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2017/08/30 #

  • 03:19:00 +07:00 Inside a super fast CSS engine - Quantum CSS (aka Stylo)# hacks.mozilla.org

  • 06:50:00 +07:00 Extract username from base64 encoded basic auth string# stackoverflow.com

  • 14:34:00 +07:00 In Our Cynical Age, No One Fails Anymore - Everybody ‘Pivots’# www.nytimes.com

  • 20:22:00 +07:00 Bruce Schneier interview - On internet privacy, be very afraid# news.harvard.edu

  • 20:46:00 +07:00 Watch the original DeLorean pitch to auto dealers# boingboing.net

2017/08/29 #

  • 04:56:00 +07:00 CCTV + Lip-Reading Software = Even Less Privacy, Even More Surveillance# www.techdirt.com

  • 13:33:00 +07:00 The far right is losing its ability to speak freely online. Should the left defend it?# www.theguardian.com

  • 15:42:00 +07:00 NKorea missile flying over Japan makes Tokyoites more wary# apnews.com

2017/08/27 #

2017/08/25 #

  • 08:44:00 +07:00 Nginx config to redirect everything from http to https, except one url-pattern# stackoverflow.com

  • 17:31:00 +07:00 Skiers Soar Through The Narrow Space Between Two Rock Formations# digg.com

  • 17:36:00 +07:00 Vaping Right As A Truck Passes Creates A Super Nifty Effect# digg.com

  • 17:56:00 +07:00 India - Right to Privacy a Fundamental Right, Says Supreme Court in Unanimous Verdict# thewire.in

  • 19:26:00 +07:00 Sophie Lancaster murder - Are young people still scared to be goths?# www.bbc.com

  • 19:29:00 +07:00 Chris Hadfield - We should live on the moon before a trip to Mars# www.newscientist.com

  • 23:32:00 +07:00 Express session is creating a new session id on each request on Safari# stackoverflow.com

2017/08/22 #

  • 06:25:00 +07:00 The Best Photos And Videos Of Today's Solar Eclipse# digg.com

  • 06:54:00 +07:00 Truckers say they can’t stop listening to public radio# current.org

  • 07:02:00 +07:00 @great78project - Twitter bot tweeting out a newly digitised disc every ten minutes, digitizing 78rpm discs for preservation# twitter.com

  • 07:17:00 +07:00 How The Great 78 Project is saving half a million songs from obscurity# thevinylfactory.com

2017/08/21 #

  • 04:23:00 +07:00 My Life Lessons in Rust Belt Racism# medium.com

  • 06:11:00 +07:00 Everything You Need To Know About The Solar Eclipse On Monday# digg.com

  • 06:32:00 +07:00 Sperm Count in Western Men Has Dropped Over 50 Percent Since 1973, Paper Finds# www.nytimes.com

  • 08:21:00 +07:00 Watch people whiz down this steep Swiss alpine slide# boingboing.net

  • 11:51:00 +07:00 Elon Musk and AI leaders call for a ban on killer robots# www.theverge.com

2017/08/20 #

  • 05:40:00 +07:00 How a recording-studio mishap shaped '80s music# www.youtube.com

  • 06:03:00 +07:00 Helpful Things To Read About Fascism, And The Fight Against It# digg.com

  • 06:09:00 +07:00 8,000 Years Ago, 17 Women Reproduced for Every One Man# psmag.com

  • 15:46:00 +07:00 Spurned by Major Companies, The Daily Stormer Returns to the Web With Help# www.propublica.org

  • 16:05:00 +07:00 What it feels like to be in the zone as a programmer – dopeboy – Engineer# dopeboy.github.io

  • 19:07:00 +07:00 How to Use Bookmarklets in Chrome for Mobile# www.labnol.org

2017/08/19 #

  • 07:24:00 +07:00 Holy Shit, Look At This Guy Front Flip Over A Charging Bull# digg.com

  • 07:25:00 +07:00 Kickball Player Misses His Kick In Spectacular Fashion# digg.com

  • 08:15:00 +07:00 Facebook says no to license change request from Apache Software Foundation# news.ycombinator.com

2017/08/17 #

  • 04:25:00 +07:00 Web fonts - when you need them, when you don’t# hackernoon.com

  • 04:36:00 +07:00 The average web page is 3MB. How much should we care?# speedcurve.com

  • 04:43:00 +07:00 Chrome 61 Beta - JavaScript modules, Payment Request API on desktop, Web Share API, and WebUSB# blog.chromium.org

  • 04:50:00 +07:00 Offline POSTs with Progressive Web Apps# medium.com

  • 05:00:00 +07:00 Font style matcher - tool to help match the fallback font and the intended webfont’s x-heights and widths# meowni.ca

  • 06:17:00 +07:00 Weird Al composes 'The North Korea Polka' upon John Oliver's request# boingboing.net

2017/08/16 #

2017/08/15 #

  • 05:09:00 +07:00 Voyager 2 Left Earth 40 Years Ago And It's Mindbogglingly Far Away From Us# digg.com

  • 05:11:00 +07:00 Man Tries His Best Not To Speak With A Southern Accent, And The Result Is Hilarious# digg.com

  • 07:11:00 +07:00 A Corgi And Chicken Square Off In The Least Brutal Fight You'll Ever See# digg.com

  • 10:46:00 +07:00 Making Money On The Road - An Inspirational Interview With The Motoroamers# www.goatsontheroad.com

  • 17:27:00 +07:00 jQuery-Tags-Input - Magically convert a simple text input into a cool# github.com

  • 18:25:00 +07:00 MagicSuggest - Multiple selection combobox built for bootstrap themes# nicolasbize.com

