Posts
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Save SSH identity passphrase in macOS keychain
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Overkill Objects for Everyday Life
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How to parse JSON in Snowflake
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Certain Strains Of Flu May Have Gone Extinct Because Of Pandemic Safety Measures
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cheat.sh: the only cheat sheet you need
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COVID-19 vaccine authorization status, including for children
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jamesgolick/degrade: Keep track of service error rates using redis. Degrade functionality if they're too high.
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Helix, A post-modern text editor
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Using an enum for a polymorphic belongs_to association in Rails
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Using CSS position: sticky
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Judith Love Cohen had an epic day
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JuanitoFatas/what-do-you-call-this-in-ruby: Solving the second hard problem in Computer Science.
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Framework Laptop review (hands on) - the anti-MacBook is here
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ASL and Deaf actress in Godzilla vs Kong movie
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Rails error message code names
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GitHub tip: apply a PR suggestion in a commit with the click of a button
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Time travel back to Space World '95 - Mario 64 Beta Project
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How to use delegated types in Rails 6.1
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Vim Trick: Map CTRL+S to Save
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Efficiency is the Enemy
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Moving users to Microsoft Edge from Internet Explorer
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List of Free Learning Resources In Many Languages
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Animals to be formally recognised as sentient beings in UK law
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googleapis/google-api-ruby-client: Ruby client for Google APIs
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Things You Should Never Do, Part I from Joel on Software
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Target won't require face masks for fully vaccinated unless local rules state otherwise
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How to fix outdated Google Drive app on macOS
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Hotwire by Basecamp vs Phoenix LiveView
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Hotwire Chat is a demo Ruby on Rails web application built with Hotwire
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Skipping updates is a "Pro" feature on Docker now
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Emmet, the essential toolkit for web-developers
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ActiveStorage::IntegrityError in RSpec on Docker for Mac
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htmx is Old but Gold
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What Color is Your Function?
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SLAITs real-time sign language translation promises more accessible online communication
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Redis Manifesto
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Progressive Enhancement Web Components from GitHub itself
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General Magic: Creating the Cloud
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Experience: Ive had the same supper for 10 years
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Custom Elements Everywhere for Page Layout
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Context switching costs more than we give it credit for
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Hosting SQLite databases on Github Pages (or any static file hoster)
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Unpoly, an Unobtrusive JavaScript framework
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Send: Simple, private file sharing (based on Firefox Send)
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Twimlets (Tiny Twilio TwiML apps)
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CSS Utility Classes and "Separation of Concerns"
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Buildpack CI on GitHub Actions
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Use Danger to stop saying "you forgot to ..." during code review
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My Secret For Staying Calm When My Kids Aren't
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Resources related to Building Inclusive Engineering Teams
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Que: A Ruby job queue built on top of PostgreSQL
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Faktory, a language-agnostic version of Sidekiq
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The Principle of Locality of Behavior (LoB)
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Verbal expressions: Make difficult regular expressions easy
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Wait exponentially longer on ActiveJob errors
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Rollout: Fast feature flags based on Redis
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Altering tables in Amazon Aurora using fast DDL
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The End of AMP
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Lita: ChatOps for Ruby
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Containerizing Ruby on Rails Applications
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Hotwire: Reactive Rails with no JavaScript?
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Deskreen, Turn any device into a secondary screen for your computer
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Write code that is easy to delete, not easy to extend
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Use Vim, Emacs, or Sublime Text key bindings in Firefox Developer Tools
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The Real Story Behind ECMAScript 4
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The Majestic Monolith
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Static analysis tools for Ruby
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Software development topics Chris has changed his mind on
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The pilot of Star Trek: Voyager was incredibly expensive
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How to compress files in Google Drive without downloading
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Better Git diff output for Ruby, Python, Elixir, Go and more
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Web Browser Engineering
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McFly: Fly through your shell history. Great Scott!
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JSON:API v1.0
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How to downgrade Docker for Mac
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Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU
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Mermaid diagrams
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WorkBoy: Lost Game Boy Add-on FOUND After 28 Years
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Reverse Engineering the source code of the BioNTech/Pfizer SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine
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How to add a new source to Google Podcasts via RSS
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Adidas developing plant-based leather to be used in shoes
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Fun with IP address parsing
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Different Ways to Set Attributes in ActiveRecord (including Rails 6)
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Ruby accounts for majority of top 50 Y Combinator valuations
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Rails ActiveJob Style Guide
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Iowa board certifies 6-vote Republican win in US House race
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Here's What Will Happen Between Election Day and Inauguration Day
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What if a US presidential candidate refuses to concede after an election?
