Dog Links

Last night was spent betting on dogs chasing a fluroescent orange sock around a dirt track. It was a great night out with the 383 crew, which only served to get everyone more excited for Berlin in December. It was also the end of a great week; I’ve made some big decisions and began deploying out an app to the first few million users).

Ferrolic – This is beautiful. The lifetime is only a few months, but you could spend them all sitting transfixed in front of it.

DEFCON 23 Badge Challenge – I’d love to go to DEFCON if only to take part in the badge challenge. I would have all my info up on the wall within three minutes though.

The ethics of modern web ad-blocking – iOS 9 is going to be a monumental shift for the web, as big as the original iPhone was for mobile devices.

Black Hat USA 2015: The full story of how that Jeep was hacked – Wow. The level to which they had control was scary. It used to be you needed a £5000 CANBUS card and the manufacturers blessing. Now you can shunt the breaks over GSM.

When One App Rules Them All: The Case of WeChat and Mobile in China – This is pretty cool and I’m amazed Apple haven’t tried to block things like the in-built app store. Just goes to show we can’t assume Western- (or even UK)- principles hold for all.

Open sourcing Grid, the Guardian’s new image management service – What’s most interesting about Guardian’s new DAM is not the tech (which is super fast), but they use companies like Imgix for the processing.

Legendary Update – How do you (did you?) update stuff before it was connected to the Internet? How about before it had a CD or floppy drive.

Announcing Docker Toolbox – All the tools you need to get started, in one easy to use package. For teams like ours where we have dozens of projects, using Docker makes a lot more sense.

How Google Invented An Amazing Datacenter Network Only They Could Create – Now this is scale.

Hasp – A CSS transformer, in 20 lines of m4. Say what you want about modern build tools, they’re slow. This is fast.

Best practices for building large React applications – Having recently started playing with React (and using it at work), it’s good to see others pushing it further.

Lessons from using Ansible exclusively for 2 years – Ansible is beautiful and this is a great guide to using it in production.

Migrating from PHP 5.6.x to PHP 7.0.x – I’ve played with PHP 7 and it’s all the speed of HHVM with none of the faff. Can’t wait for this (or more to the point, can’t wait for it to make it downstream).

How a Kalman filter works, in pictures – The best kind of algorithm is the one you didn’t even realise you needed. And this is so simple it’s beautiful.

Introducing Backdrop Filters – These could solve so many design requests, now all we need is overlay: multiply and we’re golden. The warning about performance is troubling though.

Lag Compensation Technique – Everything you ever wanted to know about dealing with lag in network games. And then some.

Distributing files via DNS – Because why the hell not?

  • 15 aug 08:46