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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close May 25 – June 24, 2021 797 stories · Vol. 21 · Catalogue 25 · Issue 175 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

El Salvador makes Bitcoin legal tender

Also covering this cnbc.comEl Salvador to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender
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What dominated June

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Blog about what you've struggled with

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    Helix: a post-modern modal text editor

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

  3. Technology

    Deloitte tells staff they can work from home forever

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 36 stories

  1. El Salvador makes Bitcoin legal tender

  2. A from-scratch tour of Bitcoin in Python

  3. Amazon refused to refund $7k after shipping an empty box instead of a Sony A1

  4. It's time for us in the tech world to speak out about cryptocurrency

Show 10 more
  1. If you sell a house these days, the buyer might be a pension fund

  2. Django for Startup Founders: A better software architecture for SaaS startups

  3. The code on the laptop in the stock photo at developer.bbc.com is user-editable

  4. Why we should end the data economy

  5. What happens in an IPO? – Part 1

  6. Australian Federal Police and FBI nab underworld figures using encrypted app

  7. Pesticides are killing the world's soils

  8. DOJ seizes $2.3M in cryptocurrency paid to the ransomware extortionists Darkside

  9. Microsoft Irish subsidiary paid zero corporate tax on £220bn profit last year

  10. Medium sees employee exits after CEO publishes ‘culture memo’

Sports 32 stories

  1. Amazon Prime inflates prices, using the false promise of ‘free shipping’

  2. Wayfinder – a relaxing 'art game' in the browser

Show 6 more
  1. FaceTime is coming to Android and Windows via the web

  2. Ohio Republicans close to imposing near-total ban on municipal broadband

  3. Pokegb: A gameboy emulator that only plays Pokémon Blue, in 68 lines of C++

  4. State of the Windows: How many layers of UI inconsistencies are in Windows 10?

  5. Heart inflammation cases in young men higher than expected after mRNA vaccines

  6. Win at Risk by using systems thinking

Technology 632 stories

  1. Zero downtime Postgres migration, done right

  2. Organicmaps: Android and iOS offline maps app for travelers, tourists, hikers

  3. Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project

Show 9 more
  1. An Unbelievable Demo

  2. Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B

  3. There are no results for tank man

  4. John McAfee found dead in Spanish jail after court approves extradition to US

  5. I wrote a children's book / illustrated guide to Apache Kafka

  6. The top-ranking HTML editor on Google is an SEO scam

  7. I quit my job to focus on SerenityOS full time

  8. The lab-leak theory: inside the fight to uncover Covid-19’s origins

  9. Blog about what you've struggled with

Entertainment 35 stories

  1. Show HN: iPod.js – An online iPod that connects to Spotify and Apple Music

  2. Survey shows people no longer believe working hard will lead to a better life

Show 6 more
  1. Farmers Deserve the Right to Repair Their Tractors

  2. HBO Max accidentally sent an integration email test to users

  3. Show HN: NocoDB – Open-Source Airtable Alternative

  4. TDD from the Factorio Team

  5. Amazon devices will soon automatically share your Internet with neighbors

  6. Show HN: Find Subreddits for Your Niche

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