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2018/09/30 #

  • Elon musk settles SEC fraud charges, agrees to pay penalty fees and step down as chairman of the board www.sec.gov #

  • Remi on maintaining the popular open source nodemon library, receiving donations, tools and motivation remysharp.com #

  • My Oxford interview consisted of 3 lecturers laughing at me for not being able to answer questions on topics not covered by the curriculum then saying "We'll put you out of your misery" when they eventually gave me the answers en.wikipedia.org #

  • Tim Berners-Lee unveils Solid, an open source project to decentralize the web and give users control of their data medium.com #

  • Indonesia tsunami toll soars amid push to save survivors (800 people dead) www.nytimes.com #

  • Internet, social media use and device ownership in U.S. have plateaued - "there just aren’t many non-users left" www.pewresearch.org #

2018/09/29 #

  • Hacker changes his mind and cancels livestream deletion of Zuckerberg's Facebook page www.engadget.com #

  • Indonesia earthquake and tsunami - At least 30 dead in Palu www.bbc.com #

  • BBC talks to Linus Torvalds about his "be more polite" personal direction www.bbc.com #

  • Facebook security update about having to force logout 90 million users newsroom.fb.com #

  • Facebook is another titan tech company that has removed support contacts from their "Help Center" pages www.facebook.com #

  • Static Marks - Convert your plain bookmark files into a static web app (and version control with git) staticmarks.com #

  • How to Brexit? - Explore the (im)possibilities of the different Brexit scenarios news.ycombinator.com #

2018/09/28 #

  • I really like the idea of Google Trips, but why isn't there a web UI to go with the iOS and Android apps? get.google.com #

  • node.cool - Delightful Node.js packages and resources github.com #

  • LinkedIn appear to have removed ways to contact customer support from their website www.linkedin.com #

  • SEC announces it is suing Elon Musk over “false and misleading public statements” (tweets), Tesla's stock price drops www.buzzfeednews.com #

2018/09/27 #

  • You Need Feeds - Clear information about how to start using web feeds to read your favourite websites www.youneedfeeds.com #

  • PM2 used to run Node.js processes in production deployments, now support running Python processes blog.pm2.io #

  • Native extensions for Nodejs - Useful in understanding the Nodejs stack in more depth www.nan-labs.com #

2018/09/26 #

  • Tethered Together or Poles Apart? Japan and India - A Cultural Comparison www.bootsnall.com #

  • New Copyright Powers, New "Terrorist Content" Regulations - A Grim Day For Digital Rights in Europe www.eff.org #

  • Google addressing account sign-in, cookie clearing controversies in Chrome 70 9to5google.com #

  • uBlock Origin gets option to block all JavaScript execution by default www.zdnet.com #

  • HN Thread about the Google Chrome Forced Login Situation - Product Updates Based on Your Feedback news.ycombinator.com #

2018/09/24 #

  • Chrome now auto logs you in (forced-login) to the browser when you log in to a Google service (confusing) ha.x0r.be #

  • News Site to Investigate Big Tech, Helped by Craigslist Founder Graig Newmark newsprimeglobal.com #

  • The history of the ice trade - Why Iceland doesn't actually have that much ice digg.com #

  • White House proposes executive order to Trump that would examine tech companies’ practices thehill.com #

  • US-China trade - US imposes biggest round of tariffs yet www.bbc.com #

  • A pretty good explanation of the tricky part of linux shell output redirection superuser.com #

2018/09/23 #

  • Anonymous stock-market manipulators behind $20B+ of "mispricing" can be tracked by their writing styles boingboing.net #

  • Discover the Incredible Story of One Man’s Mission to Paint a Massive Mural in Cairo mymodernmet.com #

  • express-promise-router - Wrapper for Express 4's Router that allows middleware to return promises www.npmjs.com #

2018/09/20 #

  • Revue - newsletter building tool with Stripe integration so you can charge a fee www.getrevue.co #

  • Surveillance news - Insurance companies are starting to require customers wear Fitbit tracking devices mobile.twitter.com #

  • Professional photographer Zach Arias interviews Unsplash founder Mikael Cho dedpxl.com #

2018/09/19 #

  • Mozilla releases Firefox Reality, it's web browser for VR, available in the Viveport, Oculus, and Daydream app stores www.zdnet.com #

  • Shopify’s adds AR shopping support for 600,000 stores - preview items in your home using iOS AR www.theverge.com #

  • Interview with Vimsy Founder, creator centric online service for creating video channels www.indiehackers.com #

2018/09/18 #

  • Nice to see Twitter listening to it's users and adding chronological/algorithmic feed switcher feature www.theverge.com #

  • Stripe expands e-commerce offering into bricks and mortar in-person payments www.recode.net #

  • Stripe Terminal - The programmable point of sale (currently US invite only) stripe.com #

  • npm scoped packages - a way of grouping related packages together (they don't seem to be used much) docs.npmjs.com #

  • US-China tectonic plates moving again, $200bn worth of opportunities for entrepreneurs www.bbc.co.uk #

