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2018/08/31 #

  • 03:33:05 +07:00 Open Source Licensing - Redis will remain BSD licensed# antirez.com

  • 03:34:29 +07:00 mongo-seeding - The ultimate solution for populating your MongoDB database# github.com

  • 13:40:30 +07:00 Coca-Cola to buy Costa coffee for £3.9bn# www.bbc.com

  • 14:08:40 +07:00 Astronauts tackle air leak on International Space Station# www.bbc.com

2018/08/30 #

  • 02:44:15 +07:00 Getting Started with Service Workers# alligator.io

  • 02:44:49 +07:00 How I acquired my first 10 customers for Cronhub# blog.cronhub.io

  • 03:07:53 +07:00 Picular - Google, but for colors (extracts colors from a google search, strange results sometimes)# picular.co

  • 03:16:28 +07:00 Germany, seeking independence from U.S., pushes cyber security research# www.reuters.com

  • 03:31:30 +07:00 ‘Overtourism’ Worries Europe - How Much Did Technology Help Get Us There?# www.nytimes.com

  • 04:44:06 +07:00 Picasso’s Incredible Childhood Paintings Reveal a Different Side of the Modern Artist# mymodernmet.com

  • 04:52:55 +07:00 Emails while commuting 'should count as work'# www.bbc.co.uk

  • 07:50:20 +07:00 The World’s Oldest Blockchain Has Been Hiding in the New York Times Since 1995# motherboard.vice.com

  • 11:49:42 +07:00 How to use Docker for Node.js development# cravencode.com

  • 12:39:28 +07:00 JavaScript Promises with Node.js - Really clear explanation of how promises work in node# itnext.io

  • 12:49:46 +07:00 hiproxy - lightweight proxy tool for Front-End developers based on Node.js that supports an NGINX-like configuration# github.com

  • 14:14:18 +07:00 Tips for Writing Lambda Functions in Node 8# thenewstack.io

  • 14:42:49 +07:00 Dutroux murders - Belgian child-killer's letter angers parents# www.bbc.com

2018/08/29 #

  • 04:12:34 +07:00 Trump points out Google's biased algorithms# nypost.com

  • 04:19:17 +07:00 World’s leading human rights groups tell Google to cancel its China censorship plan# theintercept.com

  • 04:21:14 +07:00 Why is the USA one of the only countries that has no known Right to Food human right?# en.wikipedia.org

  • 04:23:24 +07:00 Facebook insiders describe intolerant liberal culture, often policed by mobs, seeks political diversity# www.nytimes.com

  • 04:28:02 +07:00 Paystack, with ambitions to become the Stripe of Africa, raises $8M from Visa, Tencent… and Stripe itself# techcrunch.com

  • 07:53:39 +07:00 Virtual Organized Crime - DJs are playing motion captured sets in Grand Theft Auto nightclubs# www.rollingstone.com

  • 09:23:21 +07:00 Useful flowchart for when you have a Git mess on your hands# justinhileman.info

2018/08/28 #

  • 03:22:03 +07:00 Removing Myanmar Military Officials From Facebook# newsroom.fb.com

  • 03:23:59 +07:00 Tech Industry Pursues a Federal Privacy Law, on Its Own Terms# www.nytimes.com

  • 03:24:34 +07:00 How much electricity is consumed by Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, Litecoin, and Monero?# www.ofnumbers.com

  • 03:25:19 +07:00 UK to start work on satellite system to rival EU's Galileo# www.reuters.com

  • 05:19:23 +07:00 Paul Irish - Debugging Node.js with Chrome DevTools# medium.com

  • 11:40:09 +07:00 New Repo: nockback-test - how to mock an api using nock record/playback feature# github.com

  • 12:15:21 +07:00 Food is any substance consumed to provide nutritional support for an organism# en.wikipedia.org

2018/08/27 #

  • 04:02:13 +07:00 Tesla to stay publicly traded, Elon Musk says company is 'better off'# www.cnbc.com

  • 04:04:09 +07:00 YouTube to start rolling out non-skippable 15-20 seconds ads - sites "more money for creators"# mashable.com

  • 04:07:52 +07:00 Who needs democracy when you have data? Here’s how China rules using data, AI, and internet surveillance# www.technologyreview.com

2018/08/26 #

  • 07:30:08 +07:00 Hackable humans and digital dictators - Q&A with Yuval Noah Harari# www.aljazeera.com

  • 11:31:47 +07:00 Papal visit to Nock, Ireland - Pope begs forgiveness for clerical sex abuse# www.bbc.com

