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Links for Friday April 8th 2016

  • Introducing Activity++ – David Smith
    Reminder to self to have a look at this later.
Posted on April 8, 2016 by Alasdair 0

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.
Posted on April 7, 2016April 7, 2016 by Alasdair 0

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.
Posted on April 6, 2016 by Alasdair 0

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.
Posted on March 31, 2016March 31, 2016 by Alasdair 0

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.
Posted on March 29, 2016 by Alasdair 0

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.
Posted on March 25, 2016March 25, 2016 by Alasdair 0

Links for Thursday March 24th 2016

  • transphobic-joke-detection
    Interesting write up how someone engineered their Twitter joke-bot to try and avoid transphobia.
Posted on March 24, 2016 by Alasdair 0

Links for Monday March 21st 2016

  • Tarot Cards | Complex Networks
    Tarot for understanding the 21st century.
  • How Many Decimals of Pi Do We Really Need?
    A NASA engineer explains the errors introduced by rounding Pi at various scales. More interesting than you think.
Posted on March 21, 2016March 21, 2016 by Alasdair 0

Links for Sunday March 20th 2016

  • Man Combines Random People’s Photos Using Neural Networks And The Results Are Amazing
    These are stunning. Can't quite believe they're computer generated.
Posted on March 20, 2016 by Alasdair 0

Links for Friday March 18th 2016

  • react-calendar-timeline – React Components
    Might be very useful for a thing at work
Posted on March 19, 2016 by Alasdair 0

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