- no more than 6 links per person per week
- blasts are done on Fridays at noon
Links from @Aleksuei Riabtsev:
- 🚀 The Rick and Morty API: Hey, did you ever want to hold a terry fold? - https://rickandmortyapi.com
- 📚 Climate Change in Canada - https://www.cbc.ca/news2/interactives/inourbackyard/
- 🗺 Google Crisis maps - https://google.org/crisismap/australia
- 🗺 MyFireWatch (Fires in Australia) - https://myfirewatch.landgate.wa.gov.au
- 🛠 [Random Framework] Vanilla Framework - https://vanillaframework.io
- 🛠 Accessibility as a Service - https://tenon.io
Links from @Aly Merchant:
- 📚 JavaScript, ES6, ES7, ES10 where are we? - https://medium.com/engineered-publicis-sapient/javascript-es6-es7-es10-where-are-we-8ac044dfd964
- 📚 Modern JavaScript features you may have missed - http://www.breck-mckye.com/blog/2019/10/modern-javascript-features-you-may-have-missed/
Links from @James Rae:
- 🗺 Ancient Earth - https://dinosaurpictures.org/ancient-earth
Links from @Aleksuei Riabtsev
- 🚀 A list of public APIs - https://github.com/public-apis/public-apis
- 📚 The 20 Second “Gut” Test for visual design - http://goodkickoffmeetings.com/2010/04/the-20-second-gut-test/
- 🛠 Vuex Pathify - https://davestewart.github.io/vuex-pathify
- 🛠 United States Web Design System (US analog of WET) - https://designsystem.digital.gov/
- 🗺 Where is ISS map? - http://iss.axelfuhrmann.com
Links from @Jessica Ly
- 📚 77-Year-Old Artist Who 'Paints' Japanese Landscapes With Excel - https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2017/12/tatsuo-horiuchi-excel-artist/
- 🔥 Humble Australia Relief Bundle 🔥 - 100% of the proceeds go to help the wildlife affected by the Australian bushfires - https://www.humblebundle.com/games/australia-fire-relief
Links from @Aleksuei Riabtsev:
- 📚 An Alphabet of Accessibility Issues - https://the-pastry-box-project.net/anne-gibson/2014-july-31
- 📚 Web Accessibility Tutorials - https://www.w3.org/WAI/tutorials/
- 🛠 Chrome Accessibility Developer Tools - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/accessibility-developer-t/fpkknkljclfencbdbgkenhalefipecmb/related?hl=en
- 🛠 Contrast Ratio tool - https://contrast-ratio.com/
- 🛠 Color Oracle - http://colororacle.org/
- 🛠 ChromeVox: a screen reader for Chrome - http://www.chromevox.com/
From @Andrew Hood:
- 💣 In case of a nuclear meltdown: KI Pills - https://preparetobesafe.ca/
Links from @Aleksuei Riabtsev:
- 🎶 Rainy Mood: music for work and study - https://www.rainymood.com
- 📚 7 CSS Units You Might Not Know About - https://webdesign.tutsplus.com/articles/7-css-units-you-might-not-know-about--cms-22573
- 📚 The State of CSS 2019 - https://2019.stateofcss.com/
- 🛠 A list packages for writing JS applications on desktop - https://github.com/styfle/awesome-desktop-js
- 🛠 80 Accessibility Tools - https://www.websitehostingrating.com/web-accessibility-resources-tools/
Links from @James Rae:
- 📰 [only inside firewall] Newspaper articles (looks like politics and environment mostly) - https://www.infomedia.gc.ca
- 🗺 Wuhan Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Global Cases - https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6
Links from @Aleksuei Riabtsev:
- 📚 Tracking coronavirus: Map, data and timeline - https://bnonews.com/index.php/2020/01/the-latest-coronavirus-cases/
- 🛠 Colors.ca: Colour palette generator - https://coolors.co/
Links from @Spencer Wahl:
- 🛠 A utility-first CSS framework for rapidly building custom designs - https://tailwindcss.com
Links from @Jessica Ly:
- I’m a Developer. I Won’t Teach My Kids to Code, and Neither Should You. - https://getpocket.com/explore/item/i-m-a-developer-i-won-t-teach-my-kids-to-code-and-neither-should-you?utm_source=pocket-newtab
Links from @Aleksuei Riabtsev:
- Old Maps Online (not a MMORPG) - https://www.oldmapsonline.org
- Has The Large Hadron Collider Destroyed The World Yet.com - http://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com
Links from @Aleksuei Riabtsev:
- 📚 Don't look at this page - https://bnonews.com/index.php/2020/03/the-latest-coronavirus-cases/
- 📚 Journey into a Schwarzschild black hole - https://jila.colorado.edu/~ajsh/insidebh/schw.html
- 📚 Skeptic's Dictionary (no flatearth entry unfortunately) - http://skepdic.com
- 📚 Typescript Cheat Sheet - https://rmolinamir.github.io/typescript-cheatsheet/
- 🛠 Lots of random calculators (1023 specifically) - https://www.omnicalculator.com
- 🛠 Epidemic Calculator - https://gabgoh.github.io/COVID/index.html
Links from @Aleksuei Riabtsev:
- 🛠 A tool to create random text generators - https://perchance.org/welcome
- 🛠 A collection of tools about Typescript guts - https://typescript.tools
- 🛠 Podcats - https://github.com/jakubroztocil/podcats
Links from @James Rae:
- 🛠 Father Ted API - https://fatherted.irish/
