Friday 31st August, 2018 #

• Astronauts tackle air leak on International Space Station
• Mutiny at the big five is part of the future of work
• Coca-Cola to buy Costa coffee for £3.9bn
• EU to recommend year-round daylight saving time
• mongo-seeding - The ultimate solution for populating your MongoDB database
• Open Source Licensing - Redis will remain BSD licensed

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Thursday 30th August, 2018 #

• Dutroux murders - Belgian child-killer's letter angers parents
• Tips for Writing Lambda Functions in Node 8
• hiproxy - lightweight proxy tool for Front-End developers based on Node.js that supports an NGINX-like configuration
• JavaScript Promises with Node.js - Really clear explanation of how promises work in node
• How to use Docker for Node.js development
• The World’s Oldest Blockchain Has Been Hiding in the New York Times Since 1995
• No D'oh! DNS-over-HTTPS passes Mozilla performance test
• Emails while commuting 'should count as work'
• Picasso’s Incredible Childhood Paintings Reveal a Different Side of the Modern Artist
• ‘Overtourism’ Worries Europe - How Much Did Technology Help Get Us There?
• Germany, seeking independence from U.S., pushes cyber security research
• Picular - Google, but for colors (extracts colors from a google search, strange results sometimes)
• Free traffic sources for your project with ROI
• How I acquired my first 10 customers for Cronhub
• Getting Started with Service Workers

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Wednesday 29th August, 2018 #

• Useful flowchart for when you have a Git mess on your hands
• Virtual Organized Crime - DJs are playing motion captured sets in Grand Theft Auto nightclubs
• Paystack, with ambitions to become the Stripe of Africa, raises $8M from Visa, Tencent… and Stripe itself
• DuckDuckGo Receives $10M Financing to Expand Global Impact
• Facebook insiders describe intolerant liberal culture, often policed by mobs, seeks political diversity
• Why is the USA one of the only countries that has no known Right to Food human right?
• World’s leading human rights groups tell Google to cancel its China censorship plan
• Trump points out Google's biased algorithms

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Tuesday 28th August, 2018 #

• Food is any substance consumed to provide nutritional support for an organism
• New Repo: nockback-test - how to mock an api using nock record/playback feature
• Paul Irish - Debugging Node.js with Chrome DevTools
• 99 Travel publications that pay freelance writers for articles
• UK to start work on satellite system to rival EU's Galileo
• How much electricity is consumed by Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, Litecoin, and Monero?
• Tech Industry Pursues a Federal Privacy Law, on Its Own Terms
• Removing Myanmar Military Officials From Facebook

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Monday 27th August, 2018 #

• Who needs democracy when you have data? Here’s how China rules using data, AI, and internet surveillance
• YouTube to start rolling out non-skippable 15-20 seconds ads - sites "more money for creators"
• Tesla to stay publicly traded, Elon Musk says company is 'better off'

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Sunday 26th August, 2018 #

• Brexit - No-deal 'risks break-up of UK' - Herman Van Rompuy
• Papal visit to Nock, Ireland - Pope begs forgiveness for clerical sex abuse
• Hackable humans and digital dictators - Q&A with Yuval Noah Harari

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Saturday 25th August, 2018 #

• How pioneering DJ Grandmaster Flash hacked together his first mixer
• Sleepless City Streets of Rainy Tokyo Nights Lit by Electric Neon Signs
• The Approval Economy - On infrastructure, advertising, and social norms
• What's really behind the global rise in working longer and longer hours
• Trump’s base may not like him, but they’re not about to ditch him
• Stimulus - A modest JavaScript framework for the HTML you already have (from the creators of basecamp/37signals)
• Uzbekistan's secret underground in pictures - art, architecture and nuclear-blast protection in Central Asia’s oldest subway system

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Friday 24th August, 2018 #

• Shortwave - Looks like an interesting modern podcasting platform with lots of useful transcoding tools
• The 30% Tax - The Netflix App Store bypass is the start of the insurgence of the subscription bundling business
• 'Xbox All Access' looks like a new subscription service with Xbox Live, Game Pass, and a console
• More Than A Billion Downloads of Node.js
• The Node.js Blogging Platform Ghost Releases v2.0

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Thursday 23rd August, 2018 #

