Wednesday 31st October, 2018 #

• Uber’s Secret Restaurant Empire
• MacBook Air vs. iPad Pro is a choice between the past and the future
• Uber’s Valuation Is Insane
• Just The Good Stuff From Today's Apple Event
• How Instagram Made Extreme Couponers of Us All (Couponing somehow feels like a fractal of everything on the internet)
• Redis Streams are a new feature in Redis 5 - useful for implementing task queues

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Tuesday 30th October, 2018 #

• Probably Don't Base64 SVG
• Japan, South Korea and China tell citizens not to smoke weed in Canada
• Humanity has wiped out 60% of animals since 1970, major report finds
• Growing My First App to Profitability With No Marketing Experience

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Monday 29th October, 2018 #

• Leicester City fans pay tribute to owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, who has died in a helicopter crash
• Remy has an interesting bash script debug story using the linux od command (neat command I wasn't aware of)
• Every story in the world has one of these six basic plots
• Leicester City owner among five dead in helicopter crash
• Rethinking Unit Test Assertions
• China has been 'hijacking the vital internet backbone of western countries'
• IBM to acquire Red Hat in deal valued at $34 billion
• Some research from DigitalOcean shows that in open source new devs contribute more than older devs
• Should we trust Microsoft with GitHub?

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Sunday 28th October, 2018 #

• First private Chinese attempt to send rocket into space fails
• New SystemD Vulnerability Discovered
• A good description of the main features of the Joi module used for input/output validation
• The digital gap between rich and poor kids is not what we expected (badly written article on an interesting topic)
• You can do a lot with a virtual dom library and vanilla javascript
• Leicester City owner's helicopter crashes leaving stadium
• GraphQL - A success story for PayPal Checkout
• Hash Functions survival guide

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Saturday 27th October, 2018 #

• SkateHoarders - Tony Hawk
• Microservice Architecture at Medium

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Friday 26th October, 2018 #

• China Telecom has been using poisoned internet routes to suck up massive amounts of US and Canadian internet traffic
• Bitbucket are removing support for deploy keys in their v2 API (Jan 2019) - Go and vote for this critical issue!
• Slavery is any system in which principles of property law are applied to people, allowing individuals to own, buy and sell other individuals, as a de jure form of property
• Some Google execs believe that "owner relationships" (with actual people) are ok, including Andy Rubin, the ‘Father of Android’
• Google’s Pixel phone's new night mode looks incredible
• Introducing Hooks - feature proposal to use state and other React features without writing a class

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Thursday 25th October, 2018 #

• My father says he’s a ‘targeted individual. ’ Maybe we all are
• Apple picks Thailand for its second retail store in Southeast Asia
• October Brings Node.js 10.x to LTS and Node.js 11 to Current!
• Ex-Facebook security chief calls out Tim Cook and Apple's practices in China
• When Trump Phones Friends, the Chinese and the Russians Listen and Learn
• 30 Seconds of CSS - A curated collection of useful CSS snippets you can understand in 30 seconds or less
• WebAssembly’s post-MVP future - A cartoon skill tree

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Wednesday 24th October, 2018 #

• RA.644 Leon Vynehall - "Vynehall transcends his tag as a dance music producer and simply becomes a musician who's expressing himself."
• Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person - Alain de Botton
• Apple’s Tim Cook makes blistering attack on the “data industrial complex”
• A framework for web performance
• HN Thread - Investigating Implausible Bloomberg Supermicro Stories
• Investigating Implausible Bloomberg Supermicro Stories (Technical)
• Dutch King Willem-Alexander warns of Brexit uncertainty
• India’s unicorn startups concentrate on local issues in education, logistics, and lodging - international expansion soon
• Picture-in-Picture now enabled by default in Chrome for Mac, Windows, and Linux
• Web performance software company Cloudflare readies IPO

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Tuesday 23rd October, 2018 #

• Theresa May says 95% of Brexit deal is done
• Donald Trump - US will build up nuclear arsenal
• Saudis’ Image Makers - A Troll Army and a Twitter Insider
• Mozilla announces ProtonVPN partnership in attempt to diversify revenue stream
• ​Linus Torvalds is back in charge of Linux