Links from @Aleksuei Riabtsev:
- 🧜♂️ 30 Species. 30 Pieces. 1 Fragmented survival - http://species-in-pieces.com
- 🚗 Delahaye 165s Interactive Artwork - http://www.timeshift165.com
- 📺 Arcade Fire - A virtual projection by Vincent Morisset - https://www.justareflektor.com
- 🤷♀️ Something-Nothing - http://somethingnothing.net
- ⚡ Master of Lightning - http://tesla.aziznatour.com/#
- 🏜 Rome - 3 dreams of black - An Interactive Film - http://www.ro.me
- ✈ Great explanation about how Jet Engines work - https://animagraffs.com/inside-a-jet-engine/
- 🗺 2D Google Driving Simulator - https://framesynthesis.com/drivingsimulator/maps/
- 🌷 Create a flower - http://wildflower.resn.co.nz
- 💦 Fluid Dynamic simulator - https://haxiomic.github.io/GPU-Fluid-Experiments/html5/
Links from @Aly Merchant:
- 📚 Things I Wished More Developers Knew About Databases - https://medium.com/@rakyll/things-i-wished-more-developers-knew-about-databases-2d0178464f78
- 📚 This is what end-to-end encryption should look like! - https://jitsi.org/blog/e2ee/
- 📚 Temporary Digital Card TPL - https://torontopubliclibrary.typepad.com/digital-services/2020/04/digital-library-card-tpl2020.html
Links from @Aly Merchant:
- 📚 TCP reset attack https://robertheaton.com/2020/04/27/how-does-a-tcp-reset-attack-work/
- 📚 leftpad returns: is-promise https://twitter.com/TmPreet/status/1254082248841719808 then/is-promise#13
- 📚 Rust bindings for WinRT https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2020/04/30/rust-winrt-public-preview/
Links from @Aleksuei Riabtsev:
- 📷 Tournament Earth - The Best of Earth Observatory - https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/tournament-earth/results
- 📖 Vue 3 Roundup - https://madewithvuejs.com/blog/vue-3-roundup
Links from @Aly Merchant:
- 📚 Killed by Google - https://killedbygoogle.com/
- 📚 Write Libraries, Not Frameworks - https://www.brandonsmith.ninja/blog/libraries-not-frameworks
- 📚 Deno 1.0: What you need to know - https://blog.logrocket.com/deno-1-0-what-you-need-to-know/
Links from @Aleksuei Riabtsev:
- 📚 How to name things: the hardest problem in programming - https://www.slideshare.net/pirhilton/how-to-name-things-the-hardest-problem-in-programming
- 📚 Listen To Me And Not Google - https://heydonworks.com/article/listen-to-me-not-google/
Links from @Aleksuei Riabtsev:
- 📚 Little known features of JavaScript - https://blog.usejournal.com/little-known-features-of-javascript-901665291387
- 📚 JS one-liners - https://blog.usejournal.com/js-one-liners-8bc0a6af2345
- 🛠 Mockaroo - Realistic Data Generator - https://www.mockaroo.com
- 🛠 VS Code Extension - Git - Semantic Commit - https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=nitayneeman.git-semantic-commit
Links from @Jessica Ly:
- 👩💻 The Missing Semester of Your CS Education - https://github.com/missing-semester/missing-semester
Links from @Aleksuei Riabtsev:
- 📖 VS Code can do that? - https://www.vscodecandothat.com
- 📚 ES5 to ESNext — here’s every feature added to JavaScript since 2015 - https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/es5-to-esnext-heres-every-feature-added-to-javascript-since-2015-d0c255e13c6e
- 📖 Optional Chaining and Nullish Coalescing in TypeScrip - https://medium.com/@fuchodeveloper/optional-chaining-and-nullish-coalescing-in-typescript-7c5ea1c838b
Links from @Aleksuei Riabtsev:
- 🖼 The Mutable Gallery - https://mutable.gallery
- 🔬 The Code Review Tool for Remote Teams - https://www.codestream.com
- 🔧 Reusable Components - https://bit.dev
Links from @Aleksuei Riabtsev:
- 📹 Designing with TailwindCSS [Course] - https://tailwindcss.com/course/setting-up-tailwind-and-postcss/
- 📖 Best Practices for Form Design: Structure, Inputs, Labels and Actions - https://xd.adobe.com/ideas/principles/web-design/best-practices-form-design/
Links from @Aly Merchant:
- 📖 Excellent overview of wifi standards - https://www.duckware.com/tech/wifi-in-the-us.html
Links from @Aleksuei Riabtsev:
- 🎶 Café del Mar Chill Radio & Ibiza Webcam • Live Stream 24/7 - Great ambient and chill music - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiCpDP0zclY
- 🎧 [Podcast] Sleepwakers - Sleepwalkers explores the thrill of the AI revolution hands-on, to see how we can stay in control of our future - https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-sleepwalkers-30880104/
- 🎧 [Podcast] Your Undivided Attention - Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin will expose the hidden designs that have the power to hijack our attention, manipulate our choices and destabilize our real world communities - https://www.humanetech.com/podcast
Links from @Aly Merchant:
- 👁 The Toronto Recursive History Project - https://readtheplaque.com/plaque/the-toronto-recursive-history-project