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A Tight Ship General web Durandal creator Rob Eisenberg recently left the Angular team, and just released the framework he’s been working on instead. Aurelia [blog.durandal] is a forward-looking JavaScript client framework that looks super interesting. Paperwork [github/twostairs] is an open source alternative to apps like Evernote. Shipit [github/shipit] is a universal deployment tool for Node/io.js. SpaCy [github/honnibal] is a natural language processing pipeline. The Stanford course in developing iOS 8 apps with Swift is free on iTunes U [itunes.apple]. Here’s a great code review checklist from Fog Creek [blog.fogcreek]. And here’s a guide to being better at git [toptal]. Ad Vantage Design The Guardian has really been pushing responsive design on all its sites, and it now has a collection of responsive ad units to show off [next.theguardian]. A visual guide to the evolution of iOS [subtraction]. Here’s an accessibility showdown between the iPhone 6 and the iPhone 6 Plus [tidbits]. Bigger may not be better for those with disabilities. Why and how to design in a browser [medium/philosophie-is-thinking]. Get Closure SitePoint First up on SitePoint, a look the best WordPress plugins to help with content marketing. This is a detailed look at Ruby’s closures. Here’s a video focused on the evolution of HTML. And here’s another video, this one focused on creating apps using Google Maps. Butter Fingers News/business Wikileaks is not happy about Google handing its members' personal data to the US government [theguardian]. Not one bit, no way. Ouch. Turns out Google’s Nexus 6 should have had a fingerprint sensor, but Apple bought the company that was going to supply it [telegraph]. An IRS special agent found Silk Road kingpin Ross Ulbricht using a sophisticated law enforcement tool known as “Google” [arstechnica]. Here’s a look at one man’s attempt to change the way companies hire [medium/backchannel]. Deal alert: Google is giving away a $300 credit for a 60-day trial of its Cloud Platform [cloud.google]. Pipe Dream Off-topic Remote Mouse [remotemouse] turns your smartphone or tablet into a mouse or keyboard for your computer, for some reason. WhatSim [whatsim] is a SIM card pre-loaded with WhatsApp credit that’ll let you call and chat all over the world. Airpnp [airpnp] is like Airbnb, but disgusting. You rent strangers’ bathrooms and, er, do your thing. It’s definitely the number one, or number two, startup idea we’ve heard of lately. Here’s how the humble game cartridge was invented [fastcompany]. Note: if that link doesn’t work initially, blow into the top of your computer or smartphone. Viral service Invisible Boyfriend is bleak, amazing [washingtonpost]. Here’s the tech version of Richard Scarry’s Busytown [welcometobusinesstown.tumblr]. Which character do you want to be when you grow up? Finally, the latest episode of podcast This American Life features an incredible story where an online columnist confronts her worst troll, and actually receives a pretty genuine apology [thisamericanlife]. That's it for us today. We'll be spending the evening sprucing up our Airpnp profile, so stop by if you're in Melbourne and caught out! (That's a joke, please don't do that.) See you tomorrow! Get in touch with us, either by replying to this email or catching up with us on Twitter, Facebook, or Google+. If you want more to read, check out the archive.