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Mentioned in 85 issues, from June 3, 2017 to May 10, 2026.

Issues

  1. Weekly Thing 347 / Scrum, FilamentHound, DO_NOT_TRACK

    Claude personal guidance, Redis array type, watchOS maps, AI company learning, Agentic Coding, workplace productivity, Death of Scrum.

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  2. Weekly Thing 311 / WikiTok, Bookmarklets, Tapestry

    Apple Vision Glasses, UK backdoor defiance, iPhone 16e, Bybit $1.5B hack, Lazarus Group, software job openings, WikiTok, olmOCR document conversion.

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  3. Weekly Thing 295 / Links, Surveillance, POSSE

    LG OLED screensaver ads, Bitcoin liquidity barometer, ChatGPT Canvas, PayPal data sharing, Meta smart glasses doxing.

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  4. Weekly Thing 264 / Dazed, Zany, Llama

    Seeing our own faces, computational power and AI, Amazon Bedrock, Raspberry Pi 5, two types of PayPal dollars, synthetic social network, Google Pixel 8.

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  5. Weekly Thing #243 / Montaigne, Ordinals, Salsa + Ukraine Fundraiser!

    Social media teen girls, LED lights killing you, cargo cult Agile, Apple glucose testing, cloud exit savings, ChatGPT explained.

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  6. Weekly Thing #219 / Friendships, FloriNouns, Rich Strike

    Kill-switched Ukrainian tractors, executive dashboards, Rich Strike Kentucky Derby, personal website joys, Atlassian outage review.

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  7. Weekly Thing #210 / Wyoming, WebAssembly, Wordle

    Crypto capital state, prioritizing tech debt, WebVM, Wordle rise, Tobias LΓΌtke joins Coinbase board, Inspectorio $50M raise.

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  8. Weekly Thing #205 / Hurl, Faster, Web3

    Hype-free Web3 observations, ConstitutionDAO crypto bid, beartype Python type-checking, reMarkable notebook, Knowledge Graphs, Data Governance branding.

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  9. Weekly Thing #202 / Goalies, Curves, Spiders

    Twenty-year truck driver, crypto cities, do-nothing scripting, Netflix Games Android, MacBook Pro 2021 review, Tesla live camera streaming.

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  10. Weekly Thing #198 / Facebook, News, Kyiv

    Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen, phone location data market, Twitch leak, Apple A15 SoC, Web3 decentralized web, seven programming ur-languages.

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  11. Weekly Thing #195 / Privacy, Loot, Minus

    NSO Group iMessage exploit, Facebook secret elite exemptions, endemic COVID risk, Pfizer for kids 5-11, America's debt cycle and Bitcoin.

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  12. Weekly Thing #185 / Signal, Peloton, Meebits

    Instagram ads Signal blocked, Peloton Tread Plus recall, Meebits NFTs, consumer safety, Facebook advertising, digital collectibles.

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  13. Weekly Thing #178 / Reverse Meetings, OODA Loop, Hockey Goalies

    New engineering managers, reverse meetings, S3 Object Lambda, OODA Loop, REST vs GraphQL vs gRPC, Beeple NFT, emoji domain names, Project Gemini.

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  14. Weekly Thing #177 / NFTs, Roblox, HEY World, Exchange

    HEY World blogging, poisoning Big Tech data, Microsoft email hack, Roblox Microverse, Zig programming, Kings of Leon NFT album.

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  15. Weekly Thing #172 / Blockchain, Bezos, Privacy

    Tim Cook condemns Facebook, IBM Blockchain collapse, Generation X saves web, LAMBDA Excel function, simple HTML effectiveness, social media teen mental health.

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  16. Weekly Thing #167 / Production Oriented Development, Fathom

    Comcast data caps, Facebook sociopaths, Fathom Analytics attack, COVIDaware MN, ZFS introduction, Apple Mac silicon, Anki memory, Twitter @POTUS Biden.

