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Saturday 3rd August, 2019 #

  • Killing a process and all of its descendants
  • Best ever map of Milky Way shows our galaxy is warped in an S-shape
  • New Issue: bundler doesn't install from rubygems.org - tlsv1 alert protocol version
  • Serious question - Why is setting up python so bloody complicated? And everytime I have to install it the whole setup has changed - It should be a 1 line install and maybe an addition to a bash config file, anything more is too complicated - Python developers you should be embarrassed releasing this garbage code that breaks important things like vim
  • The Real Dark Web - "We rarely acknowledge the vast majority of web developers" - Let's always remember that the 3 pillars of web development are html, css and javascript, if anyone tries to say there is a 4th pillar called ai, tell them to take a hike, *presumably* you will still be able to, that's just my personal opinion
  • Writing a Simple MVC App in Plain JavaScript - There are a lot of similarities architecturally between this and the frontend code of linkblog, it's not some futuristic shiney framework, and it sure could be improved but you can easily open it in your browser and see what is going on with the html, css and javascript
  • Branching Out from the Great Divide
  • Europeans increasingly rejecting air travel
  • Facebook adds it's name to Instagram and WhatsApp - Now it’ll be “Instagram From Facebook” and “WhatsApp From Facebook”
  • An interesting study into corruption in the police force, the misconduct tends to happen in a networked way