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Tuesday 31st October, 2017 #

Captain is a modern automated app deployment & web server manager
github.com #
Syrian refugee artist - How coming to UK changed my life
bbc.com #
'Dolphin' spotted in the River Thames near Putney Bridge
bbc.com #
Kazakhstan to Qazaqstan - Why would a country switch its alphabet?
bbc.com #
Learn how to build a PWA in 5 minutes
medium.com #
One Epic National Park Road Trip Across the USA
desktodirtbag.com #
"How Much Brain Damage Do I Have?"
wnyc.org #
Surfing beneath the northern lights
bbc.com #
Catalonia's human tower power
bbc.com #
Next Level Webpack Dashboard
medium.com #
Genius Dog Tricks Passerby Into Playing Fetch With Him
digg.com #
What Can ‘The Onion’ Do for a World That Satirizes Itself?
melmagazine.com #
HTML Web Component using Vanilla JavaScript
github.io #
Solidarity is an environment checker for project dependencies across multiple machines
github.io #

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Monday 30th October, 2017 #

The Web Fundamentals Gap
zendev.com #
Oldest recorded solar eclipse helps date the Egyptian pharaohs
cam.ac.uk #
A free guide to <head> elements
gethead.info #
An Insane First-Person Mountain Biking Video That Will Make You Say 'Holy Shit'
digg.com #
The Darkness Want to Be Rockstars Again
vice.com #
Solar Eclipse (Svalbard)
youtube.com #
Snowboarder Casually Enjoys An Upside Down Morning Brew
digg.com #
What Being Chicano in America Means (When You Don’t Speak Spanish)
extranewsfeed.com #
WordPress + PWAs = 💖 (Chrome Dev Summit 2017)
youtube.com #
NOTHING TO HIDE documentaire (français, film complet HD)
youtube.com #
Superheroes a 'cultural catastrophe', says comics guru Alan Moore
theguardian.com #

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Sunday 29th October, 2017 #

How I cured my tech fatigue by ditching feeds
techcrunch.com #
Episode #094 ... A Look at Suffering
libsyn.com #
We're building a dystopia just to make people click on ads
ted.com #
Video profile of the world's fastest talker
boingboing.net #
WTF is sexual harassment
techcrunch.com #
Blackbox JavaScript Source Files
chrome.com #
The 14 JavaScript debugging tips you probably didn't know
raygun.com #
Expert Rollerblader Makes The City His Playground
digg.com #

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Saturday 28th October, 2017 #

Why There's No Way The Moon Landing Is A Hoax
digg.com #
Halloween at the Whitehouse
digg.com #
Catalonia Declares Independence, Madrid Immediately Suspends Its Government
digg.com #

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Friday 27th October, 2017 #

My approach to using z-index
hackernoon.com #
How to Read the JFK Assassination Files
politico.com #
To Settle Infinity Dispute, a New Law of Logic
quantamagazine.org #
Aggregate pipeline groups by day but projects a null date
stackoverflow.com #
Write tests - Not too many - Mostly integration
kentcdodds.com #
George Clooney calls out 'the other people' involved in Weinstein scandal
theguardian.com #
"It wasn’t just sexual abuse. Everyone got abused. It didn’t really matter how high up you were, you got the same treatment"
theguardian.com #
Corey Feldman launches campaign to expose Hollywood paedophilia
theguardian.com #
Brexit - EU bank may not fully repay UK until 2054
bbc.com #
Quest to depict CG sperm leads to real biological advances
techcrunch.com #
18 pessimistic opinions on the next 10 years of fake news (and 5 optimistic ones)
techcrunch.com #
The Tube Map As You've Never Seen It Before
londonist.com #
Authentication now comes with a wave of your hand
techcrunch.com #
Who Was The Real Fagin?
londonist.com #
James Comey confirms he is Reinhold Niebuhr on Twitter
techcrunch.com #
Bill O’Reilly points finger at “God” after accusations of sexual harassment
boingboing.net #
Statue Of Eros - Does Anyone Know Who It Really Is?
londonist.com #
London Runs Out Of Pithy Three-Word Names For Bars
londonist.com #
San Francisco just took a huge step toward internet utopia
wired.com #
Fats Domino, RIP
boingboing.net #
The history of the web in 20 seconds
boingboing.net #
Hollywood sex scandal predators go unnamed and unashamed in this week’s tabloids
boingboing.net #
Video Games Are Destroying the People Who Make Them
nytimes.com #
Watch a real rocket scientist figure out (and beat) carnival scams
techcrunch.com #
Vintage news blooper of anchor hysterically laughing about a person's tumor removal
boingboing.net #
Tiny RoboBee flies, swims, and launches itself out of water back into the air
boingboing.net #
Young people 'not receiving mental health care they need'
bbc.com #
A Halloween guide to being scary in six easy steps
bbc.com #
Australia deputy PM disqualified from office
bbc.com #
Next German government could revive plan to tackle botnets
reuters.com #
Luther’s legacy - Did a religious revolt create science?
newscientist.com #
The Register - we are already through the looking glass and down the rabbit hole at this point, so let's see what else Scoble has for us
theregister.co.uk #
Piccadilly Circus lights switched back on after renovations
bbc.com #
Whois? No, Whowas: Incoming Euro privacy rules torpedo domain registration system
theregister.co.uk #
Selma Blair - James Toback threatened to kill me after sexual harassment
theguardian.com #
New Zealand Government to ban foreigners from buying property
independent.co.uk #
Iron Maiden - Can I Play With Madness (Official Video)
youtube.com #
Mapping in HTML - a proposal for a new element
shkspr.mobi #
Small Asteroid or Comet 'Visits' from Beyond the Solar System
nasa.gov #
Radiolab Presents - More Perfect - American Pendulum I - Korematsu v. United States
radiolab.org #
Suicide Linux
qntm.org #
We made a bot that hunts bots
niemanlab.org #
Twitter decides to ban advertising from all accounts owned by Russia Today and Sputnik and will donate estimated $1.9M earnings since 2011 to misinfo research
techmeme.com #
Can Flies Actually Fly in a Vacuum Chamber?
youtube.com #
Pope's tough question for International Space Station crew
bbc.com #
JFK assassination - Trump declassifies some documents
bbc.com #
Catalan crisis - Regional MPs debate Spain takeover bid
bbc.com #
Trump - Opioid 'national shame' a public health emergency
bbc.com #