  • 11:37:29 +07:00 Brexit - No-deal 'risks break-up of UK' - Herman Van Rompuy# www.bbc.com

2018/08/25 #

  • 04:04:06 +07:00 Stimulus - A modest JavaScript framework for the HTML you already have (from the creators of basecamp/37signals)# stimulusjs.org

  • 04:43:06 +07:00 Trump’s base may not like him, but they’re not about to ditch him# www.theguardian.com

  • 15:06:29 +07:00 What's really behind the global rise in working longer and longer hours# www.bbc.com

  • 15:28:40 +07:00 The Approval Economy - On infrastructure, advertising, and social norms# zandercutt.com

  • 16:04:12 +07:00 Sleepless City Streets of Rainy Tokyo Nights Lit by Electric Neon Signs# mymodernmet.com

  • 16:48:04 +07:00 How pioneering DJ Grandmaster Flash hacked together his first mixer# boingboing.net

  • 17:24:15 +07:00 Uzbekistan's secret underground in pictures - art, architecture and nuclear-blast protection in Central Asia’s oldest subway system# www.theguardian.com

2018/08/24 #

  • 03:14:01 +07:00 'Xbox All Access' looks like a new subscription service with Xbox Live, Game Pass, and a console# www.windowscentral.com

  • 03:17:00 +07:00 The 30% Tax - The Netflix App Store bypass is the start of the insurgence of the subscription bundling business# avc.com

  • 16:56:36 +07:00 Shortwave - Looks like an interesting modern podcasting platform with lots of useful transcoding tools# www.goshortwave.com

  • 18:39:18 +07:00 The Node.js Blogging Platform Ghost Releases v2.0# blog.ghost.org

  • 18:42:27 +07:00 More Than A Billion Downloads of Node.js# medium.com

2018/08/23 #

  • 03:04:07 +07:00 Creator Arcade - music education platform to learn and get feedback from world's best DJ's, music producers, and engineers (IH interview with founder)# www.indiehackers.com

  • 03:07:39 +07:00 Former Facebook CSO says it's likely that the U.S. elections will become the world cup of information warfare# www.lawfareblog.com

  • 05:07:50 +07:00 Typeography exploration at the BBC - An Exploration of Variable Fonts# blog.prototypr.io

  • 05:08:53 +07:00 Type designer David Jonathan Ross has an interesting website with "Font of the month club"# djr.com

  • 13:43:51 +07:00 UK Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn proposes a publicly-funded alternative to Facebook# techcrunch.com

  • 13:54:54 +07:00 Chinese Surveillance State Is Basically The US Surveillance Apparatus Minus The Constitutional Rights# www.techdirt.com

  • 17:10:07 +07:00 mock-stripe-server - Mock Stripe API Server# github.com

  • 17:21:46 +07:00 Stripe Mock Webhooks - Quickly test Stripe Webhooks against your application without hitting Stripe or requiring internet connectivity# www.npmjs.com

  • 17:36:05 +07:00 Mocking External HTTP Requests in Node Tests with Nock# semaphoreci.com

2018/08/22 #

  • 04:12:43 +07:00 Netflix updates it's billing system to bypass iTunes and Google# techcrunch.com

  • 04:20:40 +07:00 Facebook implements trust scoring for all users, but it can't tell you about the system in case you try to fix it# thenextweb.com

  • 04:23:40 +07:00 Facebook is dealing with "Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior"# newsroom.fb.com

  • 04:24:58 +07:00 Jack Dorsey On Deleting Tweets, Banning Trump, And Whether An Unbiased Twitter Can Exist# www.buzzfeednews.com

  • 04:26:20 +07:00 Schools are mining students' social media posts for signs of trouble# www.wired.com

2018/08/21 #

  • 03:06:55 +07:00 Venezuela just devalued the bolívar by 95% and pegged it to a cryptocurrency# www.businessinsider.com

  • 03:08:09 +07:00 It’s Not Technology That’s Disrupting Our Jobs - A reflection on the gig economy# www.nytimes.com

  • 03:09:48 +07:00 Skype’s end-to-end encrypted Private Conversations feature now available across platforms# mspoweruser.com

  • 03:17:44 +07:00 Giphy redesigns homepage to highlight new Story collections# venturebeat.com

  • 03:18:13 +07:00 A Giphy story - We Love Jurgen Klopp!# giphy.com

  • 03:46:57 +07:00 Twitch to start showing ads, the $9/month Turbo plan will keep ad-free viewing# www.theverge.com

