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Sunday 29th September, 2019 #

  • Practical Ways to Write Better JavaScript - Personally I’m a bit less convinced by promises and async/await but generally pretty good advice in this article
  • A developer goes to a DevOps conference
  • Elon Musk Just Unveiled Starship, SpaceX's Human-Carrying Rocket
  • SpaceX starship update currently live - Interesting fact from Elon's presentation "The sun which planet earth orbits is slowly getting bigger, and if humanity had taken just 10% longer to evolve then we would be engulfed in the sun's expansion and would never have had the chance to become a multi planet civilization" - They are looking to increase the planet's current total per year capacity to move weight to orbit from 200 tonnes to 200 000 tonnes
  • MIcrosoft has removed the "use offline account" option when installing the OS
  • Under new UK-US treaty social media companies such as Facebook would have to give UK police access to encrypted messages