Sunday 30th September, 2018 #

• Internet, social media use and device ownership in U.S. have plateaued - "there just aren’t many non-users left"
• Indonesia tsunami toll soars amid push to save survivors (800 people dead)
• Tim Berners-Lee unveils Solid, an open source project to decentralize the web and give users control of their data
• My Oxford interview consisted of 3 lecturers laughing at me for not being able to answer questions on topics not covered by the curriculum then saying "We'll put you out of your misery" when they eventually gave me the answers
• Hundreds of academics at top UK universities accused of bullying
• Remi on maintaining the popular open source nodemon library, receiving donations, tools and motivation
• Remi Sharp lists his favourite improved CLI tools
• UK intelligence agency admits unlawfully spying on Privacy International
• Elon musk settles SEC fraud charges, agrees to pay penalty fees and step down as chairman of the board

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Saturday 29th September, 2018 #

• Static Marks - Convert your plain bookmark files into a static web app (and version control with git)
• Facebook is another titan tech company that has removed support contacts from their "Help Center" pages
• Facebook security update about having to force logout 90 million users
• Society creates drug users and then calls them the abusers
• BBC talks to Linus Torvalds about his "be more polite" personal direction
• Indonesia earthquake and tsunami - At least 30 dead in Palu
• Hacker changes his mind and cancels livestream deletion of Zuckerberg's Facebook page
• Creating Users, Not Addicts
• Creating meaningful micro-interactions
• Burger King vs Artificial Intelligence
• How to Brexit? - Explore the (im)possibilities of the different Brexit scenarios

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Friday 28th September, 2018 #

• Definition - Artificial Intelligence
• SEC announces it is suing Elon Musk over “false and misleading public statements” (tweets), Tesla's stock price drops
• LinkedIn appear to have removed ways to contact customer support from their website
• node.cool - Delightful Node.js packages and resources
• Javascript feature support for Node.js
• I really like the idea of Google Trips, but why isn't there a web UI to go with the iOS and Android apps?
• Google makes it easier to keep track of travel research
• Daniel Johnston and the Rhythm Rats - "Hard Time"

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Thursday 27th September, 2018 #

• Native extensions for Nodejs - Useful in understanding the Nodejs stack in more depth
• PM2 used to run Node.js processes in production deployments, now support running Python processes
• You Need Feeds - Clear information about how to start using web feeds to read your favourite websites
• T-Writer.js is a native typewriter-effect library
• Interesting solar powered website out of Barcelona - How to Build a Low-tech Website?

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Wednesday 26th September, 2018 #

• HN Thread about the Google Chrome Forced Login Situation - Product Updates Based on Your Feedback
• uBlock Origin gets option to block all JavaScript execution by default
• Google addressing account sign-in, cookie clearing controversies in Chrome 70
• New Copyright Powers, New "Terrorist Content" Regulations - A Grim Day For Digital Rights in Europe
• What is Modular CSS?
• Tethered Together or Poles Apart? Japan and India - A Cultural Comparison

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Tuesday 25th September, 2018 #

• Deno - Node.js killer?
• Instagram’s Co-Founders to Step Down “to explore our curiosity and creativity again”
• Why I'm leaving Micro.blog
• Eric Schmidt predicts internet to bifurcate into Chinese-led and US-led versions within the next decade

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Monday 24th September, 2018 #

• A pretty good explanation of the tricky part of linux shell output redirection
• US-China trade - US imposes biggest round of tariffs yet
• White House proposes executive order to Trump that would examine tech companies’ practices
• The history of the ice trade - Why Iceland doesn't actually have that much ice
• Why I’m done with Chrome
• News Site to Investigate Big Tech, Helped by Craigslist Founder Graig Newmark
• Stunning Photos of Kyrgyzstan and Its Untouched Landscape
• Amazon is looking more like a traditional retail company with a loyalty program, house brands and advertising
• Chrome now auto logs you in (forced-login) to the browser when you log in to a Google service (confusing)

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Sunday 23rd September, 2018 #

• express-promise-router - Wrapper for Express 4's Router that allows middleware to return promises
• Using async/await in ExpressJS middlewares
• Discover the Incredible Story of One Man’s Mission to Paint a Massive Mural in Cairo
• Anonymous stock-market manipulators behind $20B+ of "mispricing" can be tracked by their writing styles
• PayPal bans Infowars for promoting hate
• Inside Facebook’s Election ‘War Room’

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Saturday 22nd September, 2018 #

• Elon Musk - Yusaku Maezawa "Moon Loop" Press Conference
• China's “pay-for-knowledge” podcast industry estimated $7.3B, US ad-driven podcast industry $314M
• Google defends Gmail data sharing, gives few details on violations
• Google suppresses memo revealing plans to closely track search users in China