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Monday 22nd October, 2018 #

• GNU Kind Communications Guidelines
• Youth of the Apocalypse - The London hip hop group, formed by members of the Klaxons and Gorillaz
• Google to open source the firmware used in it the Pixel 3's separate security chip
• Why non-Muslims are converting to sharia finance
• Saudi Arabia admits to journalist Jamal Khashoggi being the murdered in a 'rogue operation'

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Sunday 21st October, 2018 #

• Hundreds of thousands attend London People's Vote protest - Some want deal or no deal, others want to cancel the first referendum - seems like a badly organised (though well attended) protest, or shody reporting
• President Trump to pull US from Russia missile treaty
• How do you organize your design files?
• Hard Costs of Third-Party Scripts
• Adam Savage Visits Third Man Records!
• G4S announces high-security ‘vault storage’ for holding crypto (also run prisons, detention centers, and vault storage of cash)
• Apple CEO Tim Cook Is Calling For Bloomberg To Retract Its Chinese Spy Chip Story

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Saturday 20th October, 2018 #

• Compose to a Vertical Rhythm - "regular use of space provides rhythm in typography"
• LoopBack 4 - Build Amazing APIs (Looks great but imo after 10 mins feels like giant ball of complexity)
• Eliminate an entire category of bugs with a few simple tools
• 5 Tips to Write Better Conditionals in JavaScript
• The Ultimate Guide to Execution Contexts, Hoisting, Scopes, and Closures in JavaScript

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Friday 19th October, 2018 #

• REM vs EM – The Great Debate
• Six random insights from Henry Rollins’ 2018 Travel Slideshow
• Messy Nessy Chic - Cabinet of Chic Curiosities
• How to find the best open source Node.js projects to study for leveling up your skills
• Encrypted SNI Comes to Firefox Nightly - "do you want the person at the coffee shop next to you to know you’re visiting cancer.org?"
• The Bosnians who speak medieval Spanish
• Schnack - Simple node app for Disqus-like drop-in commenting on static website
• Using MongoDB as realtime DB with nodeJS

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Thursday 18th October, 2018 #

• Freakonomics Radio - How to Be Creative (Ep. 354)
• MDN Web Docs - CSS Layout cookbook
• Cannabis in Canada - How it went down on Legalisation Day, Amnesty for past convictions, pot jokes
• Search engine Baidu becomes first China firm to join U.S. AI ethics group
• Apple launched a new privacy website that lets you find all the data the company has on you
• Twitter Posts Millions of Tweets Linked to Russia, Iran

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Wednesday 17th October, 2018 #

• Monkey Tribe - Hits From The Bong (Remix)
• Rhythm in web typography
• How to Host or Attend a “Tiny” Conference
• Is the EU really united over Brexit?
• Canada becomes second country to legalise recreational marijuana
• The discussion on the MongoDB open source license switch is quite something
• What I loved about Paul Allen
• fancy-border-radius - tool to build organic-looking shapes using border-radius
• Saudi Money Flows Into Silicon Valley - and With It Qualms
• Holdie Gawn - Hypoferm
• DJ DR 660 - Phonky No 69

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Tuesday 16th October, 2018 #

• HN Thread - MongoDB switches up its open source license
• MongoDB Issues New Server Side Public License for MongoDB Community Server
• 33 concepts every JavaScript developer should know
• Polar - A powerful offline browser for Mac, Windows, and Linux for managing all your web content, books, and notes
• MongoDB switches up its open source license - introduces the Server Side Public License (SSPL)
• Can't drag bookmarklets to the bookmarks bar (Chrome) - This just started happening for me today - How can that be?
• A sensible, free guide to negotiating book contracts by the nonprofit Authors Alliance
• Docker has raised $92 million in new funding
• Finally - real Photoshop on the iPad
• IRL (In Real Life) add blockers in sun glasses - block billboard adds and screens
• Amazon's Jeff Bezos Says Tech Companies Should Work With the Pentagon
• A Genocide Incited on Facebook, With Posts From Myanmar’s Military

