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2018/10/31 #

  • Redis Streams are a new feature in Redis 5 - useful for implementing task queues redis.io #

  • How Instagram Made Extreme Couponers of Us All (Couponing somehow feels like a fractal of everything on the internet) www.theringer.com #

  • Just The Good Stuff From Today's Apple Event digg.com #

  • MacBook Air vs. iPad Pro is a choice between the past and the future www.theverge.com #

2018/10/29 #

  • Some research from DigitalOcean shows that in open source new devs contribute more than older devs blog.digitalocean.com #

  • IBM to acquire Red Hat in deal valued at $34 billion www.cnbc.com #

  • China has been 'hijacking the vital internet backbone of western countries' www.zdnet.com #

  • Leicester City owner among five dead in helicopter crash www.bbc.com #

  • Every story in the world has one of these six basic plots www.bbc.com #

  • Remy has an interesting bash script debug story using the linux od command (neat command I wasn't aware of) remysharp.com #

  • Leicester City fans pay tribute to owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, who has died in a helicopter crash www.bbc.com #

2018/10/28 #

  • GraphQL - A success story for PayPal Checkout medium.com #

  • Leicester City owner's helicopter crashes leaving stadium www.bbc.com #

  • You can do a lot with a virtual dom library and vanilla javascript medium.com #

  • The digital gap between rich and poor kids is not what we expected (badly written article on an interesting topic) www.nytimes.com #

  • A good description of the main features of the Joi module used for input/output validation medium.com #

2018/10/26 #

  • Introducing Hooks - feature proposal to use state and other React features without writing a class reactjs.org #

  • Some Google execs believe that "owner relationships" (with actual people) are ok, including Andy Rubin, the ‘Father of Android’ www.nytimes.com #

  • Slavery is any system in which principles of property law are applied to people, allowing individuals to own, buy and sell other individuals, as a de jure form of property en.wikipedia.org #

  • Bitbucket are removing support for deploy keys in their v2 API (Jan 2019) - Go and vote for this critical issue! bitbucket.org #

  • China Telecom has been using poisoned internet routes to suck up massive amounts of US and Canadian internet traffic boingboing.net #

2018/10/25 #

  • 30 Seconds of CSS - A curated collection of useful CSS snippets you can understand in 30 seconds or less 30-seconds.github.io #

  • When Trump Phones Friends, the Chinese and the Russians Listen and Learn www.nytimes.com #

  • Ex-Facebook security chief calls out Tim Cook and Apple's practices in China www.cnbc.com #

  • October Brings Node.js 10.x to LTS and Node.js 11 to Current! medium.com #

  • Apple picks Thailand for its second retail store in Southeast Asia techcrunch.com #

  • My father says he’s a ‘targeted individual. ’ Maybe we all are www.wired.com #

2018/10/24 #

  • India’s unicorn startups concentrate on local issues in education, logistics, and lodging - international expansion soon www.bloomberg.com #

  • Dutch King Willem-Alexander warns of Brexit uncertainty www.bbc.com #

  • Apple’s Tim Cook makes blistering attack on the “data industrial complex” techcrunch.com #

  • RA.644 Leon Vynehall - "Vynehall transcends his tag as a dance music producer and simply becomes a musician who's expressing himself." www.residentadvisor.net #

2018/10/22 #

  • Saudi Arabia admits to journalist Jamal Khashoggi being the murdered in a 'rogue operation' www.bbc.com #

  • Google to open source the firmware used in it the Pixel 3's separate security chip www.wired.com #

  • Youth of the Apocalypse - The London hip hop group, formed by members of the Klaxons and Gorillaz www.huckmag.com #

2018/10/21 #

  • President Trump to pull US from Russia missile treaty www.bbc.co.uk #

  • Hundreds of thousands attend London People's Vote protest - Some want deal or no deal, others want to cancel the first referendum - seems like a badly organised (though well attended) protest, or shody reporting www.bbc.co.uk #

  • Apple CEO Tim Cook Is Calling For Bloomberg To Retract Its Chinese Spy Chip Story www.buzzfeednews.com #

  • G4S announces high-security ‘vault storage’ for holding crypto (also run prisons, detention centers, and vault storage of cash) cointelegraph.com #

2018/10/20 #

  • The Ultimate Guide to Execution Contexts, Hoisting, Scopes, and Closures in JavaScript tylermcginnis.com #

