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Friday Links #356

Programming

• [Sites for Browsing Type Pairings

  CSS-Tricks](https://css-tricks.com/sites-for-browsing-type-pairings/)

• [Sites with High Quality Photos You Can Use for Free

  CSS-Tricks](https://css-tricks.com/sites-with-high-quality-photos-you-can-use-for-free/)

• Reacting to feedback, common issues, and our first update
• wbkd/d3-extended
• C# Futures: Method Contracts
• We have a problem with promises
• .NET Foundation - WCF is Open Source
• Suave.IO
• Wallaby.js for Visual Studio · Artem Govorov
• Tone Chrome extension shares URLs via audible beeps - SlashGear
• Build websites in HTML or Jekyll. Have your non-technical team update inline
• An Introduction to Static Site Generators
• wbkd/awesome-d3
• 3D Web Fest
• C# is 0-based, VB.NET is 1-based - Bill Wagner
• viewport.js demo
• Why Babel Matters
• Bug Fix Update to ReSharper Ultimate is Available
• When everything you know is wrong, part one
• When everything you know is wrong, part two
• Free Online Tools For Developers - To Beautify, Validate, Minify, Analyse and Convert your JSON, XML, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, Excel

Applications

• Google creates slick time-lapses from images on Flickr and elsewhere - SlashGear
• Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 10122 is Now Available for PCs - Thurrott.com
• Microsoft Announces Major Changes Coming to Outlook.com - Thurrott.com

Science and Technology

• The ‘living concrete’ that can heal itself - CNN.com

• [The Future of Wind Turbines? No Blades

  WIRED](http://www.wired.com/2015/05/future-wind-turbines-no-blades/)

• [Brain-Controlled Bionic Legs Are Finally Here

  Popular Science](http://www.popsci.com/brain-controlled-bionic-legs-are-here-no-really)

• See the world’s oldest stone tools up close - SlashGear

On the Web

• [Maker Faire Turns 10 Years Old

  Re/code](http://recode.net/2015/05/17/part-disneyland-part-burning-man-maker-faire-turns-10-years-old-qa/)

Stuff I Just Like

• [On the Taxonomy of Spaceships

  Critical Shit](http://criticalshit.org/2015/05/15/on-the-taxonomy-of-spaceships/)

• [Hordes Of Spiders Are Raining Down On Australia Right Now

  Popular Science](http://www.popsci.com/hordes-spiders-are-raining-down-australia-right-now)

• Chinese CEO builds office building that looks like the USS Enterprise - SlashGear