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2017/12/31 #

2017/12/29 #

  • 01:31:00 +07:00 ‘Niche Memes’ Are the Secret Clip Art Diaries Teens Are Posting on Instagram# www.thedailybeast.com

  • 04:14:00 +07:00 How to Trace Execution of Commands in Shell Script with Shell Tracing# www.tecmint.com

  • 06:50:00 +07:00 Shortcuts to move faster in Bash command line# teohm.com

  • 06:51:00 +07:00 How to navigate long commands faster?# askubuntu.com

  • 07:00:00 +07:00 Is there any way in the OS X Terminal to move the cursor word by word?# stackoverflow.com

  • 08:13:00 +07:00 Being Settled has Really Changed Our Travel Style# 1dad1kid.com

  • 08:21:00 +07:00 North Korea - Trump accuses China of allowing oil transfers# www.bbc.com

  • 14:23:00 +07:00 Extremely Casual Outdoorsman Submerses Himself In Frozen Lake, Demonstrates How To Rescue Yourself# digg.com

  • 14:47:00 +07:00 UK stock markets close at a record high# www.bbc.com

  • 15:04:00 +07:00 Cryptojacking has gotten out of control# www.wired.com

2017/12/28 #

  • 02:32:00 +07:00 My Internet Mea Culpa - “I’m sorry I was wrong. We all were.*# shift.newco.co

  • 02:39:00 +07:00 Man Attempts To Cook A Christmas Dinner With Traditional Chinese Cooking Appliances# digg.com

  • 05:54:00 +07:00 Permissions cannot be restored for a tar# superuser.com

2017/12/27 #

  • 02:10:00 +07:00 Power Prices Go Negative in Germany, a Positive for Energy Users# mobile.nytimes.com

  • 02:43:00 +07:00 The history of stripes in fashion# digg.com

  • 07:40:00 +07:00 How Politicians Change What We Consider To Be Normal By Saying And Doing Crazy Things# digg.com

  • 07:48:00 +07:00 Amazon sells ‘tens of millions’ of Alexa devices worldwide in record holiday season# www.geekwire.com

  • 09:24:00 +07:00 We’ve centralized all of our data to a guy called Mark Zuckerberg” says Pirate Bay Founder# hackernoon.com

  • 10:34:00 +07:00 Vietnam Deploys 10,000 Cyber Warriors to Fight ‘Wrongful Views’# www.bloomberg.com

  • 10:38:00 +07:00 In tinfoil news - How I amplified my home's Wi-Fi with aluminum foil# www.jiffchat.com

  • 12:17:00 +07:00 Where can I find the error logs of nginx? (MacOs via homebrew, Ubuntu)# stackoverflow.com

2017/12/26 #

  • 02:13:00 +07:00 I was addicted to my migraine trigger# medium.com

  • 03:28:00 +07:00 Easy profiling for Node.js Applications# nodejs.org

  • 07:12:00 +07:00 Bitcoin rises 10 percent, recovers from last week's brutal selloff# www.reuters.com

  • 07:22:00 +07:00 The "uncanny valley" effect might be a learned behavior# boingboing.net

  • 13:46:00 +07:00 express-status-monitor - Simple, self-hosted module to report realtime server metrics for Express-based node servers# www.npmjs.com

  • 13:47:00 +07:00 simple-stats-server - dead-simple resource stats for Node.js servers# www.npmjs.com

2017/12/25 #

  • 02:47:00 +07:00 Ten years in, nobody has come up with a use for blockchain# hackernoon.com

  • 03:02:00 +07:00 Energy Efficiency - A New Concern for Application Software Developers# m.cacm.acm.org

  • 08:28:00 +07:00 What acceleration has done, across society, is to cut out the slack - Leisurely two-hour lunches have been replaced with events and tasks# www.bbc.com

  • 08:43:00 +07:00 How to use precache middleware with express-redis-cache# github.com

2017/12/24 #

  • 00:36:00 +07:00 The Section 702 Surveillance Debate Has Taken Place in the Dark# www.wired.com

  • 01:09:00 +07:00 The Ultimate Guide To Understanding The Basics of Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies# hackernoon.com

  • 04:56:00 +07:00 response-time - middleware that records the response time for requests in HTTP servers# www.npmjs.com

  • 14:18:00 +07:00 Russian submarine activity increases around Atlantic internet cables# thehill.com

  • 14:26:00 +07:00 Men Are Joining #MeToo Campaign To Wear Black To The Golden Globes, The Rock Confirms# www.refinery29.com

