Tuesday 31st July, 2018 #

• Man Takes Us On A Trip Back In Time With His 1949 Hong Kong Travel Vlog
• A Reminder That The Ocean Is A Big, Scary Place
• Evolving the Firefox Brand - The look and feel of Firefox is about to be updated
• Thousands download 3D-printed gun designs
• North Korea working on new missiles, US officials say, despite thaw
• The Cruel Myth of the Suffering Artist
• Diving deeper into Reinforcement Learning with Q-Learning
• Doing it completely and totally wrong - Sriracha hot sauce

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Sunday 29th July, 2018 #

• Ocean wilderness 'disappearing' globally
• What comes after AI? I think that's where a lot of us probably want to be
• Frameworkless frontends are fashionable again - Github replaces JQuery with vanillaJs
• Build a state management system with vanilla JavaScript
• Beacon API - JavaScript Web API for sending small amounts of data from browser to server without waiting for a response

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Saturday 28th July, 2018 #

• Behemoth, bully, thief - how the English language is taking over the planet
• From the slightly opinionated side of things - Why You Shouldn't Use A Web Framework
• How to - Delete a remote Git tag
• npm-version - Bump a package version
• npm version - also creates a git commit for you
• Explain which gitignore rule is ignoring my file
• How to use Semantic Versioning
• Version number annotation for private repositories with NPM
• Git Basics - Tagging
• Automate Versioning Using Bitbucket Pipelines (NodeJS)
• Keep a changelog - Don’t let your friends dump git logs into changelogs
• The death of a TLD

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Friday 27th July, 2018 #

• This Woman Has Been Anonymously Funding Female Artists for 22 Years
• Go Inside the Magical Life of Europe’s Family Circuses
• Drone Awards 2018 - Best Aerial Photos of the Year
• London to Sydney under three hours - 2,000 supersonic jets to link hundreds of cities
• A Walk Up... Edgware Road
• Simple Steps to Optimize Your App Performance with MongoDB, Redis, and Node.js
• Collaboration - The New Revolution In Design Software
• Co-founder of nudist anti-Putin group found dead in her Paris apartment

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Thursday 26th July, 2018 #

• Save only recent 10 folders and delete the rest
• What do you think of Product Hunt's latest launch?
• Makerlog is the dead-simple task log that helps you stay productive and ship faster
• China Said to Quickly Withdraw Approval for New Facebook Venture
• CSS Grid Posters - An exploration into the world of possibilities with CSS grid
• Yett - A small webpage library to control the execution of (third party) - useful for creating GDPR compliant consent-first-analytics
• UIengine - Tool to build pattern libraries and documentation for design systems
• Weird things variable fonts can do

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Wednesday 25th July, 2018 #

• Facebook plans innovation hub in China despite tightening censorship
• Chrome's long-promised HTTP 'not secure' website warnings arrive
• BitTorrent acquired by blockchain startup Tron founded by chinese entrepreneur Justin Jun

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Tuesday 24th July, 2018 #

• SpectreRSB - Spectre/Meltdown type attack that bypasses all the mitigations put in place for the original Spectre/Meltdown
• A Nanoscale Look at a Complete Fly Brain - Fly brain neurons fully mapped in 3d
• Russian hackers reach utility control room - Mr. Homer - "Their goal is to disguise themselves as the people who touch these systems on a daily basis"
• WhatsApp Balks at India's Demand To Break Encryption
• The Ambien Diaries - drugs, voices and SWIM
• What if people were paid for their data?
• U.S. Breaks Up Fake I.R.S. Phone Scam Operation
• Google - Security Keys Neutralized Employee Phishing
• envman - Environment variable manager
• cdenv - A simple virtual environment manager for Bash and Zsh
• Linux Environment Management
• Who owns the Moon?

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Monday 23rd July, 2018 #

• STAND HIGH PATROL : My Research
• SH.MIXTAPE.33 / PUPAJIM – SIDE B (Stand High Records)
• viral vacuum by madcatlady
• What Does “Outsider Artist” Even Mean?
• The liar’s dividend, and other challenges of deep-fake news
• A brief history of fake news

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Sunday 22nd July, 2018 #

• Authoritarians used to be scared of social media, now they rule it
• A Global Guide to State-Sponsored Trolling - virtual hate mobs, surveillance and misinformation

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Saturday 21st July, 2018 #

• Why website body text should be bigger, and ways to optimize it
• Facebook suspends another analytics firm amid questions over surveillance
• Russia World Cup - How Pussy Riot managed to burst into final
• 1.5 million affected by hack targeting Singapore’s health data - Prime minister affected
• The Engineer’s guide to the future

