In this week’s post: ReactPWA, frontend performance checklist, streetview cars, toyota pods, Kodakcoin, NYC Vs Climate Change, passwords, PSC, ML for front ends, pancreatic hacking, Savage Town Limerick exhibition, The Bog Road & an 1890s spy camera!

Photo of the Week

On a walk at Langland Bay this week, I snapped this heavenly looking sunset. Spot the photo-bomber on the right also :-)

This photo is available to licence on PicFair: https://www.picfair.com/pics/06071670-the-horion-at-sunset

Each Friday I share some of the best things I encounter, from the internet mostly but also from real life! Hopefully what I find interesting will also be interesting to you :-)

ReactPWA

This is a handy off the shelf PWA built using React.
https://www.reactpwa.com/

Front End Performance

Check out this massive checklist of front end performance items that includes everything you could ever think of to check. https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2018/01/front-end-performance-checklist-2018-pdf-pages/

Google Streetview Car Research

Researchers at Stanford have analysed cars on Google Streetview to categorise neighbourhood socio-economic levels, voting habits and income levels.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/31/technology/google-images-voters.html

Toyota e-Pallette

Toyota have announced a concept self driving pod that can be repurposed in a range of commercial scenarios such as a travelling shoe-shop, restaurant, hotel-pod, or a bus.
https://newatlas.com/toyota-e-palette-concept-vehicle/52876/

KodakOne & KodakCoin

Kodak have announced KodakOne, a blockchain powered system to track photo copyright powered by KodakCoin.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-42630136

New York Vs Climate Change

New York City plans to divest $5bn from fossil fuels and sue oil companies!
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jan/10/new-york-city-plans-to-divest-5bn-from-fossil-fuels-and-sue-oil-companies?CMP=fb_gu

Top 500 Passwords

Check out this lovely datavis from Information Is Beautiful on the most commonly used passwords.
https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/top-500-passwords-visualized/

Irish Public Service Card

This is a great article in The Irish Times by Karlin Lillington about the dangers of the public service card being introduced as a national identity card by stealth. The potential for leakage of such personal linked data by the Irish government is very worrying, not to mention not listening to the Data Protection Commissioner and the haze of reasoning behind it in the first place. Mandatory but not compulsory, WTAF!
https://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/wary-of-the-public-services-card-you-have-good-reason-to-be-1.3351106

Front End Machine Learning Generator

This is an amazing prototype by Emil Wallner on how to use machine learning to generate a responsive front end template from a design mockup file. The robots are coming for front-end devs! :-p
https://blog.floydhub.com/turning-design-mockups-into-code-with-deep-learning/

Hacking The Pancreas

Dana Lewis has built an open source solution to allow Diabetes 1 suffers with artificial pancreata to interact with them in real-time.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/rebeccaheilweil1/2017/06/15/this-woman-designed-and-texts-her-own-pancreas/#6cf7c1de43b0
https://diyps.org/about/

Savage Town Limerick Exhibition

My friend Declan Shalvey is having an Savage Town exhibition in Limerick to showcase artwork from the graphic novel. If you are near Limerick, go in to see it. If you haven’t read the book yet, buy it here using my affiliate link:
https://www.bookdepository.com/Savage-Town-OGN-Declan-Shalvey-Philip-Barrett-Jordie-Bellaire/9781534302464?a_aid=foundthisweek

Comics Review: The Bog Road

Heres a preview of The Bog Road by Barry Keegan. The fascinating story, set in County Laois, is about an ancient Irish creature of the land and its rocky relationship with the surface dwellers. Hopefully Barry can get this preview published, I’d love to read the rest!
https://barrykeegan.com/the-bog-road/

Cool Thing Of The Week: 1890s Spy Camera

A Norwegian named Carl Størmer took secret photos of people with a pinhole camera in the 1890s!
https://www.boredpanda.com/spy-camera-secret-street-photography-carl-stormer-norway/



See you next week :-)



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