Issue 9

Why Web 3.0 matters and what you should know about it: Privacy, don't call it a comeback. 🚨 77 hand-drawn space icons that’ll take you into unexplored territories (Freebie)

Let's celebrate love.

I have some controversial thoughts to add to the Logan Paul thing...I watched his early Vines and they aren't bad.

However, I'd always recommend WInamp as a nostalgic drug of choice. It's back. In JavaScript form. But still has the 'easy to wipe a carefully curated playlist' feature.

Possibly the hardest thing about love is finding the right words to express everything; the good news is that neural networks can be trained to give you the best options. Me love have.

Finally, after years of dominance, Facebook has had a rough couple of years. Fake news, unwitting election rigger and content woes are all covered in Wired's story.

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🕷️ Design & Development Arena

Why Web 3.0 matters and what you should know about it: Privacy, don't call it a comeback.

medium.com  

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🚨 77 hand-drawn space icons that’ll take you into unexplored territories (Freebie)

smashingmagazine.com  

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Coding without a keystroke: The hands-free creation of a full video game

arstechnica.com  

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🥇 World of WordPress

Why hackers are targeting your WordPress site

wpmudev.org  

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Scope & Features: Gutenberg's progress and what's left

github.com  

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The state of managed WordPress hosting in 2018

presslabs.com  

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February 2018 WordPress comics

codeinwp.com

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👩‍💻 Misc Tech

🐮 Bovine Mirror: Facial Recognition for Cows Is Here

gizmodo.com  

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Your Valentine's cheat sheet is here: Candy Heart messages written by a neural network #StankLove

aiweirdness.com  

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HTTP codes as Valentine’s Day comics – Hani Lim

medium.com  

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The All-Furby Organ. More inhuman than cow-face recognition

digg.com  

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A new version of VLC with a bunch of cool stuff: HDR and 360-degree video and pretty much every codec that has been and ever will be

arstechnica.com  

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kelseyhightower/nocode: Write nothing; deploy nowhere.

github.com  

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The. Best. Music. Player. Ever. Winamp is back living in your browser. 🤘 🤘

jordaneldredge.com  

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The Disconnect is a magazine of commentary, fiction and poetry. Free to read, if you turn off your wi-fi.

thedisconnect.co

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🚍 Black Mirror mirror on the wall

Facebook moderator: I had to be prepared to see anything 😱

bbc.com  

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[Partial Paywall] Inside Facebook's hellish two years. Their cover image is brutal.

wired.com  

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There's no time for fussing and fighting..anymore: Facebook works it out with Apple to test news paywalls

techcrunch.com

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🔖 Nice work if you can get it

The Winter Olympics could cost U.S. businesses $1.7 billion in productivity. Counter-point: midday breaks can improve concentration, creativity and efficiency. 🏂

thriveglobal.com  

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Go get 'em kids: Kansas scrambles to change rules after 6 teens enter Governor's race. Also Kansas rules for candidacy don't restrict animals entering the race.

npr.org

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Outro 🎤

That's another week of techie gossip and strangeness. Feel free to forward this to anyone who might need a break from the Winter Olympics.

Your best friend, Chris