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Friday 20th July, 2018 #

• Reid Hoffman of Airbnb on scaling a business
• How to change the output color of echo in Linux
• Chance the Rapper buys local news site Chicagoist to amplify 'diverse voices'
• Listing declared functions in Bash using declare -F
• Geosharded Recommendations Part 1 - Sharding Approach
• Work less, get more - New Zealand firm's four-day week an 'unmitigated success'
• Use 3D Printing For Perfect Leather Molds
• The Best Remote Business Might Be On Your Doorstep - Remote local businesses
• Launch Sublime Text 3 from the command line

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Thursday 19th July, 2018 #

• How to print only defined environment variables (not functions) in bash
• .gitignore exclude folder but include specific subfolder
• The Vim page up and page down keystrokes
• When Phil Mitchell met Trump - Coldwar Steve and his Brexit Britain mashups
• Spain to introduce ‘yes means yes’ sexual consent law
• The Effect Of Sleep On Happiness
• Reddit reinvents the chat room with community chat
• Mark Zuckerberg on holocaust denialists
• Why France’s Victory Matters Liberalism triumphed over a history of ethno-nationalism

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Wednesday 18th July, 2018 #

• And now, 35 minutes of commercials directed by David Lynch
• Newton’s cradle is a device that demonstrates conservation of momentum and energy using a series of swinging spheres
• Event-Driven Architecture (Part of @herbertograca's Software Architecture Chronicles Series)
• Noam Chomsky calmly explains why Trump and allies are a threat to organized human life
• Twitch is adding the ability to search for and use GIFs

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Tuesday 17th July, 2018 #

• Will Marshall - The mission to create a searchable database of Earth's surface
• How to determine function name from inside a function (in bash)

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Monday 16th July, 2018 #

• One internet store does 49 percent of the entire US online sales
• EFF highlights Japan's website blocking initiative
• What’s happening? Who cares - Meet JOMO, FOMO’s benevolent younger cousin
• World Cup 2018 - France beat Croatia 4-2 in World Cup final
• The Google Translate World Cup - The New York Times

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Sunday 15th July, 2018 #

• Web Architecture 101 - Compact overview of typical components used in modern web applications (nice diagrams and high level)
• Managing Complex Waiting Experiences on Web UIs
• The photographers who defined skate’s wild side
• Jezus Factory Records Sampler

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Saturday 14th July, 2018 #

• Andrew Bennett of Jesus Factory Records - On starting an indie label - "Don’t, unless you have serious mental health issues"
• The Jezus Factory - formed in 2006 and is an independent UK record label that specializes in Belgian and particularly Antwerp music
• Dr. Billy Wayne Ruddick to Vice President Palin - "I demand an Apology"
• Sacha Baron Cohen has made his own Infowars
• Microsoft calls for federal regulation of facial recognition
• I lived with a best-selling Indian phone for 10 days - Nothing went smoothly
• Coherence and Decentralized Systems
• Exit function stack without exiting shell in bash

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Friday 13th July, 2018 #

• Replace if … then … fi with && and || in Bash
• Can a shell script set environment variables of the calling shell?
• Guido van Rossum - "I'm basically giving myself a permanent vacation from being BDFL, and you all will be on your own"
• Nodejs Security - ESlint Postmortem for Malicious Packages Published on July 12th
• Different views on view-source
• What kind of ethics do front-end developers need?
• The Third Wave - How many Chinese entrepreneurs are landing on Indian shores
• Testing Node.js in 2018

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Thursday 12th July, 2018 #

• How the Blog Broke the Web - Reminiscing about the web before the tyranny that is reverse chronology
• Intro to Feature Policy - It's like CSP but instead of controlling security, it controls features
• Resilient, Declarative, Contextual - An exploration of what makes CSS different to other programming languages
• Does "Weird Facebook" Have A Future In Zuckerberg's Dream World?
• How to have pm2 run a node process using npm start
• How you can improve your workflow using the JavaScript console
• Introduction to Pattern Lab

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Wednesday 11th July, 2018 #

• Web Components in 2018
• The div that looks different in every browser
• Show HN: Open Source Identity & Access Proxy which authenticates and authorizes incoming HTTP requests
• Microsoft introduces the Surface Go, starting at $399 MSRP, it’s the smallest and most affordable Surface yet
• Discovered yesterday that iTerm2 has a password manager feature
• Building a better news experience on YouTube, together
• How do you display POST data with cURL?

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Tuesday 10th July, 2018 #

• Install MongoDB Community Edition on Ubuntu
• Sorry, Power-Lunchers - This Restaurant Is a Co-Working Space Now
• German Court Issues First GDPR Ruling
• Browsh – A modern, text-based browser great for slow and/or expensive bandwidth
• Any tips on how to start freelancing?

