Square Links

Not many links this week, but then again there have been even fewer blog posts. I blame the Internet.

The $9 CHIP Computer Reveals Its Open Source Details – This is it, make a computer cheap enough and you can do anything and everything with it. Which leads on to…

Hackers Remotely Kill a Jeep on the Highway—With Me in It – This is what happens when you let people who have never had to worry much about external security (read embedded hardware) connect to the Internet. The only thing more scary than Chrysler recalling a million jeeps? There are millions more that are still affected but don’t know it.

Coin Card Teardown – The biggest takeaway from this? You can put a computer on a card that’s the same size as the card.

Under the hood: Box’s HHVM migration – I like HHVM for one reason, it has spurred PHP on to become faster and PHP 7 looks ace. But HHVM itself? No thanks, I’ll wait.

See Android Go! Go, Android. Go! – Write your business logic once in a beautiful, simple language and then just the UI bindings for each platform? Yes please.

ES6 In Depth: Classes – I’ve been playing around with IOjs/Traceur and classes finally make JS a viable language for me.

Selenium: 7 Things You Need To Know – Things to know before you start. Naturally worth knowing if you’re starting out.

Under the Hood of Amazon EC2 Container Service – Under the hood, the three best words you can put in a blog post to entice devs to read it.