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Last minute get out the vote campaign: Election Impact Score Sheet
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The philosophy of Stoicism
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Star Trek Discovery is the First Show With All Post-Production Done at Home
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Gravity is not a force
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Kate Mulgrew returning as Capt. Janeway in Star Trek Prodigy
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Trump Tests Positive for the Coronavirus
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IANA-managed Reserved Domains
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The Era of Visual Studio Code
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Rare case of black licorice poisoning kills man in Massachusetts
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Microsoft declares its underwater data center test was a success
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TIL: witchcraft terms like eye, tail, and tongue refer to parts of herbs and plants
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Ruby 3 Set Literal
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DevDocs: Offline API Documentation as a Progressive Web App
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TIL: They use American Sign Language in Canada too
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States and college towns in the U.S. are now cracking down on student partying
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SQL execution order doesn't start with SELECT
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Dr. Bill Vicars American Sign Language Lessons
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Celeste OST
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'Outbreak in Iowa City': Johnson County sees third day in a row of positivity rates higher than 30%
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Building Inclusive Engineering Teams
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Dear Google Cloud: Your Deprecation Policy is Killing You
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UI Student who tested positive for COVID-19 recounts school response
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How to upgrade indirect dependencies with Yarn
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How to turn off Meet tab on Gmail for Android
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Snippet: copy notes to Google Keep
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The State of Ruby 3 Typing: Introducing RBS, Rubys new type signature language
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External display waking up? Disable notifications when your screen is off
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Abstract, language-independent Wikipedia
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Pull Request Retargeting on GitHub
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Catch insensitive, inconsiderate writing with Alex
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TIL: MySQL directly supports the Memcached API as of version 5.6
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Using "text fragment links" on mobile Chrome
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htmx, modern unobtrusive JavaScript
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Landmark Computer Science Proof Cascades Through Physics and Math
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Do whatever you can't stop thinking about
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The radix 2^51 trick
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Carl Sagan on Why Science illiteracy is Dangerous
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macOS 10.15: Slow by Design
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Second-guessing the modern web
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Google data centers now work harder when the sun shines and wind blows
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Public Suffix List private domains
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Native lazy-loading for the web
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How do I use git over HTTPS?
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Sumo Logic livetail CLI
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Learnings about wrapped exceptions in Ruby using the built-in Exception#cause
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Hide comments in GitHub using a keyboard shortcut
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Jumping to the definition of a function or method on GitHub
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civiccc/db-query-matchers: RSpec matchers for database queries
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Query Elasticsearch Indices with SQL
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Opal 1.0 has been released
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Renovate Bot (Automated Dependency Updates) now supports Bundler
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rubyfmt, like gofmt for Ruby
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Generate a Cartesian product of example values, useful for specs
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Ruby 2.7 adds Enumerable#tally
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instant.page, JIT pre-loading
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Introducing draft pull requests
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Use Helix to write Native Ruby Extensions using Rust
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When This Bike Company Put a TV on its Box, Shipping Damages Went Way Down
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What's New in JavaScript for 2019
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Ruby 2.6 changes
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The year of the vegan
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Announcing unlimited free GitHub private repos
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Sidekiq Workflows
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My one-liner Linux Dropbox client
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Amazon Reviews (Comic via System32Comics)
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Official AWS Ruby Support for Jets Serverless Framework
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Microsoft Edge plus Chromium is official
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Demo code for running Ruby Sinatra on AWS Lambda
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Microsoft is building a Chromium-powered web browser that will replace Edge on Windows 10
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The Second Edition of "Refactoring"
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AWS Lambda Supports Ruby
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Easily parse a CSV file at the command line with Ruby
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Using lazy enumerators to work with large files in Ruby
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What's new in Ruby 2.6?
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yn, a simple yes/no helper script
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TIL: "create table like" in SQL
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paren.party
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ctop, concise commandline monitoring for containers
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Soft hyphen ("shy"), a hyphenation hint
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Hyperstack, client-side Ruby and React
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Experiences of a Developer: Google Chrome, One Year In
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GitHub launches Actions, its workflow automation tool
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5 Top Solar-Using Retailers
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dry-rb, a set of common monads for Ruby
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React Storybook, a UI development environment
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Ruby goes Serverless on Apache OpenWhisk
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How do I end standard input without a newline character?
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Kindrid - Demise
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Firefox Public Data Report
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Discover how to apply a macOS preference from the command line
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How Some Words Get Forgetted
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Holt-Winters Forecasting for Dummies (or Developers)
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How to use Bundler in a single-file Ruby script
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Introducing Electron Fiddle
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Send large files with Firefox Send
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Marko, a reactive front-end JavaScript library
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Testing changes to GitHub CODEOWNERS
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Shopify/graphql-batch: A query batching executor for the graphql gem
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Bees with Machine Guns!
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Amazon Aurora Serverless, an Auto-Scaling Serverless Database Service
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Rethinking JavaScript: The complete elimination and eradication of JavaScript's this
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MessagePack: It's like JSON. but fast and small.
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Conway's Law
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Firefox Awesome Bar Shortcuts
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Facebook no longer allows posting from outside of Facebook
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We Want Serverless Ruby!
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Atlassians HipChat and Stride to be discontinued, with Slack buying up the IP
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ml.js, Machine learning tools in JavaScript
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The Big List of Naughty Strings
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This amazing new web tool lets you create microsites that exist solely as URLs
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How to use HTTP 2 with curl
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Iodide, Data Science in JavaScript
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WeWork Tells Employees Meat Is Permanently Off the Company Menu
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The open-plan office is a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad idea
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JSON Feed, like RSS but not XML
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Devilution: Diablo devolved - the magic behind the 1996 computer game
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The Code is Trivial
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Why you should learn just a little Awk
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HTTP referer vs HTTP referrer in Rails and other web development projects
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KFC to test vegetarian plant based fried chicken (but not in the US)
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Side View for Firefox
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Introducing .app, a more secure home for apps on the web
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Free Music Archive
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rails_db, Rails Database Viewer and SQL Query Runner
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UTC is Enough for Everyone, Right?