2017/12/23 #

  • 00:35:00 +07:00 Everything You Need To Know About Parcel: The Blazing Fast Web App Bundler 🚀# medium.freecodecamp.org

  • 00:57:00 +07:00 Node.js Best Practices - How to become a better Node.js developer in 2018# nemethgergely.com

  • 03:40:00 +07:00 Digg.com's timeline for 2017# digg.com

  • 08:56:00 +07:00 Tutorial - How to send user IDs to Google Analytics# davidsimpson.me

  • 09:58:00 +07:00 Bitcoin plunges as low as $10,400 in volatile trading on Coinbase - now down 27 percent from record# www.cnbc.com

  • 12:11:00 +07:00 SpaceX Launches Rocket Into Night Sky, Everyone Thinks It's Aliens# digg.com

  • 13:42:00 +07:00 Using Redis as an LRU cache# redis.io

  • 14:37:00 +07:00 Elon Musk really will launch a Tesla Roadster on the first Falcon Heavy rocket# techcrunch.com

  • 14:49:00 +07:00 In 1977, the Sex Pistols played their last UK gig - a Christmas show for children# boingboing.net

  • 15:58:00 +07:00 Here Are The Power Brokers Accused Of Sexual Misconduct This Year# www.vox.com

  • 16:08:00 +07:00 US nuclear tests killed far more civilians than we knew# qz.com

2017/12/22 #

2017/12/21 #

  • 00:37:00 +07:00 We Are Not Exaggerating - This Is The Greatest Jenga Move We've Ever Seen# digg.com

  • 01:27:00 +07:00 The High School Student's Simple Explanation Of Relativity Will Boggle Your Mind# digg.com

2017/12/20 #

  • 02:14:00 +07:00 The world's best film school is free on youtube# www.wired.com

  • 15:40:00 +07:00 Critical extracts & inlines critical-path (above-the-fold) CSS from HTML# github.com

  • 16:08:00 +07:00 Why Computer Scientists Can't Explain How Their Machine Learning Algorithms Actually Work# digg.com

2017/12/19 #

  • 01:52:00 +07:00 How can a Javascript object refer to values in itself?# stackoverflow.com

  • 22:49:00 +07:00 Matt Damon Returns With More Opinions on Hollywood’s Harassment Reckoning# www.vulture.com

  • 23:07:00 +07:00 Spend a Week in a Fast Food Joint with a Heartbroken Woman in Tamar Glezerman’s ‘Fill Your Heart with French Fries’# directorsnotes.com

2017/12/18 #

  • 01:52:00 +07:00 I’m Sophia The Robot And I Heard You Were Talking Shit# medium.com

  • 02:47:00 +07:00 The youth these days couldn’t possibly understand the abstraction of a floppy disk for a save icon# css-tricks.com

  • 04:18:00 +07:00 express-ga-middleware - express middleware to enable Google Universal Analytics page tracking on your server# www.npmjs.com

2017/12/17 #

  • 07:04:00 +07:00 After Blowback, Firefox Will Move Mr. Robot Extension to Store# gizmodo.com

  • 12:15:00 +07:00 A journey through a land of extreme poverty - welcome to America# www.theguardian.com

  • 13:53:00 +07:00 Pentagon ran secret multi-million dollar UFO programme# www.bbc.com

  • 14:09:00 +07:00 Norway votes to decriminalise drugs and offer treatment instead of jail time# inews.co.uk

  • 22:00:00 +07:00 Weinstein 'derailed my career' Sorvino says after Peter Jackson claim# www.bbc.com

2017/12/16 #

  • 03:21:00 +07:00 How to enable scrolling in tmux panels with mouse wheel?# stackoverflow.com

  • 06:55:00 +07:00 Nvm keeps “forgetting” node in new terminal session (set nvm stable node version)# stackoverflow.com

  • 08:03:00 +07:00 Former PM takes on UK-China investment role# www.bbc.com

  • 11:20:00 +07:00 Cypress is a next generation front end testing tool built for the modern web# docs.cypress.io

  • 11:42:00 +07:00 Report for exceptions from Google Analytics analytics.js exception tracking# stackoverflow.com

2017/12/15 #

2017/12/14 #

  • 01:45:00 +07:00 Lessig - The Neutrality Network# medium.com

  • 01:50:00 +07:00 Democracy needs independence — not from the people, but from the current Congress-owners—just as the internet needs independence from the potentially corrupting influence of its intermediaries: the network owners# medium.com

