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Amazon did a lot of funky stuff this year and it’s paying off techcrunch.com #

From a frontend developer - 2017 Favorite Things johnlindquist.com #

The man who can't face the internet bbc.com #

UK newspaper headlines on new year's eve 2017 bbc.com #

Far out - Astronauts watching Star Wars on the ISS boingboing.net #

Bash For Loop Examples cyberciti.biz #

Trying to git pull with error: cannot open .git/FETCH_HEAD: Permission denied stackoverflow.com #

Run git from another directory stackoverflow.com #

The Week's Coolest Space Images digg.com #

Could not open lock file /var/lib/apt/lists/lock - open (13: Permission denied) unix.stackexchange.com #

Athens, Georgia, NYC goodbeerhunting.com #

Young photographer goes out into countryside to take free family photos medium.com #

Specifying the mode in a mkdir command techonthenet.com #

What Love and Sadness Look Like in 5 Countries, According to Their Top GIFs nytimes.com #

Ringo Starr, Bee Gees' Barry Gibb Receive Knighthood rollingstone.com #

The year we wanted the internet to be smaller theverge.com #

‘Niche Memes’ Are the Secret Clip Art Diaries Teens Are Posting on Instagram thedailybeast.com #

How to debug a bash script? stackoverflow.com #

How to Trace Execution of Commands in Shell Script with Shell Tracing tecmint.com #

Shortcuts to move faster in Bash command line teohm.com #

How to navigate long commands faster? askubuntu.com #

Is there any way in the OS X Terminal to move the cursor word by word? stackoverflow.com #

Being Settled has Really Changed Our Travel Style 1dad1kid.com #

North Korea - Trump accuses China of allowing oil transfers bbc.com #

Who Gets to Own Outer Space? theringer.com #

In bitcoinallthethings news - Can we tokenize behavior? arnoldwaldstein.com #

Extremely Casual Outdoorsman Submerses Himself In Frozen Lake, Demonstrates How To Rescue Yourself digg.com #

UK stock markets close at a record high bbc.com #

Cryptojacking has gotten out of control wired.com #

Identify user in a bash script called by sudo stackoverflow.com #

My Internet Mea Culpa - “I’m sorry I was wrong. We all were.* shift.newco.co #

Man Attempts To Cook A Christmas Dinner With Traditional Chinese Cooking Appliances digg.com #

Permissions cannot be restored for a tar superuser.com #

Power Prices Go Negative in Germany, a Positive for Energy Users mobile.nytimes.com #

The history of stripes in fashion digg.com #

How Politicians Change What We Consider To Be Normal By Saying And Doing Crazy Things digg.com #

Amazon sells ‘tens of millions’ of Alexa devices worldwide in record holiday season geekwire.com #

Alexa Voice Service Overview developer.amazon.com #

Amazon Echo - SNL youtube.com #

We’ve centralized all of our data to a guy called Mark Zuckerberg” says Pirate Bay Founder hackernoon.com #

Vietnam Deploys 10,000 Cyber Warriors to Fight ‘Wrongful Views’ bloomberg.com #

In tinfoil news - How I amplified my home's Wi-Fi with aluminum foil jiffchat.com #

Where can I find the error logs of nginx? (MacOs via homebrew, Ubuntu) stackoverflow.com #

How To Create a Self-Signed SSL Certificate for Nginx digitalocean.com #

I was addicted to my migraine trigger medium.com #

How to Monitor Redis blog.serverdensity.com #

Easy profiling for Node.js Applications nodejs.org #

What I learnt profiling a node.js app qzaidi.github.io #

Autoscaling on AWS qzaidi.github.io #

Bitcoin rises 10 percent, recovers from last week's brutal selloff reuters.com #

The "uncanny valley" effect might be a learned behavior boingboing.net #

express-status-monitor - Simple, self-hosted module to report realtime server metrics for Express-based node servers npmjs.com #

simple-stats-server - dead-simple resource stats for Node.js servers npmjs.com #

Ten years in, nobody has come up with a use for blockchain hackernoon.com #

Energy Efficiency - A New Concern for Application Software Developers m.cacm.acm.org #