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Write Your Representative: Red Alert for Net Neutrality
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The Future of Kubernetes Is Serverless
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Parallelize Development Using Git Worktrees
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GravityLight, Lighting without the Electric Grid
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GDPR Compliance for Disqus Cookies
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Example Design Patterns in Ruby
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Branch coverage: the Ruby 2.5.0 feature nobody talks about
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As the Web moves toward HTTPS by default, Chrome will remove "secure" indicator
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WireGuard, a modern, streamlined VPN protocol
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Writing Fast Ruby with fasterer
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Ruby's New Exception Keyword Arguments
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Attention PGP Users: New Vulnerabilities Require You To Take Action Now
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ElasticHQ - Management and Monitoring for Elasticsearch
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Amazon Aurora Backtrack: Turn Back Time
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refined-github, a Firefox and Chrome extension
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Google AI Blog: Google Duplex: An AI System for Accomplishing Real World Tasks Over the Phone
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California set to become first US state requiring solar panels on new homes
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xhr, a small XMLHttpRequest wrapper
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dayjs, an immutable alternative to Moment.js
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Progressive Web App Resources
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Michigan City, Indiana Schools to Celebrate Solar Project
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Cloudflare Bets on ARM Servers
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Spectre-NG: eight new Intel CPU flaws revealed, several serious
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Electrify America deploying 1000s of fast electric vehicle chargers by end of 2019, many at Walmarts
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Target is now badging items as vegan, plant-based, or cruelty free
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Speculative Execution and the Spectre Attack
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Remote jobs and virtual companies
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Notes on how to use vim-surround
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Headline Features in Rails 5.2
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DPOs (like Spotify) vs IPOs (like basically any other company)
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GitHub Will Stop Supporting Internet Explorer in July 2018
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400-year-old Otto van Veen painting found in Iowa attic could be worth millions
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Resources for home buyers
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Node.js 8.10 runtime now available in AWS Lambda
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Join lines at the Unix shell using paste
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Headless Chrome: an answer to server-side rendering JS sites
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Google is shutting down its goo.gl URL shortening service
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rr: lightweight recording and deterministic debugging
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postmarketOS - A real Linux distribution on the phone
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Transform JSON with gron (like jq but easier to grep)
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Service Workers have shipped in iOS
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Oni, a vim-based IDE
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Managing db schema changes without downtime
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Recent Amazon and Mayan discoveries
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Offline Only
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In a first, a new UK coal mine is rejected on climate change grounds
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EPA Prepares to Roll Back Rules Requiring Cars to Be Cleaner and More Efficient
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Google starts blocking uncertified Android devices from logging in
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GoDaddy to move most of its infrastructure to AWS, not including domain management for its 75M domains
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Court rules that Google's use of the Java API packages was not fair
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12 Signs Youre Working in a Feature Factory
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The Eastern Iowa Airport (CID) now has free Electric Vehicle charging
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Announcing the Second Edition of "Refactoring"
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The Ultimate Guide to Ruby Timeouts
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Nintendos WiiWare dies 3/25
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Web Design and CSS Resources
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Sagan: this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces
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Run webOS on a Raspberry Pi
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Today I Learned: Batman, Turkey
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Run JavaScript Service Workers at the edge using Cloudflare Workers
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Vim's new :cdo command
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Slack's bait and switch
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Netflix may sign the Obamas in exclusive content deal
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Flag git size problems with git-sizer
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Clang is now used to build Chrome for Windows
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Alternative to macros: the Vim norm(al) command
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Chrome OS could be getting containers for running Linux VMs
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Video demonstrates the marvel of CRT displays at 380,000 frames per second
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Samsung is bringing the Linux desktop to phones
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GitHub Survived the Biggest DDoS Attack Ever Recorded
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Firefox OS lives on in KaiOS
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AWS Lambda Supports Go
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How to fix committing with the wrong name and email configured in Git
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The Beginning of the End of the Password
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Firefox 57 delays requests to tracking domains
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2017 JavaScript Rising Stars
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NYC sues oil companies for the cost of adapting to climate change
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Turning Design Mockups Into Code With Deep Learning
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Forbidden Planet, Iowa City's downtown pizza arcade, to close
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Celebrate MLK Day with Star Trek
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Fingerprinting with Zero-Width Characters
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stimulus.js
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Retrospective roles: Explorer, Shopper, Vacationer, Prisoner
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Popmotion - A functional JavaScript motion library
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What's the .well-known folder?
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Rocket - A Rust game running on WASM
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JavaScript. The Core: 2nd Edition – ds.laboratory
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jiq: interactive JSON filtering utility
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3-Minute Test: What do you know about SQL performance?