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  17. Weekly Thing #166 / Chess, Disruption, M1 Macs, Five Hindrances

    M1 Macs, Intel's disruption, macOS Big Sur, iPhone 12 Pro Max, OpenStreetMap, personal data warehouses, Fairness Doctrine social networks.

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  18. Weekly Thing #163 / BeOS, Management Track, Writing is Thinking

    OmniFocus custom perspectives, Zoom end-to-end encryption, Halide Mark II, Apple One bundle, Jon Stewart Apple series, COVID herd immunity.

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  19. Weekly Thing #161 / Letter, Asterisk, You Should Write ✍️

    iOS 14 review, iPhone 12 lineup, Git scraping, Facebook Michigan kidnapping plot, Python 3.9, Northern Lights from U-2 spyplane.

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  20. Weekly Thing #160 / Unlived Life, Disinformation, Snowflake ❄️

    Unlived Life, hacking Apple, 100000 Stars, Snowflake value, QAnon ban, mail-in voter fraud disinformation, aerosol spread of Covid-19.

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  21. Weekly Thing #158 / Blacklight, Whistleblower, Fly Fishing

    Fly-fishing rods, silencing conspiracy theories, QAnon nightmare, Facebook political manipulation, Let's Encrypt certificates, GitHub master to main.

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  22. Weekly Thing #157 / Superpower, Dune, Three Year Rule

    Snowflake IPO, Apple One subscriptions, App Sprawl, Dune trailer, Ugh fields, Underwater datacenters, Brandi Carlile, Wikipedia Widgets.

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  23. Weekly Thing #155 / Menu Engineers, Halo, RFC8890

    Kindle data collection, menu engineers, postal reform, Amazon Halo wearable, TOTP algorithm, unnatural lighting art, drowning in plastic.

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  24. Weekly Thing #154 / Giving Feedback, Apple WWDC, Anti-Encryption

    Amazon Honeycode, anti-encryption bill, Mac Apple Silicon, iOS 14, macOS Big Sur, GitHub Super Linter, Plausible Analytics, chip wars.

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  25. Weekly Thing #153 / Values Oasis, Bison, Masks

    Trapped in a Values Oasis, Bison in the Badlands, Masks Masquerade, Patagonia Provisions, Irrational Exuberance, Incerto.

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  26. Weekly Thing #152 / Juneteenth, Uncomfortable Conversations, Facebook

    Juneteenth celebration, IBM facial recognition, Zuckerberg content policies, asymptomatic coronavirus spread, Git branch rename, Zettlr Markdown editor.

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  27. Weekly Thing #151 / George Floyd, I Can’t Breathe, Black Lives Matter

    Racial injustice confessions, white supremacy culture, 8 Can't Wait, Minneapolis police use of force, coronavirus vascular disease, ACLU sues Clearview AI.

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  28. Weekly Thing #150 / Speed, Insane Videoconferencing, OmniFocus, LaTeX

    Facebook algorithms divided users, Small Web, Obsidian, OmniFocus Omni Automation, Mongolia Covid-19 response, LaTeX.css, Deno guide, coronavirus bots.

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  29. Weekly Thing #149 / RSS, Blogs, Giphy, Flour

    King Arthur Flour baking obsession, Facebook buys Giphy, RSS comeback, solar's cheap future, DSLR as webcam, iOS 13.5 exposure notifications.

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  30. Weekly Thing #130 / Dec 14, 2019

    TikTok privacy analysis, Ring's surveillance network, disaster.radio, Lightroom SD card importing, JSON-LD introduction, election news chaos.

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  31. Weekly Thing #128 / Nov 30, 2019

    Sacha Baron Cohen on Facebook, Contract for the Web, onboarding new hires, developing engineers, WeWork fall, home delivery habit.

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  32. Weekly Thing #117 / Sep 14, 2019

    Solving climate change 2050, quitting social media, encrypted DNS privacy gap, Apple Watch Series 5, iPhone 11 Pro, Waterfall in Agile.

