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2018/06/29 #

2018/06/28 #

  • Mark Smith - Founder, freelance web developer and solo developer & small team consultant www.linkedin.com #

  • Subscriptions are officially cool - Apple reportedly mulling single subscription offering, ala Amazon Prime www.cnet.com #

  • Amazon starts program for entrepreneurs to setup their own company doing last mile delivery - creating an alternative to USPS, FedEx and the U.S. Postal Service www.geekwire.com #

  • 20 Ways to Find Freelance Writing Jobs (As a Beginner) elnacain.com #

  • I've published a gig on Fiverr: Build and Deploy Consultancy for Cloud Applications www.fiverr.com #

  • Mastering modular javascript - Module thinking, principles, design patterns and best practices (Nicolás Bevacqua) github.com #

2018/06/27 #

  • Some interesting new features in macOS Mojave 10 - Dark mode, stacks, screenshots tool 9to5mac.com #

  • Rsync Copy Hidden Dot Files and Directories Only (Why is this so awkward/complex in bash?) www.cyberciti.biz #

  • New AirPods, Apple noise-cancelling headphones pegged for 2019 arstechnica.com #

  • Interesting GDPR info: (1) applies to EU citizens at home and abroad, (2) 80 percent of people aren't opting back into email newsletters www.cnbc.com #

  • Network operator AT&T is acquiring digital advertising company AppNexus to help it compete with companies like Google, Facebook, and Verizon www.theverge.com #

  • Charter’s gigabit internet service now available in 27 million US homes along the US East Coast www.theverge.com #

2018/06/26 #

  • Trump Plans New Curbs on Chinese Investment, Tech Exports to China www.wsj.com #

  • A month after GDPR takes effect, programmatic ad spend has started to recover (consent forms now only block 25% of customers) digiday.com #

2018/06/25 #

  • Thermostats, Locks and Lights - Digital Tools of Domestic Abuse www.nytimes.com #

  • Homebiogas - easy, clean, climate-friendly way to heat and power your home with garbage boingboing.net #

  • In pictures - Summer and winter solstice celebrations www.bbc.com #

  • Watch this beautiful tour of Manhattan's Classic Car Club boingboing.net #

  • DevTube - Like YouTube but with developer videos (site made by Latvian software developers) dev.tube #

  • World Cup 2018 - England put six past Panama to reach last 16 www.bbc.com #

2018/06/22 #

  • Supreme Court lets states force online retailers to collect sales tax www.reuters.com #

  • Using upstream module: nginx reload not working, restart creates orphan yet active worker github.com #

  • How to make a modification take affect without restarting nginx? serverfault.com #

  • I conclude following tests that Nginx doesn't do zero downtime config reloads (for load balancers) en.wikipedia.org #

  • Why Lyft is trying to become the next subscription business www.wired.com #

  • How YouTube creators are using the platform’s new Patreon-like subscriptions www.theverge.com #

  • Material Dashboard - free Material Bootstrap Admin with a fresh, new design inspired by Google's Material Design github.com #

  • This Wednesday, an EU committee voted to break the Internet: this Sunday, Berliners take to the streets to say NO! boingboing.net #

  • Formspark - A reliable backend for your HTML forms formspark.io #

2018/06/21 #

  • The White House looks to coordinate online privacy plan www.axios.com #

  • The GDPR and Browser Fingerprinting - How It Changes the Game for the Sneakiest Web Trackers www.eff.org #

2018/06/20 #

  • How To Make An Endless Wooden Calendar digg.com #

  • Emotional labor - or feigning feelings at work - taxes some of the deepest parts of the psyche undark.org #

  • Github Stars !== Usage: React is still blowing Vue and Angular Away zendev.com #

2018/06/19 #

  • Vue now has more star count than React on Github twitter.com #

  • Parcel v1.9.0  -  Tree Shaking, 2x faster watcher, and more! 🚀 medium.com #

  • Convenient and dependency free wrapper for working with arrays and objects github.com #

  • Google Podcasts - Google launches a podcast app for Android with personalized recommendations www.theverge.com #