  • 03:48:00 +07:00 So, You’re Looking for the Redis GUI?# redislabs.com

  • 08:15:00 +07:00 I'm Sorry You Feel This Way NatWest, but HTTPS on Your Landing Page Is Important# www.troyhunt.com

  • 08:47:00 +07:00 Harvey Weinstein - Salma Hayek alleges he threatened to kill her# www.bbc.com

  • 09:36:00 +07:00 Democratic lawmaker says women invite sexual harassment with the way they dress# boingboing.net

  • 11:16:00 +07:00 hyper - a terminal built on web technologies# github.com

2017/12/13 #

  • 01:19:00 +07:00 Javascript for Nginx - Introduction to nginScript# www.nginx.com

  • 01:27:00 +07:00 Anthony Bourdain - On reacting to bad news# medium.com

  • 07:06:00 +07:00 Little Brother Thinks His Sister's Wrestling Match Is A Real Fight, Runs In To Help Her# digg.com

  • 07:14:00 +07:00 Geniuses Attach A LEGO Star Destroyer To A Rocket And Fire It Into A Wall# digg.com

  • 07:25:00 +07:00 YouTubers Made Hundreds Of Thousands Off Of Bizarre And Disturbing Child Content# www.buzzfeed.com

  • 07:37:00 +07:00 The Weird, Unnamed Rhythm That's All Over Modern Music# digg.com

  • 15:04:00 +07:00 Swinging Safari review – Kylie Minogue and Guy Pearce in outrageous ode to 70s Australia# amp.theguardian.com

2017/12/12 #

  • 00:04:00 +07:00 Visualizing The Unreal Size Of The Dutch East India Company At Its Peak# digg.com

  • 04:57:00 +07:00 A primitive is data that is not an object and has no methods - in JavaScript, there are 6 primitive data types - string, number, boolean, null, undefined, symbol# developer.mozilla.org

  • 07:08:00 +07:00 Don’t blame the election on fake news - Blame it on the media# www.cjr.org

  • 07:11:00 +07:00 We believe that fixing the information ecosystem is at least as much about improving the real news as it about stopping the fake stuff# www.cjr.org

  • 09:22:00 +07:00 President Trump Is Sending NASA Back To The Moon# text.npr.org

  • 09:31:00 +07:00 Godless' Creator Says He Wanted To Embrace Every Single Western Cliché# text.npr.org

  • 15:07:00 +07:00 apicache - simple API response caching middleware for Express/Node# github.com

  • 15:16:00 +07:00 express-redis-cache - Easily cache pages of your app using Express and Redis# www.npmjs.com

  • 15:31:00 +07:00 Building Faster APIs with NodeJs and Redis# coligo.io

2017/12/11 #

  • 01:21:00 +07:00 Bitcoin futures are now tradable on the CBOE# techcrunch.com

  • 01:26:00 +07:00 German spy agency warns of Chinese LinkedIn espionage# www.bbc.com

  • 04:15:00 +07:00 Carmakers Want Silicon Valley’s Tech Without Its Patent Wars# www.bloomberg.com

  • 05:59:00 +07:00 The FCC literally doesn't know how the internet works# boingboing.net

  • 06:47:00 +07:00 Google Maps will soon tell you when it’s time to get off your train or bus# techcrunch.com

  • 07:22:00 +07:00 They’ve used multi-coloured lights, they’ve got them on flash, they’ve thrown on tinsel with no regard as to whether it matches and the baubles# www.thedailymash.co.uk

  • 08:00:00 +07:00 David Davis - 'No deal means we won't be paying the money'# www.bbc.com

  • 08:08:00 +07:00 Spotify and Tencent Music buy stake in each other# www.bbc.com

  • 08:15:00 +07:00 Pizza night aboard the International Space Station# www.bbc.com

  • 08:16:00 +07:00 James Franco Might Forever Change The Way You Think About Pizza In This 'SNL' Bit# digg.com

  • 08:40:00 +07:00 In Your Face - China’s all-seeing state# www.bbc.com

  • 08:46:00 +07:00 Jerusalem - Netanyahu sees EU following US recognition# www.bbc.com

  • 08:53:00 +07:00 touchrunner - Run npm scripts from the MacBook Pro Touch Bar# github.com

  • 08:55:00 +07:00 oh-my-fish - The Fishshell Framework# github.com

  • 11:42:00 +07:00 Bad Lip Reading Turned 'Stranger Things' Into A Weird 'The Wonder Years' Knock-Off# digg.com