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  33. Weekly Thing #115 / Aug 31, 2019

    Technical women careers, toxic internship interviews, Google tracking protection, GitHub SOC 2, Apple Card vs Chase Visa, nushell.

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  34. Weekly Thing #112 / Jun 29, 2019

    Jony Ive leaving Apple, Facebook Libra, BGP internet outage, Cloudflare time service, Slack tech stack, engineering management lessons.

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  35. Weekly Thing #111 / Jun 22, 2019

    Arctic permafrost thawing early, Facebook Libra crypto, Guardian Firewall for iOS, Soulver 3 for Mac, Bluetooth surveillance tracking, new Dropbox.

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  36. Weekly Thing #110 / Jun 15, 2019

    Privacy policies disaster, IPv6 design, Maker Faire layoffs, ad industry data tracking, Salesforce buying Tableau, YouTube radicalization.

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  37. Weekly Thing #104 / May 4, 2019

    Minnebar14 recap, Amazon doorbell crime news, Zuckerberg future is private, Anki robotics shutting down, Cardbox, autism from the inside, refuse to rule.

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  38. Weekly Thing #102 / Apr 20, 2019

    Supplement industry nutrition study, selfie deaths epidemic, Facebook AI voice assistant, Uber IPO $10 billion loss, Disney+ pricing details.

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  39. Weekly Thing #100 / Apr 6, 2019

    Mark Zuckerberg internet rules, attention management, Tesla autopilot stickers, Apple News+ magazines, AirPower canceled, servers in Iceland.

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  40. Weekly Thing #98 / Mar 23, 2019

    Death of the calorie, toxic truth about modern food, cities stop recycling, Facebook passwords in plain text, Kickstarter unionizing, Stadia.

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  41. Weekly Thing #97 / Mar 16, 2019

    MBA myth, planned obsolescence coders, ACME Protocol IETF, SimCity city planners, DuckDuckGo guide, 800 million emails leaked.

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  42. Weekly Thing #96 / Mar 9, 2019

    Tesla Model 3 review, Status as a Service, Facebook privacy, Zucked, Digital Minimalism, Big Idea Famine, Excel photo import, 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2019.

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  43. Weekly Thing #95 / Mar 2, 2019

    Halide Spectre, Huawei Mate X foldable, Facebook moderators, YouTube ad boycott, Day One 3.0 Mac, apps sharing data with Facebook.

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  44. Weekly Thing #92 / Feb 9, 2019

    Snopes leaves Facebook, 1949 Vitamix infomercial, Fortnite Marshmello concert, Event Sourcing is hard, Loopback 2 design.

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  45. Weekly Thing #91 / Feb 2, 2019

    AI robotic knee, JSON inspection iOS, principal engineer, MMOs real life politics, malicious shortcuts, HomeKit smart TVs, Steve Jobs iPhones.

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  46. Weekly Thing #90 / Jan 26, 2019

    SimpleOptOut.com, love of pipes, reMarkable paper tablet, detecting agile BS, hiring senior engineers, Marie Kondo fast fashion, mentoring Zuckerberg.

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  47. Weekly Thing #87 / Jan 5, 2019

    Analog social media, depression language, Microsoft Developer Division interviews, iPad Pro, serverless bills, Obama's favorite books, Facebook Clear History.

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  48. Weekly Thing #86 / Dec 29, 2018

    Hyperlink to the Stream, government blocking on Twitter, Yoda of Silicon Valley, Facebook-free business, circuit breakers or retries, must-have iOS apps.

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  49. Weekly Thing #85 / Dec 22, 2018

    US Air Force and Santa, ant colony memories, social media value, paying users to stop Facebook.

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  50. Weekly Thing #83 / Dec 8, 2018

    Facebook trust, mindfulness and busyness, Stripe Atlas scaling engineering, Kubernetes events, Marriott data breach, Magnus Carlsen chess champion.