Get Redis keys and values at command prompt stackoverflow.com #

What acceleration has done, across society, is to cut out the slack - Leisurely two-hour lunches have been replaced with events and tasks bbc.com #

How to use precache middleware with express-redis-cache github.com #

Mongoose post hooks mongoosejs.com #

The Section 702 Surveillance Debate Has Taken Place in the Dark wired.com #

The Ultimate Guide To Understanding The Basics of Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies hackernoon.com #

response-time - middleware that records the response time for requests in HTTP servers npmjs.com #

Practical Guide to StatsD/Graphite Monitoring matt.aimonetti.net #

Blockchain 101 - A Visual Demo m.youtube.com #

Russian submarine activity increases around Atlantic internet cables thehill.com #

Men Are Joining #MeToo Campaign To Wear Black To The Golden Globes, The Rock Confirms refinery29.com #

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

10 Insights from the State of JS Survey medium.freecodecamp.org #

Node.js Best Practices - How to become a better Node.js developer in 2018 nemethgergely.com #

Is jQuery still relevant? remysharp.com #

Digg.com's timeline for 2017 digg.com #

Personally identifiable information (PII) en.wikipedia.org #

Tutorial - How to send user IDs to Google Analytics davidsimpson.me #

Bitcoin plunges as low as $10,400 in volatile trading on Coinbase - now down 27 percent from record cnbc.com #

Chrome is Not the Standard chriskrycho.com #

SpaceX Launches Rocket Into Night Sky, Everyone Thinks It's Aliens digg.com #

What does Redis do when it runs out of memory? stackoverflow.com #

Using Redis as an LRU cache redis.io #

Elon Musk really will launch a Tesla Roadster on the first Falcon Heavy rocket techcrunch.com #

In 1977, the Sex Pistols played their last UK gig - a Christmas show for children boingboing.net #

Here Are The Power Brokers Accused Of Sexual Misconduct This Year vox.com #

US nuclear tests killed far more civilians than we knew qz.com #

Habits of a Happy Node Hacker 2017 blog.heroku.com #

Introducing Fastify, a Speedy Node.js Web Framework thenewstack.io #

Checklist - Node.JS production best practices goldbergyoni.com #

10 Tips to Become a Better Node Developer in 2017 sitepoint.com #

How much electricity does a 1000 Watt Microwave consume in 1 minute? answers.yahoo.com #

How to setup Google Analytics for localhost site development stackoverflow.com #

Switzerland is Prepared for Civilizational Collapse marginalrevolution.com #

We Are Not Exaggerating - This Is The Greatest Jenga Move We've Ever Seen digg.com #

The High School Student's Simple Explanation Of Relativity Will Boggle Your Mind digg.com #

Dimensions vs Metrics - What’s the difference? lunametrics.com #

The world's best film school is free on youtube wired.com #

Google Analytics - Custom Dimensions and Metrics developers.google.com #

20 Ways to Use Google Analytics Custom Dimensions lunametrics.com #

Critical extracts & inlines critical-path (above-the-fold) CSS from HTML github.com #

The Front-End Checklist codeburst.io #

Why Computer Scientists Can't Explain How Their Machine Learning Algorithms Actually Work digg.com #

How can a Javascript object refer to values in itself? stackoverflow.com #

Npm install won't install devDependencies stackoverflow.com #

Npm command to uninstall unused packages in Node.js stackoverflow.com #

I’m Sophia The Robot And I Heard You Were Talking Shit medium.com #

Kiss' Gene Simmons Responds to Sexual Misconduct Lawsuit rollingstone.com #

The youth these days couldn’t possibly understand the abstraction of a floppy disk for a save icon css-tricks.com #

No hack needed - anonymisation beaten with a dash of SQL theregister.co.uk #

express-ga-middleware - express middleware to enable Google Universal Analytics page tracking on your server npmjs.com #

Matt Damon Returns With More Opinions on Hollywood’s Harassment Reckoning vulture.com #

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

After Blowback, Firefox Will Move Mr. Robot Extension to Store gizmodo.com #

A journey through a land of extreme poverty - welcome to America theguardian.com #

