Most of the stuff is sourced from Hacker News and Daring Fireball. So I won’t credit them specifically.
Download a Copy of The Pirate Bay, It’s Only 90 MB
http://torrentfreak.com/download-a-copy-of-the-pirate-bay-its-only-90-mb-120209/
I clapped my hands after reading this. Just imagine. Soon, there will be no need of a tracker site. The torrent client on first starting up, will simply download such a daily file. And from then on, you can make searches within the client itself. Pure distributed ingenuity. I am
amazed.
I have a bad feeling about this
http://raganwald.posterous.com/i-have-a-bad-feeling-about-this
An article about how there is a revolution being given birth at this very moment. A turn of technology and freedom in the digital world. So rebellious. So beautiful. Power to the people. This feels like a religion to me. I say to you too, “Rebels, the force will be with you. Always.”
Using libuv and http-parser to build a web server
http://vimeo.com/24713213
(techy) libuv is a library to handle I/O on sockets by juggling through them. Hence it does not wait for a response. http-parser parses the HTTP coming to read the header key-value pairs. Node.js uses this along with the V8 Javascript engine for scripting server behavior in Javascript. Here is a video demonstrating what is going on at the base.
Geeklist
http://geekli.st/invite/twilio
An amazing social network for geeky people. Just linking to show that Facebook is not the end of the world. Innovation is still possible. (code: shazam)
Heroku Buildpacks
http://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/buildpacks
Heroku allows you to just upload you code. Installing the environment, running the server, managing the network is all done automatically. Now add to that the power to create your very own custom environment. Just kills Amazon EC2. (For a minute ignore the technical aspects. Look at the potential.)
The reason for doing this newsletter was an incredible urge to share at the largest scale possible. Was done at Facebook, but not everyone appreciates it. Only jokes and photos are what work there. Not world changing technologies.
I hope you join me in this quest of understanding the world.
Thanks.
