Alasdair Watson

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Links for Friday June 3rd 2016

Posted on June 3, 2016 by Alasdair
  • ziadoz/awesome-php: A curated list of amazingly awesome PHP libraries, resources and shiny things.
    This is exactly what it says, and will be useful to me.

Links for Tuesday May 24th 2016

Posted on May 24, 2016 by Alasdair
  • McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: List: Things the World’s Most and Least Privileged People Say.
    Ouch.

Links for Friday May 20th 2016

Posted on May 20, 2016 by Alasdair
  • Russell Davies: Subtleties
    This, this, a thousand times this. Dealing with people at a senior level who just don't get the web is frustrating, and honestly, I think if you're leading an organisation in the 21st Century, and you don't understand this stuff, then you are by definition, leading badly.

Links for Wednesday April 20th 2016

Posted on April 21, 2016 by Alasdair
  • Nerd Role Models: Captain America and Non-Toxic Masculinity – Paging Dr. NerdLove
    Solid write up of what makes Cap exactly the kind of male hero Holywood should do more of, if we've got to have more of them.

Links for Friday April 8th 2016

Posted on April 9, 2016 by Alasdair
  • Step by Step Guide to Installing Socket.io and Broadcasting Events with Laravel 5.1
    I appear to be an "all links incomprehensible to humans" phase right now, don't it?

Links for Friday April 8th 2016

Posted on April 8, 2016 by Alasdair
  • Introducing Activity++ – David Smith
    Reminder to self to have a look at this later.

Links for Thursday April 7th 2016

Posted on April 7, 2016April 7, 2016 by Alasdair
  • Two-Way Data-Binding and Form Validation in React — Medium
    More React tutorials.
  • React.js Tutorial – A Guide to Tools and Libraries
    I'm just finding my way with React, and hope this will be helpful.
  • Instaparser
    Instapaper's article parser is now available as an API service. Might be handy.

Links for Tuesday April 5th 2016

Posted on April 6, 2016 by Alasdair
  • The time that Tony Fadell sold me a container of hummus. — Medium
    Jesus. This cannot be legal. Serious, read this, it is the easy-to-grasp dark side of the IoT in a nutshell.

Links for Thursday March 31st 2016

Posted on March 31, 2016March 31, 2016 by Alasdair
  • Ubuntu on Windows
    Microsoft are going to make a bash prompt easily available within Windows. Dogs are lying down with cats. These are the end times.
  • The Lost London Tube Map
    A map of places in London that have vanished in time. Pretty awesome.

Links for Tuesday March 29th 2016

Posted on March 29, 2016 by Alasdair
  • My Heroic and Lazy Stand Against IFTTT (Pinboard Blog)
    One of the last links I'll get shipped by IFTTT, because they're being dicks.

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