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Wednesday 25th October, 2017 #

Mongoose findOne query returning old data, is there some caching happening?
stackoverflow.com #
The Comic Sans Index - What Kind of Fonts Do Americans Use?
priceonomics.com #
Basketball Player Mistakenly Chucks Up Full Court Shot With 30 Seconds Left, Nails It Anyway
digg.com #
NBA Rookie Throws A Smooth Alley-Oop Off The Backboard... To Himself
digg.com #

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Monday 23rd October, 2017 #

Roman Polanski Accused of Molesting 10-Year-Old Girl During Photo Shoot
vulture.com #
How Big a Problem is This? The Hidden Codes That Are Controlling Our Lives
jeffbullas.com #
Full-Text Search in MongoDB
tutsplus.com #
Disabling Chrome Autofill
stackoverflow.com #
The Path to Conquering Async JavaScript
medium.com #
jQuery and The JOY of Class Toggling
medium.com #
Too much fructose can damage your liver, just like too much alcohol
ucsf.edu #
Simple Ways to Be Better at Remembering
nytimes.com #
Using Java 9 Modularization to Ship Zero-Dependency Native Apps
steveperkins.com #
How social media endangers knowledge
wired.com #
A newly discovered moon tunnel could be the perfect place for a colony, scientists say
washingtonpost.com #

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Sunday 22nd October, 2017 #

Security news this week - Russian spies rush to exploit the latest flash zero day
wired.com #
Bitcoin’s latest record high makes Satoshi Nakamoto the 247th richest person in the world
qz.com #
Catalonia independence - Spain pushes to remove leaders
bbc.com #

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Saturday 21st October, 2017 #

ES2015+ cheatsheet
devhints.io #
How I’m (Not) Using jQuery
telerik.com #
Don't Design Your Emails
gkogan.co #
Mastodon 2.0
medium.com #

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Friday 20th October, 2017 #

The Superweirdo Behind ‘Thor - Ragnarok’
nytimes.com #
Web Share API browser extension?
wikipedia.org #
The Web Share API - Example code
dev.to #
Web Share Target - proposed API allowing websites to receive share data (text, URLs, images)
chromestatus.com #
Little Kid Absolutely Nails BMX Tricks
digg.com #
The oral history of John Titor, the man who traveled back in time to save the internet
thrillist.com #
A Full Basketball Team Running In Perfect Sync Is Our New Favorite Glitch In The Matrix
digg.com #

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Thursday 19th October, 2017 #

Check Out This Quirky Short Film On The Loneliness Of Starting College
digg.com #
People On The Internet Are Convinced That Melania Trump Has A Body Double At The White House
digg.com #
Blockchains explained visually
unwttng.com #
Documenting the Web together
windows.com #

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Wednesday 18th October, 2017 #

