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2018/07/31 #

  • 04:56:02 +07:00 The Cruel Myth of the Suffering Artist# medium.com

  • 11:57:14 +07:00 North Korea working on new missiles, US officials say, despite thaw# www.bbc.com

  • 11:59:26 +07:00 Thousands download 3D-printed gun designs# www.bbc.com

  • 12:45:01 +07:00 Evolving the Firefox Brand - The look and feel of Firefox is about to be updated# blog.mozilla.org

  • 12:55:30 +07:00 A Reminder That The Ocean Is A Big, Scary Place# digg.com

  • 13:08:53 +07:00 Man Takes Us On A Trip Back In Time With His 1949 Hong Kong Travel Vlog# digg.com

  • 18:10:14 +07:00 Doing it completely and totally wrong - Sriracha hot sauce# seths.blog

2018/07/29 #

  • 03:02:15 +07:00 What comes after AI? I think that's where a lot of us probably want to be# en.wikipedia.org

  • 12:08:55 +07:00 Ocean wilderness 'disappearing' globally# www.bbc.com

  • 17:05:18 +07:00 Beacon API - JavaScript Web API for sending small amounts of data from browser to server without waiting for a response# www.smashingmagazine.com

  • 18:43:55 +07:00 Build a state management system with vanilla JavaScript# css-tricks.com

  • 19:01:51 +07:00 Frameworkless frontends are fashionable again - Github replaces JQuery with vanillaJs# twitter.com

2018/07/28 #

  • 05:38:44 +07:00 Keep a changelog - Don’t let your friends dump git logs into changelogs# keepachangelog.com

  • 06:49:46 +07:00 Automate Versioning Using Bitbucket Pipelines (NodeJS)# medium.com

  • 06:51:10 +07:00 Version number annotation for private repositories with NPM# stackoverflow.com

  • 14:31:53 +07:00 From the slightly opinionated side of things - Why You Shouldn't Use A Web Framework# dev.to

  • 14:36:52 +07:00 Behemoth, bully, thief - how the English language is taking over the planet# www.theguardian.com

2018/07/27 #

  • 02:12:03 +07:00 Collaboration - The New Revolution In Design Software# trydesignlab.com

  • 05:33:41 +07:00 Simple Steps to Optimize Your App Performance with MongoDB, Redis, and Node.js# hackernoon.com

  • 15:57:00 +07:00 London to Sydney under three hours - 2,000 supersonic jets to link hundreds of cities# www.traveller.com.au

  • 16:02:04 +07:00 Drone Awards 2018 - Best Aerial Photos of the Year# mymodernmet.com

  • 16:58:36 +07:00 This Woman Has Been Anonymously Funding Female Artists for 22 Years# mymodernmet.com

  • 17:18:33 +07:00 Co-founder of nudist anti-Putin group found dead in her Paris apartment# boingboing.net

2018/07/26 #

  • 03:46:07 +07:00 UIengine - Tool to build pattern libraries and documentation for design systems# dennisreimann.de

  • 03:51:24 +07:00 Yett - A small webpage library to control the execution of (third party) - useful for creating GDPR compliant consent-first-analytics# github.com

  • 03:54:23 +07:00 CSS Grid Posters - An exploration into the world of possibilities with CSS grid# codepen.io

  • 04:36:32 +07:00 China Said to Quickly Withdraw Approval for New Facebook Venture# www.nytimes.com

  • 09:20:36 +07:00 Makerlog is the dead-simple task log that helps you stay productive and ship faster# getmakerlog.com

2018/07/25 #

  • 09:23:07 +07:00 BitTorrent acquired by blockchain startup Tron founded by chinese entrepreneur Justin Jun# variety.com

  • 09:35:16 +07:00 Chrome's long-promised HTTP 'not secure' website warnings arrive# www.cnet.com

  • 09:38:31 +07:00 Facebook plans innovation hub in China despite tightening censorship# www.reuters.com

2018/07/24 #

  • 03:21:29 +07:00 U.S. Breaks Up Fake I.R.S. Phone Scam Operation# www.nytimes.com

  • 04:09:06 +07:00 The Ambien Diaries - drugs, voices and SWIM# popula.com

  • 05:36:29 +07:00 WhatsApp Balks at India's Demand To Break Encryption# it.slashdot.org

