Interesting project by Russian photographer Egor Tsvetkov in which he took photos of random, anonymous, people riding the subway, and then running them through a face recognition app named FindFace. The result: 70% of those photographed could be linked to one or social network profiles of ‘m, thus un-anonymizing them. End of anonymity: Identification of …
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Lord Of The Rings: How Music Elevates Story
Why JavaScript Development is Crazy
The state of Javascript development is overwhelming and confusing because everyone is over-engineering their apps by default without even realizing it. How should you start a Javascript application? Should you ever use something like React or Angular? Should you use a package manager? What do you do if you don’t? Are tests even necessary? Should …
Super Mario World Flappy Bird
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Rocket Launch 360: DeltaIV NROL-45
Egghead.io: Getting Started with Redux
Crystal clear video course on getting started with Redux: Managing state in an application is critical, and is often done haphazardly. Redux provides a state container for JavaScript applications that will help your applications behave consistently. In this series, we will learn the basics of Redux, so that you can start using it to simplify …
React Native Playground
AWS Lambda: Going Beyond 5 Minutes
Webpack — The Confusing Parts
When I first saw a Webpack config file, it looked very alien-y 👽 and confusing 😱. After playing around with it for some time, I now think that it is because Webpack just has a unique syntax and new philosophies that may cause confusion in the beginning. Incidentally, these philosophies are also responsible for making …