Justin Trudeau Breaks Down While Delivering Statement On The Death Of Gord Downie
digg.com #
universal-analytics - A node module for Google's Universal Analytics tracking via the Measurement Protocol
npmjs.com #
Reese Witherspoon Says She Was Assaulted by a Director at 16
thecut.com #
Jennifer Lawrence Had to Do a ‘Naked Line-up’ Early in Her Career
thecut.com #
Björk Describes ‘Paralysing’ Sexual Harassment by Danish Director Following Lars Von Trier’s Denial
vulture.com #
Is London Just One Giant Game Of SimCity?
londonist.com #
Stephen Fry's lecture on a hopeful, cautious, excited vision of a better technological world
boingboing.net #
Photo of butchered rhino wins top award
bbc.com #
Stop Trying to Fix the User
ieee.org #
All the Other Harvey Weinsteins
newyorker.com #
This Ball-Throwing And Catching Machine Is Pretty Incredible
digg.com #
I tried to work all day in a VR headset and it was horrible
theguardian.com #

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Tuesday 17th October, 2017 #

Duchess joins Paddington for a dance
bbc.com #
How Erik Spiekermann is reinventing printing - The typography legend explains his revolutionary 'post-digital printing' method
creativebloq.com #
How Futura Became The Most Ripped-Off Typeface In History
fastcodesign.com #
She claimed tall, blond aliens kidnapped her as a child - Now she’s running for Congress
washingtonpost.com #

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Monday 16th October, 2017 #

Nirvana -- MTV Unplugged In New York
youtube.com #
Dot fun #2 - catch the dots
codepen.io #
CSS Grid Wired Magazine layout
codepen.io #
Theresa May to dine with EU chiefs amid Brexit 'deadlock'
bbc.com #
The Fidget Spinner Has Finally Spun Its Way Into Space
digg.com #
Cognitive Biases in Programming
medium.com #
HN: Micro Front ends – extending the microservice idea to front end development
ycombinator.com #
Micro Frontends - extending the microservice idea to frontend development
micro-frontends.org #

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Sunday 15th October, 2017 #

How to wait until an element exists?
stackoverflow.com #
How JavaScript works - Event loop and the rise of Async programming + 5 ways to better coding with async/await
sessionstack.com #
Scientists Are Just Starting to Understand Earth’s Eighth Continent, Zealandia
atlasobscura.com #
the software engineering notebook
github.io #

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Saturday 14th October, 2017 #

Syncing a fork
github.com #
How to apply unmerged upstream pull requests from other forks into my fork?
stackoverflow.com #
You Think With the World, Not Just Your Brain - On the mystery and wonder of extended cognition
theatlantic.com #
How Norms Change
newyorker.com #
Writing Smarter Animation Code
css-tricks.com #
How to fork and patch npm modules
debuggable.com #

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Friday 13th October, 2017 #

How to Setup a Company in Germany for English Speaking People
datacircle.io #
The Fascinating Process That Goes Behind Restoring Jim Henson Puppets
digg.com #
Dubai Unveils A Fleet Of Police Hover Bikes With One Silly Intense Video
digg.com #
This Handheld Holograph Generator Is Kind Of Mind-Blowing
digg.com #
Yoda Is Dead but Star Wars’ Dubious Lessons Live On
nautil.us #
Fastest method to escape HTML tags as HTML entities?
stackoverflow.com #
This Is What The Mysterious 'Sonic Attacks' In Cuba Sounded Like
digg.com #
Over The Air - Vol. 2, Pt. 3 - Exploiting The Wi-Fi Stack on Apple Devices
com.es #

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Thursday 12th October, 2017 #

A Little Story About the `yes` Unix Command
matthias-endler.de #
First Evidence That Online Dating Is Changing the Nature of Society
technologyreview.com #

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Wednesday 11th October, 2017 #

'There has never been a right to absolute privacy' – US deputy AG slams 'warrant-proof' crypto
theregister.co.uk #
In algorithms news - Dow Jones said that Google was buying Apple, and the bots bought it
techcrunch.com #
Owning Both A Parrot And An Amazon Alexa Seems Like A Very Bad Idea
digg.com #
This Photographer Shot The Same People On Their Way To Work Over 9 Years
fastcodesign.com #
Async/await has better stack traces than Promises
mathiasbynens.be #
Building A Mental Model For Precedence And The "new" Operator In JavaScript
bennadel.com #
Compiling vs Polyfills with Babel (JavaScript)
tylermcginnis.com #
How to handle Errors in JS globally
medium.com #

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Tuesday 10th October, 2017 #

The whole web at maximum FPS - How WebRender gets rid of jank
mozilla.org #
The first 150 days of van life
github.io #
UK must take action on racial disparity, says Theresa May
bbc.com #
52% of All JavaScript npm Packages Could Have Been Hacked via Weak Credentials
bleepingcomputer.com #
Half the universe’s missing matter has just been finally found
newscientist.com #