• Chinese Surveillance State Is Basically The US Surveillance Apparatus Minus The Constitutional Rights
• UK Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn proposes a publicly-funded alternative to Facebook
• Type designer David Jonathan Ross has an interesting website with "Font of the month club"
• Typeography exploration at the BBC - An Exploration of Variable Fonts
• Former Facebook CSO says it's likely that the U.S. elections will become the world cup of information warfare
• Creator Arcade - music education platform to learn and get feedback from world's best DJ's, music producers, and engineers (IH interview with founder)
• Mocking External HTTP Requests in Node Tests with Nock
• Stripe Mock Webhooks - Quickly test Stripe Webhooks against your application without hitting Stripe or requiring internet connectivity
• mock-stripe-server - Mock Stripe API Server

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Wednesday 22nd August, 2018 #

• Schools are mining students' social media posts for signs of trouble
• Jack Dorsey On Deleting Tweets, Banning Trump, And Whether An Unbiased Twitter Can Exist
• Facebook is dealing with "Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior"
• Facebook implements trust scoring for all users, but it can't tell you about the system in case you try to fix it
• Netflix updates it's billing system to bypass iTunes and Google

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Tuesday 21st August, 2018 #

• EU to fine social media platforms that take more than 1 hour to remove extremist content
• Karma raises $12 million for marketplace that helps restaurants and supermarkets reduce food waste
• Twitch to start showing ads, the $9/month Turbo plan will keep ad-free viewing
• A Giphy story - We Love Jurgen Klopp!
• Giphy redesigns homepage to highlight new Story collections
• Skype’s end-to-end encrypted Private Conversations feature now available across platforms
• It’s Not Technology That’s Disrupting Our Jobs - A reflection on the gig economy
• Venezuela just devalued the bolívar by 95% and pegged it to a cryptocurrency
• RemoteOnly - Aggregates posts from several remote job boards
• Your go-to tools for Keyword Research?
• Anyone else managing multiple SaaS/software products?

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Monday 20th August, 2018 #

• Wildlife photographer Paul Nicklen: ‘If we lose the ice, we lose the entire ecosystem’
• How TripAdvisor changed travel
• Inside Facebook’s plan to protect the U.S. midterm elections
• Twitter CEO Dorsey explains ignoring Infowars' rules violations

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Sunday 19th August, 2018 #

• We’re Living in a Fake World - Advertising is the reason
• Chip butty
• Another newspaper headline with picture of Trump shouting
• Trump on social media - "Let everybody participate, good & bad, and we will all just have to figure it out!"
• StaticGen - A List of Static Site Generators for JAMstack Sites
• JAMstack - Modern web development architecture based on client-side JavaScript, reusable APIs, and prebuilt Markup
• Scuttlebutt - a decent(ralised) secure gossip platform

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Saturday 18th August, 2018 #

• Mastodon Is Better than Twitter: Elevator Pitch
• Twitter’s fear of making hard decisions is killing it

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Friday 17th August, 2018 #

• Sigil - Standalone string interpolator and template processor (useful to build configs in bash scripts)
• Dokku helps you build and manage the lifecycle of applications - The smallest PaaS implementation you've ever seen
• Creating a Secure REST API in Node.js
• How to Debug a Node.js app in a Docker Container
• Node.js TCP Server Application using PM2 and Nginx with Proxy Protocol

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Thursday 16th August, 2018 #

• GitLab Continuous Integration (GitLab CI/CD)
• Netlify - Build, deploy, and manage modern web projects
• nanobox.io - Run any app on any cloud (snazzy looking containerisation implementation)
• What techniques do you use to capitalize on media coverage?
• Hey devs what tools do you use to deploy your code?
• Native Lazy Loading Coming to the Web Platform
• aglio - An API Blueprint renderer with theme support that outputs static HTML
• Snowboard - API blueprint toolkit
• API Blueprint - A powerful high-level API description language for web APIs

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Wednesday 15th August, 2018 #

• Guide to Tracking Multiple Subdomains in Google Analytics
• Are Netflix, Amazon Video, and Xfinity just re-creating cable TV but via streaming?
• We're Bad At Regulating Privacy, Because We Don't Understand Privacy
• Chinese Cops Now Spying on American Soil - China is compiling a global registry of its ethnic minorities
• $100 Million Was Once Big Money for a Start-Up - Now, It’s Common

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Tuesday 14th August, 2018 #

• The 2018 Web Developer Roadmap An illustrated guide to becoming a Frontend or Backend Developer with links to courses
• Most Beautiful Libraries in the World
• New Post: Linkblog featured on 10words
• YouTube is creating tools for creators to make money through membership, merchandise and even money for using specific features
• Apple is encouraging app developers to move to subscription based revenue models
• Aphex Twin - T69 Collapse (out 14 September on Warp)
• Kikagaku Moyo / 幾何学模様 - Masana Temples - 09 Gatherings