2017/12/10 #

  • 00:47:00 +07:00 Don't use jQuery plugins with Shadow DOM# robdodson.me

  • 02:19:00 +07:00 The White House press briefing, always a spin zone, is now approaching uselessness# www.latimes.com

  • 03:59:00 +07:00 Mac - what permissions are granted for “allow the apps below to control your computer”?# superuser.com

  • 10:30:00 +07:00 Bitcoin was supposed to disintermediate the finance industry...Instead, it replicated this system and made it worse# theoutline.com

  • 11:17:00 +07:00 Jerusalem - what a bunch of pathetic cry babies (all of them)# text.npr.org

  • 11:36:00 +07:00 This Amateur Short Film Takes Itself Too Seriously In The Best Way# digg.com

  • 11:42:00 +07:00 Chinese students blanket the world, but Americans barely get past Europe# qz.com

2017/12/09 #

  • 02:14:00 +07:00 Rumours that Apple is acquiring music recognition app Shazam# techcrunch.com

  • 02:53:00 +07:00 Square dancing was a racist hoax funded by Henry Ford to get white people to stop dancing to black music# boingboing.net

  • 03:05:00 +07:00 Jony Ive is leading Apple’s design team again# techcrunch.com

  • 03:15:00 +07:00 Elon Musk Says Tesla Is Building Its Own Chip for Autopilot# www.wired.com

  • 03:21:00 +07:00 Death of a Salesman Actress Accuses Dustin Hoffman of Sexual Harassment# www.vulture.com

  • 03:45:00 +07:00 Walking the Tightrope - 8 Tips for Refactoring an Active Application# medium.com

  • 09:59:00 +07:00 Inside Elsagate, the conspiracy-fueled war on creepy youtube kids videos# www.theverge.com

  • 10:37:00 +07:00 The Bitcoin Whales - 1,000 People Who Own 40 Percent of the Market# www.bloomberg.com

  • 12:00:00 +07:00 This Bro's Speech To The LA City Council Might Be The Funniest Thing We've Seen All Year# digg.com

  • 13:59:00 +07:00 France to allow blockchain for trading unlisted securities# www.reuters.com

  • 14:17:00 +07:00 Lord's Prayer - Pope Francis calls for change# www.bbc.com

  • 14:48:00 +07:00 Trump's border wall - Climbing tests begin on (wafer thin) prototypes# www.bbc.com

2017/12/08 #

  • 01:15:00 +07:00 Introducing Turbo - 5x faster than Yarn & NPM, and runs natively in-browser# medium.com

  • 01:23:00 +07:00 Building a simple static page generator with Node.js# hackernoon.com

  • 01:28:00 +07:00 country-iso - Get ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code for geographic coordinates# github.com

  • 01:37:00 +07:00 lowdown - Small JSON database for Node, Electron and the browser. Powered by Lodash# github.com

  • 03:20:00 +07:00 Patreon’s new service fee spurs concern that creators will lose patrons# techcrunch.com

  • 03:50:00 +07:00 What You Should Know About Bitcoin's Ridiculous Surge In Value# digg.com

  • 04:17:00 +07:00 What We Can All Learn From Domestic Workers' Silent Battle Against Sexual Harassment# splinternews.com

  • 04:38:00 +07:00 Are Intelligent People More Likely To Feel Lonely?# digg.com

  • 05:26:00 +07:00 Parcel - A blazing fast, zero configuration web bundler# parceljs.org

  • 10:32:00 +07:00 Brexit - 'Breakthrough' deal paves way for future trade talks# www.bbc.com

  • 10:39:00 +07:00 Things you need to know to become an ace Javascript developer# codeburst.io

  • 11:04:00 +07:00 Why hasn't Australia developed more diverse regional accents?# www.sbs.com.au

  • 13:40:00 +07:00 Hilton Unveils Plans for Its Smart Hotel Room Rollout in 2018# skift.com

  • 14:22:00 +07:00 Lies You Were Told About The Human Body# digg.com

  • 14:31:00 +07:00 Flickr's Top Photos Of The Year Are Stunning# digg.com

  • 15:01:00 +07:00 The woke Slim Shady – understanding Eminem in the age of Trump# www.theguardian.com

2017/12/07 #

  • 00:56:00 +07:00 Cascading Web Design with Feature Queries# 24ways.org

  • 01:06:00 +07:00 The Front-End Checklist - perfect for modern websites and meticulous developers# frontendchecklist.io

