markjgsmith

Diving deeper into Reinforcement Learning with Q-Learning medium.freecodecamp.org #

The Cruel Myth of the Suffering Artist medium.com #

North Korea working on new missiles, US officials say, despite thaw www.bbc.com #

Thousands download 3D-printed gun designs www.bbc.com #

Evolving the Firefox Brand - The look and feel of Firefox is about to be updated blog.mozilla.org #

A Reminder That The Ocean Is A Big, Scary Place digg.com #

Man Takes Us On A Trip Back In Time With His 1949 Hong Kong Travel Vlog digg.com #

Doing it completely and totally wrong - Sriracha hot sauce seths.blog #

What comes after AI? I think that's where a lot of us probably want to be en.wikipedia.org #

Ocean wilderness 'disappearing' globally www.bbc.com #

Beacon API - JavaScript Web API for sending small amounts of data from browser to server without waiting for a response www.smashingmagazine.com #

Build a state management system with vanilla JavaScript css-tricks.com #

Frameworkless frontends are fashionable again - Github replaces JQuery with vanillaJs twitter.com #

The death of a TLD blog.benjojo.co.uk #

Keep a changelog - Don’t let your friends dump git logs into changelogs keepachangelog.com #

Automate Versioning Using Bitbucket Pipelines (NodeJS) medium.com #

Git Basics - Tagging git-scm.com #

Version number annotation for private repositories with NPM stackoverflow.com #

How to use Semantic Versioning docs.npmjs.com #

Explain which gitignore rule is ignoring my file stackoverflow.com #

npm version - also creates a git commit for you stackoverflow.com #

npm-version - Bump a package version docs.npmjs.com #

How to - Delete a remote Git tag nathanhoad.net #

From the slightly opinionated side of things - Why You Shouldn't Use A Web Framework dev.to #

Behemoth, bully, thief - how the English language is taking over the planet www.theguardian.com #

Collaboration - The New Revolution In Design Software trydesignlab.com #

Simple Steps to Optimize Your App Performance with MongoDB, Redis, and Node.js hackernoon.com #

A Walk Up... Edgware Road londonist.com #

London to Sydney under three hours - 2,000 supersonic jets to link hundreds of cities www.traveller.com.au #

Drone Awards 2018 - Best Aerial Photos of the Year mymodernmet.com #

Go Inside the Magical Life of Europe’s Family Circuses www.nationalgeographic.com #

This Woman Has Been Anonymously Funding Female Artists for 22 Years mymodernmet.com #

Co-founder of nudist anti-Putin group found dead in her Paris apartment boingboing.net #

Weird things variable fonts can do css-tricks.com #

UIengine - Tool to build pattern libraries and documentation for design systems dennisreimann.de #

Yett - A small webpage library to control the execution of (third party) - useful for creating GDPR compliant consent-first-analytics github.com #

CSS Grid Posters - An exploration into the world of possibilities with CSS grid codepen.io #

China Said to Quickly Withdraw Approval for New Facebook Venture www.nytimes.com #

Makerlog is the dead-simple task log that helps you stay productive and ship faster getmakerlog.com #

What do you think of Product Hunt's latest launch? www.indiehackers.com #

Save only recent 10 folders and delete the rest stackoverflow.com #

BitTorrent acquired by blockchain startup Tron founded by chinese entrepreneur Justin Jun variety.com #

Chrome's long-promised HTTP 'not secure' website warnings arrive www.cnet.com #

Facebook plans innovation hub in China despite tightening censorship www.reuters.com #

Google - Security Keys Neutralized Employee Phishing krebsonsecurity.com #

U.S. Breaks Up Fake I.R.S. Phone Scam Operation www.nytimes.com #

What if people were paid for their data? www.economist.com #

The Ambien Diaries - drugs, voices and SWIM popula.com #

WhatsApp Balks at India's Demand To Break Encryption it.slashdot.org #

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 #

A Nanoscale Look at a Complete Fly Brain - Fly brain neurons fully mapped in 3d www.cemag.us #

SpectreRSB - Spectre/Meltdown type attack that bypasses all the mitigations put in place for the original Spectre/Meltdown it.slashdot.org #

