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2018/05/31 #

  • 06:03:47 +00:00 The experience economy will be a ‘massive business,’ according to Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky# www.recode.net

  • 07:33:52 +00:00 GDPR 'risks making it harder to catch hackers'# www.bbc.com

  • 07:56:50 +00:00 What could Brexit mean for the UK's creative talent?# www.bbc.com

  • 09:21:59 +00:00 The Harvard Classics eboxed Set# archive.org

2018/05/30 #

  • 01:37:14 +00:00 To Yarn and Back (to npm) Again# mixmax.com

  • 06:11:30 +00:00 Strange Parts visits an industrial production materials market in Yiwu, China# boingboing.net

  • 14:56:44 +00:00 Quantum Computation - Just a Taste With Python and JavaScript# x-team.com

  • 15:11:43 +00:00 Subtle differences between function statements and function expressions# www.reddit.com

  • 15:31:01 +00:00 The Service Worker Cookbook is a collection of working, practical examples of using service workers in modern web sites# serviceworke.rs

  • 16:24:35 +00:00 Sublime Text editing techniques every Front-End developer should know# benfrain.com

2018/05/28 #

2018/05/27 #

  • 02:41:31 +00:00 LastPass has terrible design in some places with nested settings buttons next to advanced settings sections# lastpass.com

  • 04:17:41 +00:00 Irish abortion referendum: Ireland overturns abortion ban# www.bbc.com

  • 05:56:10 +00:00 Code to joy - is learning to code in middle age a fool’s errand or a committed act of digital citizenship?# www.1843magazine.com

  • 07:33:12 +00:00 'Spectacular' lightning strikes parts of UK# www.bbc.com

2018/05/26 #

  • 02:37:37 +07:00 EFF Wins Final Victory Over Podcasting Patent# www.eff.org

  • 02:42:06 +07:00 Stumble Upon is moving to mix.com# medium.com

  • 02:47:29 +07:00 U.S. News outlets block european readers and questions about forced consent resulting from GDPR# www.nytimes.com

  • 03:22:02 +00:00 GDPR - US news sites unavailable to EU users under new rules# www.bbc.com

  • 03:22:46 +00:00 General Data Protection Regulation GDPR (official regulation document)# gdpr-info.eu

  • 12:04:14 +00:00 GDPR mayhem - Programmatic ad buying plummets in Europe# digiday.com

  • 12:11:14 +00:00 USA Today redirects all EU users to a ‘no ads’ experience, other news sites block eu visitors# indivigital.com

  • 12:12:09 +00:00 USA Today - EU version of the site with no ads that loads in under 3 seconds# eu.usatoday.com

  • 15:45:37 +00:00 I don’t know why GDPR is so funny, but it is - Happy GDPR Day to us all# www.theverge.com

  • 16:14:06 +00:00 An unconventional opinion about kissing# www.gq.com

  • 16:18:32 +00:00 Irish Times exit poll projects Ireland has voted by landslide to repeal Eighth# www.irishtimes.com

2018/05/25 #

  • 02:00:23 +07:00 Instapaper temporarily shuts down in Europe to comply with GDPR# www.engadget.com

  • 02:08:50 +07:00 U.S. cautions citizens in China after 'abnormal' sound incident# www.reuters.com

  • 07:44:19 +07:00 Wired Elements - A set of common UI elements with a hand-drawn, sketchy look# wiredjs.com

  • 07:46:10 +07:00 Gloria Hallelujah - This font is based on the handwriting of a Korean high school student# fonts.google.com

  • 07:49:43 +07:00 Rough.js - Create graphics with a hand-drawn, sketchy, appearance# roughjs.com

  • 13:33:18 +07:00 Suggestive drawing among human and artificial intelligences# nono.ma

  • 14:27:46 +07:00 GDPR Is Live Today - Here's What It Means# digg.com

2018/05/24 #

  • 08:27:55 +07:00 The right to block - It’s unconstitutional for Trump to block people on Twitter# xtechnews.com

  • 08:37:18 +07:00 Why Donald Trump is the tabloid president# boingboing.net

  • 09:40:10 +07:00 Congress is about to learn just how little science knows about tech addiction# www.wired.com

  • 15:50:49 +07:00 Adam Savage at Maker Faire - the importance of sharing# boingboing.net

