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2018/06/30 #

  • 04:49:41 +07:00 Open Current Folder in Finder from Terminal of Mac OS X# osxdaily.com

  • 06:00:40 +07:00 New Post: How I use my linkblog - finding a git tutorial I watched last year# blog.markjgsmith.com

  • 07:24:18 +07:00 New Post: How I use my linkblog - posting a link to my latest blog post# blog.markjgsmith.com

  • 10:10:41 +07:00 Google is retiring the AdWords & DoubleClick brands in a major rebranding aimed at simplification# searchengineland.com

2018/06/29 #

  • 04:01:13 +07:00 Web Caching Explained by Buying Milk at the Supermarket# dev.to

  • 13:59:01 +07:00 Backspace Rethought - Backspace, often used rarely considered# medium.com

  • 14:36:26 +07:00 How trees secretly talk to each other# www.bbc.com

  • 15:25:34 +07:00 Software Engineering Blogs - A curated list of engineering blogs# github.com

  • 16:08:36 +07:00 Threads in Node 10.5.0 - a practical intro# medium.com

  • 16:42:36 +07:00 Doing Vue after three years with React# medium.com

2018/06/28 #

  • 03:49:47 +07:00 Mark Smith - Founder, freelance web developer and solo developer & small team consultant# www.linkedin.com

  • 05:45:34 +07:00 Subscriptions are officially cool - Apple reportedly mulling single subscription offering, ala Amazon Prime# www.cnet.com

  • 05:51:36 +07:00 Soon you may pay Apple by the month for video, music, and news# www.fastcompany.com

  • 05:57:10 +07:00 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

  • 08:15:24 +07:00 20 Ways to Find Freelance Writing Jobs (As a Beginner)# elnacain.com

  • 12:36:30 +07:00 I've published a gig on Fiverr: Build and Deploy Consultancy for Cloud Applications# www.fiverr.com

  • 16:55:31 +07:00 Mastering modular javascript - Module thinking, principles, design patterns and best practices (Nicolás Bevacqua)# github.com

  • 17:04:44 +07:00 New Post: Things I learnt as a solo developer while building Linkblog.io# blog.markjgsmith.com

  • 18:22:49 +07:00 Places To Post Your Startup# github.com

2018/06/27 #

  • 03:40:13 +07:00 Some interesting new features in macOS Mojave 10 - Dark mode, stacks, screenshots tool# 9to5mac.com

  • 06:03:09 +07:00 Rsync Copy Hidden Dot Files and Directories Only (Why is this so awkward/complex in bash?)# www.cyberciti.biz

  • 07:03:31 +07:00 New AirPods, Apple noise-cancelling headphones pegged for 2019# arstechnica.com

  • 07:10:19 +07:00 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

  • 07:22:49 +07:00 Network operator AT&T is acquiring digital advertising company AppNexus to help it compete with companies like Google, Facebook, and Verizon# www.theverge.com

  • 07:26:02 +07:00 Charter’s gigabit internet service now available in 27 million US homes along the US East Coast# www.theverge.com

2018/06/26 #

  • 02:09:39 +07:00 Trump Plans New Curbs on Chinese Investment, Tech Exports to China# www.wsj.com

  • 02:18:09 +07:00 A month after GDPR takes effect, programmatic ad spend has started to recover (consent forms now only block 25% of customers)# digiday.com

  • 05:05:01 +07:00 Identifying and Filtering Internal Traffic from Google Analytics# www.lunametrics.com

2018/06/25 #

  • 01:47:21 +07:00 Thermostats, Locks and Lights - Digital Tools of Domestic Abuse# www.nytimes.com

  • 03:03:44 +07:00 Homebiogas - easy, clean, climate-friendly way to heat and power your home with garbage# boingboing.net

  • 03:48:23 +07:00 In pictures - Summer and winter solstice celebrations# www.bbc.com

  • 12:14:58 +07:00 Watch this beautiful tour of Manhattan's Classic Car Club# boingboing.net

  • 12:23:19 +07:00 DevTube - Like YouTube but with developer videos (site made by Latvian software developers)# dev.tube

  • 17:49:29 +07:00 World Cup 2018 - England put six past Panama to reach last 16# www.bbc.com

2018/06/23 #

  • 02:59:27 +07:00 Build a JavaScript Single Page App Without a Framework# www.sitepoint.com

  • 03:01:39 +07:00 vanilla-router - Vanilla Router for OPA sites# github.com

  • 05:37:44 +07:00 The <datalist> element specifies a list of pre-defined options for an <input> element# www.w3schools.com

  • 17:35:10 +07:00 How to hide parts of HTML when JavaScript is disabled?# stackoverflow.com

2018/06/22 #

  • 01:37:06 +07:00 Supreme Court lets states force online retailers to collect sales tax# www.reuters.com

  • 03:41:17 +07:00 Annoying tar error - tar removing leading '/' from member names# stackoverflow.com

  • 05:23:47 +07:00 Using upstream module: nginx reload not working, restart creates orphan yet active worker# github.com

