- HackerNews API provides read only data available in near real time – In partnership with Firebase, we're making the public Hacker News data available in near real time. Firebase enables easy access from Android, iOS and the web. Servers aren't left out; there's also REST support.
- Google Dart crashes into top 20 programming languages – The language's JavaScript compiler helps fuel interest; meanwhile, Java hits an all-time low in Tiobe's popularity index
- Node-RED – A visual tool for wiring the Internet of Things – Node-RED is a tool for wiring together hardware devices, APIs and online services in new and interesting ways.
- huginn – Build agents that monitor and act on your behalf. #ifttt for your server – Huginn is a system for building agents that perform automated tasks for you online. They can read the web, watch for events, and take actions on your behalf. Huginn's Agents create and consume events, propagating them along a directed graph. Think of it as
- Visualizing Security Information with Fiddler #proxy #security – When building a modern website, there are many different security options which can be configured using HTTP response headers. This custom column automatically summarizes the response’s Content-Security-Policy, Strict-Transport-Security, Public-Key-Pins, Access-Control-Allow-Origin, X-XSS-Protection, X-Frame-Options, and X-Content-Type options into one succinct string:
- Some ideas for native bitcoin apps – the next phase #bitcoin – The first phase of Bitcoin was about laying the foundational infrastructure – gateways services, consumer wallets, developer platforms, merchant services etc. The next phase will be about native Bitcoin apps – building new things that could never have been
- HTML5 Has A New Best Friend – And It’s Apple, Not Google – Apple isn't known for being a champion of open source or open standards, but with iOS 8 it has become both. Among a host of consumer-facing improvements to performance and the user experience, Apple has also introduced significant improvements for applicat
- Easy rules – Simple Xml-free open source Java™ rules engine. – Easy Rules is a simple yet powerful Java rules engine
- PhoneGap Developer Desktop app – R&D into developing a GUI for PhoneGap CLI – The PhoneGap Developer Desktop app was built to allow you to create and work with your mobile apps from a user interface rather than the command line. It uses the PhoneGap CLI behind the scenes to produce a similar result but in an easier to use fashion.
- ASCIIwwdc – Searchable full-text transcripts of WWDC sessions (iOS 8, OS X Yosemite, Xcode 6, Swift) – Searchable full-text transcripts of WWDC sessions
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