Reading List
A weekly (mostly) dump of links to interesting things I’ve read and shared on Twitter. Sponsored by those nice folks at Wix Engineering who hurl money at me to read stuff.
- How To Change Your Facebook Settings To Opt Out of Platform API Sharing – “Make no mistake: this was not a data breach. This was exactly how Facebook’s infrastructure was designed to work.”
- Slack picked a weird time to make it easier for bosses to download your private chats
- Facebook did not kill privacy, it was already dead – “privacy has been dead for a while, but it was killed not by a tech giant, but by a thousand cuts”
- The basics of web browser security: an introduction – first in a series of posts from my old ex-Opera chums at @vivaldibrowser
- How We Adopted CSS Grid at Scale
- Why would I use a Webpack? – who doesn’t ask themselves this a dozen times a week?
- Webpack: A Gentle Introduction to the Module Bundler – “Learn the basics of Webpack and how to configure it in your web application.”
- Algo VPN – “a set of scripts that let you set up a VPN in the cloud in very little time” (overview: How I made my own VPN server in 15 minutes.
- Essential legal tips for sex writers and bloggers – Neil Brown, a lawyer, on obligation to have Age Verification in place for UK visitors.
- 5 very useful React tips you might have never heard of by my Wix Engineering chum Lior Zisman
- CSS Grid in Production: questionnaire – help Auntie Rachel with her research and fill in her short survey.
- How Fast Is Amp Really? – “right now, the incentives being placed on AMP content seem to be accomplishing exactly what you would think: they’re incentivizing AMP, not performance” concludes Tinkerbell Catnip
- Compressive Images Revisited – Catnip again: “your best approach is probably to make use of the suite of responsive images standards we now have available to us.”
- Windows 10 to force you to use Edge, even if it isn’t default browser – Preview Build “will begin testing a change where links clicked on within the Windows Mail app will open in Microsoft Edge.
- Universal Service & Access Funds: An Untapped Resource to Close the Gender Digital Divide – “US$408 million collected to expand internet access has been left unused”
- Cheapest mobile prepaid broadband product in Africa (1GB Basket) in USD, by country. Via @stevesong
- StackOverflow Developer Survey Results 2018 – TL;DR: Developers are overwhelmingly straight white men.
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