Alasdair Watson

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Links for Monday August 22nd 2016

Posted on August 22, 2016 by Alasdair
  • pascalopitz/beanstalk-dashboard-for-chrome
    A simple tool for monitoring beanstalk queues. Requires a bit of work to get running.

Links for Tuesday July 12th 2016

Posted on July 13, 2016 by Alasdair
  • Drones to unleash vaccine-laced M
    We're living in a ghastly wasteland, but look at that headline.

Links for Monday June 27th 2016

Posted on June 27, 2016June 27, 2016 by Alasdair
  • A Manager’s FAQ
    Absolutely superb stuff in here.
  • BREXIT & Its Terrifying, Never-Discussed Consequences For Northern Ireland (with tweets) · shockproofbeats · Storify
    All I can do is hope this person is wrong. I don't think the worst they fear will happen, but I also don't think this will help the peace process, *at all*.

Links for Friday June 24th 2016

Posted on June 24, 2016June 24, 2016 by Alasdair
  • ink – inkle’s narrative scripting language
    I think I might want to play with this.
  • Google search spike suggests people don’t know why they Brexited | The Verge
    This is worth reading, just for some of the turns of phrase. But other than that oh god oh god oh god oh god.

Links for Tuesday June 7th 2016

Posted on June 7, 2016 by Alasdair
  • BATSOWL – The British Batman of 1918
    Properly fascinating bit of British pulp trivia here.

Links for Friday June 3rd 2016

Posted on June 3, 2016 by Alasdair
  • ziadoz/awesome-php: A curated list of amazingly awesome PHP libraries, resources and shiny things.
    This is exactly what it says, and will be useful to me.

Links for Tuesday May 24th 2016

Posted on May 24, 2016 by Alasdair
  • McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: List: Things the World’s Most and Least Privileged People Say.
    Ouch.

Links for Friday May 20th 2016

Posted on May 20, 2016 by Alasdair
  • Russell Davies: Subtleties
    This, this, a thousand times this. Dealing with people at a senior level who just don't get the web is frustrating, and honestly, I think if you're leading an organisation in the 21st Century, and you don't understand this stuff, then you are by definition, leading badly.

Links for Wednesday April 20th 2016

Posted on April 21, 2016 by Alasdair
  • Nerd Role Models: Captain America and Non-Toxic Masculinity – Paging Dr. NerdLove
    Solid write up of what makes Cap exactly the kind of male hero Holywood should do more of, if we've got to have more of them.

Links for Friday April 8th 2016

Posted on April 9, 2016 by Alasdair
  • Step by Step Guide to Installing Socket.io and Broadcasting Events with Laravel 5.1
    I appear to be an "all links incomprehensible to humans" phase right now, don't it?

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