  • 05:51:55 +07:00 How to make a modification take affect without restarting nginx?# serverfault.com

  • 05:55:28 +07:00 I conclude following tests that Nginx doesn't do zero downtime config reloads (for load balancers)# en.wikipedia.org

  • 13:13:21 +07:00 Why Lyft is trying to become the next subscription business# www.wired.com

  • 13:35:50 +07:00 How YouTube creators are using the platform’s new Patreon-like subscriptions# www.theverge.com

  • 13:54:28 +07:00 Material Dashboard - free Material Bootstrap Admin with a fresh, new design inspired by Google's Material Design# github.com

  • 14:11:26 +07:00 This Wednesday, an EU committee voted to break the Internet: this Sunday, Berliners take to the streets to say NO!# boingboing.net

  • 15:46:30 +07:00 Formspark - A reliable backend for your HTML forms# formspark.io

2018/06/21 #

  • 02:16:23 +07:00 The White House looks to coordinate online privacy plan# www.axios.com

  • 02:34:45 +07:00 The GDPR and Browser Fingerprinting - How It Changes the Game for the Sneakiest Web Trackers# www.eff.org

2018/06/20 #

  • 02:46:06 +07:00 US withdraws from UN Human Rights Council# abcnews.go.com

  • 02:52:03 +07:00 How To Make An Endless Wooden Calendar# digg.com

  • 03:24:45 +07:00 Emotional labor - or feigning feelings at work - taxes some of the deepest parts of the psyche# undark.org

  • 15:23:52 +07:00 Github Stars !== Usage: React is still blowing Vue and Angular Away# zendev.com

2018/06/19 #

  • 04:20:41 +07:00 Vue now has more star count than React on Github# twitter.com

  • 04:26:29 +07:00 Parcel v1.9.0  -  Tree Shaking, 2x faster watcher, and more! 🚀# medium.com

  • 04:28:30 +07:00 Convenient and dependency free wrapper for working with arrays and objects# github.com

  • 16:19:19 +07:00 Google Podcasts - Google launches a podcast app for Android with personalized recommendations# www.theverge.com

2018/06/16 #

  • 03:00:39 +07:00 Eiffel Tower perimeter fence built to stop terrorism# www.bbc.com

  • 03:54:13 +07:00 Mac App Store command line interface# github.com

  • 05:14:46 +07:00 Serge Gainsbourg - Le poinçonneur des Lilas (1959)# www.youtube.com

  • 12:07:07 +07:00 JavaScript engine fundamentals - Shapes and Inline Caches# mathiasbynens.be

  • 17:08:43 +07:00 Elon Musk’s boring company wins a big boring contract in Chicago# www.wired.com

  • 17:50:25 +07:00 One Bag Travel - A showcase of minimalist, carry on only, packing lists (interesting example of an amazon affiliate site)# onebag.travel

2018/06/14 #

  • 01:31:48 +07:00 A Chip in the Windshield - China’s Surveillance State Will Soon Track Cars# www.wsj.com

  • 01:57:25 +07:00 Vint Cerf, Tim Berners-Lee, and Dozens of Other Computing Experts Oppose Article 13# www.eff.org

  • 04:25:13 +07:00 Warning: Pm2 doesn't do log files properly - Log file name is change when reload my app# github.com

  • 04:27:30 +07:00 Pm2 - Is there a way to force the log_file to a consistent name?# github.com

  • 04:52:30 +07:00 Even the specialised logrotate module doesn't work - Pm2 logs with huge size using pm2-logrotate# stackoverflow.com

  • 08:35:52 +07:00 Tom Cruise’s healing touch, Nazi Roseanne, and Vanna White’s hooker scandal, in this week’s dubious tabloids# boingboing.net

  • 08:45:30 +07:00 The re-emergence of Bangkok Chinatown – get there before the metro does# www.nomadicnotes.com

  • 09:05:32 +07:00 Stan Lee - Marvel Comics magnate 'subject to elder abuse'# www.bbc.com

  • 17:33:00 +07:00 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 #

  • 08:14:49 +07:00 Instagram to create long form video feature, copying Snapchat’s discover feature# dailycaller.com

  • 08:45:43 +07:00 wowcup - The finest Worldcup 2018 CLI# github.com

  • 08:46:58 +07:00 oclif is an open source framework for building a command line interface (CLI) in Node.js# oclif.io

2018/06/11 #

  • 03:47:39 +07:00 Trump at G7 - Who's who in Merkel's photo?# www.bbc.com

  • 06:10:35 +07:00 Anders Hejlsberg on Modern Compiler Construction# www.youtube.com

  • 06:14:23 +07:00 ChromeREPL - A SublimeText 3 Plugin to use Chrome as your REPL# github.com

  • 06:38:51 +07:00 No reservations to parts unknown: thank you, Anthony Bourdain# chrisguillebeau.com

  • 16:09:17 +07:00 PlainLogo - free and open source logo maker - put texts, colors and fonts together to craft your appealing logo# plainlogo.joytocode.com

  • 16:14:32 +07:00 10words - Discover new apps and startups in 10 words or less# 10words.io

