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2017/09/30 #

Today’s links:

• How to write reliable browser tests using Selenium and Node.jsmedium.freecodecamp.org #

• Strudel.js - Lightweight component framework, ideal step up for developers comfortable with jQuery who want to move on to something elsestrudeljs.org #

• ES6 Promises - Patterns and Anti-Patterns - Are promises really any better than callbacks?medium.com #

• Node8’s util.promisify - No more promise chainshackernoon.com #

• This Unreal Engine Generated Face Almost Escapes The Uncanny Valley And It's Freaking Us Outdigg.com #

• The Incredible Speed With Which A Leopard Can Take Down An Animaldigg.com #

• Guys Find Fish Frozen Solid In The Act Of Eating Another Fishdigg.com #

• It’s time to give Firefox another chancetechcrunch.com #

• Why Does Sweden Have So Many Start-Ups?www.theatlantic.com #

• Declarative state and side effects management for popular JavaScript frameworkscerebraljs.com #

• Setting up your own Selenium test automation environmentdeveloper.mozilla.org #

• Timezone support in date operators at query timejira.mongodb.org #

2017/09/29 #

Today’s links:

• node-web hooks - Webhooks are "user-defined HTTP callbacks"www.npmjs.com #

• A “right to repair” movement tools upwww.economist.com #

• Git: To squash or not to squash?jamescooke.info #

• How to squash commits in git after they have been pushed?stackoverflow.com #

• Natural navigation is the rare art of finding your way using naturewww.naturalnavigator.com #

2017/09/28 #

Today’s links:

• Hugh Hefner, iconic founder of Playboy, has died at age 91www.cnbc.com #

• The Northern Soul scene was all about the sound, and not just any soundwww.atlasobscura.com #

• Advantages and Pitfalls of Arrow Functionsmedium.com #

• Obituary - Hugh Hefnerwww.bbc.com #

• Vanilla JS Lightbox Slideshowcodepen.io #

• Facebook can absolutely control its algorithmwww.wired.com #

2017/09/27 #

Today’s links:

• Taking CSS Linting to the Next Level with Stylelintwww.sitepoint.com #

• How to Consistently Render Typefaces Cross-browserwebdesign.tutsplus.com #

• The Age Distributions In The 10 Largest Countries, Visualizeddigg.com #

• What to expect from Elon Musk’s Mars colonization update this weekwww.theverge.com #

• 6 Things You Should Know About Fragment URLsblog.httpwatch.com #

• React v16.0facebook.github.io #

• Russia Threatens to Shut Facebook Over Local Data Storage Lawswww.bloomberg.com #

2017/09/25 #

Today’s links:

• Tools for Systems Thinkers - The 6 Fundamental Concepts of Systems Thinkingmedium.com #

• The Art of Building Skateparksartistwaves.com #

• Interview with Jim Carrey - He is a 24/7 painter artist nowwww.wmagazine.com #

• Facebook U-turn: React, other libraries freed from unloved patent licensewww.theregister.co.uk #

• On React and WordPressma.tt #

• Facebook Dropping Patent Clausema.tt #

• Brexit - Fresh round of negotiations to take placewww.bbc.com #

2017/09/24 #

Today’s links:

• A Quick Introduction to Functional Javascripthackernoon.com #

• Is Tribalism a Natural Malfunction?m.nautil.us #

2017/09/23 #

Today’s links:

• Mastering the Node.js Core Modules - The Process Moduleblog.risingstack.com #

• mongoist - node.js module for mongodb built with async/await in mind, that emulates the official mongodb API as much as possiblegithub.com #

• Modern JavaScript Cheatsheetgithub.com #

• The end of Framework Churnblog.ionic.io #

• joi - Object schema description language and validator for JavaScript objectsgithub.com #

2017/09/22 #

Today’s links:

• Database provider MongoDB has filed to go publictechcrunch.com #

• There Never Was a Real Tulip Feverwww.smithsonianmag.com #

• Nardwuar vs. Henry Rollins (2011)www.youtube.com #

2017/09/20 #

Today’s links:

• US solar plant costs fall another 30 per cent in just one yearreneweconomy.com.au #

• Dnslookupissue - update to the latest version of iTermgitlab.com #

• GraphQL Patent Infringement Issuesnews.ycombinator.com #

• Load ES5 code using <script type="module">, no transpiling necessary, then load legacy javascript separate for older browsersphilipwalton.com #

• A chilling study shows how hostile college students are toward free speechwww.washingtonpost.com #

2017/09/19 #

Today’s links:

• How To Mix Up A Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster From 'Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy'digg.com #

• Man Who Saved the World From Nuclear Armageddon in 1983 Dies at 77paleofuture.gizmodo.com #