  • 18:34:00 +07:00 taggingJS - jQuery plugin to tagging like a charm!# github.com

2017/08/14 #

  • 04:54:00 +07:00 The Secret History Behind England’s Deadly Sarin Gas Plant# narrative.ly

  • 05:00:00 +07:00 Man Obliterates A Full Cord Of Wood With Double Axes# digg.com

  • 06:09:00 +07:00 Professional BMX'er Nigel Sylvester Sky Dives Into Dubai On His Bike# digg.com

  • 08:43:00 +07:00 People Should Really Be Thankful For Free Software Developers# fosspost.org

  • 16:34:00 +07:00 Insignia - Customizable tag input. Progressive. No non-sense!# bevacqua.github.io

2017/08/13 #

  • 07:31:00 +07:00 EFF Urges Supreme Court to Take On Unconstitutional NSA Surveillance# www.eff.org

  • 11:41:00 +07:00 Brave Enough To Get A Tattoo? Try One Of These London Parlours# londonist.com

  • 11:53:00 +07:00 Court Sends John Oliver, HBO Back To State Court To Fight Bob Murray# www.techdirt.com

  • 12:01:00 +07:00 Cuba - U.S. Diplomats Attacked With Covert Sonic Weapons# time.com

  • 12:31:00 +07:00 Internet Archive Blocked in 2,650 Site Anti-Piracy Sweep# torrentfreak.com

  • 12:36:00 +07:00 Are You Travelling On London's Most Apologetic Tube Line?# londonist.com

  • 22:21:00 +07:00 Punching A Bear Trap Is Super Dumb, But This Guy Pulls It Off# digg.com

  • 22:33:00 +07:00 Men With Felonies Answer Kid's Questions About Jail# digg.com

2017/08/12 #

  • 03:18:00 +07:00 Figuring out how to contribute to open source# jvns.ca

  • 04:06:00 +07:00 This Wooden Domino-Laying Machine Is Brilliantly Satisfying# digg.com

  • 04:27:00 +07:00 Watch this hydraulic press crush a computer power bank# boingboing.net

  • 04:32:00 +07:00 Driver confuses stairs for parking garage, then forgets emergency brake# boingboing.net

  • 05:31:00 +07:00 How do I get started with V8 development?# medium.com

  • 09:36:00 +07:00 List of Autocomplete Plugins and Libraries# techslides.com

  • 09:48:00 +07:00 Select2 - select box with many features including searching, tagging, remote data sets, infinite scrolling# select2.github.io

  • 10:24:00 +07:00 How Much Text is in a Kilobyte or Megabyte? (with pictures)# www.wisegeek.org

2017/08/10 #

  • 05:39:00 +07:00 Watching A Kilometer Of Pipe Sliding Into Place All At Once Is Insanely Satisfying# digg.com

  • 06:37:00 +07:00 Page - small client-side routing library for use with building single page applications (SPAs)# smalljs.org

  • 08:56:00 +07:00 Joe Corré on Burning £5M & Why Punk Has Become Corporate# www.youtube.com

  • 10:30:00 +07:00 TheRemoteFreelancer - Listing of community-curated resources to find topical remote freelance & contract work for software developers, web designers, and more!# github.com

  • 16:45:00 +07:00 How The Rise Of Amazon Has Destroyed Retail Chains, In One Chart# digg.com

  • 16:49:00 +07:00 The Terrifying Speed Of A Lion Charge# digg.com

  • 16:58:00 +07:00 The Saddest Plate Appearance In All Of Baseball# digg.com

2017/08/09 #

  • 07:40:00 +07:00 Internet Archive - 78rpm Records Digitized by George Blood, L.P.# archive.org

  • 10:51:00 +07:00 bootstrap-tags - Bootstrap-themed jquery tag interface# github.com

  • 13:43:00 +07:00 JavaScript for People Who Hate JavaScript# zachholman.com

2017/08/06 #

  • 03:14:00 +07:00 'There Have Always Existed People Who’ve Simply Wanted to be Alone' - An Interview with Michael Finkel# hazlitt.net

  • 06:18:00 +07:00 Apple signals it's willing to let next-gen web apps compete with iOS apps# www.theregister.co.uk

  • 07:13:00 +07:00 d3-queue - evaluates zero or more deferred asynchronous tasks with configurable concurrency# www.npmjs.com

  • 07:36:00 +07:00 p-queue - Useful for rate-limiting async operations# www.npmjs.com

  • 20:29:00 +07:00 First-Time Viewer Gives His Hilarious Take On What Is Happening In 'Game Of Thrones'# digg.com

2017/08/04 #

  • 05:33:00 +07:00 Brexit: At-a-glance guide to the UK-EU negotiations# www.bbc.com

  • 05:34:00 +07:00 Brexit: What would 'no deal' look like?# www.bbc.com

  • 09:07:00 +07:00 Steve-O Recounts The Time He Came Closest To Death As He Takes The Hot Wing Challenge# digg.com

  • 12:05:00 +07:00 Clear and concise article that looks at 'this' in JavaScript# zellwk.com

2017/08/02 #

  • 03:42:00 +07:00 “Worse than death:” The far-future dystopia of genome hacking | The Outline# theoutline.com

  • 06:22:00 +07:00 Bobby Moynihan Discusses His ‘Saturday Night Live’ Exit# www.vulture.com

  • 06:53:00 +07:00 The 'creepy Facebook AI' story that captivated the media# www.bbc.com

2017/08/01 #

  • 03:50:00 +07:00 Black Keys Drummer Patrick Carney Listens To Popular Music, Decides He Must Not Like Music# digg.com

  • 05:56:00 +07:00 Remember everything with spaced repetition# github.com

  • 05:57:00 +07:00 Implements SuperMemo-2, a spaced repetition algorithm optimizes learning# github.com

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