# Hello

Welcome and I apologize about the poorly formatted issue last week! Speaking of the format, look for some small changes in the next issue or two. Enjoy! @Kale

# Featured: Microsoft

• Under the hood of Windows 8, or why desktop users should upgrade from Windows 7 (extremetech.com) comments
• Windows 8 Arrives (microsoft.com) comments
• Microsoft Surface Review (anandtech.com) comments
• Turning to the past to power Windows' future: An in-depth look at WinRT (arstechnica.com) comments
• Windows 8 Doesn’t Want Your App. Try Again Later (themissingbit.blogspot.be) comments

# Selected Articles

• Outlawed by Amazon DRM (and restored later)
  (bekkelund.net) comments
• The Future of Markdown
  (codinghorror.com) comments
• How a Google Headhunter’s E-Mail Unraveled a Massive Net Security Hole
  (wired.com) comments
• The Hardware Renaissance
  (paulgraham.com) comments
• Guerrilla guide to CNC machining, mold making, and resin casting
  (lcamtuf.coredump.cx) comments
• UsesThis: Rob Pike
  (usesthis.com) comments
• My experience with WPEngine
  (chester.id.au) comments
• Jessica Livingston: What Goes Wrong
  (foundersatwork.com) comments
• The island where people forget to die
  (nytimes.com) comments
• GitHub Game Off
  (github.com) comments
• Ask HN: What is this? 158268a350000000
  (news.ycombinator.com) comments
• Rails Rumble 2012 - Winners Announced and a great look at the gems used.
  (railsrumble.com) comments

# Recently Launched

• Show HN: I spent two years working on an HTML5 game. I finally released it comments
• GitLab, open source github clone, reaches 3.0 comments
• IPad Mini comments
• BootMetro : Metro style web framework comments
• StatMilk - Football Stats Visualized comments
• Taurus.io - Create a product tour for your web app in 15 minutes comments
• D3.js Globe of Recent Earthquakes comments

# Code & Dev Tools

• Ruby 2.0.0 feature freeze comments
• Automatic Generation of Regex from Examples comments
• Example Rails Membership Site with Stripe comments
• Opal - Ruby to Javascript compiler comments
• Commanding your text editor comments

# Design

• Amazing 3d dropdown concept comments
• Star Wars 3D Scrolling Text in CSS3 comments
• CssConsole - easily make terminal-styled forms comments
• Typeset.css: open source CSS typography reset comments

# Books

• Free Textbooks on Machine Learning comments
• The Django Book is getting updated comments
• Bayesian Reasoning and Machine Learning comments

# Wikipedia

• Billion laughs comments
• Philip Roth: An Open Letter to Wikipedia comments

# Videos

• Startup School 2012 Videos comments
• Rails 4.0 Whirlwind Tour Presentation comments
• TED Talk: Ryan Merkley demos Popcorn comments

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