- 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.
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?
Bookmarks for April 8, 2016
- Introducing Activity++ – David Smith
Reminder to self to have a look at this later.
Bookmarks for April 7, 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.
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.
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.
- The Lost London Tube Map
A map of places in London that have vanished in time. Pretty awesome.
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.
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.
- 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.
Bookmarks for March 24, 2016
- transphobic-joke-detection
Interesting write up how someone engineered their Twitter joke-bot to try and avoid transphobia.
Bookmarks for March 21, 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.