2018/06/16 #

2018/06/14 #

  • A Chip in the Windshield - China’s Surveillance State Will Soon Track Cars www.wsj.com #

  • Vint Cerf, Tim Berners-Lee, and Dozens of Other Computing Experts Oppose Article 13 www.eff.org #

  • Warning: Pm2 doesn't do log files properly - Log file name is change when reload my app github.com #

  • Pm2 - Is there a way to force the log_file to a consistent name? github.com #

  • Even the specialised logrotate module doesn't work - Pm2 logs with huge size using pm2-logrotate stackoverflow.com #

  • Tom Cruise’s healing touch, Nazi Roseanne, and Vanna White’s hooker scandal, in this week’s dubious tabloids boingboing.net #

  • Stan Lee - Marvel Comics magnate 'subject to elder abuse' www.bbc.com #

  • Surveillance cameras have become a ubiquitous presence in many cities - In Newark, anyone with internet access is allowed to watch www.nytimes.com #

2018/06/12 #

2018/06/11 #

  • ChromeREPL - A SublimeText 3 Plugin to use Chrome as your REPL github.com #

  • PlainLogo - free and open source logo maker - put texts, colors and fonts together to craft your appealing logo plainlogo.joytocode.com #

  • 10words - Discover new apps and startups in 10 words or less 10words.io #

2018/06/10 #

  • Ghost(Pro) Pricing - Hosting from the creators of Ghost ghost.org #

  • Canada's Quebec halts crypto mining projects, may raise fees www.reuters.com #

  • Spotify Offers Managers, Artists Advances to License Music Directly to Its Streaming Service www.billboard.com #

  • How to Setup and Manage Log Rotation Using Logrotate in Linux www.tecmint.com #

2018/06/09 #

2018/06/08 #

2018/06/06 #

  • The Cult of the Complex - Somehow, over the years “don’t use a div when you mean a p” got corrupted into “divs are bad.” alistapart.com #

  • What does the plus sign do in '+new Date' (javascript unary operator) stackoverflow.com #

  • The cursor property in CSS controls what the mouse cursor will look like css-tricks.com #

  • Git with a cup of tea, painless self-hosted git service github.com #

  • Johnny Knoxville Takes A Walk Down Memory Lane, Recounting The Most Painful Injuries Of His Career digg.com #

2018/06/02 #

  • Apple to debut tools to let two iPhone users share augmented reality while limiting the personal data sent to its servers www.reuters.com #

  • Microsoft is reportedly talking about buying GitHub last valued at $2 billion www.cnbc.com #

  • Self-Driving Cars Can Now Pick Up Passengers in California - But Only for Free Rides gizmodo.com #

  • Instagram’s explains how it's feed algorithm works after user backlash techcrunch.com #

  • Google 'to end' Pentagon Artificial Intelligence project www.bbc.com #

  • Can tree planting stop Uzbekistan's toxic sands? www.bbc.com #

  • Are you scared yet? Meet Norman, the psychopathic AI www.bbc.com #

  • Piano lessons from Mikael Jorgensen of Wilco - The unstable A flat 7 #11 Chord www.youtube.com #

  • Tales from the far-flung Faroes - The people who live on remote rocks in the North Atlantic www.bbc.co.uk #

2018/06/01 #

  • Google spinoff Waymo orders 62,000 Chrysler Pacifica minivans increasing it's fleet of self-driving minivans by 100 times www.theverge.com #

  • Telegram CEO says Apple is blocking Telegram updates worldwide 9to5mac.com #

  • Fake reviews now generally necessary to do business online boingboing.net #

  • ICANN's Pre-emptive Attack On The GDPR Thrown Out By Court In Germany www.techdirt.com #

  • California Senate votes to reinstate Net Neutrality, now it goes to the State Assembly boingboing.net #

  • President Xi on innovation independence - "Self-reliance basis for the struggle of Chinese nation to stand on its own footing in the world" www.theregister.co.uk #

  • Is the European Union a 'protectionist racket'? www.bbc.com #

  • Buddha Park - sculpture park southeast from Vientiane, Laos in a meadow by the Mekong River en.wikipedia.org #

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