Pentagon ran secret multi-million dollar UFO programme bbc.com #

Norway votes to decriminalise drugs and offer treatment instead of jail time inews.co.uk #

Estonia, the Digital Republic newyorker.com #

How to increase scrollback buffer size in tmux? stackoverflow.com #

How to enable scrolling in tmux panels with mouse wheel? stackoverflow.com #

Nvm keeps “forgetting” node in new terminal session (set nvm stable node version) stackoverflow.com #

Former PM takes on UK-China investment role bbc.com #

Npm install vs. update - what's the difference? stackoverflow.com #

Cypress is a next generation front end testing tool built for the modern web docs.cypress.io #

Report for exceptions from Google Analytics analytics.js exception tracking stackoverflow.com #

Weinstein 'derailed my career' Sorvino says after Peter Jackson claim bbc.com #

A tmux Crash Course robots.thoughtbot.com #

Exit tmux window without quitting the Terminal program unix.stackexchange.com #

How to rename a window in tmux? stackoverflow.com #

Tmux cheat sheet gist.github.com #

Which Business Model Is Best: Selling Services, Software, Information Or Physical Products? entrepreneurs-journey.com #

Watch The Cast Of 'The Last Jedi' Lose Their Minds In This 'Fear Box' Challenge digg.com #

AI isn’t just compromising our privacy—it can limit our choices, too qz.com #

The Bitcoin Paradox - Why cryptocurrency will always be political m.nautil.us #

The Environmental Cost of Internet Porn theatlantic.com #

How to install an npm package from GitHub directly? stackoverflow.com #

Express.js req.ip is returning ::ffff:127.0.0.1 stackoverflow.com #

How To Iterate Your Way To A Winning Content-Driven Website smashingmagazine.com #

Lessig - The Neutrality Network medium.com #

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 #

So, You’re Looking for the Redis GUI? redislabs.com #

I'm Sorry You Feel This Way NatWest, but HTTPS on Your Landing Page Is Important troyhunt.com #

Harvey Weinstein - Salma Hayek alleges he threatened to kill her bbc.com #

Democratic lawmaker says women invite sexual harassment with the way they dress boingboing.net #

hyper - a terminal built on web technologies github.com #

Javascript for Nginx - Introduction to nginScript nginx.com #

Anthony Bourdain - On reacting to bad news medium.com #

Little Brother Thinks His Sister's Wrestling Match Is A Real Fight, Runs In To Help Her digg.com #

Geniuses Attach A LEGO Star Destroyer To A Rocket And Fire It Into A Wall digg.com #

YouTubers Made Hundreds Of Thousands Off Of Bizarre And Disturbing Child Content buzzfeed.com #

The Weird, Unnamed Rhythm That's All Over Modern Music digg.com #

Swinging Safari review – Kylie Minogue and Guy Pearce in outrageous ode to 70s Australia amp.theguardian.com #

Marty Robbins - Big Iron m.youtube.com #

Visualizing The Unreal Size Of The Dutch East India Company At Its Peak digg.com #

Berners-Lee, Woz, Cerf - cancel flawed net neutrality vote theregister.co.uk #

Error Handling in Express.js Applications safaribooksonline.com #

Multiple View paths on Node.js Express app stackoverflow.com #

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 #

Don’t blame the election on fake news - Blame it on the media cjr.org #

We believe that fixing the information ecosystem is at least as much about improving the real news as it about stopping the fake stuff cjr.org #

President Trump Is Sending NASA Back To The Moon text.npr.org #

Godless' Creator Says He Wanted To Embrace Every Single Western Cliché text.npr.org #

High-level Problems with Git and How to Fix Them gregoryszorc.com #

apicache - simple API response caching middleware for Express/Node github.com #

express-redis-cache - Easily cache pages of your app using Express and Redis npmjs.com #

