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How orgasm faces differ between people from Eastern and Western cultures

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/10/orgasm-faces-differ-by-culture-east-asians-smile-slightly-westerners-gape/

Now WebAssembly interop is quicker than ever. Soon we'll see DOM and AJAX APIs natively callable. After the garbage collector, what FP language will break this space wide open?

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/10/calls-between-javascript-and-webassembly-are-finally-fast-%f0%9f%8e%89/

The next task is upgrading to Elm v0.19 which includes some more production optimizations.

Latest push to prod moving from Rails Asset Pipeline to Webpack -- including its optimizations and some other smaller refactors

Sunset

Which is worse: XML configuration or webpack.config.js files?

to this* project

Java is so terrible and ugly -- and we add to it that all configuration is XML and I really want to quit contributing to project before I even start.

Today I had and interesting walk to lunch today #bangkok #ไทย​ #กรุงเทพ

Finally added system-level ad blocking via https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts but also with the Fake News blocking extension. I can't even access InfoWars, TheBlaze, or anti-vaccine content. Good riddance.

My Pebble 2 screen is starting to get glitchy. I like the aesthetic of the bugs it is creating, but it kinda hurts the usability to be 0G:99 o'clock. 😂

Just pushed some new Elm code into production. The main purpose of this task was to lower the number of requests and decrease the load and interactivity times of the site. The data is now loaded asynchronously. Mission accomplished.

It really blows fighting IE11 browser bugs in 2018. TIL: you can't use `calc()` inside a CSS transform in IE. #webdev #css #iesucks

"‘Five Eyes’ governments call on tech giants to build encryption backdoors — or else"

https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/03/five-eyes-governments-call-on-tech-giants-to-build-encryption-backdoors-or-else/

"Why obvious lies make great propaganda" https://youtu.be/nknYtlOvaQ0

🔮 Google will soon release a matching feature that 'conveniently' blocks everything *but* Google Analytics

The downside is that I know some of these Thai and Chinese sites I occasionally use will break because they don't code around tracking being blocked. The worst part about uMatrix though is dealing with Recaptcha.