Sunday 18th August, 2019 #
- Netherlands building ages - This section of the map shows the different building ages of Amsterdam, pretty cool map, there are more buildings from the 1600s and 1700s than I expected
- Apple announces that it will treat tracking with the same severity as security vulnerabilities in it's web browser Safari
- 'Plastic recycling is a myth' - what really happens to your rubbish?
- Building node from source, the overly complicated version from the repo docs - Also not mentioned in the docs is the fact you can set the install directory by passing the path as --prefix arg during configuration
- I've just been installing node from source, the git repo docs make it look like it's really complicated, but it's actually rather simple - the developer experience is a bit poor though, right at the end of the install a load of firewall popups...urgh which doesn't happen when installing perl and ruby from source, their install from source docs are better too
- I keep wanting to like javascript promises, but to me they just look almost like the caolan/async library (which uses callbacks), but with complicated error handling and debugging - async/await just adds even more cognitive overhead where you have to add stuff in many different places (where you define the function, where you invoke the function, where you handle the errors), it looks messy to me
- Microsoft Has First Major Impact on Chrome - Their change improves battery life by optimising disk caching of certain media content during acquisition and playback
- Start Your Own ISP - This site is dedicated to helping you start your own Internet Service Provider - Specifically this guide is about building a Wireless ISP (WISP)