Building Faster APIs with NodeJs and Redis coligo.io #

TAO TAJIMA - Filmmaker taotajima.jp #

Bitcoin futures are now tradable on the CBOE techcrunch.com #

German spy agency warns of Chinese LinkedIn espionage bbc.com #

Carmakers Want Silicon Valley’s Tech Without Its Patent Wars bloomberg.com #

The FCC literally doesn't know how the internet works boingboing.net #

Google Maps will soon tell you when it’s time to get off your train or bus techcrunch.com #

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 thedailymash.co.uk #

Remainers absolutely loving Brexit now thedailymash.co.uk #

David Davis - 'No deal means we won't be paying the money' bbc.com #

Spotify and Tencent Music buy stake in each other bbc.com #

Pizza night aboard the International Space Station bbc.com #

James Franco Might Forever Change The Way You Think About Pizza In This 'SNL' Bit digg.com #

In Your Face - China’s all-seeing state bbc.com #

Jerusalem - Netanyahu sees EU following US recognition bbc.com #

touchrunner - Run npm scripts from the MacBook Pro Touch Bar github.com #

oh-my-fish - The Fishshell Framework github.com #

Bad Lip Reading Turned 'Stranger Things' Into A Weird 'The Wonder Years' Knock-Off digg.com #

Don't use jQuery plugins with Shadow DOM robdodson.me #

Breaking Bad News medium.com #

The White House press briefing, always a spin zone, is now approaching uselessness latimes.com #

Mac - what permissions are granted for “allow the apps below to control your computer”? superuser.com #

About App Sandbox developer.apple.com #

Bitcoin was supposed to disintermediate the finance industry...Instead, it replicated this system and made it worse theoutline.com #

Jerusalem - what a bunch of pathetic cry babies (all of them) text.npr.org #

This Amateur Short Film Takes Itself Too Seriously In The Best Way digg.com #

Chinese students blanket the world, but Americans barely get past Europe qz.com #

Rumours that Apple is acquiring music recognition app Shazam techcrunch.com #

Square dancing was a racist hoax funded by Henry Ford to get white people to stop dancing to black music boingboing.net #

Jony Ive is leading Apple’s design team again techcrunch.com #

Elon Musk Says Tesla Is Building Its Own Chip for Autopilot wired.com #

Death of a Salesman Actress Accuses Dustin Hoffman of Sexual Harassment vulture.com #

Walking the Tightrope - 8 Tips for Refactoring an Active Application medium.com #

Inside Elsagate, the conspiracy-fueled war on creepy youtube kids videos theverge.com #

The Bitcoin Whales - 1,000 People Who Own 40 Percent of the Market bloomberg.com #

YouTuber cements head inside microwave oven theregister.co.uk #

This Bro's Speech To The LA City Council Might Be The Funniest Thing We've Seen All Year digg.com #

France to allow blockchain for trading unlisted securities reuters.com #

Lord's Prayer - Pope Francis calls for change bbc.com #

Trump's border wall - Climbing tests begin on (wafer thin) prototypes bbc.com #

Introducing Turbo - 5x faster than Yarn & NPM, and runs natively in-browser medium.com #

Building a simple static page generator with Node.js hackernoon.com #

country-iso - Get ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code for geographic coordinates github.com #

lowdown - Small JSON database for Node, Electron and the browser. Powered by Lodash github.com #

Patreon’s new service fee spurs concern that creators will lose patrons techcrunch.com #

What You Should Know About Bitcoin's Ridiculous Surge In Value digg.com #

What We Can All Learn From Domestic Workers' Silent Battle Against Sexual Harassment splinternews.com #

Are Intelligent People More Likely To Feel Lonely? digg.com #

10 Hours of Paint Drying m.youtube.com #

Parcel - A blazing fast, zero configuration web bundler parceljs.org #

Brexit - 'Breakthrough' deal paves way for future trade talks bbc.com #

Things you need to know to become an ace Javascript developer codeburst.io #

Why hasn't Australia developed more diverse regional accents? sbs.com.au #

Toys R Us is bankrupt boingboing.net #

Hilton Unveils Plans for Its Smart Hotel Room Rollout in 2018 skift.com #

The Pariah Podcast theringer.com #

Lies You Were Told About The Human Body digg.com #

Flickr's Top Photos Of The Year Are Stunning digg.com #

The woke Slim Shady – understanding Eminem in the age of Trump theguardian.com #

Cascading Web Design with Feature Queries 24ways.org #

How Stripe Designs Beautiful Websites leejamesrobinson.com #

The Front-End Checklist - perfect for modern websites and meticulous developers frontendchecklist.io #

