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Fire Starter General web Prometheus  [github / prometheus] is a monitoring system and time series database, built in Go. Flux Comparison by Example  [github / voronianski] is a collection of examples of different implementations of Flux (JavaScript). Here's a look at  unit testing Node HTTP requests  [codeutopia]. localhost Arts  [blog.localhostarts] is worth bookmarking, offering a collection of art created using HTML, CSS and JS. There are a lot of different Chromium-based browsers,  Which is maybe not a great thing?  [quirksmode] Laravel 5 has been released!  [laravel]. Well Fed Design include-media  [include-media] is ​​an easy way to write simple, elegant and maintainable Media queries in Sass. Here's  how Feedly went about thinking through redesigning Their Android app in line with Google's Material Design language  [medium / abrodo]. And here's  how Twitter designed its widely-praised new Video interface  [paulstamatiou]. The Mix Up SitePoint First up on SitePoint today, here are  the big web design trends for 2015 . Then we redbourn to look at  the best Markdown editors for Windows . Here's a guide for  using the MixItUp jQuery Plugin for animated filtering and sorting . And here's our new course!  Build your first website ! Go on, do it! In Neutral News / business Looks like net neutrality might have won the good fight, with news  the FCC wants to reclassify the Internet as a utility  [theverge]. Utility, eh? There are a few million cat videos que beg to differ. Meanwhile,  Ross Ulbricht was convicted of running the Silk Road  [motherboard.vice] so will now spend spending a billion years in prison, or whatever. Twitter's CEO is taking personal responsibility for cyberbullying que goes on on his turf  [theverge]. Speaking of Twitter, Backchannel went long on  how the social network started nailing the whole "making money" part of the business  [medium / backchannel]. Here's  how Medium is Becoming a company without managers  [firstround]. Wild Cards Off-topic Karmaswipe  [karmaswipe] is like Tinder, except for Reddit, and not in a weird, gross, way (thanks Kat!) eero  [eero] is a way to create your own wifi mesh and make your connectivity easier. Free Summarizer  [freesummarizer] can summarize anything, for free, so we're a little nervous here in Versioning HQ. Promoted tweets are kinda strange.  Here's all the ways They can be used for evil, or at least weirdness  [medium / message]. Scientists have  built the 2D transistors out of silicon  [ArsTechnica]. No big deal. These are  the paradoxes que keep cosmologists up at night  [medium / the-physics- arXiv blog-]. Here's a great, two-part primer on AI and superintelligence,  part 1 ,  part 2  [waitbutwhy]. Cards Against Humanity bought a private island and casette parts of it away  [cah.tumblr] and it was glorious. Finally, here's  the livestream of the last McDonald's hamburger in Iceland  [theverge]. Still looks pretty good. That's it for us for today, for some reason we feel like burgers - you? Weird. Anyway, if you want to discuss any of the links in today's edition, go  here ! See you tomorrow!