Saturday, 13. June 12020
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Easily rename your Git default branch from master to main.

Relevant: “‘git master’ branch probably isn’t even a ‘master copy’ reference, but a straight up master/slave reference.”

Tools for better thinking.

Collection of thinking tools and frameworks to help you solve problems, make decisions and understand systems.

No Design Development

A collection of tools for developers who have little to no artistic talent.

Friday, 12. June 12020
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Inclusive Chromium code.

En-ROADS Climate Scenario.

Interact with this global scenario of climate action.

AR Copy Paste

Finally a practical use for AR.

Last stand of the Gurkhas.

Lumley then made a shrewd political move, briefing the press that “The meeting was extremely positive. He [Brown] is wholly supportive of the Gurkha cause. He is going to come up with a new solution by the end of this month. I do trust the prime minister… I find him to be a man of integrity.” Brown was boxed in to a corner: should he accuse Lumley – who by this time was riding a wave of positive coverage for the campaign – of overplaying her hand, and risk the PR fiasco of Patsy Stone publicly denouncing him for a lack of integrity? Or decide to change course?

Monday, 8. June 12020
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And Amazon. And Uber. And Twitter. And and and…

Taking the shine off (via beta.stoopinbox.com). the Apple (and FB and Google).

It started to look a little less sexy to work at a big tech company. Not by too much. After all, they were still forking over hundreds of thousands of dollars in total compensation packages. But maybe enough to make you pause for a minute. 

But all of a sudden, it started to look like maybe writing complex distributed systems was actually the easiest part of being a developer. The harder part was actually navigating through these behemoth company cultures.

Discret 11, the French TV encryption of the 80's.

RSSHub is an open source, easy to use, and extensible RSS feed aggregator, it's capable of generating RSS feeds from pretty much everything.