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2018/08/30 #

  • Picular - Google, but for colors (extracts colors from a google search, strange results sometimes) picular.co #

  • Germany, seeking independence from U.S., pushes cyber security research www.reuters.com #

  • ‘Overtourism’ Worries Europe - How Much Did Technology Help Get Us There? www.nytimes.com #

  • Picasso’s Incredible Childhood Paintings Reveal a Different Side of the Modern Artist mymodernmet.com #

  • The World’s Oldest Blockchain Has Been Hiding in the New York Times Since 1995 motherboard.vice.com #

  • JavaScript Promises with Node.js - Really clear explanation of how promises work in node itnext.io #

  • hiproxy - lightweight proxy tool for Front-End developers based on Node.js that supports an NGINX-like configuration github.com #

  • Dutroux murders - Belgian child-killer's letter angers parents www.bbc.com #

2018/08/29 #

  • Trump points out Google's biased algorithms nypost.com #

  • World’s leading human rights groups tell Google to cancel its China censorship plan theintercept.com #

  • Why is the USA one of the only countries that has no known Right to Food human right? en.wikipedia.org #

  • Facebook insiders describe intolerant liberal culture, often policed by mobs, seeks political diversity www.nytimes.com #

  • Paystack, with ambitions to become the Stripe of Africa, raises $8M from Visa, Tencent… and Stripe itself techcrunch.com #

  • Virtual Organized Crime - DJs are playing motion captured sets in Grand Theft Auto nightclubs www.rollingstone.com #

2018/08/28 #

  • Tech Industry Pursues a Federal Privacy Law, on Its Own Terms www.nytimes.com #

  • How much electricity is consumed by Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, Litecoin, and Monero? www.ofnumbers.com #

  • Paul Irish - Debugging Node.js with Chrome DevTools medium.com #

  • New Repo: nockback-test - how to mock an api using nock record/playback feature github.com #

  • Food is any substance consumed to provide nutritional support for an organism en.wikipedia.org #

2018/08/27 #

  • Tesla to stay publicly traded, Elon Musk says company is 'better off' www.cnbc.com #

  • YouTube to start rolling out non-skippable 15-20 seconds ads - sites "more money for creators" mashable.com #

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

2018/08/26 #

  • Papal visit to Nock, Ireland - Pope begs forgiveness for clerical sex abuse www.bbc.com #

  • Brexit - No-deal 'risks break-up of UK' - Herman Van Rompuy www.bbc.com #

2018/08/25 #

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

  • What's really behind the global rise in working longer and longer hours www.bbc.com #

  • The Approval Economy - On infrastructure, advertising, and social norms zandercutt.com #

  • Sleepless City Streets of Rainy Tokyo Nights Lit by Electric Neon Signs mymodernmet.com #

  • How pioneering DJ Grandmaster Flash hacked together his first mixer boingboing.net #

  • 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 #

  • 'Xbox All Access' looks like a new subscription service with Xbox Live, Game Pass, and a console www.windowscentral.com #

  • The 30% Tax - The Netflix App Store bypass is the start of the insurgence of the subscription bundling business avc.com #

  • Shortwave - Looks like an interesting modern podcasting platform with lots of useful transcoding tools www.goshortwave.com #

  • More Than A Billion Downloads of Node.js medium.com #

2018/08/23 #

  • 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 #

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

  • Typeography exploration at the BBC - An Exploration of Variable Fonts blog.prototypr.io #

  • Type designer David Jonathan Ross has an interesting website with "Font of the month club" djr.com #

  • UK Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn proposes a publicly-funded alternative to Facebook techcrunch.com #

  • Chinese Surveillance State Is Basically The US Surveillance Apparatus Minus The Constitutional Rights www.techdirt.com #

  • mock-stripe-server - Mock Stripe API Server github.com #

  • Stripe Mock Webhooks - Quickly test Stripe Webhooks against your application without hitting Stripe or requiring internet connectivity www.npmjs.com #

2018/08/22 #

  • Netflix updates it's billing system to bypass iTunes and Google techcrunch.com #