  • 01:27:00 +07:00 It has become untenable to support Bitcoin as a payment option# www.polygon.com

  • 01:28:00 +07:00 Why CSS Grid is better than Bootstrap for creating layouts# hackernoon.com

  • 02:34:00 +07:00 Volkswagen Official Gets 7-Year Term in Diesel-Emissions Cheating# mobile.nytimes.com

  • 07:18:00 +07:00 Those 'Sonic Attacks' In Cuba Caused Brain Damage In The Americans Who Heard Them# digg.com

  • 07:59:00 +07:00 The Loneliness of the Long Distance Rocker# thebaffler.com

  • 14:15:00 +07:00 How JavaScript works - A comparison with WebAssembly why in certain cases it’s better to use it# blog.sessionstack.com

  • 14:19:00 +07:00 Quokka.js - live Scratchpad for JavaScript# quokkajs.com

2017/12/06 #

  • 01:50:00 +07:00 Dustin Hoffman confronted over abuse allegations by John Oliver at public Q&A# www.theguardian.com

  • 05:28:00 +07:00 We have a tendency to police our code ecosystems and it’s harmful to those ecosystems and community# medium.com

  • 06:19:00 +07:00 Evidence that Ethiopia is spying on journalists shows commercial spyware is out of control# www.wired.com

  • 06:23:00 +07:00 Germany's proposed anti-cryptography bill - backdoors and hack-backs# boingboing.net

  • 10:45:00 +07:00 Journaling for Self-Trackers and Quantified Self Enthusiasts# www.markwk.com

  • 14:27:00 +07:00 TIME Names The Women Who Spoke Out About Sexual Harassment Its 'Person Of The Year'# time.com

  • 15:09:00 +07:00 This Nano X-Ray Technology Is Positively Mind-Blowing# digg.com

2017/12/05 #

  • 01:51:00 +07:00 'Snoopers' charter' changes put forward# www.bbc.com

  • 04:01:00 +07:00 rapid.js - An ORM-like Interface and a Router For Your API Requests# github.com

  • 04:04:00 +07:00 An Introduction to ES6 Template Literals# dev.to

  • 05:15:00 +07:00 The secret to being a top developer is building things! Here’s a list of fun apps to build!# medium.freecodecamp.org

  • 06:19:00 +07:00 Liquid Sand Hot Tub - Fluidized air bed# m.youtube.com

  • 09:51:00 +07:00 Mastering 'active rest' is far harder than it looks, but there are good reasons why we should keep working at it# www.bbc.com

  • 10:08:00 +07:00 Apple CEO backs China’s vision of an ‘open’ Internet as censorship reaches new heights# www.washingtonpost.com

  • 10:31:00 +07:00 We've not found aliens yet, so let's start listening for different signals# www.wired.co.uk

  • 11:51:00 +07:00 YouTube plans to have over 10,000 content moderators on staff by the end of 2018 to stop its child exploitation problem# www.buzzfeed.com

  • 14:05:00 +07:00 Severed Arm Tours Canada - might be the most goth thing the Catholic Church has allowed# www.vice.com

2017/12/04 #

  • 07:21:00 +07:00 What Realistic Dialogue In Movies Actually Sounds Like# digg.com

  • 07:30:00 +07:00 'SNL' Made A Katy Perry-Style Music Video For The Avalanche Of Sexual Harassment Scandals# digg.com

  • 07:50:00 +07:00 WebAssembly Now Supported across All Browsers# www.infoq.com

2017/12/03 #

  • 04:06:00 +07:00 Mozilla revenue jump fuels its Firefox overhaul plan# www.cnet.com

  • 04:28:00 +07:00 Incremental backups using GNU Tar and S3# ops.tips

  • 04:43:00 +07:00 India is preparing to land on the moon for the first time in the country's history# www.businessinsider.com

  • 05:06:00 +07:00 Buses in Thailand – General information# 12go.asia

  • 11:35:00 +07:00 If human cloning happened It started with sheep - Suppose cloning became routine for people# medium.economist.com

  • 11:52:00 +07:00 China's Xi says country will not close door to global internet# www.reuters.com

  • 11:58:00 +07:00 Renting in retirement - How feasible is it?# www.bbc.com

  • 12:17:00 +07:00 US politicos wake up to danger of black-box algorithms shaping all corners of American life# www.theregister.co.uk

  • 12:33:00 +07:00 How French 'Non' blocked UK in Europe# www.bbc.com

  • 13:54:00 +07:00 How the grilled cheese sandwich went gourmet# www.bbc.com

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