Year: 2017
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Girls Just Want To Have Fun(damental Rights)
The Oxford Belles -
evilpass
Checks how strong your user's password is via questionably ethical means.
Drew DeVault -
Lambda Calculus - Computerphile - YouTube
Computerphile -
Against DNSSEC
All secure crypto on the Internet assumes that the DNS lookup from names to IP addresses are insecure. Securing those DNS lookups therefore enables no meaningful security. DNSSEC does make some attacks against insecure sites harder. But it doesn’t make those attacks infeasible, so sites still need to adopt secure transports like TLS. With TLS …
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Troy Hunt: HTTPS adoption has reached the tipping point
That's it - I'm calling it - HTTPS adoption has now reached the moment of critical mass where it's gathering enough momentum that it will very shortly become "the norm" rather than the exception it so frequently was in the past. In just the last few months, there's been some really significant things happen that …
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Extremely Positive People Aren't as Good at Empathy | Big Think
People with extremely sunny attitudes find it difficult to empathize with people who are recounting a negative experience, according to a study recently published at PLOS ONE. Ironically, positive people also reported being better at empathizing than did people who labelled themselves as slightly less than bubbly...
Orion Jones (Big Think) -
How do you make programmers work 60-80 hours per week?
Original question from Quora:
Programmers in our startup usually put 8 hours and go home. I keep reading stories about 80+ hour weeks. How do you make them work longer hours? Do we have to pay overtime? We gave few of them some equity, but it doesn’t seem to work.
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Heroes and Villains (Common Grounds)
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How I got started with Open Source and you can do too.
This is in no way going to be a comprehensive guide on how to get started with open source; its going to be more of a description of my journey.
This might help you if you’re a beginner struggling to make your way into open source...
Lakshay Kalbhor -
Adactio: JournalCode (p)reviews
I’m not a big fan of job titles. I’ve always had trouble defining what I do as a noun—I much prefer verbs (“I make websites” sounds fine, but “website maker” sounds kind of weird).
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The Long Tail of an Abusive Relationship
Even the tamest of abusive relationships can have an impact that lasts for years or decades. Dan shares a facet of his experience.
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Digest for April 2017
Summary
This month, I experimented with web technologies to which I'd been introduced at Render Conf, developed a websockets-and-orientation-sensor controlled game called Steer!, and looked back on the ways that I'm still affected by an abusive relationship that ended a decade and a half prior. I shared an XKCD comic.
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Steer! An Experimental Canvas/Websocket Game
Left alone to look after a conference stand, Dan implements a browser-based video game prototype called Steer! in which the player uses their mobile phone to control a speeding car.
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Found GLQR2CZT Stadium Arcadium
This checkin to GLQR2CZT Stadium Arcadium reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Found with help from my 3 y/o niece (who was able to teach reach the cache... once she was sat on my shoulders!). TFTC.
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Reported GC4DYXD Stadium Arcadium needs maintenance
This checkin to GC4DYXD Stadium Arcadium reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Original log extremely damp, dampness spreading to new log. Needs some attention. CO: if you're happy for a visitor to remove the old log, worth making a note to that effect?