  • 05:39:28 +07:00 Russian hackers reach utility control room - Mr. Homer - "Their goal is to disguise themselves as the people who touch these systems on a daily basis"# politics.slashdot.org

  • 05:50:14 +07:00 A Nanoscale Look at a Complete Fly Brain - Fly brain neurons fully mapped in 3d# www.cemag.us

  • 05:54:42 +07:00 SpectreRSB - Spectre/Meltdown type attack that bypasses all the mitigations put in place for the original Spectre/Meltdown# it.slashdot.org

  • 19:18:23 +07:00 cdenv - A simple virtual environment manager for Bash and Zsh# github.com

  • 19:19:02 +07:00 envman - Environment variable manager# github.com

2018/07/22 #

  • 01:16:37 +07:00 A Global Guide to State-Sponsored Trolling - virtual hate mobs, surveillance and misinformation# www.bloomberg.com

  • 01:33:07 +07:00 Authoritarians used to be scared of social media, now they rule it# boingboing.net

2018/07/21 #

  • 02:31:54 +07:00 1.5 million affected by hack targeting Singapore’s health data - Prime minister affected# www.theverge.com

  • 02:54:05 +07:00 Russia World Cup - How Pussy Riot managed to burst into final# www.bbc.com

  • 03:00:20 +07:00 Facebook suspends another analytics firm amid questions over surveillance# www.theguardian.com

  • 05:11:32 +07:00 Why website body text should be bigger, and ways to optimize it# blog.marvelapp.com

2018/07/20 #

  • 02:34:06 +07:00 The Best Remote Business Might Be On Your Doorstep - Remote local businesses# www.tropicalmba.com

  • 02:49:07 +07:00 Use 3D Printing For Perfect Leather Molds# makezine.com

  • 03:43:17 +07:00 Work less, get more - New Zealand firm's four-day week an 'unmitigated success'# www.theguardian.com

  • 04:05:45 +07:00 Geosharded Recommendations Part 1 - Sharding Approach# tech.gotinder.com

  • 08:11:55 +07:00 Chance the Rapper buys local news site Chicagoist to amplify 'diverse voices'# www.nbcnews.com

  • 16:44:52 +07:00 Reid Hoffman of Airbnb on scaling a business# tim.blog

2018/07/19 #

  • 03:25:20 +07:00 Why France’s Victory Matters Liberalism triumphed over a history of ethno-nationalism# medium.com

  • 03:51:02 +07:00 Reddit reinvents the chat room with community chat# www.wired.com

  • 04:19:32 +07:00 When Phil Mitchell met Trump - Coldwar Steve and his Brexit Britain mashups# www.theguardian.com

  • 08:05:11 +07:00 .gitignore exclude folder but include specific subfolder# stackoverflow.com

2018/07/18 #

  • 01:54:45 +07:00 Twitch is adding the ability to search for and use GIFs# mspoweruser.com

  • 02:36:02 +07:00 Noam Chomsky calmly explains why Trump and allies are a threat to organized human life# boingboing.net

  • 04:22:23 +07:00 Event-Driven Architecture (Part of @herbertograca's Software Architecture Chronicles Series)# herbertograca.com

  • 08:27:50 +07:00 Newton’s cradle is a device that demonstrates conservation of momentum and energy using a series of swinging spheres# en.wikipedia.org

  • 13:40:28 +07:00 And now, 35 minutes of commercials directed by David Lynch# boingboing.net

2018/07/17 #

  • 06:45:30 +07:00 How to determine function name from inside a function (in bash)# stackoverflow.com

  • 16:57:42 +07:00 Will Marshall - The mission to create a searchable database of Earth's surface# www.ted.com

2018/07/16 #

  • 02:34:22 +07:00 The Google Translate World Cup - The New York Times# www.nytimes.com

  • 02:47:16 +07:00 World Cup 2018 - France beat Croatia 4-2 in World Cup final# www.bbc.com

  • 06:54:20 +07:00 What’s happening? Who cares - Meet JOMO, FOMO’s benevolent younger cousin# www.nytimes.com

  • 07:00:59 +07:00 EFF highlights Japan's website blocking initiative# yro.slashdot.org

  • 07:05:00 +07:00 One internet store does 49 percent of the entire US online sales# news.slashdot.org

