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A reddit bot that applies machine learning to chess game pictures and extracts the game position! https://github.com/Elucidation/tensorflow_chessbot#reddit-bot Neat concept. You could extend it to analyse the position too.

Advocacy is important for new tech. People are invested in what they know and use. For them to change, you need to be *persuasive*.

We are demanding ever more tasks from our frontend build processes: https://css-tricks.com/annotated-build-processes/ (No wonder they can be complex!)

The read function (lex+parse) in lisp is really handy for building little analysis or metaprogramming tools. The runtime has it, so why not allow users to use it? However, there's no equivalent for just lexing AFAIK. It's a shame because the same arguments apply!

Promoting NO_COLOR as an informal convention for controlling CLI output:

How do you help yourself (and teammates) prevent your JS bundles from becoming too big? You could expose library size in the IDE! Really interesting approach.

How do you help yourself (and teammates) prevent your JS bundles from becoming too big? You could expose library size in the IDE! Really interesting approach.

Finding a bug in GNU Tar, and tracking down the problem: https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/TarFindingTruncateBug (Old tools are often robust, but by no means bug free!)

Estimating the fundamental value of bitcoin by looking at its captive markets:

The entertaining consequences of an IoT toaster oven with an internet accessible video camera:

Prefer API elegance to implementation elegance, and prefer boring code to clever code: https://reactjs.org/docs/design-principles.html#implementation

It's fascinating how smartphone websites often consider *descriptions* to be secondary content! I've seen this both on Amazon and eBay. Apparently the title and pictures are sufficient.

Porting babel and closure compiler to Rust!

If the expression is true, the hardest problem in Computer Science would be naming cache invalidation strategies.

Microsoft's Edge moving to Chromium will reduce browser diversity. However, Safari/WebKit has forked from Chromium. Presumably they'll diverge over time? Browser vendors influence *new* standards, and both Apple and Google will need to do implementation work.