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Functional Programming Jargon
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module_function vs extend self
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ABC Metric
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mermaid - generate diagrams from text
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ObjectMother
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nullalign
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`yield_self` in Ruby 2.5
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Tip: Easily reordering columns in MySQL
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git git git git git
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Vegan Zucchini Muffins
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Every Major Advertising Group Is Blasting Apple for Blocking Cookies in the Safari Browser
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Hash#compact
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Is it Pokemon or Big Data?
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Software creation vs maintenance
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Redis and Memory Usage Best Practice
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Towards Deploying Decommissioned Mobile Devices as Cheap Energy-Efficient Compute Nodes
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Easy Veggie Burger Recipes
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OpenCage Geocoder
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ISO8601 Duration Syntax
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PDF Bot
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Dwarf Fortress starting during apt-get upgrade
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MP3 is Now an Open Format?
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DBpedia - Extract Structured Information from Wikipedia
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ES Modules in Node
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Add more context to git diff
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Slack Tip: React with the Keyboard
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dumb-init
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Compiling Ruby and Node.js Apps into a Single Executable
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Jeff Dean Facts
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The Patriot Missile Failure
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Now - Universal Node.js Deployment, supports Amazon Lambda
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Tutorial - How to GraphQL
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CSS and JS Coverage in Chrome 59 DevTools
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Private StackOverflow Channels
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SoundCloud Lays Off 173 People
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IBM Kitura - A Swift web framework and HTTP server
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Cahokia, Native American ruins near St. Louis
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mori - Clojure-style data strucures in JS
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France wants to ban sale of gas and diesel cars by 2040, end coal by 2022
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After bet between billionaires, South Australia buys 129MWh Tesla battery
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contracts.ruby
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DRM Free eBooks on Google Play
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Video: The Effective Remote Developer by David Copeland
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U.S. top court tightens patent suit rules in blow to 'patent trolls'
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Find potentially empty specs for removal
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strftime cheat sheet
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GOTO 2016 -- Software, Faster -- Dan North
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ASCII Diagram Tools
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Docker, Locales, and Ruby
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travis-watch -- Stream live Travis CI test results
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Embracing Change: Rails 5.1 Adopts Yarn, Webpack, and the JS Ecosystem
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Right to Repair: Why American Farmers Are Hacking Their Tractors With Ukrainian Firmware
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peardeck/prometheus-user-metrics
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linkerd: Resilient service mesh for cloud native apps
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Page Objects in Ruby
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What is the Liskov Substitution Principle?
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How to win at Tetris (and code)
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Kiba, a lightweight Ruby ETL framework
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Google announces the first practical technique for generating a SHA-1 collision
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JWT: JSON Web Tokens
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If you think good architecture is expensive, try bad architecture
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Black Bean, Tofu, Spinach Miracle
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10 simple ways to use less oil
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Wood waste alcohol converted to jet fuel, used in Alaska Airlines test flight
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Face This Prospect: The End of Electric Car Incentives
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Deleting Lines that don’t Match a Pattern
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Giving Up on TDD
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Replace Battery in the 1st Edition Barnes and Noble Nook
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Sonic Pi -- The Live Coding Music Synth for Everyone
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jvilk/BrowserFS
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infernojs/inferno
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chrismccord/render_sync
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Asimov -- The Relativity of Wrong
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Module: TSort (Ruby 2.3.3)
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Lua as a Python’s secret weapon
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Six maps that show the anatomy of America’s vast infrastructure
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Google mtail
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City of Iowa City waste minimization proposals approved in November 2016
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Petition to Audit the 2016 Presidential Election
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Styrofoam Alternative: Mushroom Packaging
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2017 Best Green Car To Buy nominee: Toyota Prius Prime
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The poison arrow frog’s toxin has an anti-toxic evil twin
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Tom Brokaw on his 50 years at NBC, donating his papers to the University of Iowa
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Bernie Sanders: Where the Democrats Go From Here
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Petition to repeal or rewrite the 12th amendment to abolish the electoral college and replace it with a win by the popular vote
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Iowa City Press-Citizen on Public Measure C
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UN report: climate goals rapidly moving out of reach
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Where do laptops go when they die?
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Apple temporarily cuts prices on all USB-C cables and accessories
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Mobile and tablet internet usage exceeds desktop for first time worldwide
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Spotify engineering culture
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Factorisation Diagrams
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Ballotpedia
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Apple’s Phil Schiller thinks it’s sad that people use 5-year-old computers
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Node v7.0 is out! It holds such promise... :D
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California issues more self-driving permits, Iowa creates testing corridor
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“Trek against Trump” urges voters to choose Hillary Clinton
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Belgium, USA dominate IC cyclocross World Cup
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2017 Chevy Bolt EV electric car: 238-mile EPA range rating, 119 MPGe combined
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Johnson County triples its solar power production
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Slate: Iowa is ‘most impressive state for clean energy’
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Iowa Utilities Board approves huge wind energy project
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Transport is now biggest part of U.S. carbon emissions, first time in 40 years
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Climate Change Divide Bursts to Forefront in Presidential Campaign
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Useful tech terms: Yak Shaving, Technical Debt, Bikeshedding
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All empty boats
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Web Design in 4 minutes
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CenturyLink charges data overage fees, may disconnect “excessive” users
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Registration open! Iowa Code Camp is July 23rd
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240 years of US energy use
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A new way of blogging about JavaScript, Clojure, and Ruby
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J.J. Abrams Reacts To Death of Star Trek Actor Anton ‘Chekov’ Yelchin
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Easy request logging on OSX
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Vanilla List: The Vanilla Javascript Repository
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Broadband internet as a public utility -- Jason T. Lewis for Supervisor
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Using splats to build up and tear apart arrays in Ruby
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Draft -- The Journal of Process
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clipboard.js
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HTML5 by default: Google’s plan to make Chrome’s Flash click-to-play
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heapfrag -- Heap visualizer for Ruby
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Apple’s actual role in podcasting: be careful what you wish for
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US carbon emissions drop, now 12% below 2005 levels
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Google Cloud Platform Blog: Ruby on Google App Engine goes beta
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Mockbin by Mashape
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HTTP Status Codes — httpstatuses.com
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Error 418 (I’m a teapot)!?
