Metadigest Newsletter 003 - Tech Highlights 
Tags: showdev, webdev
Published: 2019-11-27 15:19:51

Hey! This is the third issue of my automated and curated newsletter [Metadigest](http://metadigest.uzpg.me). Its goal is to collect the best tech articles with an efficient algorithm. I then curate these results to ensure their quality and deliver them to you.

<h2> Our picks </h2>
### [Airbnb Case Study: How to reduce churn with personalization](https://growth.design/case-studies/airbnb-personalization/)
  <p>A colorful case study of Airbnb&#39;s UI in the form of a comic.</p>
### [The hierarchy of cringe](https://aelkus.github.io/culture/2019/10/21/hierarchy-of-cringe)</h3></a>
  <p>Thought-provoking insights into social media culture and how people perceive each other through the web.</p>
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<h3><a href="https://vitalik.ca/general/2019/11/22/progress.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">
Hard Problems in Cryptocurrency: Five Years Later</a>
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<li class="tag">225 likes.</li>
<h3><a href="https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/livestream-hotel-room-japan-intl-hnk/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">
Japanese hotel room costs $1 a night, but you have to livestream your stay</a>
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<p>A hotel manager in Japan is finding new ways to make his business stand out.
<li class="tag">138 likes.</li>
<h3><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-50435014" target="_blank" rel="noopener">
Cryptoqueen: A woman scammed the world, then vanished</a>
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<p>How a cunning woman made billions tricking people into buying her fake cryptocurrency.
<li class="tag">108 likes.</li>
<h3><a href="http://paulgraham.com/genius.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">
The Bus Ticket Theory of Genius</a>
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<p>An essay on what makes smart people geniuses.
<li class="tag">890 likes.</li>
<h3><a href="https://netzpolitik.org/2019/cheerfulness-and-censorship/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">
TikTok: Cheerfulness and censorship</a>
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<li class="tag">91 likes.</li>
  <h3><a href="https://www.stopusingfacebook.co/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">
  Stop using Facebook</a>
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  <p>A website explaining why and how we should stop selling our privacy to the Facebook monopoly.</p>
  <li class="tag">privacy</li>
  <li class="tag">53 likes.</li>
### [Designed for Reliability](http://thedailywtf.com/articles/Designed-For-Reliability)
  <li class="tag">practices</li>
  <li class="tag">security</li>
### [A Winding Road to InfoSec](https://www.acloudtree.com/2019-11-22-a-winding-road-to-infosec/)
  <h3><a href="https://www.dataviper.io/blog/2019/pdl-data-exposure-billion-people/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">
  1.2 billion people exposed in data leak</a>
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  <p>The data of more than a billion people was exposed on a public web server.</p>
  <li class="tag">privacy</li>
  <h3><a href="https://yorickpeterse.com/articles/not-beating-c-with-96-lines-of-inko/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">
  Not beating C with 96 lines of Inko</a>
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  <li class="tag">plt</li>
  <h3><a href="https://dev.to/zaiste/22-short-lessons-to-become-a-mobile-programmer-using-flutter-framework-d9j" target="_blank" rel="noopener">
  22 Short Lessons To Become A Mobile Programmer Using Flutter Framework </a>
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  <p>Here is a list of 22 short, video lessons aimed for absolute beginners and non-programmers to learn mobile software development from scratch.
  <li class="tag">tutorial</li>
  <h3><a href="https://dev.to/exampro/the-free-aws-certified-solutions-architect-associate-study-course-275-videos-3412" target="_blank" rel="noopener">
  The FREE AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate Study Course (275+ Videos!) 😱</a>
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  <p>An in-depth course to learn more about how you can use the AWS ecosystem.
  <li class="tag">aws</li>
  <li class="tag">cloud</li>
  <h3><a href="https://dev.to/addyosmani/adaptive-loading-improving-web-performance-on-low-end-devices-1m69" target="_blank" rel="noopener">
  Adaptive Loading - Improving Web Performance on low-end devices</a>
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  <p>Adaptive Loading is a pattern for delivering a fast core experience to all users (including low-end devices) where you progressively add high-end-only features, if a user&#39;s network and hardware can handle it
  <li class="tag">webdev</li>
  <h3><a href="https://dev.to/x-team/these-10-live-streaming-channels-will-make-you-a-better-programmer-j11" target="_blank" rel="noopener">
  These 10 Live Streaming Channels Will Make You a Better Programmer</a>
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  <p>Watching a live stream of someone programming is a great way to improve your programming skills. Here are 10 live programming channels worth watching.
  <li class="tag">career</li>
  <li class="tag">streaming</li>
  <h3><a href="https://dev.to/duomly/10-tips-which-help-you-to-learn-programming-faster-2ghf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">
  10 tips which help you to learn programming faster</a>
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  <p>How you can optimize your learning process as you delve into software programming.
  <li class="tag">career</li>
  <li class="tag">beginners</li>
  <h3><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50507849" target="_blank" rel="noopener">
  Russia bans sale of smartphones, computers and smart TV&#39;s without Russian-made software</a>
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  <p>As part of a series of restrictive measures against tech, Russia is now forcing tech products to use Russian software.
  <li class="tag">technology</li>
  <li class="tag">Software</li>
  <h3><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/sacha-baron-cohen-adl-speech-mark-zuckerberg-silicon-valley-2019-11" target="_blank" rel="noopener">
  Sacha Baron Cohen tore into Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook over hate speech, violence, and political lies</a>
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  <p>Comedian Sacha Baron Cohen slammed Facebook and Zuckerberg this week and accused them of spreading hate speech and misinformation.
  <li class="tag">technology</li>
  <li class="tag">Social Media</li>
  <h3><a href="https://engineering.shopify.com/blogs/engineering/successfully-merging-work-1000-developers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">
  How Shopify successfully merges the work of 1000+ developers everyday</a>
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  <p>An overview of how Shopify has developed a multi-layered system for its developers to work together.
  <h3><a href="https://www.sourcetrail.com/blog/open_source/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">
  SourceTrail, the interactive source code explorer, is now free and open source</a>
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  <h3><a href="http://insight.accessibe.host/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">
  10M pages analyzed, only 2% pass ADA requirements</a>
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  <p>AI was used to rate the accessibility of millions of webpages and a vast majority failed to succeed.
  <h3><a href="https://css-tricks.com/some-css-grid-strategies-for-matching-design-mockups/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">
  Some CSS Grid Strategies for Matching Design Mockups</a>
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  <h2 class="source">Interesting projects</h2>
  <h3><a href="https://bsawyer.github.io/tamagotchi/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">
   Virtual pet game made for my daughter</a>
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  <p>A cute tamagotchi game with clean illustrations.
  <h3><a href="https://www.hidelikeseverywhere.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">
   Hide Likes Everywhere</a>
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  <p>A browser extension to hide social metrics similar to likes. It&#39;s goal is to make us less dependent on the social affection or response of others.
  <h3><a href="https://easydb.io/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">
   EasyDB – A One-Click Ephemeral Database</a>
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