It has become untenable to support Bitcoin as a payment option polygon.com #

Why CSS Grid is better than Bootstrap for creating layouts hackernoon.com #

Volkswagen Official Gets 7-Year Term in Diesel-Emissions Cheating mobile.nytimes.com #

Those 'Sonic Attacks' In Cuba Caused Brain Damage In The Americans Who Heard Them digg.com #

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Rocker thebaffler.com #

ZSH Tips by ZZapper zzapper.co.uk #

How JavaScript works - A comparison with WebAssembly why in certain cases it’s better to use it blog.sessionstack.com #

Quokka.js - live Scratchpad for JavaScript quokkajs.com #

The New DDoS Landscape blog.cloudflare.com #

Dustin Hoffman confronted over abuse allegations by John Oliver at public Q&A theguardian.com #

We have a tendency to police our code ecosystems and it’s harmful to those ecosystems and community medium.com #

Evidence that Ethiopia is spying on journalists shows commercial spyware is out of control wired.com #

Germany's proposed anti-cryptography bill - backdoors and hack-backs boingboing.net #

Journaling for Self-Trackers and Quantified Self Enthusiasts markwk.com #

TIME Names The Women Who Spoke Out About Sexual Harassment Its 'Person Of The Year' time.com #

This Nano X-Ray Technology Is Positively Mind-Blowing digg.com #

'Snoopers' charter' changes put forward bbc.com #

Apple is sharing your face with apps - That’s a new privacy worry washingtonpost.com #

Motel Living and Slowly Dying lareviewofbooks.org #

HN - Motel Living and Slowly Dying news.ycombinator.com #

rapid.js - An ORM-like Interface and a Router For Your API Requests github.com #

An Introduction to ES6 Template Literals dev.to #

The secret to being a top developer is building things! Here’s a list of fun apps to build! medium.freecodecamp.org #

Bamboozled by Brexit? bbc.com #

Liquid Sand Hot Tub - Fluidized air bed m.youtube.com #

Mastering 'active rest' is far harder than it looks, but there are good reasons why we should keep working at it bbc.com #

Apple CEO backs China’s vision of an ‘open’ Internet as censorship reaches new heights washingtonpost.com #

We've not found aliens yet, so let's start listening for different signals wired.co.uk #

YouTube plans to have over 10,000 content moderators on staff by the end of 2018 to stop its child exploitation problem buzzfeed.com #

We Need to Design Less Stressful Cities motherboard.vice.com #

Severed Arm Tours Canada - might be the most goth thing the Catholic Church has allowed vice.com #

What Realistic Dialogue In Movies Actually Sounds Like digg.com #

'SNL' Made A Katy Perry-Style Music Video For The Avalanche Of Sexual Harassment Scandals digg.com #

WebAssembly Now Supported across All Browsers infoq.com #

Trump vs Talking Heads m.youtube.com #

The Beatles - I'm only Sleeping m.youtube.com #

Mozilla revenue jump fuels its Firefox overhaul plan cnet.com #

Google APIs Explorer developers.google.com #

Incremental backups using GNU Tar and S3 ops.tips #

India is preparing to land on the moon for the first time in the country's history businessinsider.com #

A Big List of Typography Books mediatemple.net #

Buses in Thailand – General information 12go.asia #

If human cloning happened
It started with sheep - Suppose cloning became routine for people medium.economist.com #

China's Xi says country will not close door to global internet reuters.com #

Renting in retirement - How feasible is it? bbc.com #

US politicos wake up to danger of black-box algorithms shaping all corners of American life theregister.co.uk #

How French 'Non' blocked UK in Europe bbc.com #

How the grilled cheese sandwich went gourmet bbc.com #

Monitoring the performance of a Node.js web application blog.sqreen.io #

HTTP request logging in Node.JS brightinventions.pl #