Friday 19th July, 2019 #
- Tetris Effect review – makes your skin tingle and your mind hum - I don’t play a lot of games, actually I don’t ever play any games, but I used to and I played a lot of Tetris when I was young, this version of Tetris re-imagined looks like some next level type stuff, maybe the nightmares are a bit more enjoyable
- We are in the middle of a housing crisis – it’s time to bring back rent controls (in the UK)
- Some quite staggering PHP stats - around 74% of PHP sites online are running on an end of life version of the runtime and need to upgrade to continue to get security fixes - A large proportion of the worlds websites run on PHP
- Twitter’s Redesign Isn’t About You - I think the biggest news is that it’s a PWA, that’s pretty cool
- HN Thread discussing the Kazakhstan MITM of all https traffic
- WeWork Co-Founder Has Cashed Out at Least $700 Million Via Sales, Loans - It’s rather mind boggling all the things that become possible once you are running a large profitable company, seems like a completely different world
- Kazakhstan government is now intercepting all HTTPS traffic
- Polly.js - Record, Replay, and Stub HTTP Interactions - I use nock for this in server-side integration tests but this library also works on the client and the interface looks quite intuitive
- The fundamental right to seek asylum
- Backpacker, Go Home - How Tourism Is Ruining Everything (or Not)