Saturday, June 30, 2018

Open Current Folder in Finder from Terminal of Mac OS X osxdaily.com #

Google is retiring the AdWords & DoubleClick brands in a major rebranding aimed at simplification searchengineland.com #

Spent some time reading the Jekyll docs properly today jekyllrb.com #

I really like the look of the Liquid template language used in Jekyll - simple, elegant, probably versatile and powerful shopify.github.io #

Wish ruby & ruby gems weren't such a pain in the neck to install and maintain en.wikipedia.org #

Friday, June 29, 2018

Web Caching Explained by Buying Milk at the Supermarket dev.to #

Backspace Rethought - Backspace, often used rarely considered medium.com #

How trees secretly talk to each other bbc.com #

Software Engineering Blogs - A curated list of engineering blogs github.com #

Threads in Node 10.5.0 - a practical intro medium.com #

Thursday, June 28, 2018

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

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

Soon you may pay Apple by the month for video, music, and news fastcompany.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 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 fiverr.com #

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

Wednesday, June 27, 2018

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?) 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 cnbc.com #

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

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

Tuesday, June 26, 2018

Trump Plans New Curbs on Chinese Investment, Tech Exports to China 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 #

Identifying and Filtering Internal Traffic from Google Analytics lunametrics.com #

Monday, June 25, 2018

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

Changes in WebAssembly Could Render Meltdown and Spectre Browser Patches Useless bleepingcomputer.com #

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

In pictures - Summer and winter solstice celebrations 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 #

Friday, June 22, 2018

Supreme Court lets states force online retailers to collect sales tax 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 wired.com #

How YouTube creators are using the platform’s new Patreon-like subscriptions 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 #

Thursday, June 14, 2018

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

Vint Cerf, Tim Berners-Lee, and Dozens of Other Computing Experts Oppose Article 13 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 #

The re-emergence of Bangkok Chinatown – get there before the metro does nomadicnotes.com #

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

Tuesday, June 12, 2018

Instagram to create long form video feature, copying Snapchat’s discover feature dailycaller.com #

oclif is an open source framework for building a command line interface (CLI) in Node.js oclif.io #

Monday, June 11, 2018

Trump at G7 - Who's who in Merkel's photo? bbc.com #

Anders Hejlsberg on Modern Compiler Construction youtube.com #

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 #

Saturday, June 9, 2018

10 Things I Regret About Node.js - Ryan Dahl - JSConf EU 2018 youtube.com #

Anthony Bourdain - Celebrity chef found dead at 61 bbc.com #

Canadian brewery marks G7 with special brew bbc.com #

SVG.js - The lightweight library for manipulating and animating SVG svgjs.com #

Friday, June 8, 2018

European cinema embraces the vagina – what's taken Hollywood so long? theguardian.com #

Read a text file into an array in nodejs (Each line an item in the array) stackoverflow.com #

Google Renounces AI Weapons; Will Still Work With Military bloomberg.com #

Cambridge Analytica boss spars with MPs bbc.com #

Wednesday, June 6, 2018

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 #

Microsoft sinks data centre off Orkney bbc.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 #

Saturday, June 2, 2018

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

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

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

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

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

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

Friday, June 1, 2018

Google spinoff Waymo orders 62,000 Chrysler Pacifica minivans increasing it's fleet of self-driving minivans by 100 times 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 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" theregister.co.uk #

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

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

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