- 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.
Category: Digitalia
Links for Wednesday April 20th 2016
- 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
- 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?
Links for Friday April 8th 2016
- Introducing Activity++ – David Smith
Reminder to self to have a look at this later.
Links for Thursday April 7th 2016
- Two-Way Data-Binding and Form Validation in React — Medium
More React tutorials. - React.js Tutorial – A Guide to Tools and Libraries
I'm just finding my way with React, and hope this will be helpful. - Instaparser
Instapaper's article parser is now available as an API service. Might be handy.
Links for Tuesday April 5th 2016
- The time that Tony Fadell sold me a container of hummus. — Medium
Jesus. This cannot be legal. Serious, read this, it is the easy-to-grasp dark side of the IoT in a nutshell.
Links for Thursday March 31st 2016
- Ubuntu on Windows
Microsoft are going to make a bash prompt easily available within Windows. Dogs are lying down with cats. These are the end times. - The Lost London Tube Map
A map of places in London that have vanished in time. Pretty awesome.
Links for Tuesday March 29th 2016
- My Heroic and Lazy Stand Against IFTTT (Pinboard Blog)
One of the last links I'll get shipped by IFTTT, because they're being dicks.
Links for Friday March 25th 2016
- Revolutionary Rice
Short summary on how a genetic tweak to rice could revolutionise agriculture. Still years off, but being seriously worked for now. - Film Freak Central – Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)
A review of Batman vs Superman with a lot to say about the relationship between superheroes and Kaiju. Well worth a read.
Links for Thursday March 24th 2016
- transphobic-joke-detection
Interesting write up how someone engineered their Twitter joke-bot to try and avoid transphobia.