Interesting Snippets from 2014-04-30

• It’s Insanely Easy to Hack Hospital Equipment | Threat Level | WIRED

  In a study spanning two years, Erven and his team found drug infusion pumps–for delivering morphine drips, chemotherapy and antibiotics–that can be remotely manipulated to change the dosage doled out to patients; Bluetooth-enabled defibrillators that can be manipulated to deliver random shocks to a patient’s heart or prevent a medically needed shock from occurring; X-rays that can be accessed by outsiders lurking on a hospital’s network; temperature settings on refrigerators storing blood and drugs that can be reset, causing spoilage; and digital medical records that can be altered to cause physicians to misdiagnose, prescribe the wrong drugs or administer unwarranted care.

• Prism

  Prism is a lightweight, extensible syntax highlighter, built with modern web standards in mind.

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Interesting Snippets from 2014-04-29

• Tools for ideation and problem solving: Part 1 | Architectures | Dan Lockton

  he first article (to be split over two parts) is about toolkits (and similar things, starting with an exploration of idea generation methods), prompted by much recent interest in the subject via projects such as Lucy Kimbell, Guy Julier, Jocelyn Bailey and Leah Armstrong’s Mapping Social Design Research & Practice and Nesta’s Development Impact & You toolkit, and some of our discussions at the Helen Hamlyn Centre for the Creative Citizens project about different formats for summarising information effectively.

• Seven JavaScript Quirks I Wish I’d Known About | Telerik Developer Network

  This isn’t an exhaustive list – just a sampling – but hopefully it will shed some light on the language as well as show how powerful it can be once you get past these kinds of hurdles.

• Introducing Tamper · Tamper

  Tamper is a serialization protocol for categorical data. It achieves high compression ratios by finding the smallest possible binary representation for each category.

• taggingJS

  jQuery plugin to tagging like a charm!

• Postman - A powerful HTTP client to test web services

  Postman is a powerful HTTP client to help test web services easily and efficiently. Postman lets you craft simple as well as complex HTTP requests quickly. It also saves requests for future use so that you never have to repeat your keystrokes ever again. Postman is designed to save you and your team tons of time.

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Interesting Snippets from 2014-04-22

• The PourOver Book · PourOver

  PourOver is a library for simple, fast filtering and sorting of large collections – think 100,000s of items – in the browser. It allows you to build data-exploration apps and archives that run at 60fps, that don’t have to to wait for a database call to render query results.

• morris.js

  good-looking charts shouldn't be difficult

• mdom/dategrep · GitHub

  dategrep searches the named input files for lines matching a date range and prints them to stdout. If dategrep works on a seekable file, it can do a binary search to find the first and last line to print pretty efficiently. dategrep can also read from stdin and compressed files, but it has to parse every single line until the end of the range for those.

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Interesting Snippets from 2014-04-14

• Unheap - A tidy repository of jQuery plugins

  A tidy repository of jQuery plugins

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Interesting Snippets from 2014-04-11

• sivel/speedtest-cli · GitHub

  Command line interface for testing internet bandwidth using speedtest.net

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