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Chrome 50 ends support for Windows XP, OS X 10.6, other old versions
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Art + Life + Tech (ALT) Community Lightning Talks in Iowa City, IA
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Diablo dissected by its original devs
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Electric cars gaining ground in Iowa
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Experimental support for WebAssembly in V8
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Using CCMenu with Travis CI
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Despite what you may have heard, Leonardo DiCaprio is probably not buying a house in Iowa City any time soon.
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16 years later, Blizzard is still patching Diablo II
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Longtime downtown Chait art gallery to close
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Trump tomato tosser has no regrets
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SQL Server for Linux coming in mid-2017
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The chilling impact of Digital Restrictions Management in libraries
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JSONLint PRO -- The JSON Validator
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Iowa City’s Solar Tree: Groundswell for Downtown Public Art Showcase
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The Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra performs music from Nobuo Uematsu’s Final Fantasy VI
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ember-concurrency: structured concurrency in JavaScript
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Welcoming the Xamarin team to Microsoft
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Report: VW told it must make electric cars in US
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AMA: We pair program (almost) everything. Ask us anything!
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Flexbox Froggy
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Thoughtbot guides
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Jay Fields’ Thoughts: Testing: One assertion per test
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30 percent of science teachers give misinformation about climate change
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Arlo Guthrie and the origins of the Collection protocol
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Mozilla Push API
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Sunsetting Parse
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Doctor Who gets lengthy sabbatical as showrunner Steven Moffat quits
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iOS 9.3 brings multi-user mode to iPads
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The Compost Ninja works to divert material from landfill
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Hypnosis replaces anesthetic in brain surgery—and there’s video
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The Big Bang Theory sued for using “soft kitty” lyrics in hit TV show
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Ian Murdock, father of Debian Linux, dead at 42
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Accidentally Vegan: McCormick Bacon Bits
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Op-ed: Safari is the new Internet Explorer
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The 500 Mile Email
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Choose Firefox Now, Or Later You Won’t Get A Choice
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Internet Freedom Is Actively Dissolving in America
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Arguments from Global Warming Skeptics and what the science really says
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Council Bluffs, Iowa – Data Centers – Google
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Macbook charger teardown: The surprising complexity inside Apple’s power adapter
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Big in Israel: Vegan Soldiers
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Richard Stallman Was Right All Along
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ampd: a remote-controlled jukebox for your old Android device
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Combating the lava-layer anti-pattern with rolling refactoring
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Traveling Ruby: self-contained, portable Ruby binaries
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Richard Stallman’s GNU Manifesto Turns Thirty
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Chrome dropping support for OSX 10.6, 10.7, and 10.8
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The history of grep, the 40 years old Unix command
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What can a technologist do about climate change?
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Choose Boring Technology
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PHP: The Right Way
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Final Fantasy 7’s Cloud Coming to Super Smash Bros Wii U, 3DS
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The Doors Sing “Reading Rainbow” Theme (Late Night with Jimmy Fallon)
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Monopoly’s Inventor: The Progressive Who Didn’t Pass ‘Go’
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Super Mario World Castle Theme (Organ Cover)
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How to mute the news room on a Cisco WebEx call
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Iowa City Council Candidates Inspire Vote With Climate Action, Green Economy Initiatives
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nomo zilla
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I Left the Coast for a Simpler Life in the Midwest -- and You Can, Too
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Useing You’re Type’s Good
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Eliminating Roundtrips with Preconnect
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The Link That Can Crash Chrome
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#NodeJS : A quick optimization advice
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Android 6.0 Marshmallow, thoroughly reviewed
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Amazon to ban sales of Apple TV, Google Chromecast to boost Prime Video
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City of Iowa City in early stages of switching to LED lighting
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Automated Gardening
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Oracle to ‘sinner’ customers: Reverse engineering is a sin and we know best
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Iowa City City Council supports biking
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Cable TV box rental fees cost average household $232 a year
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US sees residential solar surge past commercial-scale installs
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Filmmakers fighting “Happy Birthday” copyright find their “smoking gun”
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Save the world using your PC or phone
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How Can I Clean Recyclables Without Wasting Water?