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  51. Weekly Thing #81 / Nov 24, 2018

    Zapier ARR SEO strategy, no phones allowed, manager READMEs, future of photography, Kubernetes 101, iPad Pro 2018, Facebook patent ads.

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  52. Weekly Thing #80 / Nov 17, 2018

    Reclaiming RSS, skill stacking, Steve Blank on company growth, online tracking data, PagerDuty incident response, Radio Garden, Incredibles 2 graphic art.

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  53. Weekly Thing #76 / Oct 20, 2018

    Lightroom CC 2.0, Adobe Photoshop on iPad, Facebook Portal ad targeting, Hidden Tribes of America, Vue ecosystem growth, static site generators.

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  54. Weekly Thing #75 / Oct 13, 2018

    Tesla Model 3 safety, OpenID decline, Instagram bullying, Apple Frames shortcut, RECaf caffeine tracking, Halide RAW camera, senior engineer's job.

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  55. Weekly Thing #73 / Sep 29, 2018

    Safari Content Blockers, Apple Watch healthcare, Cloudflare Registrar, Facebook shadow contacts, macOS Mojave review, OmniFocus 3 for Mac.

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  56. Weekly Thing #69 / Sep 1, 2018

    Centralized vs decentralized, Facebook real friends, product management mental models, GraphQL good and bad, WhatsApp privacy, IRC turns thirty.

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  57. Weekly Thing #65 / Aug 4, 2018

    Bullshit Web, Facebook evil, great employees leave, crypto firehose, FAST beats SMART, OKRs, Cost of Agile, M.C. Escher prints.

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  58. Weekly Thing #63 / Jul 21, 2018

    Metrics-based onboarding, ACM computing professionals, event-driven architecture, GraphQL on Postgres, CAP theorem proof, Google Cloud Platform.

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  59. Weekly Thing #61 / Jul 7, 2018

    Scaling Agile, Apple rebuilding Maps, all code is technical debt, Facebook and Google personal data, Brave private tabs with Tor, one-on-one meetings.

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  60. Weekly Thing #60 / Jun 30, 2018

    Formula 1 averages, Legend of Nintendo, a16z crypto, Atul Gawande health care, REST vs. GraphQL, Intel integration, machine learning.

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  61. Weekly Thing #53 / May 12, 2018

    Against Facebook, Apple and Ive, Google Duplex, open plan office sexism, Android P, iOS 11.4 USB port, serverless learnings, Watchtower 2.0.

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  62. Weekly Thing #52 / May 5, 2018

    WeWork's growing empire, GitHub Pages HTTPS, Prime Book Box, synthetic nucleotides, code review culture, passwords online.

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  63. Weekly Thing #51 / Apr 28, 2018

    HomePod, Jaron Lanier dinner, dumber phone, 1Blocker X, iPhone passcodes, Kubernetes namespaces, GraphQL, software defined culture, Cal Newport Study Hacks.

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  64. Weekly Thing #50 / Apr 21, 2018

    Palantir knows everything, Jeff Bezos shareholder letter, Tim Wu, be a deletist, TweetDelete, open source management platform.

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  65. Weekly Thing #49 / Apr 14, 2018

    The Decemberists, Sublime Text, BBEdit, Farewell Social Media, GraphQL Best Practices, 10 years of GitHub, Sam Altman Productivity.

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  66. Weekly Thing #48 / Apr 7, 2018

    Hamilton, Chicago Cloud Gate, Little Snitch, 1Blocker, Facebook privacy, Stallman, 1Password Business, Cloudflare DNS, Sinclair propaganda.

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  67. Weekly Thing #47 / Mar 31, 2018

    MyFitnessPal accounts hacked, Have I Been Pwned, Delete Facebook, Textile Facebook parser, Blockchain meets Kubb, Apple Watch, Making Slides, Run less software.

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  68. Weekly Thing #46 / Mar 24, 2018

    Copperhead Road anniversary, Linea Sketch, art of dialogue, case against Facebook, crash not accident, URL Canary, Salesforce buys MuleSoft.