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Monday 9th October, 2017 #

Dear Silicon Valley - America’s fallen out of love with you
techcrunch.com #
HN: 'Our minds can be hijacked' - tech insiders who fear a smartphone dystopia
ycombinator.com #

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Sunday 8th October, 2017 #

Super Mario Bros in JavaScript
youtube.com #
CSS Grid Challenge - Winners and Templates
smashingmagazine.com #
Introducing Cloudflare Workers - Run JavaScript Service Workers at the Edge
cloudflare.com #
remark - transforms markdown, an ecosystem of plug-ins
github.com #
The False Prophecy of Hyperconnection
foreignaffairs.com #
How we run NPM packages in the browser
scrimba.com #
London's Hidden Tunnels Revealed In Amazing Cutaways
londonist.com #
In This Game, Your Favorite Web Browsers Are Anime Babes in a Swimsuit Contest
vice.com #
The Strange Political Afterlife of Arnold Schwarzenegger
politico.com #

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Saturday 7th October, 2017 #

Catalonia referendum - Thousands rally for Spanish unity
bbc.com #
Programmatically detect Mixed Content blocking in Chrome
stackoverflow.com #
'Our minds can be hijacked' - the tech insiders who fear a smartphone dystopia
theguardian.com #

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Friday 6th October, 2017 #

Tate Modern's Turbine Hall turns into a giant adult playground
bbc.com #
Plan for a very hard Brexit, German firms told
bbc.com #
Fearless Girl statue firm faced down in equal pay row
bbc.com #
Interesting Blade Runner 2049 review
digg.com #
Holy Shit, These Scooter Flips Are Insane
digg.com #
Band Uses Facebook Live To Make An Awesome Looping Music Video
digg.com #
Where is England's least gay region?
bbc.com #
Webpack Monitor
medium.com #
Catalonia media reflects polarised Spanish society
bbc.com #
Rupert Murdoch Is The Media’s Unlikely Hero In The War Against Facebook And Google
buzzfeed.com #

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Thursday 5th October, 2017 #

This Guitarist Filmed Himself Playing From Inside His Instrument, And The View Is Lovely
digg.com #
Keybase launches encrypted git
keybase.io #
How Many People Are In Space Right Now?
howmanypeopleareinspacerightnow.com #
How Open Offices Became So Common (And So Crappy)
digg.com #
Why We’ll Have Evidence of Aliens—If They Exist—By 2035
nautil.us #
Google's New Live-Translating Earbuds
digg.com #

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Wednesday 4th October, 2017 #

The Error in Baseball and the Moral Dimension to American Life
newyorker.com #
The wired brain - How not to talk about an ai-powered future
ines.io #
Stop the Border Surveillance Bills
eff.org #
The Trump administration is exploring ways to replace Social Security numbers with a modern cryptographic identifier
bloomberg.com #
‘Don’t brand me’ - The Indian women saying no to forced tattoos
bbc.com #
SCI-FI, FANTASY, AND THE STATUS QUO
currentaffairs.org #
21 Hours of “Fun” With the Super NES Classic
theringer.com #

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Tuesday 3rd October, 2017 #

ElonMusk When He Proved EveryOne Wrong
youtube.com #
12 colours and the emotions they evoke
creativebloq.com #
A Five Minutes Guide to Better Typography
pierrickcalvez.com #
The Rise of ‘Weaponized Autism’
melmagazine.com #

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Monday 2nd October, 2017 #

Blade Runner 2049 review – a gigantic spectacle of pure hallucinatory craziness
theguardian.com #
How do I get timezones list using moment.js library?
stackoverflow.com #
I wanted to understand why racists hated me - So I befriended Klansmen
washingtonpost.com #
HN - The Negro Travelers' Green Book (1956)
ycombinator.com #
The Big Bang Wasn’t The Beginning, After All
medium.com #

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Sunday 1st October, 2017 #

JSJ 280: Stackblitz - Running webpack and build tools in the browser
devchat.tv #
OJ Simpson released on parole from Nevada jail
bbc.com #
After the Tsunami, Japan’s Sea Creatures Crossed an Ocean
nytimes.com #
Watch All The Apple TV Aerial Video Screensavers
benjaminmayo.co.uk #
HTTP is obsolete - It's time for the Distributed Web
neocities.org #
Photos, Video: 3D crosswalk in Ísafjörður helps slow down speeding motorists
visir.is #
I asked Tinder for my data - It sent me 800 pages of my deepest, darkest secrets
theguardian.com #

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