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Does anyone know what office I can talk to, if we want to give a non-EU citizen a student job for a semester in Berlin?

 

It boggles my mind that some people are very much into technological decentralization, but think that political centralization is just fine.

 

This is big! Firefox introduces contextual identities for using multiple accounts in the same browser window: https://blog.mozilla.org/tanvi/2016/06/16/contextual-identities-on-the-web/

 

"In America, Muslims Are More Likely to Support Gay Marriage Than Evangelical Christians": http://reason.com/blog/2016/06/13/in-america-muslims-are-more-likely-to-su

 
 

I can highly recommend betting on football games during tournaments, as a strategy for caring about what's happening and partaking in it.

 

Looks like DHL Germany is currently in football-induced all-shipments-delayed mode.

 

GitHub Pages finally officially supports HTTPS for *.github.io, but not for your own domain. We got you covered: https://blog.5apps.com/2016/06/06/just-launched-free-and-instant-https-for-custom-domains.html

 

Typosquatting programming language package managers: http://incolumitas.com/2016/06/08/typosquatting-package-managers/

 

With VirtualBox having degraded to an utter piece of s*** for me, I adjusted 5apps' Vagrant setup to work with the Docker provider. SO FAST.

 

Fixed Royal Mail's 500-year anniversary page header with help from @gregkare: https://storage.5apps.com/basti/public/shares/160530-1127-Screenshot%20from%202016-05-30%2013-25-18....

 

"I don't always lose law suits, but when I do I write an opinion piece about how every human on Earth lost as well": http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/05/op-ed-oracle-attorney-says-googles-court-victory-might-ki...

 

Utterly amazing video of the latest @SpaceX first-stage landing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jEz03Z8azc

 

Worse: Google actively fought against open web apps by pulling support for hosted-app installation from sources other than CWS early on.

 

People talk about Progressive Web Apps as if Google invented them, when Apple introduced them years before Chrome even had add-to-home.

 

When your office manager is cheaping out on dishwasher detergent: https://storage.5apps.com/basti/public/shares/160526-1445-IMG_20160526_164212.jpg

 

"Blue Feed, Red Feed; See Liberal Facebook and Conservative Facebook, Side by Side": http://graphics.wsj.com/blue-feed-red-feed/

 

"Chrome OS overtook Mac OS in the US in terms of shipments for the first time": http://www.theverge.com/2016/5/19/11711714/chromebooks-outsold-macs-us-idc-figures

 
 

The first http://lightning.network implementation is here and it sounds amazing already ("better-than-Visa scale"): https://blog.blockchain.com/2016/05/16/announcing-the-thunder-network-alpha-release/

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