  • 08:14:20 +07:00 Karma raises $12 million for marketplace that helps restaurants and supermarkets reduce food waste# venturebeat.com

  • 08:18:07 +07:00 EU to fine social media platforms that take more than 1 hour to remove extremist content# thenextweb.com

  • 19:47:02 +07:00 RemoteOnly - Aggregates posts from several remote job boards# remoteonly.io

2018/08/20 #

  • 03:29:47 +07:00 Twitter CEO Dorsey explains ignoring Infowars' rules violations# www.cnet.com

  • 03:40:35 +07:00 Inside Facebook’s plan to protect the U.S. midterm elections# www.recode.net

  • 09:08:22 +07:00 Wildlife photographer Paul Nicklen: ‘If we lose the ice, we lose the entire ecosystem’# www.theguardian.com

2018/08/19 #

  • 05:01:24 +07:00 Trump on social media - "Let everybody participate, good & bad, and we will all just have to figure it out!"# www.politico.com

  • 09:27:43 +07:00 We’re Living in a Fake World - Advertising is the reason# medium.com

  • 17:53:40 +07:00 JAMstack - Modern web development architecture based on client-side JavaScript, reusable APIs, and prebuilt Markup# jamstack.org

  • 17:54:37 +07:00 StaticGen - A List of Static Site Generators for JAMstack Sites# www.staticgen.com

2018/08/17 #

  • 03:55:10 +07:00 Node.js TCP Server Application using PM2 and Nginx with Proxy Protocol# www.digitalocean.com

  • 08:12:56 +07:00 Dokku helps you build and manage the lifecycle of applications - The smallest PaaS implementation you've ever seen# dokku.viewdocs.io

  • 08:13:57 +07:00 Sigil - Standalone string interpolator and template processor (useful to build configs in bash scripts)# github.com

2018/08/16 #

  • 04:25:38 +07:00 Native Lazy Loading Coming to the Web Platform# twitter.com

  • 13:30:55 +07:00 nanobox.io - Run any app on any cloud (snazzy looking containerisation implementation)# nanobox.io

  • 13:33:08 +07:00 Netlify - Build, deploy, and manage modern web projects# www.netlify.com

  • 18:08:03 +07:00 API Blueprint - A powerful high-level API description language for web APIs# apiblueprint.org

  • 18:08:39 +07:00 Snowboard - API blueprint toolkit# github.com

  • 18:26:29 +07:00 aglio - An API Blueprint renderer with theme support that outputs static HTML# github.com

2018/08/15 #

  • 02:14:15 +07:00 $100 Million Was Once Big Money for a Start-Up - Now, It’s Common# www.nytimes.com

  • 02:16:50 +07:00 Chinese Cops Now Spying on American Soil - China is compiling a global registry of its ethnic minorities# www.thedailybeast.com

  • 02:17:57 +07:00 We're Bad At Regulating Privacy, Because We Don't Understand Privacy# www.techdirt.com

  • 03:39:22 +07:00 Are Netflix, Amazon Video, and Xfinity just re-creating cable TV but via streaming?# www.theverge.com

  • 05:28:58 +07:00 Guide to Tracking Multiple Subdomains in Google Analytics# www.ericmobley.net

2018/08/14 #

  • 05:28:39 +07:00 Apple is encouraging app developers to move to subscription based revenue models# www.thisisinsider.com

  • 05:32:30 +07:00 YouTube is creating tools for creators to make money through membership, merchandise and even money for using specific features# www.bloomberg.com

  • 13:49:54 +07:00 The 2018 Web Developer Roadmap An illustrated guide to becoming a Frontend or Backend Developer with links to courses# codeburst.io

  • 18:02:33 +07:00 Kikagaku Moyo / 幾何学模様 - Masana Temples - 09 Gatherings# www.youtube.com

  • 18:04:28 +07:00 Aphex Twin - T69 Collapse (out 14 September on Warp)# www.youtube.com

2018/08/12 #

  • 02:40:39 +07:00 Interesting piece about Amazon Auto SDK bringing Alexa to cars and the nuances of accents in voice recognition# venturebeat.com

  • 02:50:10 +07:00 Reminiscing about the "shared family computer" and the new realities and challenges technology is creating today# www.theverge.com

  • 03:00:21 +07:00 Twitter fleshes out a policy to address “dehumanizing” speech posted by users# www.nytimes.com

  • 04:23:43 +07:00 What are the facts on these “design systems” that has the whole industry talking?# medium.com

  • 17:25:02 +07:00 Check if mongodb database exists from the command line# stackoverflow.com

