Hanselman's Newsletter of Wonderful Things: December 17th, 2013

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Thanks again for signing up for this experiment. Here's some interesting things I've come upon this week. If you forwarded this (or if it was forwarded to you) a reminder: You can sign up at http://hanselman.com/newsletter and the archive of all previous Newsletters is here.

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• Moving without Mom - After his wife passed away, dad Ben now recreates some pictures with his daughter as they move out of their original house. Sad and poignant.
• ExplainShell - Amazing resource for learning how the shell works in *nix. A must for teaching anyone.
• Interesting new CSS Postprocessor called Myth.
• I've talked about how I like ConEmu before. Now there's cmder, a portable system that wraps it with new settings, fonts, a generally makes it pretty. It's 90% of the console that I want on Windows.
• Fascinating post-mortem on a node.js memory leak at Walmart.
• Pharrell's amazing 24 hour music video.
• I bought this GCW Zero open source portable gaming console on Kickstarter. It plays DOS games, emulators, SNES and more. Recommended for hobbyists and the patient.
• Great cartoon that explains how Bitcoin works.
• AMAZING interactive example of visual cryptography.
• Do you like StackOverflow? Why not run the whole site offline for your company and save bandwidth?
• Cool Euler angles example of a global and D3.js's geography projections to create a globe using web standards.
• 2D 90's style Sprite art is amazing...can you light it dynamically as if it were a 3D model?
• How much can you corrupt a QR code before it becomes unreadable?
• Choose Your Ipsum
• Bret Victor's "Media for Thinking The Unthinkable" presentation
• Mac OS System 7 running entirely in JavaScript
• 44 Back Handsprings in 34 seconds? Wow.
• Inspect HTTP Requests and share them online with RequestBin.
• Did you know there are Nazis on Tatooine?
• Lorde's song "Royals" was inspired by ... a photo of Kansas City Royals star George Brett.
• Texts from Kevin Conboy's son during the Arapahoe shooting
• Why not make a DIY Smartphone Projector with the kids this Christmas?
• 3D Printers are really happening! ;)
• Nelson Mandela Becomes First Politician To Be Missed
• Amazon Prime Air Drone Hunt. Playable HTML5 game.

Scott Hanselman

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