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2018/08/30 #

Today’s links:

  • Picular - Google, but for colors (extracts colors from a google search, strange results sometimes)picular.co #

  • Germany, seeking independence from U.S., pushes cyber security researchwww.reuters.com #

  • ‘Overtourism’ Worries Europe - How Much Did Technology Help Get Us There?www.nytimes.com #

  • Picasso’s Incredible Childhood Paintings Reveal a Different Side of the Modern Artistmymodernmet.com #

  • JavaScript Promises with Node.js - Really clear explanation of how promises work in nodeitnext.io #

  • hiproxy - lightweight proxy tool for Front-End developers based on Node.js that supports an NGINX-like configurationgithub.com #

  • Dutroux murders - Belgian child-killer's letter angers parentswww.bbc.com #

2018/08/29 #

Today’s links:

  • Trump points out Google's biased algorithmsnypost.com #

  • World’s leading human rights groups tell Google to cancel its China censorship plantheintercept.com #

  • Why is the USA one of the only countries that has no known Right to Food human right?en.wikipedia.org #

  • Facebook insiders describe intolerant liberal culture, often policed by mobs, seeks political diversitywww.nytimes.com #

  • Paystack, with ambitions to become the Stripe of Africa, raises $8M from Visa, Tencent… and Stripe itselftechcrunch.com #

  • Virtual Organized Crime - DJs are playing motion captured sets in Grand Theft Auto nightclubswww.rollingstone.com #

2018/08/28 #

Today’s links:

  • Tech Industry Pursues a Federal Privacy Law, on Its Own Termswww.nytimes.com #

  • How much electricity is consumed by Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, Litecoin, and Monero?www.ofnumbers.com #

  • Paul Irish - Debugging Node.js with Chrome DevToolsmedium.com #

  • New Repo: nockback-test - how to mock an api using nock record/playback featuregithub.com #

  • Food is any substance consumed to provide nutritional support for an organismen.wikipedia.org #

2018/08/27 #

Today’s links:

  • Tesla to stay publicly traded, Elon Musk says company is 'better off'www.cnbc.com #

  • YouTube to start rolling out non-skippable 15-20 seconds ads - sites "more money for creators"mashable.com #

  • Who needs democracy when you have data? Here’s how China rules using data, AI, and internet surveillancewww.technologyreview.com #

2018/08/26 #

Today’s links:

  • Papal visit to Nock, Ireland - Pope begs forgiveness for clerical sex abusewww.bbc.com #

  • Brexit - No-deal 'risks break-up of UK' - Herman Van Rompuywww.bbc.com #

2018/08/25 #

Today’s links:

  • Stimulus - A modest JavaScript framework for the HTML you already have (from the creators of basecamp/37signals)stimulusjs.org #

  • What's really behind the global rise in working longer and longer hourswww.bbc.com #

  • The Approval Economy - On infrastructure, advertising, and social normszandercutt.com #

  • Sleepless City Streets of Rainy Tokyo Nights Lit by Electric Neon Signsmymodernmet.com #

  • How pioneering DJ Grandmaster Flash hacked together his first mixerboingboing.net #

  • Uzbekistan's secret underground in pictures - art, architecture and nuclear-blast protection in Central Asia’s oldest subway systemwww.theguardian.com #

2018/08/24 #

Today’s links:

  • 'Xbox All Access' looks like a new subscription service with Xbox Live, Game Pass, and a consolewww.windowscentral.com #

  • The 30% Tax - The Netflix App Store bypass is the start of the insurgence of the subscription bundling businessavc.com #

  • Shortwave - Looks like an interesting modern podcasting platform with lots of useful transcoding toolswww.goshortwave.com #

2018/08/23 #

Today’s links:

  • Creator Arcade - music education platform to learn and get feedback from world's best DJ's, music producers, and engineers (IH interview with founder)www.indiehackers.com #

  • Former Facebook CSO says it's likely that the U.S. elections will become the world cup of information warfarewww.lawfareblog.com #

  • Typeography exploration at the BBC - An Exploration of Variable Fontsblog.prototypr.io #

  • Type designer David Jonathan Ross has an interesting website with "Font of the month club"djr.com #

  • UK Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn proposes a publicly-funded alternative to Facebooktechcrunch.com #

  • Chinese Surveillance State Is Basically The US Surveillance Apparatus Minus The Constitutional Rightswww.techdirt.com #

  • mock-stripe-server - Mock Stripe API Servergithub.com #

  • Stripe Mock Webhooks - Quickly test Stripe Webhooks against your application without hitting Stripe or requiring internet connectivitywww.npmjs.com #

2018/08/22 #

Today’s links:

  • Netflix updates it's billing system to bypass iTunes and Googletechcrunch.com #

  • Facebook implements trust scoring for all users, but it can't tell you about the system in case you try to fix itthenextweb.com #

  • Jack Dorsey On Deleting Tweets, Banning Trump, And Whether An Unbiased Twitter Can Existwww.buzzfeednews.com #

  • Schools are mining students' social media posts for signs of troublewww.wired.com #

2018/08/21 #

Today’s links:

  • It’s Not Technology That’s Disrupting Our Jobs - A reflection on the gig economywww.nytimes.com #

  • Skype’s end-to-end encrypted Private Conversations feature now available across platformsmspoweruser.com #

  • A Giphy story - We Love Jurgen Klopp!giphy.com #

  • Twitch to start showing ads, the $9/month Turbo plan will keep ad-free viewingwww.theverge.com #

  • Karma raises $12 million for marketplace that helps restaurants and supermarkets reduce food wasteventurebeat.com #