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Friday 21st September, 2018 #

• Life Begins at Forty
• Humanity - makers of land mines and other tools of war
• Fun Fun Function new feature - Developer interviews - Isa Silveira
• James Clark passes through the UAE - A day in Dubai
• Bundle your Node app to a single executable for Windows, Linux and OSX

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Thursday 20th September, 2018 #

• Professional photographer Zach Arias interviews Unsplash founder Mikael Cho
• Surveillance news - Insurance companies are starting to require customers wear Fitbit tracking devices
• Revue - newsletter building tool with Stripe integration so you can charge a fee
• The Science Behind 100,000-View Blog Posts

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Wednesday 19th September, 2018 #

• Wade Shepard - Getting The YouTube Channel Caught Up (Vlog)
• Interview with Vimsy Founder, creator centric online service for creating video channels
• Shopify’s adds AR shopping support for 600,000 stores - preview items in your home using iOS AR
• Mozilla releases Firefox Reality, it's web browser for VR, available in the Viveport, Oculus, and Daydream app stores
• Following the lead of the Node.js project, AMP moves to an open governance model

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Tuesday 18th September, 2018 #

• Run node scripts using nvm and crontab without hardcoding the node version
• AI Def - Bomb The Bass Ft. Will Self - 5 Ml. Barrel
• Musk unveils first tourist for SpaceX 'Moon loop' - Japanese online fashion tycoon Yusaku Maezawa
• US-China tectonic plates moving again, $200bn worth of opportunities for entrepreneurs
• npm scoped packages - a way of grouping related packages together (they don't seem to be used much)
• Stripe Terminal - The programmable point of sale (currently US invite only)
• Stripe expands e-commerce offering into bricks and mortar in-person payments
• Nice to see Twitter listening to it's users and adding chronological/algorithmic feed switcher feature

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Monday 17th September, 2018 #

• Salesforce billionaire Marc Benioff to buy Time magazine
• Linus Torvalds is temporarily stepping away from Linux maintenance
• Korean 'Uncle Service' - Great but what happens when the bullies team up with the bigger billies huh?
• Astronomers have found the universe's missing matter
• What is the meaning of LinkedIn?
• The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (Latest Coen Brothers Film Official Trailer)
• Attack of the killer Jedi! The bizarre story of Turkish Star Wars
• This Overview captures an incredible blanket of tones in the trees of Bow, New Hampshire

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Sunday 16th September, 2018 #

• It's very difficult to get Digital Ocean to answer important questions about the articles they (apparently) write

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Saturday 15th September, 2018 #

• Noam Chomsky - I would vote for Jeremy Corbyn
• Back-end Developer Hiring Guide 2018 - Salaries, Freelance Rates, and More
• Has anyone open sourced part of your company's software?
• Six things that make a great software developer
• The official mirror of the V8 Git repository
• Node.js is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine
• The original Google Chrome comic
• Evolution of the V8 code base over the years (Best watched at x4 speed)
• Celebrating 10 years of V8
• How to Measure Churn Rate From Product User Activity

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Friday 14th September, 2018 #

• Disruptive Interfaces & The Emerging Battle To Be The Default
• Node.js v10.10.0 released - fs.readdir withFileTypes option looks like it could be useful
• Standard Library - Serverless platform to build, ship, host, document, scale and integrate with APIs
• The Serverless Framework is an open-source CLI for building and deploying serverless applications
• The definitive Node.js handbook - surprisingly concise yet comprehensive overview of Nodejs
• List just the top-level modules - npm list --depth=0
• Print the global node_modules directory - `npm root -g`
• Definition - Artificial Intelligence
• Bandcamp Daily - Your guide to the world of Bandcamp
• Flowering Jungle by Monster Rally (Gold Robot Records) - Album Inspired by the sounds, visuals, and animals of a half-century's worth of travel and nature documentaries

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Thursday 13th September, 2018 #

• The “Developer Experience” Bait-and-Switch
• Latest OSX issue that is literally killing me - trackpad gone rogue (I've had to completely disable my trackpad)
• How can we find which process is using a particular port?
• freeCodeCamp - Learn to code with free online courses, programming projects, and interview preparation for developer jobs
• EU approves controversial Copyright Directive, including internet ‘link tax’ and ‘upload filter’
• Switch Between Desktop Spaces Faster in Mac OS X with Control Keys
• iPhone XS and 6.5-inch XS Max announced - Big phones are officially cool

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Wednesday 12th September, 2018 #