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Iowa school district asks principals to wear body cams
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The Presidential Candidate With a Plan to Run the US on 100% Clean Energy
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Stanford researcher declares that the sixth mass extinction is here
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From ASM.JS to WebAssembly
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Ackbar’s Eleven: Star Wars/Ocean’s Eleven mashup
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Apple drops license requirement for testing on your own device
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The making of “Who Shot Mr. Burns?”
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Microsoft Will Help Iowa Caucuses Go High-Tech
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Android Auto, Apple CarPlay on many 2016 Chevy models
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Miscellaneous JavaScript Reading
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Android and iOS apps on Windows: What is Microsoft doing—and will it work?
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How to Save the Day with Git Remotes
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Apple Is Rejecting Some Apps From The App Store For Declaring Pebble Watch Support
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Iowa primed to be first in nation for driverless cars
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Google seeks $1 billion expansion of Council Bluffs, Iowa datacenter
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How transit and bikes can pay for your home
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The case for a monolithic repository
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15 Best Cities for Creative 20-Somethings Other Than New York
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You can now test Project Spartan, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer successor
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Rep. Loebsack to Indiana businesses: Come to Iowa, a ‘more welcoming community’
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Iowa City to be renamed Iowa Rock City
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The Shut-In Economy
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Toy Story, 20 years later: how Pixar made its first blockbuster
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The Key Master
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Nintendo Plans for Mobile Games
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In 2014, for the first time in 40 years, global CO2 emissions have stalled
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Iowa City trio starts company to produce fresh tofu
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Dropbox now available in the Chrome OS File Manager
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Chrome 42 Beta for Android Brings Powerful Developer Features
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NTP’s Fate Hinges On ‘Father Time’
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Google Code joins the march to the Google Graveyard
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Star Trek movies (ships only)
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California’s hot, dry winters tied to climate change
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Pixel Dungeon, a quality open-source dungeon crawler
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Cereal Bags Can Be Recycled with Plastic Bags
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ICRuby for March 5th: Using Ruby to program a Sphero using Artoo
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Valve unveils Steam Link, final Steam controller, Source 2
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Chat standards are still alive at Google
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Ruby Rogues on Pair Programming
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60fps on the mobile web
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Millions of Facebook users have no idea they’re using the internet
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How to Set Up GitHub Pages with a Custom Domain
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Why Wesabe Lost to Mint
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Why open source and open standards matter on Android
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Bringing asm.js to the Chakra JavaScript engine in Windows 10
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HTTP/2 finished, coming to browsers within weeks
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Iowa considers banning conversion therapy
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Code Rush, a documentary about Netscape circa 2000
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Doctor Who game helps kids to learn to code
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Google announces SPDY’s coming demise as HTTP/2 approaches
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How do I view source in the Android browser?
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How to allow auto-update of apps in Play Store only when plugged in?
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Microsoft to invest in Cyanogen, which hopes to take Android from Google
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Chrome Extension: Table Capture
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Iowa City in top 10 of Livability’s 2015 Best Places to Live
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YouTube says HTML5 video ready for primetime, makes it default
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Convert bzr to git
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NBC Quietly Discontinuing Video Podcasts
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MPW, Carbon and building Classic Mac OS apps in OS X
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Android app: SMS Backup +
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Dropbox Dropping Tiger and Leopard Support in May
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San Francisco on Track to Become Zero Waste City
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Microsoft unveils Project Spartan, the browser after Internet Explorer
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Meet KeySweeper, the $10 USB charger that steals MS keyboard strokes
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Obama in Cedar Falls, Municipal broadband in Iowa
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Refactoring catalog
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Recycling Programs at Retail Stores
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USB 3.1 and Type-C look awesome
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Zero Waste, not Recycling
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Keep your machine clean in the New Year with Maid v0.6.0
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ArsTechnica 2013: Iowa City to ban red-light cameras, drones, and license plate readers too
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100+ Hypermiling / ecodriving tips & tactics for better mpg
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Microsoft open sources .NET, takes it to Linux and OS X
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iMessage deactivation problems earn Apple a federal lawsuit
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Thursday, 11/6: ICRuby Meetup
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Unsaved documents in Apple apps that use Documents in the Cloud are automatically saved to iCloud
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On Asm.js
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Tim Cook Speaks Up
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Native Skype for Chromebooks Just Got a Step Closer
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iFixit’s 2014 Mac Mini teardown shows a sealed, less-upgradeable redesign
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Self-hosted URL shortener: YOURLS
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WP to Twitter WordPress Plugin
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Iowa City has the largest toothbrush plant in the world
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Facebook’s new app harkens back to the AOL chatroom
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Tesla Model S Owners Unite To Offer Law-Skirting Test Drives In Iowa
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Calculating Your CO2 Footprint
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Why is printf better than echo?
