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PeerTube, the “Decentralized YouTube”, succeeds in crowdfunding — The Wrong Abstraction (2016) — and The Octonion Math That Could Underpin Physics

Farewell, Google Maps — and Simone Giertz – Back from brain surgery

European Commission fines Google €4.34B in Android antitrust case — and YC Startup School 2018: a free, 10-week, online course

Assembly Language for Beginners [pdf] — and My adventures getting Disney’s Moana island scene to render well with Pbrt

Prime Down: Amazon’s sale day turns into fail day — Keeping a plaintext “did” file — and Why Gov.uk content should be published in HTML and not PDF

Async and Await in Rust: a full proposal — When You Watch Sports, Your Brain Thinks You’re Playing — and Taking Go modules for a spin

Learn how to design large-scale systems — Digital Exile: How I Got Banned for Life from AirBnB — and Foundations Machine Learning

“I'm basically giving myself a permanent vacation from being BDFL” — and MacBook Pro with faster performance and new features for pros

Unified access to the best community-driven cheat sheets repositories — and The San Franciso Fire Department makes its own wooden ladders by hand

Thailand cave rescue: all 12 boys and coach successfully rescued — and Goodbye Microservices: From 100s of problem children to 1 superstar