloomberg.com #

• Nginx config to redirect everything from http to https, except one url-patternstackoverflow.com #

• Skiers Soar Through The Narrow Space Between Two Rock Formationsdigg.com #

• Vaping Right As A Truck Passes Creates A Super Nifty Effectdigg.com #

• India - Right to Privacy a Fundamental Right, Says Supreme Court in Unanimous Verdictthewire.in #

• Sophie Lancaster murder - Are young people still scared to be goths?www.bbc.com #

• Chris Hadfield - We should live on the moon before a trip to Marswww.newscientist.com #

• Express session is creating a new session id on each request on Safaristackoverflow.com #

2017/08/24 #

Today’s links:

• Racism And Sexism In Softwarewww.fastcodesign.com #

2017/08/23 #

Today’s links:

• We Live in Fear of the Online Mobswww.bloomberg.com #

• Did Cavebabies Say Mama and Papa?www.slate.com #

• Where the Sun Don't Shinewww.radiolab.org #

• Kim Wall - Headless body identified as missing journalistwww.bbc.com #

• Detecting iOS / Android Operating systemstackoverflow.com #

2017/08/22 #

Today’s links:

• The Best Photos And Videos Of Today's Solar Eclipsedigg.com #

• Truckers say they can’t stop listening to public radiocurrent.org #

• @great78project - Twitter bot tweeting out a newly digitised disc every ten minutes, digitizing 78rpm discs for preservationtwitter.com #

• How The Great 78 Project is saving half a million songs from obscuritythevinylfactory.com #

• The great 78 project discovery pagegreat78.archive.org #

2017/08/21 #

Today’s links:

• My Life Lessons in Rust Belt Racismmedium.com #

• Everything You Need To Know About The Solar Eclipse On Mondaydigg.com #

• Sperm Count in Western Men Has Dropped Over 50 Percent Since 1973, Paper Findswww.nytimes.com #

• 2017 Solar Eclipse Livewww.nasa.gov #

• NASA TV - youtube live streamwww.youtube.com #

• Watch people whiz down this steep Swiss alpine slideboingboing.net #

• Jerry Lewis dies at 91www.cnn.com #

• Elon Musk and AI leaders call for a ban on killer robotswww.theverge.com #

• Neoliberalism - the idea that swallowed the worldwww.theguardian.com #

2017/08/20 #

Today’s links:

• How a recording-studio mishap shaped '80s musicwww.youtube.com #

• Helpful Things To Read About Fascism, And The Fight Against Itdigg.com #

• 8,000 Years Ago, 17 Women Reproduced for Every One Manpsmag.com #

• Spurned by Major Companies, The Daily Stormer Returns to the Web With Helpwww.propublica.org #

• What it feels like to be in the zone as a programmer – dopeboy – Engineerdopeboy.github.io #

• How to Use Bookmarklets in Chrome for Mobilewww.labnol.org #

• 17 powerful bookmarklets for your iPhonewww.lifeclever.com #

• Using Web Inspector to Debug Mobile Safariwebdesign.tutsplus.com #

2017/08/19 #

Today’s links:

• 5 ways to make HTTP Requests in Node.jswww.twilio.com #

• Holy Shit, Look At This Guy Front Flip Over A Charging Bulldigg.com #

• Kickball Player Misses His Kick In Spectacular Fashiondigg.com #

• Facebook says no to license change request from Apache Software Foundationnews.ycombinator.com #

2017/08/18 #

Today’s links:

• Javascript Char Codes (Key Codes)www.cambiaresearch.com #

• Afraid of Makefiles? Don't be!matthias-endler.de #

• Reddit Is Getting Native Video Support for Desktop and Mobile Appsvariety.com #

• Nasa’s ambitious plan to save Earth from a supervolcanowww.bbc.com #

• Fighting Neo-Nazis and the Future of Free Expressionwww.eff.org #

2017/08/17 #

Today’s links:

• Web fonts - when you need them, when you don’thackernoon.com #

• Bootstrap 4 Betablog.getbootstrap.com #

• The average web page is 3MB. How much should we care?speedcurve.com #

• Chrome 61 Beta - JavaScript modules, Payment Request API on desktop, Web Share API, and WebUSBblog.chromium.org #

• Offline POSTs with Progressive Web Appsmedium.com #

• The Web Font Loading Glossarywww.zachleat.com #

• Font style matcher - tool to help match the fallback font and the intended webfont’s x-heights and widthsmeowni.ca #

• Web Safe and Web Font Family with HTML and CSS codewww.cssfontstack.com #

• Weird Al composes 'The North Korea Polka' upon John Oliver's requestboingboing.net #