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Monday 9th July, 2018 #

• Uganda Bans VPNs To Prevent Users From Dodging Its Absurd New Social Media Tax
• Inside China’s Dystopian Dreams - A.I., Shame and Lots of Cameras
• After Strava, Polar is Revealing the Homes of Soldiers and Spies

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Sunday 8th July, 2018 #

• Meet the woman who decides what Google's emoji look like 
• Interesting perspective on SPAs and simplicity from the Ruby community - Turbolinks, SJR Responses and modern Rails
• South Korea has limited a working week to 52 hours, in order to stop overwork
• A Stanford researcher says we shouldn’t start working full time until age 40
• awesome-lite-websites - A list awesome lite websites without all the bloat
• Guidelines for Brutalist Web Design

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Saturday 7th July, 2018 #

• 4K Video of Colorful Liquid in Space
• James Clark's honours Bourdain in Vietnam (I can relate to how he felt)
• New Post: The dead simple todos system
• Why the world should adopt a basic income
• New Repo: mjgs/freelancer - website for freelancers with homepage and payments pages to securely receive payments for services
• Below The Surface - archaeological project excavating the Amstel riverbed - vast array of objects, broken, whole, all jumbled together

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Friday 6th July, 2018 #

• What Belgium’s World Cup team says about the spread of English across Europe
• How to fork your own repo in Github
• How to stop Javascript forEach?
• Side Project Marketing & Sales Checklists
• Watch Hunt (interesting example of an amazon affiliate site)
• Google Analytics - UTM Link Tagging Explained
• URL builders - Generate custom campaign parameters for your advertising URLs
• Early-stage News - Articles and interviews highlighting early-stage startups and side-projects
• Reddit - one of the world's most popular websites - is trying to cash in through advertising
• EU Parliament Votes To Step Back From The Abyss On Copyright For Now
• How to Undertake the Artist’s Journey
• Continue a markdown numbered list after adding content between items

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Thursday 5th July, 2018 #

• Create a Multi Blog Site with Jekyll
• New Post: Commands I ran to install rbenv and upgrade ruby versions
• New Post: Ruby jargon to Nodejs jargon translation
• rbenv vs. rvm - Finally a sort of good explanation of all this ruby jargon
• How NASA chooses tech for the International Space Station, and why AI could help get us to Mars
• Uganda leader says social media used for 'lying', defends tax for access
• Spanish and Italian Wikipedia go dark to protest EU copyright law proposals
• Euro privacy watchdog raises eyebrows at mulled EU copyright law
• Build A Blog With Jekyll And GitHub Pages
• The Sass Ampersand
• soul typecast / no reservations - jon spencer blues explosion live @ circolo artisti (2012)

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Wednesday 4th July, 2018 #

• New Post: Description of my freelance software services
• How to Protest the Fourth of July
• Google app developers raining on your Gmail parade - what are the chances!
• Wikipedia Italy Blocks All Articles in Protest of EU's Ruinous Copyright Proposals
• Google delay on ads standard for EU privacy law creates compliance mess

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Tuesday 3rd July, 2018 #

• Is the “Netflix of podcasts” moment finally here?
• Blue light, prevalent in modern UIs, is aesthetically pleasing, but poses health risks; designers should switch to deep red/orange as the military did long ago
• ‘Everyone is breaking the law right now’ - GDPR compliance efforts are falling short
• TaTaTu has raised funding to develop its blockchain-based social entertainment platform and finance the production of movies
• Rob Malda (@cmdrtaco) on Slashdot and social media
• Belgium completed a remarkable revival as they came from the World Cup abyss and beat Japan to reach the quarter-finals

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Monday 2nd July, 2018 #

• Unsplash - Beautiful, free photos - Gifted by the world’s most generous community of photographers
• W3.CSS is a modern CSS framework with built-in responsiveness
• GitHub Pages supported themes
• So Simple is a simple Jekyll theme for your words and pictures
• Minimal is a Jekyll theme for GitHub Pages
• Midnight is a Jekyll theme for GitHub Pages
• 500px will no longer allow photographers to license their photos under Creative Commons
• Captain Beefheart Radar Station
• Musk says Tesla pushed out 7,000 cars last week, meeting goal of 5,000 Model 3s
• Homes 'Earn' Minimum Wage or More in Almost Half the Nation's Largest Cities

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Sunday 1st July, 2018 #

• jekyll-admin - A Jekyll plugin that provides a traditional CMS-style GUI to author content and administer Jekyll sites
• Readme Driven Development
• Is Google's Promotion of HTTPS Misguided?
• Vegan in Indonesia - A Delicious Journey
• How to force GitHub Pages build?
• I've added a pricing page to the blog for my Node.js freelance rates
• Wish ruby & ruby gems weren't such a pain in the neck to install and maintain
• I really like the look of the Liquid template language used in Jekyll - simple, elegant, probably versatile and powerful
• Spent some time reading the Jekyll docs properly today

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