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Monday 15th October, 2018 #

• Military leaders are starting to freak out over Russia’s information warfare dominance
• Twitter is being investigated over its collection of data in its link-shortening system
• Facebook drove Egypt's revolution - Now it's being used as a weapon to oppress women
• Genome hackers show no one’s dna is anonymous anymore (60% of Europeans can be identified)

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Sunday 14th October, 2018 #

• Lewis Hine and the photos that changed America
• Lewis Hine - The child labour photos that led to change
• Epic photographic odyssey that documented Native Americans
• Edward Curtis: Was this the most ambitious photo project ever?
• NodeJS as an… Operating System?
• Thieves and Geeks - Russian and Chinese Hacking Communities (Cracking)
• AllTrails gets $75M to keep hikers happy
• Interesting article that observes some signs that Google might be looking to drop the Android brand
• Silicon Valley’s Saudi Arabia Problem - Technology companies can no longer turn a blind eye to the human rights abuses of one of their largest investors
• Taming this In JavaScript With Bind Operator
• Latest Revision to ARM Instruction Set Includes Optimizations Just for JavaScript
• npm and the future of JavaScript

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Saturday 13th October, 2018 #

• accesscontrol - Role and Attribute based Access Control for Node.js
• How To Automate Database Migrations in MongoDB Using Nodejs
• Google releases open source vpn software called Outline - secure access to the open web (Node.js code base)
• New Issue - universal-analytics - Creating client-side and server-side views using custom dimensions doesn't work for transactions

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Friday 12th October, 2018 #

• In Gary Hustwit’s new documentary “Rams,” the legendary industrial designer indicts the world he helped create
• Facebook purged over 800 U.S. accounts and pages for pushing political spam
• The Music Modernization Act has been signed into law
• PayPal partners with Walmart to offer in-store balance withdraws, deposits
• U.K., Netherlands Lead EU Push for New Cyber Sanctions
• CommonSense Robotics launches micro-fulfillment center in Tel Aviv
• Pro-privacy search engine DuckDuckGo hits 30M daily searches, up 50%%20in a year
• An overengineered invention to crack open eggs
• Does the world need explorers now more than ever?
• Kanye - 'Trump hat made me feel like Superman'
• Lets-build-express - how to create the express library from scratch

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Thursday 11th October, 2018 #

• Delete Your Account Now: A Conversation with Jaron Lanier
• Putting the Trust in NHS Trust - NHS England staff must explain if they refuse to have flu jab
• Microsoft vows to protect Linux from future patent wars by joining the Open Invention Network
• Teens Are Being Bullied ‘Constantly’ on Instagram
• Richard Branson Claims Virgin Galactic Will Be in Space “Within Weeks”
• Verne Troyer's death ruled as suicide

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Wednesday 10th October, 2018 #

• Do We Need Critics and Commentators Any More?
• Chinese fraudsters scammed Apple out of free iPhone parts
• Netlify just got $30 million (Kleiner Perkins) to change the way developers build websites
• Four Electronic Artists Reflect on the Influence of Composer Laurie Spiegel
• SoundCloud finally lets more musicians monetize four years later - SoundCloud Premier
• Beatboxing with a McDonald's cup, the impressive encore
• The Death of Google
• New Evidence of Hacked Supermicro Hardware Found in U.S. Telecom
• Designing With Code
• sass selectors - to nest or not to nest?

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Tuesday 9th October, 2018 #

• "We cannot trust anyone, yet we have no choice but to trust everyone"
• AOM Podcast #447: On Grand Strategy
• In letter to Congress, Apple sends strongest denial over ‘spy chip’ story
• Google+ shutting down after users' data is exposed

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Monday 8th October, 2018 #

• John Gruber on the Bloomberg hacked chips story - "This is only beginning. Apple is not letting this go"
• What are shorts and why does Elon hate them?
• The ghostly radio station that no one claims to run
• Interpol Chief, Detained by China, Resigns Under ‘Supervision’ of Party Watchdog

