Thursday 1st August, 2019 #
- US style political rhetoric is making appearances in countries across Europe - Personally I'm rather bored of the "so and so destroyed so and so" type stuff, but I do quite like a nice healthy dose of vulgarity every once and a while, seems like we should be putting a Euro-twist on this trend, a sort of acid house remix of it
- Monorepos and npm - A ‘monorepo’ is when you store the code for numerous projects or modules in a single repository, rather than keeping them separate
- Cypress.io: the Selenium killer
- LightSail 2 has used sunlight alone to steer around Earth
- Boris Johnson’s new senior aides want to legalise cannabis in the UK - Probably quite a good way to appeal to younger voters, but I think it could also take a lot of pressure off of law enforcement, I like the bit of historical context about the victorians
- Indian government likely to cave in on data localisation stance after pressure from US - I've commented on data localisation policies before, I think they add a lot of complexity and act as a big barrier to new startup companies, it's not a feature that is easy to add, in a lot of cases you would have to re-architect the entire application, so effectively it would cement the position of the big tech companies because smaller businesses would not be able to comply with the rules - It's the same the world over, the governments only care about the big guys, from the new EU GDPR laws to data localisation in India, all the legislation being put in place has the effect of making it more difficult for startups, the motto seems to be "if in doubt just beat up the new guys", of course publicly they say they are doing the opposite