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Monday 13th August, 2018 #

• Resistant protocols - How decentralization evolves

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Sunday 12th August, 2018 #

• SH.MIXTAPE.24 / MORESOUNDS
• What are the facts on these “design systems” that has the whole industry talking?
• Twitter fleshes out a policy to address “dehumanizing” speech posted by users
• Reminiscing about the "shared family computer" and the new realities and challenges technology is creating today
• Interesting piece about Amazon Auto SDK bringing Alexa to cars and the nuances of accents in voice recognition
• Check if mongodb database exists from the command line
• Join elements of an array in bash

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Saturday 11th August, 2018 #

• ShellCheck, a static analysis tool for shell scripts
• How to display only files from aws s3 ls command?
• Nutrition Cards for Accessible Components - an attempt to digest and simplify the accessibility expectations when it comes to component authoring
• Cronhub - makes sure your background jobs are up and running - "Painless Cron Monitoring"
• themesfor.app - Free (Do whatever you want), fully-responsive Bootstrap 4 themes for your next startup and side-project via email

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Friday 10th August, 2018 #

• Apple Defends Its Decision To Allow Infowars In The App Store
• Examples of text effects built with splitting.js
• Splitting - JavaScript microlibrary designed to empower you with animations, transitions and interactions with text elements
• My Amsterdam is being un-created by mass tourism
• Before Lonely Planet there was an underground travel guide publishing house named BIT (1970–1980)
• Surprise, no one buys things via Alexa
• Sid James' final interview - Carry On star's recording found after 42 years
• Hack attack can stop people's hearts
• Deploying a Stateful Application on Azure Kubernetes Service (Wow Kubernetes === complicated!)
• What is Kubernetes & How to Get Started With It

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Thursday 9th August, 2018 #

• A Brief History of Containers
• Patreon buys Memberful but keeps it indie as patronage consolidates
• New Repo: freelancer - Website for freelancers to securely receive payments for services
• Upwork has turned into a creepy freelancer surveillance and monitoring company

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Wednesday 8th August, 2018 #

• New Post: New Linkblog feature: navbar globe icon
• How to do command line search & replace with ack
• Apple and Google haven’t banned Infowars apps, and their downloads are booming

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Tuesday 7th August, 2018 #

• A Generation Grows Up in China Without Google, Facebook or Twitter
• Facebook, Apple, YouTube and Spotify ban Infowars' Alex Jones
• West Virginia to introduce blockchain based mobile phone voting for midterm elections

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Sunday 5th August, 2018 #

• This modern Seattle building doesn’t have AC - on purpose
• South Korea's spy cam porn epidemic
• Venezuela President Maduro survives 'drone assassination attempt'
• LinkedIn website won't let me update my profile picture! And there is no support email address :(
• Trillion - Apple’s insanely great run…
• Top 10 roles in AI and data science

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Saturday 4th August, 2018 #

• Split string by delimiter and get N-th element
• How can I list files with their absolute path in linux?
• Logrotating files in a directories and its subdirectories
• Learning from Terminals to Design the Future of User Interfaces
• Myanmar’s first female globetrotter
• So you bought a ghost town - Who is paying $12 million for an abandoned town?
• The Case for Genetically Engineering Ethical Humans
• Do Americans Understand They’re Beginning to Commit The Legal Definition of Genocide?
• Why westerners fear robots and the japanese do not (apparently westerners believe humans "own nature")
• Google Maps is no longer #flatearth

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Friday 3rd August, 2018 #

• Machine Learning for Drummers
• Build, deploy, manage modern serverless workloads using Knative on Kubernetes
• Are people really pinging their Serverless functions every 5 minutes to avoid cold starts?
• Apple has officially become the world's only trillion dollar publicly traded company
• ‘The Art of Computer Programming’ by Donald Knuth

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Thursday 2nd August, 2018 #

• Configure a Bash script exit on error
• How to visually design state in JavaScript - state machines & statecharts
• Thieves escape by motorboat after royal jewels heist in Sweden
• How to tell the difference between persuasion and manipulation
• How we spent 30k USD in Firebase in less than 72 hours - Why it's important to be careful when using metered cloud services

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Wednesday 1st August, 2018 #

• Augur - the blockchain betting networks where you can bet on anything even assassination
• The Bullshit Web
• taskbook - Tasks, boards & notes for the command-line habitat (Looks very interesting)

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