• Chrome DevTools - Debugging Node.js Application Using ndb
• Neil deGrasse Tyson Talks Space Force and Space Debris
• Oh noes - EU Approves Amended Copyright Filtering Law That Could Ruin The Internet
• Legendary Steve Caballero on 'Skater's Favorite Skater'
• Older folk smoking more weed
• John Deere wins "right to tractor repair" battle against farmers in California
• Jekyll::Compose - Streamline your writing in Jekyll with some commands
• Building a Stats Page for Jekyll Blogs
• Moving static sites from a VPS to Netlify
• The man who can laugh for hours on end

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Tuesday 11th September, 2018 #

• Can You Monetize Your Blog Using Patreon?
• Map the News - dynamic headline visualization using the News API (Interesting project)
• Why European creators must oppose the EU's proposal to limit linking and censor the internet
• Jekyll cheatsheet
• Why you probably shouldn’t add a CLA to your open source project
• What is a CLA and why do I care?

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Monday 10th September, 2018 #

• Auschwitz concentration camp
• Definition - Artificial Intelligence
• This OSX issue is literally killing me: Preserve Window Spaces Placement Between Restarts
• Algorithms are protected by the First Amendment (algorithm output is considered corporate speech)
• Apple’s Shazam acquisition cleared by EU regulators
• stream-handbook - how to write node programs with streams
• Software developers are now more valuable to companies than money
• Flipboard CEO Mike McCue - 'There's a real bright road ahead for publishers'
• Additional Mac App Store apps caught stealing and uploading browser history
• Popular mac app stole users' browsing history and sent it to China

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Sunday 9th September, 2018 #

• Joe Rogan Podcast - Elon Musk
• You Don't Know Node.js
• A Beginner’s Guide To Reading Node.js Core Source
• Node core modules location

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Saturday 8th September, 2018 #

• JavaScript Getters and Setters in ES5
• Longcaller - Cryptocurrencies explained in simple words
• Latest topics from the EFF - "Don't Break The Internet" - EU regulation, net neutrality, Google China, surveillance in Australia and more

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Friday 7th September, 2018 #

• After Multiple Provocations, Twitter Has Banned Alex Jones And Infowars
• An Intro to Web Site Testing with Cypress - Specialises in end-to-end/integration testing
• Advice on creating customized portfolios - The "Multiple Portfolio Strategy"
• Accessibility is not a feature
• The ‘Capable Web’ - A 10 Year Retrospective

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Thursday 6th September, 2018 #

• Gitcoin - Organises bounties on open source projects, developers get paid in etherium based coins
• Google is investigating ways to replace the URL - Apparently "Everyone is unsatisfied by URLs"
• Maker Magazine launches a job board - The Job Board for the Maker Community
• Vimeo pivots business from media to tech - To selling subscriptions to tools for people to make content
• Amazon’s Plan to Reach 500 Million Indians: Speak Their Language
• In the three weeks following the Facebook and YouTube ban, Alex Jones' Infowars audience has fell by roughly half
• How viral loops and good design can result in real-world product virality
• Pinterest and Grubhub’s Former Growth Lead on Building Content Loops
• Financial Modeling for Startups - An Introduction

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Wednesday 5th September, 2018 #

• MailMason uses Grunt, Handlebars, and Sass in conjunction with layouts and partials to create both the HTML and plain text versions of your transactional emails
• Chrome 69 released - It’s been ten years since Chrome was first released!
• EU officials announce that 30% local content quotas for streaming services to become law
• Australia Wants to Take Government Surveillance to the Next Level - "Designated communications providers"
• Wikimedia warns EU copyright reform threatens the ‘vibrant free web’
• Kubernetes 101 - Short article as a high-level overview

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Tuesday 4th September, 2018 #

• Pope Francis Embraces Silence as Calls Grow for Response to Allegations
• What we're buying - A potent audio sampler that fits in your pocket
• Unpaid and abused - Moderators speak out against Reddit

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Monday 3rd September, 2018 #

• India Pushes Back Against Tech ‘Colonization’ by Internet Giants
• Experts Call for Transparency Around Google’s Chinese-Made Security Keys
• UK media groups call for oversight of social networks
• Communique to five eyes countries tech companies says governments want backdoors
• The effort required to build a design system is tiny compared to the effort required to maintain it

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Saturday 1st September, 2018 #

• Mozilla announces Firefox will block trackers by default
• Why you should replace forEach with map and filter in JavaScript
• Why is a Java guy so excited about Node.js and JavaScript? (Interesting perspective)
• Twitter is testing threaded replies and status indicators
• California passes strongest net neutrality law in the country, EFF calls it "a gold standard net neutrality bill"
• What questions would you ask a marketer?
• How a SaaS startup got its first 1,000 users (Codegiant)

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