Extra Future

Year: 2013

  • MadEye

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    [A web-based IDE built for remote pair programming, uses Google Hangouts.][link] [link]: http://madeye.io/ “MadEye”

  • µSpeech

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    [A speech recognition toolkit for Arduino][link]. Fighting the urge to pair this with my robovoice speech chip and make a vocal chatbot. [link]: http://arjo129.github.io/uSpeech/ “µSpeech”

  • How To Protect Against Laptop Webcam Hacking

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    [Someone should make a removable 3D printable bracket that does this, maybe with some optional padding to kill a mic as well?][link] [link]: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/04/how-protect-against-laptop-webcam-hacking “How To Protect Against Laptop Webcam Hacking | Electronic Frontier Foundation”

  • Marco Arment sells majority stake in Instapaper to Betaworks

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    [Didn’t see that one coming][link]. I use Instapaper every single day, and I hope this keeps Instapaper around for a long time and frees up Marco to make more new stuff. From his post: >I’m happy to announce that I’ve sold a majority stake in Instapaper to Betaworks. We’ve structured the deal with Instapaper’s health…

  • Hunger Striking at Guantánamo Bay

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    [Our children will look upon Guantanamo Bay with the same sheepish, embarrassed, confused, eye that we look upon the rounding up of Japanese Americans in camps like Manzanar during World War II.][link] If we’re lucky. It is brutal, it is inhuman, and it is the antithesis of the very ideals our country was founded upon.…

  • Feds force Oregon to surrender medical marijuana patient records

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    >[Federal agents have forced the Oregon Public Health Division to turn over an untold number of patients’ medical marijuana records, according to court records recently uncovered by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.][link] These people just want to be able to have their medicine and not be afraid, and this is EXACTLY why a lot of people on…

  • Log

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    >[“Console.log with Style”][link] Works in Chrome, pretty cool. A little verbose for my tastes but definitely better than the default. [link]: http://adamschwartz.co/log/ “Log – Console.log with Style”

  • Panic Releases Status Board

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    Remember when we all lost our shit over Panic’s awesome in-house status board? [Well they released it on the App Store today.][link] $10. You can even [create your own data sources by following this doc][docs]. I’m sure the docs will be available as a non-PDF soon enough. [link]: http://panic.com/statusboard/ “Status Board” [docs]: http://panic.com/statusboard/docs/diy_tutorial.pdf “Tutorial PDF”

  • csscss

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    >[csscss will parse any CSS files you give it and let you know which rulesets have duplicated declarations.][link] Been looking for something like this for YEARS now. Hope it’s good. [link]: http://zmoazeni.github.io/csscss/?hn=1 “csscss by zmoazeni”

  • Does Startup Life Have To Be A 24/7 Grind?

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    [Short answer: No.][link] Long answer: No, but nobody takes advice like this no matter how good it is. [link]: http://blog.groovehq.com/post/47537406719/does-startup-life-have-to-be-a-24-7-grind “Does Startup Life Have To Be A 24/7 Grind? | Groove Blog”

  • Pinry

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    [A self-hosted, open source, Pinterest clone.][link] Built with Python, from the looks of it. [link]: http://getpinry.com/ “Pinry”

  • Bitcoin part 1: Bits

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    [This is part 1 in a series that explains how BitCoin works. It’s good on technical details without trying to break your brain if you aren’t a programmer or researcher.][link] [link]: https://self-evident.org/?p=971 “Bitcoin part 1: Bits « self-evident”