The Bellingcat Open Source Challenge

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Wordle and Minute Cryptic and Scrambled Maps will have to a back-seat this month – there’s a new daily challenge in town: the Bellingcat Open Source Challenge.Launched by Bellingcat, a renowned platform for open-source research and investigative journalism, the Open Source Challenge is running throughout December. Five days a week, Bellingcat is posting a new challenge, inviting participants to Maps Mania… more →
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Super Useful NPM Module – Open

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Forgive the samewhat lame title, and this will be a quick little post, but I’ve recently been using such an incredibly helpful npm module I wanted to share it with others. open by Sindre Sorhus (you must click that link and look at their incredible GitHub profile) is a simple, but powerful utility that… opens things. Ok, that sounds rather obvious, but what it means in practice is that your Node code can open a resource on your computer with the associated app. (It can also open up an app by itself if you want.) I can’t tell you how many scripts I’ve written that generate file-based results, or URL-hosted results, that I then double-click to open. This one little utility... more →
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How to Open a Tor Brave Window from Command Line

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I love the Brave web browser for many reasons: ad blocking, Brave rewards, crypto integration, and even a Tor tab feature. I’ll often use the Tor feature but wanted to know how I could automated opening Tor windows from command line. To open a Brave Tor tab, you can use the following command: open -a "Brave Browser" --args --incognito --tor Any time I want to remotely open a Tor tab, I can do so via a shell script. Commands are such an underused but valuable utility for apps! The post How to Open a Tor Brave Window from Command Line appeared first on David Walsh Blog. David Walsh Blog… more →
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How to Open an App from Anywhere on Mac Command Line

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Many engineers like myself live in the command line, and perform actions from command line that most others would click an icon for. I’ve always found opening apps from command line on Macs painful. You need to references the Applications directory, add .app to the name, etc. I just want to open apps by name. To open an app from any directory by its simple name, you can use the -a argument to open: open -a Cyberduck # Works regardless of case as well open -a CyBeRdUcK I love -a for a command like open. Being able to open any app by name is exactly what I want! The post How to Open an App from Anywhere on Mac Command Line appeared first on David Walsh Blog. David Walsh Blog… more →
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​Microsoft open sources Edge web browser’s JavaScript engine, plans port to Linux – ZDNet

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ZDNet ​Microsoft open sources Edge web browser's JavaScript engine, plans port to LinuxZDNetWho says Microsoft doesn't get open source these days? On January 13, 2016, Microsoft made good its December 2015 promise to open source ChakraCore, the Microsoft Edge JavaScript engine. And, believe it or not, Microsoft will also port it to Linux.Microsoft open-sources its JavaScript engine ChakraVentureBeatMicrosoft's speedy Chakra JavaScript engine is now open sourceThe Next Weball 6 news articles » JavaScript – Google News… more →
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