2018/08/11 #

  • 03:41:14 +07:00 themesfor.app - Free (Do whatever you want), fully-responsive Bootstrap 4 themes for your next startup and side-project via email# themesfor.app

  • 03:43:00 +07:00 Cronhub - makes sure your background jobs are up and running - "Painless Cron Monitoring"# cronhub.io

  • 03:44:04 +07:00 Nutrition Cards for Accessible Components - an attempt to digest and simplify the accessibility expectations when it comes to component authoring# davatron5000.github.io

  • 16:41:12 +07:00 ShellCheck, a static analysis tool for shell scripts# github.com

2018/08/10 #

  • 02:53:48 +07:00 Deploying a Stateful Application on Azure Kubernetes Service (Wow Kubernetes === complicated!)# blog.risingstack.com

  • 03:13:41 +07:00 Hack attack can stop people's hearts# www.bbc.com

  • 03:14:45 +07:00 Sid James' final interview - Carry On star's recording found after 42 years# www.bbc.com

  • 08:34:28 +07:00 Before Lonely Planet there was an underground travel guide publishing house named BIT (1970–1980)# medium.com

  • 12:20:04 +07:00 Splitting - JavaScript microlibrary designed to empower you with animations, transitions and interactions with text elements# splitting.js.org

  • 12:24:37 +07:00 Examples of text effects built with splitting.js# codepen.io

2018/08/09 #

  • 08:12:38 +07:00 Upwork has turned into a creepy freelancer surveillance and monitoring company# www.buzzfeednews.com

  • 08:18:03 +07:00 New Repo: freelancer - Website for freelancers to securely receive payments for services# github.com

  • 11:59:17 +07:00 Patreon buys Memberful but keeps it indie as patronage consolidates# techcrunch.com

2018/08/07 #

  • 16:19:32 +07:00 West Virginia to introduce blockchain based mobile phone voting for midterm elections# money.cnn.com

  • 16:31:10 +07:00 Facebook, Apple, YouTube and Spotify ban Infowars' Alex Jones# www.theguardian.com

  • 16:43:18 +07:00 A Generation Grows Up in China Without Google, Facebook or Twitter# www.nytimes.com

2018/08/05 #

  • 05:01:08 +07:00 Trillion - Apple’s insanely great run…# 500ish.com

  • 07:53:08 +07:00 LinkedIn website won't let me update my profile picture! And there is no support email address :(# www.linkedin.com

  • 08:09:46 +07:00 Venezuela President Maduro survives 'drone assassination attempt'# www.bbc.com

  • 08:22:23 +07:00 South Korea's spy cam porn epidemic# www.bbc.com

  • 09:37:38 +07:00 This modern Seattle building doesn’t have AC - on purpose# www.kuow.org

2018/08/04 #

  • 03:43:07 +07:00 Do Americans Understand They’re Beginning to Commit The Legal Definition of Genocide?# eand.co

  • 03:44:09 +07:00 The Case for Genetically Engineering Ethical Humans# medium.com

  • 04:15:54 +07:00 So you bought a ghost town - Who is paying $12 million for an abandoned town?# theoutline.com

  • 06:16:20 +07:00 Logrotating files in a directories and its subdirectories# serverfault.com

  • 08:14:14 +07:00 How can I list files with their absolute path in linux?# stackoverflow.com

  • 19:21:37 +07:00 Why westerners fear robots and the japanese do not (apparently westerners believe humans "own nature")# www.wired.com

2018/08/03 #

  • 09:37:55 +07:00 Apple has officially become the world's only trillion dollar publicly traded company# www.macrumors.com

  • 10:42:17 +07:00 Are people really pinging their Serverless functions every 5 minutes to avoid cold starts?# twitter.com

  • 10:49:25 +07:00 Build, deploy, manage modern serverless workloads using Knative on Kubernetes# m.chmarny.com

2018/08/02 #

  • 03:26:58 +07:00 How we spent 30k USD in Firebase in less than 72 hours - Why it's important to be careful when using metered cloud services# hackernoon.com

  • 03:42:16 +07:00 How to tell the difference between persuasion and manipulation# aeon.co

  • 03:51:39 +07:00 Thieves escape by motorboat after royal jewels heist in Sweden# www.theguardian.com

2018/08/01 #

  • 12:22:14 +07:00 taskbook - Tasks, boards & notes for the command-line habitat (Looks very interesting)# github.com

  • 15:12:46 +07:00 Augur - the blockchain betting networks where you can bet on anything even assassination# www.coindesk.com

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