2018/06/10 #

  • 00:34:12 +07:00 Ghost(Pro) Pricing - Hosting from the creators of Ghost# ghost.org

  • 01:08:24 +07:00 Canada's Quebec halts crypto mining projects, may raise fees# www.reuters.com

  • 01:57:16 +07:00 Spotify Offers Managers, Artists Advances to License Music Directly to Its Streaming Service# www.billboard.com

  • 03:27:28 +07:00 How to Setup and Manage Log Rotation Using Logrotate in Linux# www.tecmint.com

  • 12:10:16 +07:00 "Escoffier on speed" - Kitchen Confidential Guardian Review (Aug 2000)# www.theguardian.com

2018/06/09 #

  • 02:05:37 +07:00 10 Things I Regret About Node.js - Ryan Dahl - JSConf EU 2018# www.youtube.com

  • 02:24:27 +07:00 Overscripted! Digging into JavaScript execution at scale# hacks.mozilla.org

  • 12:47:11 +07:00 Anthony Bourdain - Celebrity chef found dead at 61# www.bbc.com

  • 15:07:52 +07:00 Canadian brewery marks G7 with special brew# www.bbc.com

  • 15:47:26 +07:00 SVG.js - The lightweight library for manipulating and animating SVG# svgjs.com

  • 16:08:14 +07:00 Endcrawl - End credits, made easy - Finally# endcrawl.com

2018/06/08 #

  • 02:41:21 +07:00 European cinema embraces the vagina – what's taken Hollywood so long?# www.theguardian.com

  • 06:26:49 +07:00 Read a text file into an array in nodejs (Each line an item in the array)# stackoverflow.com

  • 07:07:34 +07:00 Google Renounces AI Weapons; Will Still Work With Military# www.bloomberg.com

  • 15:32:34 +07:00 Cambridge Analytica boss spars with MPs# www.bbc.com

  • 15:47:23 +07:00 User Agreements Are Betraying You# medium.com

  • 16:33:01 +07:00 How to Setup Log Rotation on MongoDB 3.4# linoxide.com

2018/06/06 #

  • 02:02:39 +07:00 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

  • 03:48:52 +07:00 What does the plus sign do in '+new Date' (javascript unary operator)# stackoverflow.com

  • 03:54:03 +07:00 Hacked - 92 Million Account Details for DNA Testing Service MyHeritage# motherboard.vice.com

  • 04:41:25 +07:00 The cursor property in CSS controls what the mouse cursor will look like# css-tricks.com

  • 11:07:59 +07:00 Microsoft sinks data centre off Orkney# www.bbc.com

  • 11:36:19 +07:00 Git with a cup of tea, painless self-hosted git service# github.com

  • 15:17:23 +07:00 Johnny Knoxville Takes A Walk Down Memory Lane, Recounting The Most Painful Injuries Of His Career# digg.com

2018/06/02 #

  • 14:31:12 +00:00 Apple to debut tools to let two iPhone users share augmented reality while limiting the personal data sent to its servers# www.reuters.com

  • 14:34:26 +00:00 Microsoft is reportedly talking about buying GitHub last valued at $2 billion# www.cnbc.com

  • 14:43:54 +00:00 Self-Driving Cars Can Now Pick Up Passengers in California - But Only for Free Rides# gizmodo.com

  • 14:50:10 +00:00 Instagram’s explains how it's feed algorithm works after user backlash# techcrunch.com

  • 14:59:58 +00:00 Google 'to end' Pentagon Artificial Intelligence project# www.bbc.com

  • 15:03:50 +00:00 Can tree planting stop Uzbekistan's toxic sands?# www.bbc.com

  • 15:11:09 +00:00 Are you scared yet? Meet Norman, the psychopathic AI# www.bbc.com

  • 15:24:59 +00:00 Piano lessons from Mikael Jorgensen of Wilco - The unstable A flat 7 #11 Chord# www.youtube.com

  • 16:22:34 +00:00 Tales from the far-flung Faroes - The people who live on remote rocks in the North Atlantic# www.bbc.co.uk

2018/06/01 #

  • 09:01:43 +00:00 Google spinoff Waymo orders 62,000 Chrysler Pacifica minivans increasing it's fleet of self-driving minivans by 100 times# www.theverge.com

  • 09:20:28 +00:00 Telegram CEO says Apple is blocking Telegram updates worldwide# 9to5mac.com

  • 09:29:21 +00:00 Fake reviews now generally necessary to do business online# boingboing.net

  • 09:51:53 +00:00 ICANN's Pre-emptive Attack On The GDPR Thrown Out By Court In Germany# www.techdirt.com

  • 09:55:41 +00:00 California Senate votes to reinstate Net Neutrality, now it goes to the State Assembly# boingboing.net

  • 10:02:54 +00:00 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

  • 10:39:17 +00:00 Is the European Union a 'protectionist racket'?# www.bbc.com

  • 12:44:53 +00:00 Buddha Park - sculpture park southeast from Vientiane, Laos in a meadow by the Mekong River# en.wikipedia.org

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