  • 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 #

  • Jack Dorsey On Deleting Tweets, Banning Trump, And Whether An Unbiased Twitter Can Exist www.buzzfeednews.com #

  • Schools are mining students' social media posts for signs of trouble www.wired.com #

2018/08/21 #

  • It’s Not Technology That’s Disrupting Our Jobs - A reflection on the gig economy www.nytimes.com #

  • Skype’s end-to-end encrypted Private Conversations feature now available across platforms mspoweruser.com #

  • A Giphy story - We Love Jurgen Klopp! giphy.com #

  • Twitch to start showing ads, the $9/month Turbo plan will keep ad-free viewing www.theverge.com #

  • Karma raises $12 million for marketplace that helps restaurants and supermarkets reduce food waste venturebeat.com #

  • EU to fine social media platforms that take more than 1 hour to remove extremist content thenextweb.com #

  • RemoteOnly - Aggregates posts from several remote job boards remoteonly.io #

2018/08/19 #

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

  • We’re Living in a Fake World - Advertising is the reason medium.com #

  • JAMstack - Modern web development architecture based on client-side JavaScript, reusable APIs, and prebuilt Markup jamstack.org #

2018/08/17 #

  • Dokku helps you build and manage the lifecycle of applications - The smallest PaaS implementation you've ever seen dokku.viewdocs.io #

  • Sigil - Standalone string interpolator and template processor (useful to build configs in bash scripts) github.com #

2018/08/16 #

  • Native Lazy Loading Coming to the Web Platform twitter.com #

  • nanobox.io - Run any app on any cloud (snazzy looking containerisation implementation) nanobox.io #

  • API Blueprint - A powerful high-level API description language for web APIs apiblueprint.org #

  • aglio - An API Blueprint renderer with theme support that outputs static HTML github.com #

2018/08/14 #

  • YouTube is creating tools for creators to make money through membership, merchandise and even money for using specific features www.bloomberg.com #

  • The 2018 Web Developer Roadmap An illustrated guide to becoming a Frontend or Backend Developer with links to courses codeburst.io #

  • Kikagaku Moyo / 幾何学模様 - Masana Temples - 09 Gatherings www.youtube.com #

2018/08/12 #

  • Interesting piece about Amazon Auto SDK bringing Alexa to cars and the nuances of accents in voice recognition venturebeat.com #

  • Reminiscing about the "shared family computer" and the new realities and challenges technology is creating today www.theverge.com #

  • Twitter fleshes out a policy to address “dehumanizing” speech posted by users www.nytimes.com #

  • What are the facts on these “design systems” that has the whole industry talking? medium.com #

2018/08/11 #

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

  • Cronhub - makes sure your background jobs are up and running - "Painless Cron Monitoring" cronhub.io #

  • Nutrition Cards for Accessible Components - an attempt to digest and simplify the accessibility expectations when it comes to component authoring davatron5000.github.io #

  • ShellCheck, a static analysis tool for shell scripts github.com #

2018/08/10 #

  • Deploying a Stateful Application on Azure Kubernetes Service (Wow Kubernetes === complicated!) blog.risingstack.com #

  • Sid James' final interview - Carry On star's recording found after 42 years www.bbc.com #

  • Before Lonely Planet there was an underground travel guide publishing house named BIT (1970–1980) medium.com #

  • Splitting - JavaScript microlibrary designed to empower you with animations, transitions and interactions with text elements splitting.js.org #

  • Examples of text effects built with splitting.js codepen.io #

2018/08/04 #

  • Do Americans Understand They’re Beginning to Commit The Legal Definition of Genocide? eand.co #

  • The Case for Genetically Engineering Ethical Humans medium.com #

  • So you bought a ghost town - Who is paying $12 million for an abandoned town? theoutline.com #

  • Why westerners fear robots and the japanese do not (apparently westerners believe humans "own nature") www.wired.com #

2018/08/01 #

  • taskbook - Tasks, boards & notes for the command-line habitat (Looks very interesting) github.com #

  • Augur - the blockchain betting networks where you can bet on anything even assassination www.coindesk.com #

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