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Bookmarks for April 20, 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.
Posted on April 21, 2016 by Alasdair 0

Bookmarks for April 8, 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?
    Tags: laravel, websockets
Posted on April 9, 2016 by Alasdair 0

Bookmarks for April 8, 2016

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

Bookmarks for April 7, 2016

  • Two-Way Data-Binding and Form Validation in React — Medium
    More React tutorials.
    Tags: react, reactjs
  • React.js Tutorial – A Guide to Tools and Libraries
    I'm just finding my way with React, and hope this will be helpful.
    Tags: react, javascript, reactjs
  • Instaparser
    Instapaper's article parser is now available as an API service. Might be handy.
    Tags: api, data, parsing
Posted on April 7, 2016April 7, 2016 by Alasdair 0

Bookmarks for April 5, 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.
    Tags: google, evil_empire, iot
Posted on April 6, 2016 by Alasdair 0

Bookmarks for March 31, 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.
    Tags: ubuntu, linux, microsoft, windows
  • The Lost London Tube Map
    A map of places in London that have vanished in time. Pretty awesome.
    Tags: maps, london, tube
Posted on March 31, 2016March 31, 2016 by Alasdair 0

Bookmarks for March 29, 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.
    Tags: api, IFTTT, legal, funny
Posted on March 29, 2016 by Alasdair 0

Bookmarks for March 25, 2016

  • Revolutionary Rice
    Short summary on how a genetic tweak to rice could revolutionise agriculture. Still years off, but being seriously worked for now.
    Tags: future, agriculture, genetics, rice
  • 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

Bookmarks for March 24, 2016

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

Bookmarks for March 21, 2016

  • Tarot Cards | Complex Networks
    Tarot for understanding the 21st century.
    Tags: design, tarot, math, complexity
  • 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.
    Tags: science, math, pi, space
Posted on March 21, 2016March 21, 2016 by Alasdair 0

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