2018/07/14 #

  • 02:41:23 +07:00 Coherence and Decentralized Systems# medium.com

  • 04:43:04 +07:00 I lived with a best-selling Indian phone for 10 days - Nothing went smoothly# www.buzzfeed.com

  • 05:31:56 +07:00 Microsoft calls for federal regulation of facial recognition# www.wired.com

  • 05:52:45 +07:00 Dr. Billy Wayne Ruddick to Vice President Palin - "I demand an Apology"# www.truthbrary.org

  • 13:38:36 +07:00 The Jezus Factory - formed in 2006 and is an independent UK record label that specializes in Belgian and particularly Antwerp music# www.jezusfactory.com

  • 16:22:32 +07:00 Andrew Bennett of Jesus Factory Records - On starting an indie label - "Don’t, unless you have serious mental health issues"# www.beardedmagazine.com

2018/07/13 #

  • 02:18:18 +07:00 The Third Wave - How many Chinese entrepreneurs are landing on Indian shores# factordaily.com

  • 02:42:28 +07:00 What kind of ethics do front-end developers need?# hiddedevries.nl

  • 06:19:01 +07:00 Nodejs Security - ESlint Postmortem for Malicious Packages Published on July 12th# news.ycombinator.com

  • 06:27:29 +07:00 Guido van Rossum - "I'm basically giving myself a permanent vacation from being BDFL, and you all will be on your own"# mail.python.org

  • 06:36:31 +07:00 Can a shell script set environment variables of the calling shell?# stackoverflow.com

2018/07/12 #

  • 09:26:37 +07:00 Does "Weird Facebook" Have A Future In Zuckerberg's Dream World?# www.buzzfeed.com

  • 14:13:27 +07:00 Resilient, Declarative, Contextual - An exploration of what makes CSS different to other programming languages# keithjgrant.com

  • 14:25:36 +07:00 Intro to Feature Policy - It's like CSP but instead of controlling security, it controls features# developers.google.com

  • 14:46:52 +07:00 How the Blog Broke the Web - Reminiscing about the web before the tyranny that is reverse chronology# stackingthebricks.com

2018/07/11 #

  • 09:56:30 +07:00 How do you display POST data with cURL?# superuser.com

  • 12:36:51 +07:00 Discovered yesterday that iTerm2 has a password manager feature# iterm2.com

  • 12:39:01 +07:00 Microsoft introduces the Surface Go, starting at $399 MSRP, it’s the smallest and most affordable Surface yet# blogs.windows.com

  • 13:06:10 +07:00 Show HN: Open Source Identity & Access Proxy which authenticates and authorizes incoming HTTP requests# news.ycombinator.com

  • 16:16:13 +07:00 The div that looks different in every browser# twitter.com

2018/07/09 #

  • 02:12:35 +07:00 After Strava, Polar is Revealing the Homes of Soldiers and Spies# www.bellingcat.com

  • 02:33:12 +07:00 Inside China’s Dystopian Dreams - A.I., Shame and Lots of Cameras# mobile.nytimes.com

  • 02:42:29 +07:00 Uganda Bans VPNs To Prevent Users From Dodging Its Absurd New Social Media Tax# www.techdirt.com

2018/07/08 #

  • 06:24:27 +07:00 awesome-lite-websites - A list awesome lite websites without all the bloat# github.com

  • 06:40:32 +07:00 A Stanford researcher says we shouldn’t start working full time until age 40# work.qz.com

  • 06:59:38 +07:00 South Korea has limited a working week to 52 hours, in order to stop overwork# www.weforum.org

  • 07:29:35 +07:00 Interesting perspective on SPAs and simplicity from the Ruby community - Turbolinks, SJR Responses and modern Rails# medium.com

  • 14:08:20 +07:00 Meet the woman who decides what Google's emoji look like# www.cnbc.com

2018/07/07 #

  • 04:14:15 +07:00 Below The Surface - archaeological project excavating the Amstel riverbed - vast array of objects, broken, whole, all jumbled together# www.swiss-miss.com

  • 06:39:49 +07:00 New Repo: mjgs/freelancer - website for freelancers with homepage and payments pages to securely receive payments for services# github.com

  • 15:54:24 +07:00 James Clark's honours Bourdain in Vietnam (I can relate to how he felt)# www.nomadicnotes.com

