####Read

• Poor unlucky people with green bubbles
• The freefall camera prototype development story
• Review of Cereal Killer cafe on Brick Lane
• How Canadian Spies Infiltrated the Internet's Core to Watch What You Do Online. Fresh leaks from Ed Snowden. It's actually pretty smart idea of creating signatures for patterns of packets.

Such technology works by observing small portions of internet traffic known as packets, and matching the information describing each packet against a library of signatures—including known applications, protocols, network activity, and more. Internet service providers have been known to use DPI technology to identify subscribers using peer-to-peer filesharing protocols such as BitTorrent on their networks, for example. But such devices, generally speaking, can do much, much more.

####Watch

• 10K timelapse demo filmed with PhaseOne IQ180 camera. Obviously Vimeo doesn't support such resolutions (even 4K is only for Pro members), but the demo nicely zooms into the original footage.
• London Timescapes trailer on Vimeo, or in glorious 4K resolution on YouTube.

####Listen

• New episode of Radio Badger podcast is released. Expect stories from sunny San Francisco, Facebook HQ, React JS conference, Sky Garden of the London City and topic of privacy in the Internet.

####Personal notes

• Launched a dedicated site for my London Timescapes project - stereo3d.london. At the moment it contains basic info about the project, as well as download links to the multitude of formats you might want to try. Stereoscopic formats are included.
• Implemented tags for this blog ↓ Works as expected - click on tag, get a list of posts with the same tag.

####Read

• Long read on designing recently released Twitter Video feature. I'd say it is a rare insight into how engineering at Twitter works, with lots of details, phases of the prototypes and pictures.

One thing became clear — there was no good sense of feedback while using it. The culprit was the progress bar. With a 30 second time limit, that thing moves very slowly and it doesn't reinforce that you're recording. It also had the side effect of encouraging users to fill it up or worse, make them feel like they needed to fill it up.

• A beautiful but unpractical idea of laying biking paths in the abandoned London tube tunnels
• Adblock's principles of acceptable ads. Stack Overflow largely follows same principles by the way.
• Recently opened Sky Garden of London City, visited and reviewed by Roisi

####Listen

• Delete This Episode - fresh episode of the Stack Exchange podcast with Joel Spolsky on careers in software, and using $40M to find a better job for developers in need of one
• Tim Ferris show special episode with the gouvernator Arnold

####Tweet of thought

• Snowmen protesting in front of Saudi Arabia embassy in Helsinki

####Personal notes

• Currently rendering trailer for my timelapsing short film. Film (and trailer) will be released in 2D, 3D, 4K and HD formats, and it takes quite a bit of time to render all these versions. I think I'll also render an Instagram version.

####Read

• The Duct Tape Programmer - good never gets old, and this write up by Joel Spolsky still very much relevant, although represents another extremity

You see, everybody else is too afraid of looking stupid because they just can’t keep enough facts in their head at once to make multiple inheritance, or templates, or COM, or multithreading, or any of that stuff work. So they sheepishly go along with whatever faddish programming craziness has come down from the architecture astronauts who speak at conferences and write books and articles and are so much smarter than us that they don’t realize that the stuff that they’re promoting is too hard for us.

• The UX reader - book from Mailchimp guys, collection of the most popular articles from their UX newsletter

• Oculus Story Studio is founded with aim to produce VR films

####Watch

• Speaking of conferences, React Native was announced last week on React JS conf at Facebook HQ. Learn once, use everywhere.

####Listen

• Fresh episode of Radio Badger podcast, featuring interview with radio astronomy professor Oleg Smirnov. Expect topics on dark ages of the Universe, Square Kilometer Array project, processing big data and perspectives of building massive array of radio telescopes in space.

####Personal notes

• Did a guest write up on why I moved my static blog to HTTPS only - read it on Red Badger blog. Will probably do a more technical follow up on practical side.
• Adventures in Emacs land - moved most of my activities on Twitter to Twittering mode on Emacs, and started using Org for notes, agenda and todo. There is even a book on how to use Org.

####Read

• Long read on travel photography by @Stammy of Twitter
• I paid $25 for an Invisible Boyfriend, and I think I might be in love. On the same topic, don't miss Ex Machina, now in cinemas.
• Dark Deep Web marketplaces research. How people buy things on the hidden side of the Internet.
• Google is going to disqualify SHA-1 SSL certificates and display warning symbol in Chrome instead of trusty green lock icon

####Interact

• The Dawn Wall - new media article by NYTimes, and a benchmark how to use WebGL in web storytelling

####Listen

• How to Think Like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos - fresh episode of Tim Ferris show podcast

####Personal notes

• Just finished editing interview with radio astronomy professor Oleg Smirnov talking about Universe and Square Kilometer Array project currently being prepared in South Africa and Australia. It was our first remote interview for the podcast, quite a different experience, but turned out really well in the end. We should do more. Interview will be live in the next episode of Radio Badger podcast.
• Thanks to Clojure for the Brave, I'm now hooked on Emacs. This weekend migrated my RSS subscriptions to GNUS, and looking forward to integrate Evernote. Also, they've got Tetris.

####Read

• A guy goes to Cineworld cinema and (allegedly) attempts to do a screen rip of a film. In 3D. With a custom video camera rig he constructed. Staff calls the police. Guy denies everything. Judge says there was absolutely no legal basis for the case.

####Watch

• 365 - one second of animation every day
• Trendy Cafe
• HTTPS everywhere
• Landing attempt of the Falcon rocket on a sea drone ship.

Close, but no cigar. This time.

####Listen

• Radio Badger's first episode of this year is live. Featuring very short and very special interview with Commander Chris Hadfield of the Canadian Space Agency.

####Personal notes

• After testing SSL status of these pages with SSLLabs service turned out there were some problems with incomplete chain of certificates. Basically when you upload certificate to AWS, you have to specify all the intermediatory certificates in a correct order. I ended up creating a special certificate chain file, as was instructed by AWS docs, and now everything is fine. Should put everything into a blogpost at some point.
• It was snowing in London yesterday.

####Tweet of the week

"We see it as a long-term revenue source for SpaceX to be able to fund a city on Mars." World's reaction: Ah ha ha hah omg he's serious. via @levie