  • Musk unveils first tourist for SpaceX 'Moon loop' - Japanese online fashion tycoon Yusaku Maezawa www.bbc.com #

  • Run node scripts using nvm and crontab without hardcoding the node version gist.github.com #

2018/09/17 #

  • This Overview captures an incredible blanket of tones in the trees of Bow, New Hampshire www.getrevue.co #

  • The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (Latest Coen Brothers Film Official Trailer) www.youtube.com #

  • Astronomers have found the universe's missing matter www.wired.com #

  • Korean 'Uncle Service' - Great but what happens when the bullies team up with the bigger billies huh? boingboing.net #

  • Linus Torvalds is temporarily stepping away from Linux maintenance lore.kernel.org #

  • Salesforce billionaire Marc Benioff to buy Time magazine www.bbc.co.uk #

2018/09/15 #

2018/09/14 #

  • List just the top-level modules - npm list --depth=0 coderwall.com #

  • The definitive Node.js handbook - surprisingly concise yet comprehensive overview of Nodejs medium.freecodecamp.org #

  • The Serverless Framework is an open-source CLI for building and deploying serverless applications serverless.com #

  • Standard Library - Serverless platform to build, ship, host, document, scale and integrate with APIs stdlib.com #

  • Node.js v10.10.0 released - fs.readdir withFileTypes option looks like it could be useful nodejs.org #

  • Disruptive Interfaces & The Emerging Battle To Be The Default medium.com #

  • Flowering Jungle by Monster Rally (Gold Robot Records) - Album Inspired by the sounds, visuals, and animals of a half-century's worth of travel and nature documentaries monsterrally.bandcamp.com #

2018/09/13 #

  • iPhone XS and 6.5-inch XS Max announced - Big phones are officially cool www.theverge.com #

  • Switch Between Desktop Spaces Faster in Mac OS X with Control Keys osxdaily.com #

  • EU approves controversial Copyright Directive, including internet ‘link tax’ and ‘upload filter’ www.theverge.com #

  • freeCodeCamp - Learn to code with free online courses, programming projects, and interview preparation for developer jobs www.freecodecamp.org #

  • How can we find which process is using a particular port? askubuntu.com #

  • Latest OSX issue that is literally killing me - trackpad gone rogue (I've had to completely disable my trackpad) www.intowindows.com #

2018/09/12 #

  • Jekyll::Compose - Streamline your writing in Jekyll with some commands github.com #

  • John Deere wins "right to tractor repair" battle against farmers in California boingboing.net #

  • Oh noes - EU Approves Amended Copyright Filtering Law That Could Ruin The Internet digg.com #

  • Neil deGrasse Tyson Talks Space Force and Space Debris digg.com #

2018/09/10 #

  • Additional Mac App Store apps caught stealing and uploading browser history 9to5mac.com #

  • Flipboard CEO Mike McCue - 'There's a real bright road ahead for publishers' www.thedrum.com #

  • Software developers are now more valuable to companies than money www.cnbc.com #

  • stream-handbook - how to write node programs with streams github.com #

  • Algorithms are protected by the First Amendment (algorithm output is considered corporate speech) www.cjr.org #

2018/09/06 #

  • Vimeo pivots business from media to tech - To selling subscriptions to tools for people to make content www.axios.com #

  • Google is investigating ways to replace the URL - Apparently "Everyone is unsatisfied by URLs" www.wired.com #

  • Gitcoin - Organises bounties on open source projects, developers get paid in etherium based coins gitcoin.co #

  • Pinterest and Grubhub’s Former Growth Lead on Building Content Loops firstround.com #

  • How viral loops and good design can result in real-world product virality medium.com #

  • In the three weeks following the Facebook and YouTube ban, Alex Jones' Infowars audience has fell by roughly half www.nytimes.com #

  • Amazon’s Plan to Reach 500 Million Indians: Speak Their Language www.nytimes.com #

2018/09/05 #

  • Wikimedia warns EU copyright reform threatens the ‘vibrant free web’ techcrunch.com #

  • Australia Wants to Take Government Surveillance to the Next Level - "Designated communications providers" www.nytimes.com #

  • EU officials announce that 30% local content quotas for streaming services to become law variety.com #

  • MailMason uses Grunt, Handlebars, and Sass in conjunction with layouts and partials to create both the HTML and plain text versions of your transactional emails postmarkapp.com #

2018/09/03 #

  • The effort required to build a design system is tiny compared to the effort required to maintain it ux.shopify.com #

  • UK media groups call for oversight of social networks www.ft.com #

  • India Pushes Back Against Tech ‘Colonization’ by Internet Giants www.nytimes.com #

2018/09/01 #

  • California passes strongest net neutrality law in the country, EFF calls it "a gold standard net neutrality bill" www.theverge.com #

  • Why is a Java guy so excited about Node.js and JavaScript? (Interesting perspective) blog.sourcerer.io #

  • Why you should replace forEach with map and filter in JavaScript gofore.com #

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