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Friday 15th February, 2019 #

  • Chrome will Soon Let You Share Link to Specific Word or Sentence on a Page - Could be a cool new browser feature
  • How to enable debug logging in nginx
  • Re-posting the link to the story about the journalists in France carrying out gang-stalking via social media harassment gangs, as it is relevant to today's stories
  • Before there was internet paranoia, there was Lyndon Larouche - What if for liberal leaning societies, conspiracy "nuts" play an important role in reminding us that a large proportion of the world do not share their liberal views and could very well use technology in nefarious ways - For example high tech gang-stalking - we now know that happens for real in France, carried out by actual journalists of major news organisations organised in secret on private forums
  • India Proposes Chinese-Style Internet Censorship - Feels like in the past few months everywhere there is a massive crack down on online freedoms, from linking, to quoting, to data storage, is there anything that will not be limited in some way? Must be that the big wigs are starting to dig their heals in somewhere
  • Rendering on the Web - A pretty good summary of all the techniques available to render web pages, sort of illustrates why building websites is not that straight forward after all
  • British News Host Strips Naked On Live TV Because Of... Brexit?
  • AI can write disturbingly believable fake news - Oh well, there goes the neighbourhood
  • Instrumenting HTTP requests in node - Makes some good arguments as to reasons to use the node core libraries for making HTTP requests, the crucial idea is that in practice what is important is to be able to debug a live infrastructure, and some of the HTTP request libraries, though convenient, limit your ability to debug
  • Back-off and retry using JavaScript arrays and promises - Concise summary of how to handle calling APIs that have rate-limits, I've done this previously using caolan/async but this post uses promises
  • Pika/Pack - A bit like webpack or Parcel but specifically for building npm packages
  • Why no output is shown when using grep twice?