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  • How tracking pixels work – Julia Evans

    2019-12-23

    Interesting, slightly-technical summary of how website tracking works, from @b0rk

  • 99% Invisible

    2019-12-23

    I LOVED this episode of 99PI that touched on Chatbots, AI, Eliza (one of my first major programming projects), psychology, ethics, computer science, Turing tests, neural networks, Google Duplex. A must-listen for beautiful nerds.

  • 500+ CSS Icons, Customizable, Retina Ready & API

    2019-12-23

    Pure CSS icons. Why has no one thought of this before? via @heydesigner

  • H O M E – dona b drawings – architectural illustrator

    2019-12-20

    Lovely local architectural illustrations and fun products. Includes Magic Roundabout!

  • Challenger and mobile banks – Which?

    2019-12-19

    List of (personal) challenger banks with lots of useful info

  • ?Use contextual Adminbar colors to differentiate your WordPress instances – Jean-Baptiste Audras

    2019-12-16

    Useful tip and plugin for changing the admin bar colour in the WordPress Dashboard

  • Risk3sixty-Labs/geoapi: Lightweight API service to get geolocation data from IP addresses.

    2019-12-16

    Free/opensource Geolocation API. Written in node/express? Not sure what limitations are. References the geoip-ite package. You can self-host it.

  • Matestack. Rapidly create interactive UIs in pure Ruby

    2019-12-16

    Is this like Laravel LiveWire but for Ruby? Good to see multiple projects across multiple platforms unifying front and back end.

  • Safe SVG – WordPress plugin | WordPress.org English (UK)

    2019-12-12

    Free WordPress plugin to enable SVG support

  • Home Assistant

    2019-12-09

    Open source home automation software. Works on a Raspberry Pi. Not sure exactly what it does.

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