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  69. Weekly Thing #42 / Feb 24, 2018

    Quitting Twitter, AWS network diagrams, serverless open source cloud, Steven Pinker interview, Hyper-Scheduling Experiment, SaaS as a business.

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  70. Weekly Thing for February 17, 2018

    Blotter.js, Popcorn Notify, usernames, Structured Logging, Facebook Protect, AMP in Gmail, Solid, Kottke.org at 20, Let's Encrypt 50 million certificates.

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  71. Weekly Thing for February 10, 2018

    iA Power Back, Declaration of Cyberspace, John Perry Barlow, Web Trend Map 2018, Kubernetes Effect, House That Spied on Me, Billy Mitchell MAME, effective CTO.

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  72. Weekly Thing for January 27, 2018

    HomePod vs Echo vs Sonos One, OmniFocus 3, Amazon Go future, BeyondCorp Google VPNs, Zstandard compression, Personal Data Representatives.

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  73. Weekly Thing for December 23, 2017

    Semisonic at First Ave, Facebook age discrimination, GTD capturing, iOS apps 2017, Pomodoro productivity, bury the hustle, jo JSON command.

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  74. Weekly Thing for December 16, 2017

    Electronic Frontier Foundation, Brandi Carlile, Universal Basic Income, Facebook as weapon, Calm Technology, Maker vs. Manager.

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  75. Weekly Thing for December 9, 2017

    Let's Encrypt SSL, ProtonMail Bridge, Google YouTube Fire TV, AlphaZero Stockfish, iPhone X camera, Facebook Messenger Kids, Oura Ring, Vanilla Mac menu bar.

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  76. Weekly Thing for November 11, 2017

    RSS case, workplace surveillance, retail apocalypse, Facebook exploiting weakness, Al Franken big tech speech, iPhone X impressions, HΓΌsker DΓΌ legacy.

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  77. Weekly Thing for October 7, 2017

    Equifax data breach, Yahoo 3 billion accounts, Apple Watch Series 3, Google Pixel 2 vs iPhone 8, Ikea buys TaskRabbit, SQL beating NoSQL, Kubernetes.

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  78. Weekly Thing for September 30, 2017

    Apple privacy, iPhone X reactions, Microsoft Teams replacing Skype, Amazon hardware event, GraphQL relicensing, Tinder data secrets, API documentation.

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  79. Weekly Thing for September 23, 2017

    Relicensing React and Jest, A11 Bionic chip, iOS 11 review, iPhone 8 camera, Apple Watch Series 3, Swift 4.0, Facebook's war on free will.

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  80. Weekly Thing for September 9, 2017

    Chef Camp, Apple Watch health, HomeKit accessories, cryptocurrency ban, AI world domination, Facebook code footprint, Weather Atlas iOS.

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  81. Weekly Thing for July 22, 2017

    Cosette database, serverless hosting comparison, GitHub diversity report, GhostCtrl Android backdoor, Quilt data package manager, Trump Twitter lawsuit.

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  82. Weekly Thing for July 8, 2017

    Leaving Facebook, wildcard certificates, ancient Rome's concrete, Wikipedia text adventure, HEVC and HEIF, Little Snitch 4, Facebook election manipulation.

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  83. Weekly Thing for June 24, 2017

    GTD productivity with Trello, Pythonista iOS workflow, Russia cyberwar blueprint, RNC voter data leak, PokΓ©mon GO raid battles, Instagram Python 3.

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  84. Weekly Thing for June 10, 2017

    End-to-End Encryption FAQ, UUID history, iOS 11 iPad features, macOS High Sierra, watchOS 4, AirPlay 2, Monument Valley 2, printer tracking dots.

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  85. Weekly Thing for June 3, 2017

    Fuck Facebook, Pinboard acquires Delicious, enough microservices, Siri Speaker, Halide, Airbnb data science, blockchains ground up.

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