Who owns the Moon? boingboing.net #

Linux Environment Management bryan-murdock.blogspot.com #

cdenv - A simple virtual environment manager for Bash and Zsh github.com #

envman - Environment variable manager github.com #

A brief history of fake news www.bbc.com #

The liar’s dividend, and other challenges of deep-fake news www.theguardian.com #

What Does “Outsider Artist” Even Mean? hyperallergic.com #

viral vacuum by madcatlady www.youtube.com #

SH.MIXTAPE.33 / PUPAJIM – SIDE B (Stand High Records) standhighpatrol.com #

STAND HIGH PATROL : My Research www.youtube.com #

A Global Guide to State-Sponsored Trolling - virtual hate mobs, surveillance and misinformation www.bloomberg.com #

Authoritarians used to be scared of social media, now they rule it boingboing.net #

The Engineer’s guide to the future medium.freecodecamp.org #

1.5 million affected by hack targeting Singapore’s health data - Prime minister affected www.theverge.com #

Russia World Cup - How Pussy Riot managed to burst into final www.bbc.com #

Facebook suspends another analytics firm amid questions over surveillance www.theguardian.com #

Why website body text should be bigger, and ways to optimize it blog.marvelapp.com #

The Best Remote Business Might Be On Your Doorstep - Remote local businesses www.tropicalmba.com #

Use 3D Printing For Perfect Leather Molds makezine.com #

Work less, get more - New Zealand firm's four-day week an 'unmitigated success' www.theguardian.com #

Geosharded Recommendations Part 1 - Sharding Approach tech.gotinder.com #

Listing declared functions in Bash using declare -F stackoverflow.com #

Chance the Rapper buys local news site Chicagoist to amplify 'diverse voices' www.nbcnews.com #

How to change the output color of echo in Linux stackoverflow.com #

Reid Hoffman of Airbnb on scaling a business tim.blog #

Launch Sublime Text 3 from the command line olivierlacan.com #

Why France’s Victory Matters Liberalism triumphed over a history of ethno-nationalism medium.com #

Mark Zuckerberg on holocaust denialists www.recode.net #

Reddit reinvents the chat room with community chat www.wired.com #

The Effect Of Sleep On Happiness www.trackinghappiness.com #

Spain to introduce ‘yes means yes’ sexual consent law www.theguardian.com #

When Phil Mitchell met Trump - Coldwar Steve and his Brexit Britain mashups www.theguardian.com #

The Vim page up and page down keystrokes alvinalexander.com #

.gitignore exclude folder but include specific subfolder stackoverflow.com #

How to print only defined environment variables (not functions) in bash unix.stackexchange.com #

Twitch is adding the ability to search for and use GIFs mspoweruser.com #

Noam Chomsky calmly explains why Trump and allies are a threat to organized human life boingboing.net #

Event-Driven Architecture (Part of @herbertograca's Software Architecture Chronicles Series) herbertograca.com #

Newton’s cradle is a device that demonstrates conservation of momentum and energy using a series of swinging spheres en.wikipedia.org #

And now, 35 minutes of commercials directed by David Lynch boingboing.net #

How to determine function name from inside a function (in bash) stackoverflow.com #

Will Marshall - The mission to create a searchable database of Earth's surface www.ted.com #

The Google Translate World Cup - The New York Times www.nytimes.com #

World Cup 2018 - France beat Croatia 4-2 in World Cup final www.bbc.com #

What’s happening? Who cares - Meet JOMO, FOMO’s benevolent younger cousin www.nytimes.com #

EFF highlights Japan's website blocking initiative yro.slashdot.org #

One internet store does 49 percent of the entire US online sales news.slashdot.org #

The photographers who defined skate’s wild side www.huckmag.com #

Managing Complex Waiting Experiences on Web UIs medium.com #

Web Architecture 101 - Compact overview of typical components used in modern web applications (nice diagrams and high level) engineering.videoblocks.com #

Jezus Factory Records Sampler jezusfactoryrecords.bandcamp.com #

Coherence and Decentralized Systems medium.com #

I lived with a best-selling Indian phone for 10 days - Nothing went smoothly www.buzzfeed.com #