• World Wide Web Consortium abandons consensus, standardizes DRM with 58.4% support, EFF resignsboingboing.net #

2017/09/18 #

Today’s links:

• The year network television lost its grip on culture, according to Emmy dataqz.com #

• Here's One Man's Grand Plan On How To Handle The North Korea Threatdigg.com #

• Drone footage turned into video artvimeo.com #

2017/09/17 #

Today’s links:

• Alienation Is Killing Americans and Japanesenautil.us #

• Meet the Camperforce, Amazon's nomadic retiree armywww.wired.com #

2017/09/16 #

Today’s links:

• Say Trello to boards in Bitbucket Cloudblog.bitbucket.org #

• Restoring for..in peak performancebenediktmeurer.de #

• A really in depth look into impactful performance improvements for building websitesmedium.com #

• Cory Doctorow: Demon-Haunted Worldwww.locusmag.com #

• How The Triplet Flow Came To Dominate Rapdigg.com #

2017/09/15 #

Today’s links:

• Face ID, Touch ID, No ID, PINs and Pragmatic Securitywww.troyhunt.com #

2017/09/14 #

Today’s links:

• Introducing the Web Share APIdevelopers.google.com #

• Trello finally comes to the desktoptechcrunch.com #

• Mozilla and the Washington Post Are Reinventing Online Commentsblog.mozilla.org #

2017/09/13 #

Today’s links:

• Just The Good Stuff From Tuesday's iPhone Eventdigg.com #

• Instead of fixating on a fight between capitalism and socialism, imagine innovating a future economy that transcends old binarieswww.fastcompany.com #

2017/09/12 #

Today’s links:

• Jim Carrey Pops Up At New York Fashion Weekdigg.com #

• The 25 Best Space Movies, Rankedwww.theringer.com #

• How to Protect a Drug Patent? Give it to a Native American Tribemobile.nytimes.com #

• Photographer wins 'monkey selfie' legal fightwww.bbc.com #

• Chrome 61 - JavaScript modules, the Web Share API and the WebUSB APIdevelopers.google.com #

• Modern Modules - Re-thinking the Node.js ecosystem for modern JavaScriptmedium.com #

• Atlassian talk about their new brand and on open workingwww.atlassian.com #

• Every Programmer Should Know - How to use pretty icons effectivelygithub.com #

• Map of Computer Sciencem.youtube.com #

• Falsehoods Programmers Believespaceninja.com #

2017/09/11 #

Today’s links:

• Give away your code, but never your timenews.ycombinator.com #

• Animate an element propertyplainjs.com #

• How To Create a Modal Boxwww.w3schools.com #

• Bootstrap modalsbootstrapdocs.com #

• Our entire credit bureau system is broken - The massive Equifax breach is a symptom of a much larger problemwww.theverge.com #

• A Copyright Vote That Could Change the EU’s Internetblog.mozilla.org #

2017/09/10 #

Today’s links:

• Boiling Water + Liquid Nitrogen = Cool Water Vapor Explosionsdigg.com #

• Text only CNNlite.cnn.io #

• NPR.org Text-Onlythin.npr.org #

• Bodies of 'hundreds' of children buried in mass gravewww.bbc.com #

• Earthrise is a photograph of the Earth and parts of the Moon's surface taken by astronaut Bill Anders in 1968, during the Apollo 8 missionen.wikipedia.org #

• Overview Effect - the sensation astronauts have when given the opportunity to look down and view the Earth as a wholewww.dailyoverview.com #

2017/09/09 #

Today’s links:

• What the Rich Won’t Tell Youmobile.nytimes.com #

• The Drone King - Kurt Vonnegutm.soundcloud.com #

• Bunk beds, roaches and nerdy geniuses: my year in a Silicon Valley hacker housewww.theguardian.com #

• CSS Versus JavaScript Animationsdevelopers.google.com #

2017/09/08 #

Today’s links:

• What one Alabama town’s attempt to secede from its school district tells us about the fragile progress of racial integration in Americamobile.nytimes.com #

• Sacked model - 'All white people benefit from racism'www.bbc.com #

• In South Korea, children of mixed race can be called "mongrels" - But Han Hyun-min didn't let racism stop himwww.bbc.com #

• Man dead after running into flames at Burning Manwww.msn.com #

• America's Latest Utopian Experimentwww.theatlantic.com #

• The Frankfurt School pt. 3 - The Culture Industryphilosophizethis.org #

• Incredible dancer spins over 100 times without stoppingboingboing.net #

• Addiction in the US - She turned to Google for help getting sober - Then she had to escape a nightmarewww.theverge.com #

