How to Do Great Work

 http://paulgraham.com/greatwork.html

Long-form, old-school piece, but still great advice. 

Imaginary Problems Are the Root of Bad Software

 https://cerebralab.com/Imaginary_Problems_Are_the_Root_of_Bad_Software

Amen! One of the previous engineers where I once worked had spent lots and lots of time solving problems that didn't actually exist. 

There’s a new form of keyless car theft that works in under 2 minutes

 https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/04/crooks-are-stealing-cars-using-previously-unknown-keyless-can-injection-attacks/

Scary stuff: clearly automotive networks need better security

The Extraordinary Ways Rhythm Shapes Our Lives

 https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-extraordinary-ways-rhythm-shapes-our-lives/

Like I've said since college "everything resonates"

The modern way of serving images

 https://kurtextrem.de/posts/modern-way-of-img

Making images truly responsive is hard. Here's the current thinking on the subject. 

Linear Algebra

 https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/18-06-linear-algebra-spring-2010/pages/syllabus/

Apparently one of the standout open courses from MIT. Linear Algebra. 

Librarian is a static site generator inspired by Hugo and built in PHP

 https://librarianphp.dev/

Yeah, I know. Why not just use Hugo? For all us PHP heads out there. 

Crafting Songs with ChatGPT and Sonic Pi: A Creative Collaboration

 https://dev.to/philipjohnbasile/crafting-songs-with-chatgpt-and-sonic-pi-a-creative-collaboration-4p3d

Let's face it, almost all the purely AI-generated music is unlistenable. This is a more promising path: human and AI collaboration. 

Superhuman: What can AI do in 30 minutes?

 https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/superhuman-what-can-ai-do-in-30-minutes

Tour-de-force of what AI can help with in a half hour in business and marketing. 

Top Small-Business Podcasts: 27 Picks

 https://blog.hubspot.com/the-hustle/best-entrepreneur-podcasts

Some of the usual suspects, (Duct Tape Marketing, etc) but some new faces as well. 

How to host your side-projects for free in 2023: from Auth to Database

 https://dev.to/livecycle/how-to-host-your-side-projects-for-free-in-2023-from-auth-to-database-42im

A couple of these I hadn't heard of and look promising, such as Clerk. 

PyBroker Algorithmic Trading in Python with Machine Learning

 https://www.pybroker.com/en/latest/index.html

Don't see any bank statements as proof, but still interesting

Visualizing Home Heating Sources

 https://datainnovation.org/2023/03/visualizing-home-heating-sources/

Who knew propane was so big in the upper plains?

16 little UI design rules that make a big impact

https://www.adhamdannaway.com/blog/ui-design/16-ui-design-rules 

Nice little case study on applying basic design principles. 

The labor shortage is pushing American colleges into crisis, with the plunge in enrollment the worst ever recorded

 https://fortune.com/2023/03/09/american-skipping-college-huge-numbers-pandemic-turned-them-off-education/

But with the demographic cliff coming, you ain't seen nothing yet!

A Dismal Guide to AWS Billing

 https://carlos.bueno.org/2023/03/aws-dismal-guide.html

The title says it all. There are some 3rd party tools, but the native tools suck. 

More than half of Republicans support Christian nationalism, according to a new survey

 https://www.npr.org/2023/02/14/1156642544/more-than-half-of-republicans-support-christian-nationalism-according-to-a-new-s

Just a reminder: Christian Nationalism isn't Christian. 

Documents Show Gas Industry Knew Gas Stoves Were a Problem Over 50 Years Ago

 https://factkeepers.com/documents-show-gas-industry-knew-gas-stoves-were-a-problem-over-50-years-ago/

Another case of "they knew"

Softr vs Glide: Which Is the Best Low-Code Platform?

 https://blog.lowcode.agency/softr-vs-glide-which-is-the-best-low-code-platform/

A good comparison of two leading platforms. tl;dr: in most things glide wis, but softr has more integrations. 

Which web frontend architecture fits best?

 https://www.workingsoftware.dev/frontend-rendering-techniques/

Good comparison of front-end web architectures, but leaves any conclusion to the reader. 

Drive growth with newsletter sponsorships at scale.

 https://www.swapstack.co/

matching newsletter publishers and advertisers

Email Groups. Supercharged. The most advanced email groups service. A complete collaboration suite. Mobile ready. No ads, no tracking.

https://groups.io/ 

yes, email groups are still a thing. 

Streamlit vs. Dash vs. Shiny vs. Voila vs. Flask vs. Jupyter

 https://www.datarevenue.com/en-blog/data-dashboarding-streamlit-vs-dash-vs-shiny-vs-voila

Good compare of various dashboarding data systems. I still like streamlit. 

Tag Systems

 https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive/tag-systems

A taxonomy of various tagging schemes from hashtag, to tag=value to hierarchies. 

Welcome to Ctfreak! A centralized task scheduler

 https://ctfreak.com/

Maybe a lighter alternative to Rundeck? 

A faster way to build and share data apps

 https://streamlit.io/

Open source python library for data visualizations and dashboards. Look more flexible than Tableau or Power BI

Machine Learning Simplified: A gentle introduction to supervised learning

 https://themlsbook.com/read

Free (as in beer, for a while anyway) book about machine learning. 

A feature-rich Python framework for backtesting and trading

 https://www.backtrader.com/

How is this dataset open? 

A Framework for Prioritizing Tech Debt

 https://www.maxcountryman.com/articles/a-framework-for-prioritizing-tech-debt

Applying the concept of interest to tech debt and seeing where it takes us.

We invested 10% to pay back tech debt; Here's what happened

 https://blog.alexewerlof.com/p/tech-debt-day

The many payoffs of paying down tech debt.