Microsoft calls for federal regulation of facial recognition www.wired.com #

Sacha Baron Cohen has made his own Infowars www.theguardian.com #

Dr. Billy Wayne Ruddick to Vice President Palin - "I demand an Apology" www.truthbrary.org #

The Jezus Factory - formed in 2006 and is an independent UK record label that specializes in Belgian and particularly Antwerp music www.jezusfactory.com #

Andrew Bennett of Jesus Factory Records - On starting an indie label - "Don’t, unless you have serious mental health issues" www.beardedmagazine.com #

Exit function stack without exiting shell in bash stackoverflow.com #

Testing Node.js in 2018 hackernoon.com #

The Third Wave - How many Chinese entrepreneurs are landing on Indian shores factordaily.com #

What kind of ethics do front-end developers need? hiddedevries.nl #

Different views on view-source christianheilmann.com #

Nodejs Security - ESlint Postmortem for Malicious Packages Published on July 12th news.ycombinator.com #

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 #

Can a shell script set environment variables of the calling shell? stackoverflow.com #

Replace if … then … fi with && and || in Bash ricochen.wordpress.com #

Introduction to Pattern Lab www.youtube.com #

How you can improve your workflow using the JavaScript console medium.freecodecamp.org #

How to have pm2 run a node process using npm start stackoverflow.com #

Does "Weird Facebook" Have A Future In Zuckerberg's Dream World? www.buzzfeed.com #

Resilient, Declarative, Contextual - An exploration of what makes CSS different to other programming languages keithjgrant.com #

Intro to Feature Policy - It's like CSP but instead of controlling security, it controls features developers.google.com #

How the Blog Broke the Web - Reminiscing about the web before the tyranny that is reverse chronology stackingthebricks.com #

How do you display POST data with cURL? superuser.com #

Building a better news experience on YouTube, together youtube.googleblog.com #

Discovered yesterday that iTerm2 has a password manager feature iterm2.com #

Microsoft introduces the Surface Go, starting at $399 MSRP, it’s the smallest and most affordable Surface yet blogs.windows.com #

Show HN: Open Source Identity & Access Proxy which authenticates and authorizes incoming HTTP requests news.ycombinator.com #

The div that looks different in every browser twitter.com #

Web Components in 2018 www.sitepen.com #

Any tips on how to start freelancing? www.indiehackers.com #

Browsh – A modern, text-based browser great for slow and/or expensive bandwidth news.ycombinator.com #

German Court Issues First GDPR Ruling www.natlawreview.com #

Sorry, Power-Lunchers - This Restaurant Is a Co-Working Space Now www.nytimes.com #

Install MongoDB Community Edition on Ubuntu docs.mongodb.com #

After Strava, Polar is Revealing the Homes of Soldiers and Spies www.bellingcat.com #

Inside China’s Dystopian Dreams - A.I., Shame and Lots of Cameras mobile.nytimes.com #

Uganda Bans VPNs To Prevent Users From Dodging Its Absurd New Social Media Tax www.techdirt.com #

Guidelines for Brutalist Web Design brutalist-web.design #

awesome-lite-websites - A list awesome lite websites without all the bloat github.com #

A Stanford researcher says we shouldn’t start working full time until age 40 work.qz.com #

South Korea has limited a working week to 52 hours, in order to stop overwork www.weforum.org #

Interesting perspective on SPAs and simplicity from the Ruby community - Turbolinks, SJR Responses and modern Rails medium.com #

Meet the woman who decides what Google's emoji look like www.cnbc.com #

Below The Surface - archaeological project excavating the Amstel riverbed - vast array of objects, broken, whole, all jumbled together www.swiss-miss.com #

New Repo: mjgs/freelancer - website for freelancers with homepage and payments pages to securely receive payments for services github.com #

Why the world should adopt a basic income www.economist.com #

New Post: The dead simple todos system blog.markjgsmith.com #

James Clark's honours Bourdain in Vietnam (I can relate to how he felt) www.nomadicnotes.com #