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Sunday 7th October, 2018 #

• eSIMs for Travel - A Great Idea, But Don’t Get Excited Just Yet
• New Issue - express-redis-cache - Cache always skipped when redis client created earlier is specified
• Critical Path Driven Development - Distributed traces, cross-stack debugging and visibility
• New Issue - npm - npm install --production tries to install devDependencies with node v10.11.0 (npm v6.4.1)
• New Issue - express-rate-limit - Upgrading to v3 - How to implement rate limiting with slow down?
• New Issue - node - JSON error when building docs
• How to read Kafka - part I
• New North American trade deal has bad news for Canadian copyright
• The Dutch Reach - A no-tech way to save bicyclists’ lives
• Bytedance rises as Facebook falls, takes over most valuable startup from Uber
• Should a Collapsing America Just Break Up? (Some of these issues are global imho)

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Saturday 6th October, 2018 #

• More on that weird Bloomberg spy chip story reveals the murky world of national security reporting
• Node.js Foundation and JS Foundation Announce Intent to Create Joint Organization to Support the Broad Node.js and JavaScript Communities
• Instagram’s Nametag feature makes it easier to follow people you meet IRL

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Friday 5th October, 2018 #

• Music streaming platform Spotify launches new program for podcasters to syndicate their shows
• Rifts Break Open at Facebook Over Kavanaugh Hearing
• The Man Who Spent 60 Years Photographing the North American Railroad
• Map shows how long it took to travel the world in 1914
• PM2 Runtime - 3.2 Autumn Features

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Thursday 4th October, 2018 #

• As we charge forward into an AI gene editing future let's remember that it's only been a few decades since the horrible policies of Eugenics
• Weird story about a Bloomberg special report on China hardware hacking Amazon and Apple that everyone denies except for Bloomberg
• Hey leaders of the world - instead (or in addition to) minimum wage, how about introducing a minimum number of minutes per day spent outdoors?
• With all the talk about social credit scores etc, the only metric that is important: Number of minutes spent outdoors per day
• IMHO concentrate on people of all ages spending at least as much outdoor time as inmates and chickens (perhaps gene editing can wait?)
• Japan set to allow gene editing in human embryos (US, China and UK already do it) - Do we really want to live in gene editing arms race based societies?
• 'Trump alert' - US mobile phone owners get test message
• Breitbart and Infowars join the Daily Mail as banned from being used as a source for facts on Wikipedia
• Amazon Warehouse Workers Lose Bonuses, Stock Awards for Raises

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Wednesday 3rd October, 2018 #

• Google to debut Chrome browser game streaming - Assassin’s Creed Odyssey (the graphics looks pretty darn good)
• Accessibility isn’t a barrier -  it’s what removes them - It frees us from one path and gives us many
• Reading Other People’s Code in a Large Codebase
• How to Use the Animation Inspector in Chrome Developer Tools
• Richard Stallman Explains Everything
• See inside the universe in this stunning light sculpture
• Interesting name for a company Free Speech Systems, sounds like a software company
• A lot of people might not like him but dang he makes good promo material
• InfoWars publisher Alex Jones sues PayPal

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Tuesday 2nd October, 2018 #

• What’s the Cost of Buying Links in 2018?
• Physics Nobel won by laser wizardry – laureates include first woman in 55 years
• Amazon increases minimum wage for all U.S. workers to $15 an hour
• Mara Wilson - Matilda and Me at 30
• The Internet Archive's annual bash is tomorrow - Building a Better Web
• The Internet Archive fixes more than 9 million broken links on Wikipedia
• Chrome 70 - Trustworthy Chrome Extensions, by default (access lists, no obfuscated code)
• Inventor of JavaScript Brendan Eich writes to the US Senate: we need a GDPR for the United States
• Inside look at modern web browser (4 part series on how web browsers work)
• List of server-side JavaScript implementations

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Monday 1st October, 2018 #

• A look at the resilience of audio and specifically podcasting
• Independent Music Podcast #200 – Shackleton, Jerusalem In My Heart, Etienne Jaumet, Tomás Urquieta, Lucinda Chua
• Nafta - US and Canada reach new trade deal
• Over the last 60 years in the UK the price of food has halved while the price of housing has doubled
• "We used to sit and eat together, but now they behaved like they were not aware of what they were doing, like someone who had lost their memory after a car crash"
• China's Muslim Uighurs 'crackdown' - Dealing with Islamic extremism by putting everyone in rehabilitation camps

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