  • EU to fine social media platforms that take more than 1 hour to remove extremist contentthenextweb.com #

  • RemoteOnly - Aggregates posts from several remote job boardsremoteonly.io #

2018/08/19 #

Today’s links:

  • Trump on social media - "Let everybody participate, good & bad, and we will all just have to figure it out!"www.politico.com #

  • We’re Living in a Fake World - Advertising is the reasonmedium.com #

  • JAMstack - Modern web development architecture based on client-side JavaScript, reusable APIs, and prebuilt Markupjamstack.org #

2018/08/17 #

Today’s links:

  • Dokku helps you build and manage the lifecycle of applications - The smallest PaaS implementation you've ever seendokku.viewdocs.io #

  • Sigil - Standalone string interpolator and template processor (useful to build configs in bash scripts)github.com #

2018/08/16 #

Today’s links:

  • Native Lazy Loading Coming to the Web Platformtwitter.com #

  • nanobox.io - Run any app on any cloud (snazzy looking containerisation implementation)nanobox.io #

  • API Blueprint - A powerful high-level API description language for web APIsapiblueprint.org #

  • aglio - An API Blueprint renderer with theme support that outputs static HTMLgithub.com #

2018/08/15 #

Today’s links:

  • $100 Million Was Once Big Money for a Start-Up - Now, It’s Commonwww.nytimes.com #

  • Chinese Cops Now Spying on American Soil - China is compiling a global registry of its ethnic minoritieswww.thedailybeast.com #

  • We're Bad At Regulating Privacy, Because We Don't Understand Privacywww.techdirt.com #

  • Are Netflix, Amazon Video, and Xfinity just re-creating cable TV but via streaming?www.theverge.com #

2018/08/14 #

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Today’s links:

  • YouTube is creating tools for creators to make money through membership, merchandise and even money for using specific featureswww.bloomberg.com #

  • The 2018 Web Developer Roadmap An illustrated guide to becoming a Frontend or Backend Developer with links to coursescodeburst.io #

  • Kikagaku Moyo / 幾何学模様 - Masana Temples - 09 Gatheringswww.youtube.com #

2018/08/12 #

Today’s links:

  • Interesting piece about Amazon Auto SDK bringing Alexa to cars and the nuances of accents in voice recognitionventurebeat.com #

  • Reminiscing about the "shared family computer" and the new realities and challenges technology is creating todaywww.theverge.com #

  • Twitter fleshes out a policy to address “dehumanizing” speech posted by userswww.nytimes.com #

  • What are the facts on these “design systems” that has the whole industry talking?medium.com #

2018/08/11 #

Today’s links:

  • themesfor.app - Free (Do whatever you want), fully-responsive Bootstrap 4 themes for your next startup and side-project via emailthemesfor.app #

  • Cronhub - makes sure your background jobs are up and running - "Painless Cron Monitoring"cronhub.io #

  • Nutrition Cards for Accessible Components - an attempt to digest and simplify the accessibility expectations when it comes to component authoringdavatron5000.github.io #

  • ShellCheck, a static analysis tool for shell scriptsgithub.com #

2018/08/10 #

Today’s links:

  • Deploying a Stateful Application on Azure Kubernetes Service (Wow Kubernetes === complicated!)blog.risingstack.com #

  • Sid James' final interview - Carry On star's recording found after 42 yearswww.bbc.com #

  • Before Lonely Planet there was an underground travel guide publishing house named BIT (1970–1980)medium.com #

  • Splitting - JavaScript microlibrary designed to empower you with animations, transitions and interactions with text elementssplitting.js.org #

  • Examples of text effects built with splitting.jscodepen.io #

2018/08/09 #

  • New Linkblog feature: navbar globe icon

    The navbar globe icon feature adds a way to link to your other online sites. To set it up, simply update the url form field on your user profile page. Then a globe icon will render in your public linkblog's navbar that loads that url when clicked.

    It's a minimalist way to link to your other sites from your linkblog, so visitors can find your other presences online. In the screenshot below notice the globe icon in the top right just next to the search icon, and in my case it links to my homepage, which has links to all my other online sites, so visitors have a way to find among others my blog, twitter, linkedin.

    See it in action here.

    Linkblog globe icon

Today’s links:

  • New Repo: freelancer - Website for freelancers to securely receive payments for servicesgithub.com #

  • Patreon buys Memberful but keeps it indie as patronage consolidatestechcrunch.com #

2018/08/05 #

Today’s links:

  • Trillion - Apple’s insanely great run…500ish.com #

  • LinkedIn website won't let me update my profile picture! And there is no support email address :(www.linkedin.com #

  • Venezuela President Maduro survives 'drone assassination attempt'www.bbc.com #

  • This modern Seattle building doesn’t have AC - on purposewww.kuow.org #

2018/08/04 #

Today’s links:

  • Do Americans Understand They’re Beginning to Commit The Legal Definition of Genocide?eand.co #

  • The Case for Genetically Engineering Ethical Humansmedium.com #

  • So you bought a ghost town - Who is paying $12 million for an abandoned town?theoutline.com #

  • Why westerners fear robots and the japanese do not (apparently westerners believe humans "own nature")www.wired.com #

2018/08/02 #

Today’s links:

  • How we spent 30k USD in Firebase in less than 72 hours - Why it's important to be careful when using metered cloud serviceshackernoon.com #

  • How to tell the difference between persuasion and manipulationaeon.co #

2018/08/01 #

Today’s links:

  • taskbook - Tasks, boards & notes for the command-line habitat (Looks very interesting)github.com #

  • Augur - the blockchain betting networks where you can bet on anything even assassinationwww.coindesk.com #

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