Interesting Snippets from 2016-11-19

• JS Ipsum - The JavaScript Lorem Ipsum Generator

  Generate your own JS gibberish

• Why We Chose Vue.js | GitLab

  Primarily what drew us to Vue.js is that it allows our team to easily write simple JavaScript. Getting started with Vue.js is extremely easy. Its source code is very readable, and the documentation is the only tutorial you'll ever need. You don't need external libraries. You can use it with or without jQuery. You won't need to install any plugins, though many are available.

• GitHub - krisk/Fuse: Lightweight fuzzy-search, in JavaScript

  Lightweight fuzzy-search, in JavaScript, with zero dependencies

• GitHub - jorangreef/reed-solomon: Reed-Solomon erasure coding in pure Javascript with an optional C++ binding for multi-core throughput.

  A port of the JavaReedSolomon library released by Backblaze. For an introduction to erasure coding, see the post by Brian Beach on the Backblaze blog. Special thanks to Backblaze.

• GitHub - FGRibreau/gron: gron - Make JSON greppable!

  gron transforms JSON into discrete assignments to make it easier to grep for what you want and see the absolute 'path' to it. It eases the exploration of APIs that return large blobs of JSON but have terrible documentation.

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Interesting Snippets from 2016-11-18

• Instapush - Instant Notifications for Important Transactions

  Track new signups, purchases or anything that really matters. And get notified on your smartphone when it happens.

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Interesting Snippets from 2016-11-17

• seriot.ch - Parsing JSON is a Minefield 💣

  JSON is the de facto standard when it comes to (un)serialising and exchanging data in web and mobile programming. But how well do you really know JSON? We'll read the specifications and write test cases together. We'll test common JSON libraries against our test cases. I'll show that JSON is not the easy, idealised format as many do believe.

• GitHub - kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood: Curated list of falsehoods programmers believe in.

  Falsehood articles are a form of commentary on a particular subject, and are appreciated by the developer community at large for their effectiveness and terseness. They're a convenient written form to approach an unfamiliar domain by dispelling myths, point out common pitfalls, show inconsistencies and subtleties.

  In a sense, Falsehood articles are a suite of wordy unit-tests covering extensive edge-cases provided by real-world usage.

• Crash: how computers are setting us up for disaster | Tim Harford

  We increasingly let computers fly planes and carry out security checks. Driverless cars are next. But is our reliance on automation dangerously diminishing our skills?

• roughtime - Git at Google

  Roughtime is a protocol that aims to achieve rough time synchronisation in a secure way that doesn't depend on any particular time server, and in such a way that, if a time server does misbehave, clients end up with cryptographic proof of it.

  “Rough” time synchronisation means that, at this stage, we would be happy with time synchronisation to within 10 seconds of the correct time. If you have serious time synchronisation needs you‘ll want the machinery in NTP or even PTP (which needs hardware support to do right).

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Interesting Snippets from 2016-11-08

• Enterprise SMS Solution - Send Bulk SMS & Transactional SMS

  We are Responsible to Deliver your SMS Instantly. Everytime

• Nexmo - APIs for SMS, Voice and Phone Verifications

  With low latency and high deliverability, our SMS API is the most reliable way to reach users around the globe.

• SMS API, Voice API, & Global Carrier Provider | Plivo

  Build your business on the most reliable global communications backbone. 40,000+ customers in 200+ countries.

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Interesting Snippets from 2016-11-07

• GitHub - jlund/streisand: Silence Censorship!

  Streisand sets up a new server running L2TP/IPsec, OpenConnect, OpenSSH, OpenVPN, Shadowsocks, sslh, Stunnel, and a Tor bridge. It also generates custom configuration instructions for all of these services. At the end of the run you are given an HTML file with instructions that can be shared with friends, family members, and fellow activists.

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