Alasdair Watson

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Links for Monday June 26th 2017

Posted on June 26, 2017 by Alasdair
  • Notes From An Emergency
    Serious, thoughtful critique outlinging the current regulatory capture of the US government by the tech industry, and how it affects Europe, and what we might do.

Links for Tuesday May 23rd 2017

Posted on May 23, 2017 by Alasdair
  • Fire Hazard: How We Work: Energy
    A company I freelance for has a really good write up of a smart way of working in a small company. Worth remembering.

Links for Thursday May 18th 2017

Posted on May 18, 2017May 18, 2017 by Alasdair
  • JSON Feed: Announcing JSON Feed
    This seems like quite a good idea.
  • Send the grandmother to the library. – Mike Wallis – Medium
    Absolutely mandatory reading on providing social services digitally.
  • Sopamo/vue-online: A reactive offline indicator component for vue.js
    This will be useful to me later on in a project.

Links for Tuesday February 7th 2017

Posted on February 8, 2017 by Alasdair
  • ‘The James Bond of Philanthropy’ Culminates Career with $7M Donation
    What a fascinating and awesome sounding guy.

Links for Monday January 16th 2017

Posted on January 17, 2017 by Alasdair
  • Get your loved ones off Facebook. – Salim Virani
    I've spent time in the last year agonising about whether or not to rejoin Facebook. Then I read this, and not only am I sure I've done the right thing, but seriously, folks, read this, and really think hard about whether or not you're OK with Facebook doing all this.

Links for Monday November 14th 2016

Posted on November 14, 2016 by Alasdair
  • Tufte CSS
    Really nice CSS set for doing simple, single-page document layout.

Links for Thursday October 27th 2016

Posted on October 27, 2016 by Alasdair
  • The Killing Joke Script
    One to come back to – the complete script to the Killing Joke.

Links for Tuesday October 25th 2016

Posted on October 25, 2016 by Alasdair
  • Making Your App Work Offiline: Tips & Cautionary Tales | Quick Left
    Some notes on pitfalls of enabling a JS app to work offline.

Links for Monday October 24th 2016

Posted on October 24, 2016 by Alasdair
  • IBM Says Macs Are Up to $543 Less Expensive Than PCs Over Time – Mac Rumors
    Not entirely home-user applicable, but still an interesting bit of information for those trying to convince their company to buy them Apple hardware.

Links for Thursday September 29th 2016

Posted on September 29, 2016September 29, 2016 by Alasdair
  • Michael Tsai – Blog – Mac Terminal Tips
    Some of these are going to be absolute lifesavers.
  • Apple to create spectacular new London HQ at Battersea Power Station
    I really don't know how I feel about this. I <strong>love</strong> the building, I'm glad it's being restored and will be used for something. I also like Apple products. But this doesn't feel right. It should have been public space.

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