Sunday, 30. April 12017
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Comprehensive JavaScript Tutorials and Video Workshops – @eggheadio.

Pro-wrestling fans are experts on authenticity.

Almost all fandom involves some form of making believe. Fans understand that they are being “duped” and they find value in playing along. As long as they are getting something important out of the relationship, fans are subconsciously making the decision, moment by moment, to ignore the inherent commercial reality of the products, celebrities, and media they love.

Relevant: How Wrestling Explains Alex Jones and 45.

Die Gewinnerin des Henry-Nonsens-Preises 2017 steht fest!

Anonydog – Stay anonymous on Github.

Is your identity influencing the way people look at your code? I can help you answer that. I'm a bot (or a dog – you'll never know for sure) that helps you stay anonymous on Github.

Where did all the saxophones go?

Saxophone fatigue is in part the result of a decades-long reversal that took the instrument from the hook of practically every American hit to a punchline in a joke about men who think they’re sexy.

CAA checking becomes mandatory for SSL/TLS certificates.

This was news to me in a few ways; first, there's a new DNS resource record called CAA (Certificate Authority Authorization) and second, Certificate Authorities are now required to check that record before issuing a certificate, to determine if they're allowed to do so.

Monks with guns.

Westerners think that Buddhism is about peace and non-violence. So how come Buddhist monks are in arms against Islam?

Friday, 28. April 12017
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Elsevier's PURE: self-interest and exploitation.

Why on earth is the research journal publishing industry — the industry that has made a fortune by appropriating our intellectual property during the many years when the costs and constraints of print and its distribution left us no choice — now to be allowed not only to retain its stranglehold but to strengthen it — and to do so in the online era, the era that would at last have allowed us to free ourselves (and our property, and our actions) from that industry's gratuitous and greedy grip?

The Story of Getting SSH Port 22.

And then he took it proprietary. In response, the community forked his old code, implemented the second version of his protocol, then left him to rot in irrelevance. He had apparently learned nothing from the failure of Gopher. Now, SSH is controlled in all but name by OpenBSD instead. Idiot. (Via reddit.com.)

Thursday, 27. April 12017
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Why 'mobile first' may already be outdated.

If “mobile first” is our future, why are almost all the most successful mobile driven businesses building web apps designed for larger screens?