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Largest Climate-Change March in History Unlikely to Convince Idiots
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4 Chrome Extensions for Teachers
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The 10 states with the best quality of life
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Markdown throwdown
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The Web Is Not Dead
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Google to Discontinue 32-bit Chrome for Mac Next Month
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Transformers: Surprisingly mediocre
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Iowa City ranks among top users of public transit in the nation
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Iowa’s largest solar farm unveiled in Johnson County
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CoreOS: Linux for the cloud and the datacenter
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Componentize the Web
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The Value of Repetition in Personal Finance
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Filter a list of paths to those that exist
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Driven by necessity, Mozilla to enable HTML5 DRM in Firefox
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ISEE-3
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A first-person engine in 265 lines
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What Android 4.4.3 could mean about the future of Android updates
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Every Single Doctor Who Story, Ranked from Best to Worst
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iOS 8 wish-list: pre-WWDC edition
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Quake 3 WebGL Demo
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Vagrant LXC -- Linux Containers for Vagrant
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300ms test for Mobile Browsers
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Explanation of the Shadow DOM and Web Components
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Google Chrome Aura Lands on Linux In Latest Stable Update
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DRM and the Challenge of Serving Users
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Mission Creek Tech and Innovation
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Unreal Tournament Confirms Linux Support, Will Also Be Free
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In Landmark Decision, Supreme Court Strikes Down Main Reason Country Was Started
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xkcd: Installing
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Recipe: git bisect
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Sleeping longer during business hours
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The Internet’s Telltale Heartbleed
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Vegetable Gardener Videos
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First Look – AWS WorkSpaces
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The New Rubygems Index Format
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Multi-line Memoization
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What happens to older developers?
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HTML datalist Tag
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This Isn’t Capitalism -- It’s Growthism, and It’s Bad for Us
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New features in iOS 8
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Rate Limiting and Velocity Checking
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Why we love repetition in music
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Switching from Gmail to FastMail
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Final Fantasy Isn’t Dying. It’s Already Dead
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Converting a hexdump to binary, SoundPlay on BeOS
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Vanilla JS
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How To Scale a Development Team
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The Abomination of Ebooks: They Price People Out of Reading
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Over 120 Science Journal Papers Pulled For Being Total Gibberish
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ActiveRecord partial_updates broken when duping with Single Table Inheritance
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Rumors of Ruby’s Demise
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Ruby gotchas
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Hello, MS-Android. Good-bye, Windows Phone
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Back on Linux
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Ubuntu To Switch to Systemd As Default Following Debian Decision
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Neither Microsoft, Nokia, nor anyone else should fork Android. It’s unforkable.
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How Travis CI Rolls As A Team
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How In-app Purchases Have Destroyed The Industry
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Tim Berners-Lee: we need to re-decentralise the web
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Design patterns in a sentence
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Fear of Shipping and Service-Oriented Architecture
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count_by in Ruby
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KnightOS -- An open source OS for TI calculators
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How Should This Work?
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What we can learn from dialect maps
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A Huge List of Free Programming Books
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Podcast URL Extractor
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char vs varchar for UUIDs in MySQL and PostgreSQL
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A very basic rsync HOWTO
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The future of Linux and Flash explained -- It’s your fault
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The first CyanogenMod Android smartphone is on its way
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Technical Debt via Technical Drift
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Extended maintenance for Ruby 1.8.7 and 1.9.2
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You know Ubuntu as an operating system. Mandela knew it as his life’s mission.
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VHX offers DRM-free video as a service
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The Amazing Spider-Man: Not bad, but not all that good either
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Phone/Phoner gem: SyntaxError on Rails 3.2.16, 3.2.15, and possibly before
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What’s new in Ruby 2.1.0? (And my experiences upgrading)
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Chrome Packaged Apps Coming to Android, iOS
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Google Chrome Adds Audio/Video Indicators To Tabs in Latest Dev Build
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The Travis CI Blog: Builds Atom Feed Now Available
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My thoughts on Avdi Grimm’s “Why Linux”
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Tux logo found on ice melt
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xkcd: ah, the famous “changed code” commit message
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Java 8 has lambdas?
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Blockbuster closes
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Maid v0.4-series update
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CISCO Announce New Open Source H.264 Codec
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Programming Language: Objective CorporateSpeak++ -- Floopsy’s Sketchpad
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Responsibility-centric vs. data-centric design
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fastdom
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Snowden Offers to Fix Healthcare.gov
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Hacker Typer
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Ruby QuickRef
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Fewer Federal Register updates than normal because of government shutdown
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Superclass mismatch when inheriting from Struct.new
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Node.js-based Ghost blogging platform
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The Evolution of the Web
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6 Ways to Remove Pain From Feature Testing in Ruby on Rails
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The Rails Testing Pyramid
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Organizing constants in Ruby using class methods
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No iPhone, that’s not what I meant
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Iowa City, as seen on The West Wing
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Ruby Simple HTTP Server, minimalist Rake
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Disabling RdRand in Linux
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PostgresSQL 9.3 (now with more JSON)
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Filtering on MIME type in Maid
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A big-enough house
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I don’t always use eval in JavaScript, but when I do, I stop and do things the right way anyway
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BitTorrent Sync between Ubuntu, Android, and iOS
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Privacy in 2013: Retail stores track you using your smartphone
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Fixing CSV parsing bug (NoMethodError arity for NilClass)
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Time Enough at Last
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Using dom_id with a presenter (or other objects)
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On moving across half the country
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Major unpatched OS X bugs
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Omaha’s PeggyBank archives MPegs and JPegs
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Respond.js
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Self-hosted “Read It Later” App: Poche
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CODE Mechanical Keyboard
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The Onion on CNN
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Flattr Tiny Tiny RSS
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Hawaiian burger joint to open in Iowa City
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RSS Feeds Directory for Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Pinterest and More
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What comes after USB charging? Inductive charging.