  • 5 Tips to Write Better Conditionals in JavaScript scotch.io #

  • LoopBack 4 - Build Amazing APIs (Looks great but imo after 10 mins feels like giant ball of complexity) v4.loopback.io #

  • Compose to a Vertical Rhythm - "regular use of space provides rhythm in typography" 24ways.org #

2018/10/19 #

  • Using MongoDB as realtime DB with nodeJS medium.com #

  • Schnack - Simple node app for Disqus-like drop-in commenting on static website github.com #

  • Encrypted SNI Comes to Firefox Nightly - "do you want the person at the coffee shop next to you to know you’re visiting cancer.org?" blog.mozilla.org #

  • How to find the best open source Node.js projects to study for leveling up your skills www.coreycleary.me #

  • Six random insights from Henry Rollins’ 2018 Travel Slideshow rolfpotts.com #

2018/10/18 #

  • Apple launched a new privacy website that lets you find all the data the company has on you www.cnbc.com #

  • Search engine Baidu becomes first China firm to join U.S. AI ethics group www.reuters.com #

  • Cannabis in Canada - How it went down on Legalisation Day, Amnesty for past convictions, pot jokes www.bbc.co.uk #

2018/10/17 #

2018/10/16 #

  • A Genocide Incited on Facebook, With Posts From Myanmar’s Military www.nytimes.com #

  • Amazon's Jeff Bezos Says Tech Companies Should Work With the Pentagon www.wired.com #

  • IRL (In Real Life) add blockers in sun glasses - block billboard adds and screens www.producthunt.com #

  • A sensible, free guide to negotiating book contracts by the nonprofit Authors Alliance boingboing.net #

  • Can't drag bookmarklets to the bookmarks bar (Chrome) - This just started happening for me today - How can that be? bugs.chromium.org #

  • MongoDB switches up its open source license - introduces the Server Side Public License (SSPL) techcrunch.com #

  • Polar - A powerful offline browser for Mac, Windows, and Linux for managing all your web content, books, and notes getpolarized.io #

  • 33 concepts every JavaScript developer should know github.com #

  • MongoDB Issues New Server Side Public License for MongoDB Community Server www.mongodb.com #

2018/10/15 #

  • Genome hackers show no one’s dna is anonymous anymore (60% of Europeans can be identified) www.wired.com #

  • Facebook drove Egypt's revolution - Now it's being used as a weapon to oppress women www.wired.co.uk #

  • Twitter is being investigated over its collection of data in its link-shortening system theblogroom.com #

  • Military leaders are starting to freak out over Russia’s information warfare dominance taskandpurpose.com #

2018/10/14 #

  • Silicon Valley’s Saudi Arabia Problem - Technology companies can no longer turn a blind eye to the human rights abuses of one of their largest investors www.nytimes.com #

  • Interesting article that observes some signs that Google might be looking to drop the Android brand 9to5google.com #

  • Edward Curtis: Was this the most ambitious photo project ever? www.bbc.com #

  • Epic photographic odyssey that documented Native Americans www.bbc.com #

  • Lewis Hine - The child labour photos that led to change www.bbc.com #

  • Lewis Hine and the photos that changed America www.bbc.com #

  • Latest Revision to ARM Instruction Set Includes Optimizations Just for JavaScript daringfireball.net #

2018/10/13 #

  • New Issue - universal-analytics - Creating client-side and server-side views using custom dimensions doesn't work for transactions github.com #

  • Google releases open source vpn software called Outline - secure access to the open web (Node.js code base) opensource.googleblog.com #

  • How To Automate Database Migrations in MongoDB Using Nodejs 101node.io #

  • accesscontrol - Role and Attribute based Access Control for Node.js github.com #

2018/10/12 #

  • Lets-build-express - how to create the express library from scratch github.com #

  • Kanye - 'Trump hat made me feel like Superman' www.bbc.com #

  • Pro-privacy search engine DuckDuckGo hits 30M daily searches, up 50%%20in a year techcrunch.com #

  • CommonSense Robotics launches micro-fulfillment center in Tel Aviv venturebeat.com #

  • PayPal partners with Walmart to offer in-store balance withdraws, deposits www.zdnet.com #

  • In Gary Hustwit’s new documentary “Rams,” the legendary industrial designer indicts the world he helped create www.fastcompany.com #