2018/07/06 #

  • 03:21:16 +07:00 Continue a markdown numbered list after adding content between items# stackoverflow.com

  • 04:46:42 +07:00 How to Undertake the Artist’s Journey# tim.blog

  • 04:56:48 +07:00 EU Parliament Votes To Step Back From The Abyss On Copyright For Now# www.techdirt.com

  • 05:10:57 +07:00 Reddit - one of the world's most popular websites - is trying to cash in through advertising# www.cnbc.com

  • 05:36:06 +07:00 Early-stage News - Articles and interviews highlighting early-stage startups and side-projects# earlystagenews.com

  • 05:44:37 +07:00 URL builders - Generate custom campaign parameters for your advertising URLs# support.google.com

  • 14:31:50 +07:00 How to fork your own repo in Github# kroltech.com

  • 16:09:20 +07:00 What Belgium’s World Cup team says about the spread of English across Europe# qz.com

2018/07/05 #

  • 06:24:30 +07:00 Uganda leader says social media used for 'lying', defends tax for access# www.reuters.com

  • 06:32:29 +07:00 How NASA chooses tech for the International Space Station, and why AI could help get us to Mars# www.zdnet.com

  • 07:20:37 +07:00 rbenv vs. rvm - Finally a sort of good explanation of all this ruby jargon# metova.com

  • 11:28:42 +07:00 New Post: Commands I ran to install rbenv and upgrade ruby versions# blog.markjgsmith.com

  • 18:07:38 +07:00 soul typecast / no reservations - jon spencer blues explosion live @ circolo artisti (2012)# m.youtube.com

2018/07/04 #

  • 05:25:58 +07:00 Google delay on ads standard for EU privacy law creates compliance mess# www.reuters.com

  • 05:26:56 +07:00 Wikipedia Italy Blocks All Articles in Protest of EU's Ruinous Copyright Proposals# gizmodo.com

  • 09:03:32 +07:00 Google app developers raining on your Gmail parade - what are the chances!# www.theverge.com

2018/07/03 #

  • 03:08:56 +07:00 Belgium completed a remarkable revival as they came from the World Cup abyss and beat Japan to reach the quarter-finals# www.bbc.com

  • 03:32:02 +07:00 TaTaTu has raised funding to develop its blockchain-based social entertainment platform and finance the production of movies# blocktribune.com

  • 03:37:41 +07:00 ‘Everyone is breaking the law right now’ - GDPR compliance efforts are falling short# digiday.com

  • 03:48:04 +07:00 Blue light, prevalent in modern UIs, is aesthetically pleasing, but poses health risks; designers should switch to deep red/orange as the military did long ago# www.fastcodesign.com

2018/07/02 #

  • 03:31:53 +07:00 Homes 'Earn' Minimum Wage or More in Almost Half the Nation's Largest Cities# www.zillow.com

  • 03:36:36 +07:00 Musk says Tesla pushed out 7,000 cars last week, meeting goal of 5,000 Model 3s# www.cnbc.com

  • 03:44:43 +07:00 500px will no longer allow photographers to license their photos under Creative Commons# www.theverge.com

  • 04:56:37 +07:00 Midnight is a Jekyll theme for GitHub Pages# github.com

  • 04:57:16 +07:00 Minimal is a Jekyll theme for GitHub Pages# github.com

  • 04:58:12 +07:00 So Simple is a simple Jekyll theme for your words and pictures# github.com

  • 09:56:45 +07:00 W3.CSS is a modern CSS framework with built-in responsiveness# www.w3schools.com

  • 12:43:37 +07:00 Unsplash - Beautiful, free photos - Gifted by the world’s most generous community of photographers# unsplash.com

2018/07/01 #

  • 06:49:04 +07:00 I've added a pricing page to the blog for my Node.js freelance rates# blog.markjgsmith.com

  • 16:27:29 +07:00 jekyll-admin - A Jekyll plugin that provides a traditional CMS-style GUI to author content and administer Jekyll sites# github.com

  • 18:48:13 +07:00 Spent some time reading the Jekyll docs properly today# jekyllrb.com

  • 18:49:27 +07:00 I really like the look of the Liquid template language used in Jekyll - simple, elegant, probably versatile and powerful# shopify.github.io

  • 18:54:05 +07:00 Wish ruby & ruby gems weren't such a pain in the neck to install and maintain# en.wikipedia.org

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