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Contributing to OpenStreetMap
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Fallback font for non-Mac users
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Today I Learned: You can unlink a file and still use it
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Weekly roundup
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Making Puppet’s fqdn_rand play nice with Vagrant
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Weekly roundup
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Creative Corridor Launch
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Sunday 4/21: OpenHack + OpenHardware
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Weekly roundup
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SSH Agent Forwarding with Vagrant AWS
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Popops Enabled
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Stormcloud for Chrome
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Pretty crazy to think about, isn’t it?
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Maid v0.3.0 release!
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Fast Specs
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Calculating the next leap year in Ruby
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Best new word of the day: “cram” (cron spam)
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Maid v0.3.0 Beta
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All about to_h in Ruby 2.0
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Ruby 2.0 Rundown
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Is an iPad Mini or a Nexus 7 Better for a Geek?
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That’s not doing quite what you think...
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We’re certain it’s a nice town...
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database configuration does not specify adapter
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Maid presentation
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Thou Shalt Not Park Here
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Keep Calm and Vote Early
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Debugging rsyslog and logrotate
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Sharing is Caring
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How the Internet will (one day) transform government
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UGtastic Interview
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Filtering output when logging
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VRAPI2.NO EMAIL OR POSTAL ADDRESS PROVIDED
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Just in case: keep these DNS servers handy
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WindyCityRails 2012
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Why can’t I connect to Heroku Postgres in production?
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Why aren’t Heroku syslog drains logging to rsyslogd?
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My thoughts on GitHub for Mac
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Common configuration for production and staging
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How do I embed images inside a GitHub wiki (gollum) repository?
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Test upcoming browsers automatically via jsTestDriver
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Filter params on Rails 3.1 when calling notify_airbrake
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autoload in Ruby 1.8 and Rails
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Blocking migration creation in Rails
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Using Heroku with an external MySQL database
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RubyConf 2011
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ActiveRecord::ConnectionNotEstablished in Rails 3.1 on Heroku
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relative_time_ago in Padrino should be time_ago_in_words
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Accessing Cookies in Padrino/Sinatra
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Enforcing SSL in Padrino
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New open source projects: Maid and TabCarousel
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throw/catch vs. raise/rescue
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WebKit-specific CSS rules (or hacks, if you prefer)
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Captions on Sanyo TV with Universal Remote
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Fixing Tracking on a Sharp VC-A593 VCR
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Review of iRobot Advanced Power System Ni-MH Battery, 3000 mAh, 17373
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MySQL console tip
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Clever Spam
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Rails Timezones
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Broken solar clock? Not so fast
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Basic: TI-83
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Danielle and our books
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Snippet: Play latest NBC Nightly News fullscreen
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“Ruby, White and Blue Hackfest” tomorrow!
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New on GitHub: utilities
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Throw exception when re-assigning a constant in Ruby?
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Awesome: Super Mario Bros. Crossover
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Website Redesign
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Musicolio
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I didn't know it was so cut and dry
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The Role of Government
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Politeness
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Rails validations should be instance level, not class level
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Obama chooses Elena Kagan for Supreme Court
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Is there a boolean literal in SQLite?
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Calculating multiple column average in SQLite3
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Plot inverse colors in Matlab?
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How do I do multiple assignment in MATLAB
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What’s the closest thing to #define in Matlab?
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How to organize MATLAB code?
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How can I get the column names when querying with DBI in Perl?
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Command line CSV viewer?
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Constants in MATLAB
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Development
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University of Iowa Commencement May 2009
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On the Etiology of Autism
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Kerberos for SSH authentication
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AFP vs SMB
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Smart Power Strips in OS X
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NULL (nil) in fixtures
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Time in :conditions
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Count vs length vs size in Rails
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HTMLDiff in Ruby
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Loading environment fails with an outdated version of RubyGems
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Audio Processing in Ruby
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MFMessageErrorDomain error 1035 sending mail
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Name of calling class using static methods in PHP
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JSProgressBar OSX theme
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University of Iowa ACM Website
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Wikipedia Bio
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JumpDrive Secure Icon
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wxMusik Icon
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Jazz Greats
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It's Going to Be a Good Year
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coachbladt.com
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Podcasting for the Palm
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Choices
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One-minute vacations
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Incredible
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Thanksgiving plans
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Success
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Time Travel
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Oh my...
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I love it
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Firefox 1.0 impressions
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The elections are finally upon us
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Zire 31 User's Group
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On the Road
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Metroid Prime
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Super Size Me
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Treo 650
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Mozilla Firefox 1.0
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Photos with Jerry
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I have a fan club!
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Another Apology
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Dating Systems
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Nostalgia
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A little too coincidental
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Video Game Console Icons
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Late Night with Edgar Allen Poe
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I Know Kung Fu
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Bowl: A Saxophone Quartet
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Zip Drive
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Desktop
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Momento
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Metroid
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Laugh Olympics