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Friday Links #375

Programming

• Rune.js Documentation
• Weekend Reading — Hi, I’d like to add you …
• toubou91/percircle
• greenkeeper
• Simplify Directives with Scope Inheritance in AngularJS
• Which Works Faster- Null Coalescing Operator or GetValueOrDefault or Conditional Operator - CodeProject
• Microsoft has a Google Cardboard Competitor Called VR-Kit
• NW.js
• clipboard.js — Copy to clipboard without Flash
• ozantunca/locally
• Meet the new NuGet status page
• Quickstart: Analyzing .NET projects with SonarQube, MSBuild or Visual Studio Online, and third-party analyzers (StyleCop, ReSharper)
• How to undo (almost) anything with Git
• Validating User Input on a Form in Angular JS - Infragistics.com Blog

• [Modern web layout with flexbox

  Webdesigner Depot](http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2015/09/modern-web-layout-with-flexbox/?utm_source=CSS-Weekly&utm_campaign=Issue-182&utm_medium=email)

• [Elastic Progress

  Codrops](http://tympanus.net/Development/ElasticProgress/)

• Ionide - Crossplatform F# Editor
• SlimerJS
• The Genius of Template Strings in ES6 - Tuts+ Code Tutorial
• JavaScript goes to Asynchronous city - Eternal Coding
• myurasov/Chromestrap
• FLIF - Free Lossless Image Format
• A cartoon guide to Flux — Medium
• Velocity.js

Applications

• How to Disable & Replace OneDrive in Windows 10
• Three awesome new features added to Google Photos - CNET

Science and Technology

• [Mealworms Can Happily And Safely Eat Styrofoam

  Popular Science](http://www.popsci.com/mealworms-can-safely-devour-plastics)

• The telescopes promising insight into universe’s origins - BBC News
• Mars Has Flowing Water, New Evidence Indicates
• Skarp Laser Razor shaves your mug with freakin’ laser beams - SlashGear

• [The Science of Why We Sleep and What Happens Inside Our Brains When We Do

  Brain Pickings](https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/09/29/the-science-of-why-we-sleep-joe-hanson/)

• New concrete absorbs 1k+ gallons of water per minute - SlashGear

On the Web

• Interview: David J. Peterson, Author Of ‘The Art Of Language Invention’ : NPR
• Star Wars, Star Trek and other geek memorabilia up for auction (pictures)

• [Logitech’s G410 mechanical keyboard is a visual and tactile delight

  The Verge](http://www.theverge.com/2015/9/29/9411181/logitech-gaming-mechanical-keyboard-g410?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter)

• Chromecast Audio and Chromecast 2 hands-on: smart media double-down - SlashGear
• Android – Marshmallow
• King Tut’s tomb: new rooms found, possibly Nefertiti’s burial chamber - SlashGear

Stuff I Just Like

• Cheap Printer for People Who Want B&W Text, And Nothing Else - Consumer Reports
• Use Pet Tag Engraving For Cheap, Durable Luggage or Key Tags
• Lee Valley Tools - Woodworking Newsletter
• Radiation-poisoned Spock: Most depressing Christmas ornament ever - CNET

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