4K Video of Colorful Liquid in Space m.youtube.com #

Continue a markdown numbered list after adding content between items stackoverflow.com #

How to Undertake the Artist’s Journey tim.blog #

EU Parliament Votes To Step Back From The Abyss On Copyright For Now www.techdirt.com #

Reddit - one of the world's most popular websites - is trying to cash in through advertising www.cnbc.com #

Early-stage News - Articles and interviews highlighting early-stage startups and side-projects earlystagenews.com #

URL builders - Generate custom campaign parameters for your advertising URLs support.google.com #

Google Analytics - UTM Link Tagging Explained www.intownwebdesign.com #

Watch Hunt (interesting example of an amazon affiliate site) watchingelegance.com #

Side Project Marketing & Sales Checklists www.sideprojectchecklist.com #

How to stop Javascript forEach? stackoverflow.com #

How to fork your own repo in Github kroltech.com #

What Belgium’s World Cup team says about the spread of English across Europe qz.com #

The Sass Ampersand css-tricks.com #

Build A Blog With Jekyll And GitHub Pages www.smashingmagazine.com #

Euro privacy watchdog raises eyebrows at mulled EU copyright law www.theregister.co.uk #

Spanish and Italian Wikipedia go dark to protest EU copyright law proposals www.siliconrepublic.com #

Uganda leader says social media used for 'lying', defends tax for access www.reuters.com #

How NASA chooses tech for the International Space Station, and why AI could help get us to Mars www.zdnet.com #

rbenv vs. rvm - Finally a sort of good explanation of all this ruby jargon metova.com #

New Post: Ruby jargon to Nodejs jargon translation blog.markjgsmith.com #

New Post: Commands I ran to install rbenv and upgrade ruby versions blog.markjgsmith.com #

Create a Multi Blog Site with Jekyll www.garron.me #

soul typecast / no reservations - jon spencer blues explosion live @ circolo artisti (2012) m.youtube.com #

Google delay on ads standard for EU privacy law creates compliance mess www.reuters.com #

Wikipedia Italy Blocks All Articles in Protest of EU's Ruinous Copyright Proposals gizmodo.com #

Google app developers raining on your Gmail parade - what are the chances! www.theverge.com #

How to Protest the Fourth of July www.nytimes.com #

New Post: Description of my freelance software services blog.markjgsmith.com #

Belgium completed a remarkable revival as they came from the World Cup abyss and beat Japan to reach the quarter-finals www.bbc.com #

Rob Malda (@cmdrtaco) on Slashdot and social media www.internethistorypodcast.com #

TaTaTu has raised funding to develop its blockchain-based social entertainment platform and finance the production of movies blocktribune.com #

‘Everyone is breaking the law right now’ - GDPR compliance efforts are falling short digiday.com #

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 #

Is the “Netflix of podcasts” moment finally here? www.fastcompany.com #

Homes 'Earn' Minimum Wage or More in Almost Half the Nation's Largest Cities www.zillow.com #

Musk says Tesla pushed out 7,000 cars last week, meeting goal of 5,000 Model 3s www.cnbc.com #

Captain Beefheart Radar Station www.beefheart.com #

500px will no longer allow photographers to license their photos under Creative Commons www.theverge.com #

Midnight is a Jekyll theme for GitHub Pages github.com #

Minimal is a Jekyll theme for GitHub Pages github.com #

So Simple is a simple Jekyll theme for your words and pictures github.com #

GitHub Pages supported themes pages.github.com #

W3.CSS is a modern CSS framework with built-in responsiveness www.w3schools.com #

Unsplash - Beautiful, free photos - Gifted by the world’s most generous community of photographers unsplash.com #

I've added a pricing page to the blog for my Node.js freelance rates blog.markjgsmith.com #

How to force GitHub Pages build? stackoverflow.com #

Vegan in Indonesia - A Delicious Journey www.bemytravelmuse.com #

Is Google's Promotion of HTTPS Misguided? tech.slashdot.org #

Readme Driven Development tom.preston-werner.com #

jekyll-admin - A Jekyll plugin that provides a traditional CMS-style GUI to author content and administer Jekyll sites github.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 #