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Saturday 30th September, 2017 #

  • Timezone support in date operators at query time
  • Setting up your own Selenium test automation environment
  • Declarative state and side effects management for popular JavaScript frameworks
  • Why Does Sweden Have So Many Start-Ups?
  • It’s time to give Firefox another chance
  • Guys Find Fish Frozen Solid In The Act Of Eating Another Fish
  • The Incredible Speed With Which A Leopard Can Take Down An Animal
  • This Unreal Engine Generated Face Almost Escapes The Uncanny Valley And It's Freaking Us Out
  • Node8’s util.promisify - No more promise chains
  • ES6 Promises - Patterns and Anti-Patterns - Are promises really any better than callbacks?
  • Strudel.js - Lightweight component framework, ideal step up for developers comfortable with jQuery who want to move on to something else
  • How to write reliable browser tests using Selenium and Node.js

Wednesday 27th September, 2017 #

Tuesday 12th September, 2017 #

Sunday 10th September, 2017 #

  • Overview Effect - the sensation astronauts have when given the opportunity to look down and view the Earth as a whole
  • Earthrise is a photograph of the Earth and parts of the Moon's surface taken by astronaut Bill Anders in 1968, during the Apollo 8 mission
  • Bodies of 'hundreds' of children buried in mass grave
  • NPR.org Text-Only
  • Text only CNN
  • Boiling Water + Liquid Nitrogen = Cool Water Vapor Explosions

Friday 8th September, 2017 #

  • Incredible dancer spins over 100 times without stopping
  • The Frankfurt School pt. 3 - The Culture Industry
  • America's Latest Utopian Experiment
  • Man dead after running into flames at Burning Man
  • In South Korea, children of mixed race can be called "mongrels" - But Han Hyun-min didn't let racism stop him
  • Sacked model - 'All white people benefit from racism'
  • What one Alabama town’s attempt to secede from its school district tells us about the fragile progress of racial integration in America
  • Game of Thrones’ Peter Dinklage used to be in a punk band called Whizzy
  • Addiction in the US - She turned to Google for help getting sober - Then she had to escape a nightmare

Thursday 7th September, 2017 #

  • London no longer most expensive place to buy beer
  • Facebook claims a third more users in the US than people who exist
  • Hack Siri And Alexa - Hackers can take control of the world’s most popular voice assistants by whispering to them in frequencies humans can’t hear
  • The Node.js World Is Imploding - Another Programming Community Is Having A Meltdown Due To Festering Sexism
  • Dude With A Perfect Sports Announcer Voice Commentates On Video Game Glitches
  • 30 Hollywood Classics Streaming for Free in the Public Domain

Wednesday 6th September, 2017 #

  • The Deep State Is Real - But it might not be what you think
  • John Motson - Commentator to end BBC football career after 50 years
  • The Norwegian who's been to 445 English football grounds
  • Living off the Land: Alaskan Subsistence
  • Oliver Struempfel - New World Record Holder For 'Most Beer Steins Carried At Once'
  • What Would It Take To Manufacture A Planet?
  • Waking up from The Dream™ - An immigrants perspective about DACA
  • European court rules companies must tell employees of email checks
  • A student found an ancient Canadian village that’s 10,000 years older than the Pyramids
  • What the Industrial Revolution Really Tells Us About the Future of Automation and Work
  • A Super Strong Microburst Wind Just Blowing Trees Over
  • Critical Path CSS Generator - Internal CSS Style Sheet Generator for the above the fold content.
  • Building Skeleton Screens with CSS Custom Properties

Monday 4th September, 2017 #

Sunday 3rd September, 2017 #

Friday 1st September, 2017 #