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You Spin Me Round Front-end First up, Epic Spinners [github/epicmaxco] offers CSS spinners you can easily integrate into Vue. svg-grabber [chrome.google] lets you preview and download SVG assets from a site. Blotter.js [blotter] is a JavaScript library for drawing weird, cool text effects on the web. I like this a lot. A look at HTML5's controversial Encrypted Media Extensions [blog.logrocket]. And Takehome [takehome] is a better way to create coding challenges for job candidates. Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay Mobile/back-end/programming Prodigy [prodi.gy] offers fast, efficient machine learning. NoDock [nodock] is an open-source full-stack environment for your Docker projects. How to find empty files and directories from the command line [davidwalsh]. A guide to setting up authentication for Node apps via Passport [sitepoint]. You can get data from Faraday-caged, air-gapped computers. Just use magnetic fields [cyber.bgu]. Magnetic fields! Every time! How do they work?! BuckHacker [motherboard.vice] searches through exposed AWS servers. You do not want to rank well on this search engine. Oh, and Is-Vegan [github/hmontazeri] is a JavaScript library for checking whether a given ingredient is vegan. You never know! Tick ToC Design/UX/product Tips and themes for keeping up with a changing job market [sitepoint]. 11 tips for designing high-converting landing pages [blog.prototypr]. How to create a table of contents in InDesign [redokun]. How product studio Postlight approached a rebrand [trackchanges]. Thiel's in Motion News/business A new iOS bug will crash your iPhone if it receives a particular text character [theverge]. At this point, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is pretty much just an incubator for Internet of Things botnets [motherboard.vice]. Embedding a tweet is copyright infringement, a United States court has ruled [eff]. Peter Thiel is moving out of Silicon Valley, heading all the way to Los Angeles [qz]. Apparently there are too many liberals in the Valley, and it costs too much. Wait, too much for Peter Thiel!? I don't want to know how much that is. How to exploit Facebook's algorithm to annoy your friends and influence people [buzzfeed]. Leeroy [leeroy] is a decentralized Twitter clone built on the Ethereum blockchain. Micro-tipping for content you like, no central authority, no one enforcing any content standards. This is either an amazing or very non-amazing idea. "Physicists created a new form of light" [motherboard.vice]. And a handbook for nailing your next tech interview [github/yangshun]. Time is Running Out Everything else (apps, fun tools, gaming, culture, funny stuff) A round-up of great longreads for the weekend [versioning.substack]. So yeah, if you could get those all read and absorbed by Monday, that'd be great. SoYouLearn [soyoulearn] is an advanced spaced repetition learning platform. Purdue's microbots [motherboard.vice] - very tiny robots who just jump around all over the place - are terrifying. Today in marketing: Black Mirror's got a new site that'll tell you how long your relationship has left [theverge]. This is a bit silly, and may reduce the length of fan's relationship with the show. Here's a weekend project - beat this mysterious Steam game and win a Bitcoin [motherboard.vice]. Finally, The Incredibles 2 trailer looks quite good indeed [youtube/disney-pixar]. There is Versioning for another Incredible week. I'm off to help my friend Peter move house. I'm worried our relationship doesn't have much longer! I'll have some more for you next week. Hopefully you're exactly 1 Bitcoin richer by then, good luck! Curated by Adam

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