My new approach to interesting articles in the technology and development space is to add them to a weekly digest and scan through them each Friday. This frees up the week to not having to worry about catching up with the latest news, so it's a process I recommend.
I haven't read and do not condone the articles here, I merely thought they look interesting. Thoughts on this format are welcome
Here's the first edition:
 It is the beginning of the year and an opportunity for us to reflect on 2018 and share what’s upcoming for our community in 2019. Last year, we shared details on the progress we’ve made on an ambitious roadmap in January and August. Here’s a recap: Tags: via Pocket February 01, 2019 at 08:05AM February 01, 2019 at 08:15AM |
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 The Secure Shell is widely used to provide secure access to remote systems, and everybody who uses it is familiar with routine password access. This is the easiest to set up, is available by default, but suffers from a number of limitations. Tags: via Pocket February 01, 2019 at 08:09PM February 01, 2019 at 08:15PM |
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SSH agent forwarding can be used to make deploying to a server simple. It allows you to use your local SSH keys instead of leaving keys (without passphrases!) sitting on your server. If you've already set up an SSH key to interact with GitHub, you're probably familiar with ssh-agent. Tags: via Pocket February 01, 2019 at 08:09PM February 01, 2019 at 08:15PM |
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I started working with the Web in 1992, just a few years after Tim Berners-Lee made Web standards available to the public, paving the way for a massive transformation in our lives. A transformation that has been very positive. Tags: via Pocket February 03, 2019 at 02:37PM February 03, 2019 at 02:39PM |
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 As described in the Firing Frankness Monday Note, my exit arrangement with Apple involved staying another six months or so as a ”minister without portfolio”. As I pondered my next move, I got a pair of phone calls from Steve Jobs. Tags: via Pocket February 03, 2019 at 02:37PM February 03, 2019 at 02:39PM |
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You know the old line about not writing code that’s as clever as you are, because it will take someone even smarter than you to debug it? I used to think that means I should write code that’s about 80% as clever as I am. Save a little bit for debugging. Tags: via Pocket February 03, 2019 at 02:37PM February 03, 2019 at 02:39PM |
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 The web isn’t just another software platform. It’s the greatest software platform the world has ever seen. And yet even in its obvious glory, we’re still learning how to be grateful for all its constituent parts. Take View Source, for example. I owe much of my career to View Source. Tags: via Pocket February 03, 2019 at 02:37PM February 03, 2019 at 02:39PM |
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WordPress multisite introduces a new database table to store metadata associated with sites. This allows for the storage of arbitrary site data relevant in a multisite / network context. Tags: via Pocket February 03, 2019 at 02:37PM February 03, 2019 at 02:39PM |
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 Apple's Reminders is one of the few native iOS apps with a database that can be directly tapped into by third-party clients. Tags: via Pocket February 03, 2019 at 02:39PM February 03, 2019 at 03:19PM |
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One question I’ve seen posed a few times in the past several months is whether performance really is a moral or ethical concern, or if that’s all heavy-handed exaggeration. It’s a fair question, I suppose. Tags: via Pocket February 03, 2019 at 04:35PM February 03, 2019 at 04:39PM |
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 In the central marketplace of ancient Athens, around 350BC, there stood a machine called the kleroterion. This was a six-foot-high slab of stone that had a series of slots on the front, and a long tube bored down from the top to the base. Tags: via Pocket February 04, 2019 at 08:06AM February 04, 2019 at 08:09AM |
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 The 5 reasons why people tend to micromanage in the workplace – and how to manage up, and around them. I’ve heard the phrase, “I have a micromanaging boss,” more times than I can remember. I heard it again, just last week. Tags: via Pocket February 05, 2019 at 04:16AM February 05, 2019 at 05:34AM |
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 Call it the people’s iOS synth: Synth One is free – without ads or registration or anything like that – and loved. And now it’s reached 1.0, with iPad and iPhone support and some expert-designed sounds. Tags: via Pocket February 05, 2019 at 04:16AM February 05, 2019 at 05:34AM |
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 Goodbye Big FiveReporter Kashmir Hill spent six weeks blocking Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Apple from getting her money, data, and attention, using a custom-built VPN. Here’s what happened. Tags: via Pocket February 05, 2019 at 04:16AM February 05, 2019 at 05:34AM |
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Datasette sits at the center of a growing ecosystem of open source tools aimed at making it as easy as possible to gather, analyze and publish interesting data. Tags: via Pocket February 05, 2019 at 04:16AM February 05, 2019 at 05:34AM |
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 WP Acceptance—a team-centric tool we’ve built for writing reliable, scalable acceptance tests—is now available in beta. Part of our pursuit of finely crafted web experiences, we think that WP Acceptance will help ensure stable releases and fewer regressions for WordPress applications. Tags: via Pocket February 05, 2019 at 11:09PM February 05, 2019 at 11:20PM |
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Given that coordination and communication swamp all other costs in modern software development it is a pressing area to invest in, especially as your team scales. I use a framework of a Small Number of Well Known Tools to build shared understanding in our complex systems over time. Tags: via Pocket February 06, 2019 at 06:51AM February 06, 2019 at 06:52AM |
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 The New York Times Company generated more than $709 million in digital revenue last year, growing at a pace that suggests it will meet its stated goal of $800 million in digital sales by the end of 2020. Tags: via Pocket February 06, 2019 at 06:10PM February 06, 2019 at 06:52PM |
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In this episode series, we will be looking at Ansible, which is an easy to use configuration management and orchestration tool. My goal for this series, is to show you what Ansible is, how it works, and the steps to get going on your own. Tags: via Pocket February 06, 2019 at 06:22PM February 06, 2019 at 06:52PM |
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PHPUnit is the official testing framework chosen by the core team to test our PHP code. 1. Install PHPUnit. WordPress uses PHPUnit, the standard for unit testing PHP projects. Installation instructions can be found in the PHPUnit manual or on the PHPUnit Github repository. Tags: via Pocket February 06, 2019 at 06:38PM February 06, 2019 at 06:52PM |
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To take advantage of the performance boosting features of Jetpack, certain information about the content, settings, and setup of your site are synced with our servers. This data begins to sync when Jetpack is installed and connected to a WordPress.com User ID. Tags: via Pocket February 06, 2019 at 06:49PM February 06, 2019 at 06:52PM |
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@mapk said earlier that the Gutenberg repository is on fire ?, he was not lying. More than 52 contributors participated in this release. This release is also the first release dropping support for WordPress versions prior to 5.0. Tags: via Pocket February 06, 2019 at 08:14PM February 06, 2019 at 08:17PM |
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 While this addition won’t change the way the world uses the internet, it will improve things for those who have a crazy amount of tabs open at the same time. Firefox truncates the tab title the more tabs that are open, leaving users to rely on favicon spotting to identify tabs. Tags: via Pocket February 06, 2019 at 08:15PM February 06, 2019 at 08:17PM |
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Open source is about more than just code. It's also about the planning that happens before the code is written, the process of how that code is used by others, and fostering a welcoming environment where a community can grow. Tags: via Pocket February 07, 2019 at 11:21PM February 07, 2019 at 11:22PM |
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 The answer to questions like “I just need a simple audio interface,” and “I want a compact keyboard that doesn’t suck,” and “oh, yeah, wait, does this connect to my Eurorack?” along with “did I mention I’ve got almost no money?” – just got some new answers. Tags: via Pocket February 07, 2019 at 11:29PM February 07, 2019 at 11:32PM |