2018/10/11 #

2018/10/10 #

2018/10/08 #

  • Interpol Chief, Detained by China, Resigns Under ‘Supervision’ of Party Watchdog www.nytimes.com #

  • The ghostly radio station that no one claims to run www.bbc.com #

  • John Gruber on the Bloomberg hacked chips story - "This is only beginning. Apple is not letting this go" daringfireball.net #

2018/10/07 #

  • Should a Collapsing America Just Break Up? (Some of these issues are global imho) eand.co #

  • Bytedance rises as Facebook falls, takes over most valuable startup from Uber medium.com #

  • New North American trade deal has bad news for Canadian copyright www.eff.org #

  • New Issue - node - JSON error when building docs github.com #

  • New Issue - express-rate-limit - Upgrading to v3 - How to implement rate limiting with slow down? github.com #

  • New Issue - npm - npm install --production tries to install devDependencies with node v10.11.0 (npm v6.4.1) npm.community #

  • Critical Path Driven Development - Distributed traces, cross-stack debugging and visibility medium.com #

  • New Issue - express-redis-cache - Cache always skipped when redis client created earlier is specified github.com #

2018/10/06 #

  • Node.js Foundation and JS Foundation Announce Intent to Create Joint Organization to Support the Broad Node.js and JavaScript Communities www.linuxfoundation.org #

  • More on that weird Bloomberg spy chip story reveals the murky world of national security reporting techcrunch.com #

  • Instagram’s Nametag feature makes it easier to follow people you meet IRL www.theverge.com #

2018/10/04 #

  • Breitbart and Infowars join the Daily Mail as banned from being used as a source for facts on Wikipedia motherboard.vice.com #

  • 'Trump alert' - US mobile phone owners get test message www.bbc.com #

  • Japan set to allow gene editing in human embryos (US, China and UK already do it) - Do we really want to live in gene editing arms race based societies? www.nature.com #

  • IMHO concentrate on people of all ages spending at least as much outdoor time as inmates and chickens (perhaps gene editing can wait?) www.huffingtonpost.com #

  • With all the talk about social credit scores etc, the only metric that is important: Number of minutes spent outdoors per day en.wikipedia.org #

  • Hey leaders of the world - instead (or in addition to) minimum wage, how about introducing a minimum number of minutes per day spent outdoors? en.wikipedia.org #

  • Weird story about a Bloomberg special report on China hardware hacking Amazon and Apple that everyone denies except for Bloomberg www.bbc.com #

  • As we charge forward into an AI gene editing future let's remember that it's only been a few decades since the horrible policies of Eugenics en.wikipedia.org #

2018/10/03 #

  • Accessibility isn’t a barrier -  it’s what removes them - It frees us from one path and gives us many uxdesign.cc #

  • Google to debut Chrome browser game streaming - Assassin’s Creed Odyssey (the graphics looks pretty darn good) techcrunch.com #

  • Interesting name for a company Free Speech Systems, sounds like a software company en.wikipedia.org #

2018/10/02 #

  • Inventor of JavaScript Brendan Eich writes to the US Senate: we need a GDPR for the United States brave.com #

  • Chrome 70 - Trustworthy Chrome Extensions, by default (access lists, no obfuscated code) blog.chromium.org #

  • The Internet Archive fixes more than 9 million broken links on Wikipedia blog.archive.org #

  • The Internet Archive's annual bash is tomorrow - Building a Better Web blog.archive.org #

  • Amazon increases minimum wage for all U.S. workers to $15 an hour techcrunch.com #

  • Physics Nobel won by laser wizardry – laureates include first woman in 55 years www.nature.com #

  • What’s the Cost of Buying Links in 2018? ahrefs.com #

2018/10/01 #

  • China's Muslim Uighurs 'crackdown' - Dealing with Islamic extremism by putting everyone in rehabilitation camps www.bbc.com #

  • "We used to sit and eat together, but now they behaved like they were not aware of what they were doing, like someone who had lost their memory after a car crash" www.bbc.com #

  • Over the last 60 years in the UK the price of food has halved while the price of housing has doubled www.bbc.com #

  • Independent Music Podcast #200 – Shackleton, Jerusalem In My Heart, Etienne Jaumet, Tomás Urquieta, Lucinda Chua independentmusicpodcast.net #

  • A look at the resilience of audio and specifically podcasting medium.com #

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