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All Flags Profile Photo Converter

allflags.world/
Add all flags of countries attacked by ISIS to your profile photo

Page Weight Doesn't Matter

nateberkopec.com/2015/11/05/page-weight-doesnt-matter.html
There's one universal law of front-end performance - less is more. Simple pages are fast pages. We all know this - it isn't controversial. Complexity...

Postcodes.io

postcodes.io/
Free Postcode API for Addresses in Great Britain

Tufte the Musical

public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/Tufte__The_Musical!
Pad used for the “Tufte the Musical” session at MozFest - using Tufte's principles for data visualisation to make songs

Why Computer Programmers Should Stop Calling Themselves Engineers - The Atlantic

theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/11/programmers-should-not-call-themselves-engineers/414271/
Greenwashing , or "green sheen,"[1][2] is a form of spin in which green PR or green marketing is deceptively used to promote the perception that an organization's products, aims or policies are environmentally friendly.[3] Evidence that an organization is greenwashing often comes from pointing out the spending differences: when significantly more money or time has been spent advertising being "green" , than is actually spent on environmentally sound practices.[4] Greenwashing efforts...