• Game of Thrones’ Peter Dinklage used to be in a punk band called Whizzywww.nme.com #

2017/09/07 #

Today’s links:

• 30 Hollywood Classics Streaming for Free in the Public Domainwww.vulture.com #

• Dude With A Perfect Sports Announcer Voice Commentates On Video Game Glitchesdigg.com #

• The Node.js World Is Imploding - Another Programming Community Is Having A Meltdown Due To Festering Sexismtheoutline.com #

• Hack Siri And Alexa - Hackers can take control of the world’s most popular voice assistants by whispering to them in frequencies humans can’t hearwww.fastcodesign.com #

• Facebook claims a third more users in the US than people who existwww.theregister.co.uk #

• London no longer most expensive place to buy beerwww.bbc.com #

2017/09/06 #

Today’s links:

• Building Skeleton Screens with CSS Custom Propertiescss-tricks.com #

• Critical Path CSS Generator - Internal CSS Style Sheet Generator for the above the fold content.www.sitelocity.com #

• A Super Strong Microburst Wind Just Blowing Trees Overdigg.com #

• What the Industrial Revolution Really Tells Us About the Future of Automation and Workm.cacm.acm.org #

• A student found an ancient Canadian village that’s 10,000 years older than the Pyramidswww.businessinsider.com #

• European court rules companies must tell employees of email checkswww.reuters.com #

• Waking up from The Dream™ - An immigrants perspective about DACAmedium.com #

• What Would It Take To Manufacture A Planet?digg.com #

• Oliver Struempfel - New World Record Holder For 'Most Beer Steins Carried At Once'digg.com #

• Living off the Land: Alaskan Subsistencewww.almostfearless.com #

• The Norwegian who's been to 445 English football groundswww.bbc.com #

• John Motson - Commentator to end BBC football career after 50 yearswww.bbc.com #

• The Deep State Is Real - But it might not be what you thinkwww.politico.com #

2017/09/05 #

Today’s links:

• Deaf People Teach How To Sign Curse Wordsdigg.com #

• ORY Hydra is a hardened OAuth2 and OpenID Connect servergithub.com #

2017/09/04 #

Today’s links:

• Patreon allows creators to get paid by running a membership business for fanswww.patreon.com #

• Now CNN Can Read Its Reporters’ DMssplinternews.com #

• The 7 best London agency websites of 2017www.creativebloq.com #

• The 50 best trip-hop albums of all timewww.factmag.com #

• Loggly - Real-time analysis of your logs and machine datawww.loggly.com #

• Papertrail makes log management easypapertrailapp.com #

• Logentries - Live Log Management and Analyticslogentries.com #

• Datadog - Monitoring that tracks your dynamic infrastructure and applicationswww.datadoghq.com #

• content-filter - provides protection against NoSQL (like MongoDB) injection attacks for Node.js applicationswww.npmjs.com #

2017/09/03 #

Today’s links:

• If you’re a startup, you should not use React (reflecting on the BSD + patents license)medium.com #

• async / await in JavaScript - What, Why and Howwww.youtube.com #

• What's The Longest Possible Road Trip You Could Take?digg.com #

• Why Your Grief Over a Celebrity’s Death Feels So Realwww.vice.com #

• Guy On Electric Skateboard Races Woman On Electric Wheelchairdigg.com #

• This Human Centipede Race With A Bull Is Just Bonkersdigg.com #

• Technologies can contain dangerous biases and assumptions and we're only beginning to understand the consequencesnewrepublic.com #

• ISS crew return to Earthwww.bbc.com #

• Drinking a bottle of Coca-Cola from 1956boingboing.net #

• Radio Lab: The Ceremonywww.radiolab.org #

2017/09/02 #

Today’s links:

• The net neutrality comment period was a complete messwww.theverge.com #

• A Really Cool Way To Visualize The Sun's Staggering Sizedigg.com #

• A GIF Illustrating The Spread Of Cities In America Over The Last 400 Yearsdigg.com #

• Thinking With Otherswww.youtube.com #

2017/09/01 #

Today’s links:

• Managing CSS & JS in an HTTP/2 Worldwww.viget.com #

• Custom Elements v1: Reusable Web Componentsdevelopers.google.com #

• A Progressive Roadmap for your Progressive Web Appcloudfour.com #

• In 1.3 Million Years, the Solar System Will Briefly Contain Two Starsmotherboard.vice.com #

• Gain Motion Superpowers with requestAnimationFramemedium.com #

• Rethinking drag and drop - Taking something basic and making it beautifulmedium.com #

• Interview with Ryan Dahl, Creator of Node.jswww.mappingthejourney.com #