Tuesday, 5. December 12017
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Blockchain Graveyard.

These cryptocurrency institutions have suffered intrusions resulting in stolen financials, or shutdown of the product. Nearly all closed down afterward.

Coditany of Timeness, by DADABOTS (via theoutline.com).

This album was generated with a recurrent neural network trained on raw audio from the album “Diotima” by Krallice. All titles were generated by a Markov chain. The album cover was created with neural style transfer.

Dominique Le Bagousse.

papergrapher – Vector Editor based on Paper.js (via github.com).

Monday, 4. December 12017
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The Font Testing Page.

I slipped on JavaScript’s Banana Peel.

If you’ve contributed to a few open source projects, you might be familiar with the special kind of shame that results from a reverted patch. My embarrassment in this case was “extra special” because I didn’t even understand the rationale.

Saturday, 2. December 12017
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List of emerging technologies.

What the Hell Is Going On With Bitcoin?

As Dan Gross wrote in his book Pop!, the soapsuds of burst bubbles often fertilize the next generation’s breakthrough technologies. Before the national telegraph, train system, and tech giants, there was a telegraph bubble, a train bubble, and (who could forget?) a dot-com and online-retail bubble. The blockchain, like each of those technologies, has the potential to become a critical piece of infrastructure for the digital economy, even if the price of bitcoin is crashing as you read this paragraph.

Εxodus is a privacy auditing platform for Android applications. It detects behaviors which can be dangerous for user privacy like ads, tracking, analytics, …

The Case for Not Being Born.

While good people go to great lengths to spare their children from suffering, few of them seem to notice that the one (and only) guaranteed way to prevent all the suffering of their children is not to bring those children into existence in the first place.