Friday 13th December, 2019 #
- In what is presumably completely unrelated to the nginx news, I saw a live russian band play an outdoor concert this evening, they played some great russian folk music interspersed by some covers played in a russian folk music style, their cover of ACDC's Thunderstruck was like some sort weird but brilliant echo through time, I felt as though I was at the russian folk concert but superimposed ontop of an invisible massive ACDC stadium rock concert
- Russian police raid NGINX Moscow office - Can't say I'm entirely surprised by this news, it was pretty much the only part of my tech stack that hadn't had some major controversy, Nginx is really great software I wish them all the best, I hope they find a way to keep the software open source
- Google has setup a free phone line in India where you call and can ask questions and get Alexa style answers, so people without internet access can get information similar to doing a google search - Sort of reminds me of the speaking clock, but for knowledge
- Google Assistant can now interpret 44 languages on Android and iOS - It's a live translation with auto-suggestions for replies to help speed up the conversation
- Is there dark matter at the center of the Milky Way? - Based on this article, I’m not convinced these scientists are fully aware of their assumptions, using fakes to ascertain the truth is very tricky business
- Leaders from Seattle’s ‘boring’ unicorns on staying private and their most important lessons learned - Sometimes I feel like in tech you either have to run a unicorn company or work for a unicorn company, where is the spectrum and diversity? In the real world this would be like walking down the street in a normal/average sized town and every single shop would be a Walmart
- There’s a quantum computer bullshit detector twitter account causing a stir - my take on the whole quantum calculator stuff - show us something that does more good in the world than a cat gif, then I’ll be a bit more interested, maybe not the best metric but I am but a lowly web developer
- The English language is finally losing its grip on the internet
- An article about the use of “Link In Bio” - Perhaps that’s what I should have called the linkblog globe icon feature, I wasn’t aware at the time that it was a common way to call that feature, and there aren’t any user bios at the moment - I agree about the importance of outbound links for the open web
- Electron joins the OpenJS Foundation
- Node.js & MongoDB - How to Implement Transactions