  • 16:33:33 +07:00 Segmented type appreciation corner# aresluna.org

  • 17:41:21 +07:00 Guitars Are Getting More Popular - So Why Do We Think They're Dying?# www.rollingstone.com

2018/05/15 #

  • 02:26:25 +00:00 Is it only me or is everyone having constant connectivity/filesystem/firewall issues with Digital Ocean droplets?# twitter.com

  • 02:30:31 +00:00 The issues on their status page rarely correspond to the outages that I experience... yet everyone raves about them# twitter.com

  • 06:28:59 +00:00 Correct Bash and shell script variable capitalization# stackoverflow.com

  • 11:14:43 +00:00 Face recognition police tools 'staggeringly inaccurate'# www.bbc.com

  • 12:26:53 +00:00 Google Employees Resign in Protest Against Pentagon Contract# gizmodo.com

2018/05/14 #

  • 06:11:52 +00:00 How do I get both STDOUT and STDERR to go to the terminal and a log file?# stackoverflow.com

  • 06:55:52 +00:00 Stop Spaces from Rearranging Themselves in Mac OS X# osxdaily.com

  • 10:34:18 +00:00 bashvm - Bash Version Manager (requires build-essential on ubuntu)# github.com

2018/05/13 #

2018/05/09 #

2018/05/08 #

  • 01:07:09 +07:00 Severe Drupal security flaws - 350+ sites including government domains are now serving cryptomining scripts to users' browsers# www.bleepingcomputer.com

  • 01:11:28 +07:00 The big music labels are selling big chunks of their Spotify stakes# www.recode.net

  • 01:20:28 +07:00 EFF and Coalition Partners Push Tech Companies To Be More Transparent and Accountable About Censoring User Content# www.eff.org

  • 01:41:25 +07:00 Stack Overflow for Teams gives you everything that 50 million people already love about Stack Overflow in a private, secure environment# stackoverflow.com

  • 02:12:59 +07:00 Who controls glibc?# lwn.net

  • 07:37:45 +07:00 Ironworkers Casually Go About Their Business On The 55th Floor Of A Partially Built Skyscraper# digg.com

  • 09:25:38 +07:00 Boris Johnson - No 10's post-Brexit customs plans 'crazy'# www.bbc.com

2018/05/06 #

  • 01:04:27 +07:00 How Should We Talk to Alexa Around Our Kid?# nymag.com

  • 07:25:35 +07:00 The Art Of Slamming Paper Against Metal# digg.com

  • 07:34:43 +07:00 Someone paid actors to support an energy company at public hearings in New Orleans# boingboing.net

  • 07:48:58 +07:00 Bill Hader And Conan Can't Stop Cracking Jokes While Playing 'God Of War'# digg.com

  • 08:58:41 +07:00 Show what users are running processes on your Linux system# www.atrixnet.com

  • 13:12:35 +07:00 The secret green shelters that feed London’s cabbies# www.bbc.com

  • 13:31:43 +07:00 An analysis of nearly one billion Tweets maps the emergence of new words across the USA in unprecedented detail# www.bbc.com

  • 13:50:28 +07:00 Personal privacy vs. public security - fight!# techcrunch.com

2018/05/02 #

  • 06:57:10 +07:00 nginx start failed if upstream server domainname is not resolved# trac.nginx.org

  • 07:49:11 +07:00 Amazon Bends the Knee to Autocrats, Threatens to Cut Off Signal for Using Anti-Censorship Technique# gizmodo.com

  • 08:40:10 +07:00 Creepy or Not? Your Privacy Concerns Probably Reflect Your Politics# www.nytimes.com

2018/05/01 #

  • 02:27:53 +07:00 Stocks - A free, lightweight, blazing-fast static page to get stock quotes using the IEX API# github.com

  • 02:42:10 +07:00 ‘Forget the Facebook leak’ - China is mining data directly from workers’ brains on an industrial scale# m.scmp.com

  • 03:12:09 +07:00 Russia Launches Floating Nuclear Power Plant That's Head To the Arctic# m.slashdot.org

  • 04:03:20 +07:00 The Surprisingly Technical Process of Songwriting# medium.com

  • 14:46:33 +07:00 Why is the home directory not created when I create a new user using useradd?# unix.stackexchange.com

  • 17:23:17 +07:00 Bash script to generate self signed certificates# github.com

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