How you can use Facebook to track your friends’ sleeping habits

“lastActiveTimes”: { “3443534”: 1456065265, “675631492”: 1456066386, “8657643”: 1456062331, “255277634”: 1456052450, “6423324”: 1456065173, “235323452”: 1456065096, “3265233223”: 1456066381, “2432885644”: 1456064016, “7464340313”: 1456062500 } In the HTML source code of Messenger.com you can find an object containing userids associated with timestamps of last activity – as shown above. Given this it’s really easy to scrape and combine this …

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Designing More Efficient Forms: Structure, Inputs, Labels and Actions

I see it happening a lot: forms without any structure, with wrong types of inputs, with no proper labels, with … – And that’s a bad thing. All the required HTML elements (<fieldset>, <input> types, <label>, etc.) are there, so why not use them? This article has a nice writeup on how to properly create …

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Your Face is Big Data

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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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 …

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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 …

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