2017/08/16 #

Today’s links:

• Eliminating the Humanwww.technologyreview.com #

• An Insane View of the Milky Way From the Edge of New Zealandwww.wired.com #

• This Is What Happens When Doggies Meet An Otterdigg.com #

• The Last American Baseball-Glove Maker Refuses to Diewww.bloomberg.com #

• APIs as infrastructure: future-proofing Stripe with versioningstripe.com #

• SVG can do THAT?!slides.com #

• HN - SVG can do that?news.ycombinator.com #

• How a NASA Spacecraft May Help Aliens Find Earthnews.nationalgeographic.com #

• Managing Focus - A11ycasts #22www.youtube.com #

• Unable to use xcodebuild on Mavericks with Command Line Tools installedstackoverflow.com #

• Page.js - Micro client-side router inspired by the Express routervisionmedia.github.io #

• Problems on Mavericks with only Command Line Tools installed · Issue #341github.com #

• I made a style guide for my personal web site and you should toowww.zachleat.com #

• Crafting Webfont Fallbackswww.youtube.com #

• Real content for all your designslistsdesign.herokuapp.com #

• Fontface Ninjafontface.ninja #

• Current Color - The First CSS Variablewww.youtube.com #

2017/08/15 #

Today’s links:

• Voyager 2 Left Earth 40 Years Ago And It's Mindbogglingly Far Away From Usdigg.com #

• Man Tries His Best Not To Speak With A Southern Accent, And The Result Is Hilariousdigg.com #

• JSONPlaceholder - Fake online REST API for developersjsonplaceholder.typicode.com #

• A Corgi And Chicken Square Off In The Least Brutal Fight You'll Ever Seedigg.com #

• Making Money On The Road - An Inspirational Interview With The Motoroamerswww.goatsontheroad.com #

• jQuery-Tags-Input - Magically convert a simple text input into a coolgithub.com #

• MagicSuggest - Multiple selection combobox built for bootstrap themesnicolasbize.com #

• taggingJS - jQuery plugin to tagging like a charm!github.com #

2017/08/14 #

Today’s links:

• The Secret History Behind England’s Deadly Sarin Gas Plantnarrative.ly #

• Man Obliterates A Full Cord Of Wood With Double Axesdigg.com #

• Professional BMX'er Nigel Sylvester Sky Dives Into Dubai On His Bikedigg.com #

• Need to understand how Bootstrap typeahead js worksstackoverflow.com #

• People Should Really Be Thankful For Free Software Developersfosspost.org #

• Insignia - Customizable tag input. Progressive. No non-sense!bevacqua.github.io #

• URL Encoded Characterswww.degraeve.com #

2017/08/13 #

Today’s links:

• EFF Urges Supreme Court to Take On Unconstitutional NSA Surveillancewww.eff.org #

• Why is millennial humor so weird?www.washingtonpost.com #

• How to help someone use a computerpolaris.gseis.ucla.edu #

• Brave Enough To Get A Tattoo? Try One Of These London Parlourslondonist.com #

• Court Sends John Oliver, HBO Back To State Court To Fight Bob Murraywww.techdirt.com #

• Cuba - U.S. Diplomats Attacked With Covert Sonic Weaponstime.com #

• Internet Archive Blocked in 2,650 Site Anti-Piracy Sweeptorrentfreak.com #

• Are You Travelling On London's Most Apologetic Tube Line?londonist.com #

• Mongoose can't stop query loggingstackoverflow.com #

• Punching A Bear Trap Is Super Dumb, But This Guy Pulls It Offdigg.com #

• Men With Felonies Answer Kid's Questions About Jaildigg.com #

2017/08/12 #

Today’s links:

• Figuring out how to contribute to open sourcejvns.ca #

• This Wooden Domino-Laying Machine Is Brilliantly Satisfyingdigg.com #

• Watch this hydraulic press crush a computer power bankboingboing.net #

• Driver confuses stairs for parking garage, then forgets emergency brakeboingboing.net #

• The Big British Music Mapwww.totallymoney.com #

• How do I get started with V8 development?medium.com #

• Firefox 55 for developersdeveloper.mozilla.org #

• List of Autocomplete Plugins and Librariestechslides.com #

• Select2 - select box with many features including searching, tagging, remote data sets, infinite scrollingselect2.github.io #

• Best autocomplete jQuery and javascript pluginsourcodeworld.com #

• jQuery autocomplete - Ajax AutoComplete for jQuerywww.devbridge.com #

• HTML5 LocalStorage - How Much Space Do I Have Left?stackoverflow.com #

• How Much Text is in a Kilobyte or Megabyte? (with pictures)www.wisegeek.org #

• How Smart Cities Fight Ratswww.citylab.com #

2017/08/11 #

Today’s links:

• The world in which IPv6 was a good designapenwarr.ca #

• Watch Iggy Pop and Tom Waits acting weird, as directed by Jim Jarmuschboingboing.net #

2017/08/10 #

Today’s links:

• The Languages Which Almost Became CSSblog.cloudflare.com #

• Watching A Kilometer Of Pipe Sliding Into Place All At Once Is Insanely Satisfyingdigg.com #

• Page - small client-side routing library for use with building single page applications (SPAs)smalljs.org #

• Vain, petty nutjob finally meets his equalwww.thedailymash.co.uk #

• How To Design Better JavaScript APIswww.smashingmagazine.com #

• Khmer phrasebookwikitravel.org #

• Joe Corré on Burning £5M & Why Punk Has Become Corporatewww.youtube.com #

• TheRemoteFreelancer - Listing of community-curated resources to find topical remote freelance & contract work for software developers, web designers, and more!github.com #

• How The Rise Of Amazon Has Destroyed Retail Chains, In One Chartdigg.com #

• The Terrifying Speed Of A Lion Chargedigg.com #

• The Saddest Plate Appearance In All Of Baseballdigg.com #

2017/08/09 #

Today’s links:

• Internet Archive - 78rpm Records Digitized by George Blood, L.P.archive.org #

• Bootstrap Tags Input - jQuery plugin providing a Twitter Bootstrap user interface for managing tagsbootstrap-tagsinput.github.io #

• bootstrap-tags - Bootstrap-themed jquery tag interfacegithub.com #

• JavaScript for People Who Hate JavaScriptzachholman.com #

2017/08/08 #

Today’s links:

• When Will Humanity Finally Die Out?gizmodo.com #

• This Failed Local News Interview With A Guy Dressed As A Car Seat Is Basically Perfectdigg.com #

• The Side Project Marketing Checklistwww.sideprojectchecklist.com #

2017/08/06 #

Today’s links:

• 'There Have Always Existed People Who’ve Simply Wanted to be Alone' - An Interview with Michael Finkelhazlitt.net #

• When Will the Tech Bubble Burst?mobile.nytimes.com #

• Apple signals it's willing to let next-gen web apps compete with iOS appswww.theregister.co.uk #

• d3-queue - evaluates zero or more deferred asynchronous tasks with configurable concurrencywww.npmjs.com #

• p-queue - Useful for rate-limiting async operationswww.npmjs.com #

• First-Time Viewer Gives His Hilarious Take On What Is Happening In 'Game Of Thrones'digg.com #

• How to parse command line arguments in Node.jsdocs.nodejitsu.com #

2017/08/05 #

Today’s links:

• US Military Eyes New Mini-Nukes for 21st-Century Deterrencewww.defenseone.com #

• Google Employee's Anti-Diversity Manifesto Goes 'Internally Viral'motherboard.vice.com #

• How do I prompt users for input from a command-line script?docs.nodejitsu.com #

2017/08/04 #

Today’s links:

• Brexit: At-a-glance guide to the UK-EU negotiationswww.bbc.com #

• Brexit: What would 'no deal' look like?www.bbc.com #

• exa - A modern replacement for lsthe.exa.website #

• Steve-O Recounts The Time He Came Closest To Death As He Takes The Hot Wing Challengedigg.com #

• Clear and concise article that looks at 'this' in JavaScriptzellwk.com #

• 16 Ways to Search, Find and Edit with Chrome DevTools -developer.telerik.com #

2017/08/03 #

Today’s links:

• Uber drivers gang up to cause surge pricingwww.telegraph.co.uk #

2017/08/02 #

Today’s links:

• “Worse than death:” The far-future dystopia of genome hacking | The Outlinetheoutline.com #

• Malicious crossenv package on npm | Hacker Newsnews.ycombinator.com #

• The Missing Advice I Needed When Starting My Careerwww.smashingmagazine.com #

• Bobby Moynihan Discusses His ‘Saturday Night Live’ Exitwww.vulture.com #

• The 'creepy Facebook AI' story that captivated the mediawww.bbc.com #

• Webpack vs JSPMmedium.com #

2017/08/01 #

Today’s links:

• Black Keys Drummer Patrick Carney Listens To Popular Music, Decides He Must Not Like Musicdigg.com #

• Data Structures for Coding Interviewswww.interviewcake.com #

• Big O Notationwww.interviewcake.com #

• Remember everything with spaced repetitiongithub.com #

• Implements SuperMemo-2, a spaced repetition algorithm optimizes learninggithub.com #