Friday, 16. December 12016
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Why the Nazis studied American race laws for inspiration.

The US stood alone in the world for the harshness of its anti-miscegenation laws, which not only prohibited racially mixed marriages, but also threatened mixed-race couples with severe criminal punishment.

NASA GIFs @GIPHY.

Full Disclosure: Why We Say Too Much When We Write Online.

A quantum of philosophy.

Does knowledge of the past and present determine the future?

Those things that might have happened, but didn’t, some of which we don’t even know about, might still affect the future.

Relevant: “I think it’s time you and I had ‘the talk’… the Quantum Computer Talk”.

Thursday, 15. December 12016
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Playfair: an open source web app for creating annotated charts.

The dumb reason I went and made a graphing app, even though there are already like a million of them.

Patterns For Large-Scale JavaScript Application Architecture.

JavaScript Garden is a growing collection of documentation about the most quirky parts of the JavaScript programming language. It gives advice to avoid common mistakes and subtle bugs, as well as performance issues and bad practices, that non-expert JavaScript programmers may encounter on their endeavours into the depths of the language.

Let’s get technical!

When everything’s important nothing is!

Do libraries and frameworks prioritize components on boot? If so, how, and if not what can we do? And, in exploring that question, I discovered that Server-Side Rendering isn't a silver bullet!

On Getting Older In Tech.

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