The case for faster development

https://betterhumans.coach.me/zero-tolerance-for-slow-pace-specific-steps-for-aggressively-fast-software-development-8f81f5c6ba00#.k8hklky4o
A case for faster development, kinda throws the baby out with the bathwater in several areas:

8 simple rules for a robust, scalable CSS architecture

https://github.com/jareware/css-architecture/blob/master/README.md#8-simple-rules-for-a-robust-scalable-css-architecture
Good advice about how to structure CSS in larger projects:

Microservices and Teraflops

http://ericjonas.com/pywren.html
Interesting take on using AWS Lambda as a supercomputer engine in #python

Ten things we know to be true

https://www.google.com/about/company/philosophy/
A bit of #google philosophy: 10 things we know to be true. 

AWS Git-backed Static Website

https://alestic.com/2016/10/aws-git-backed-static-website/
An #AWS tour-de-force: taking a website from github and pushing it out through a full aws stack. 

3 Social Media Tactics for Businesses That Struggle With Social

http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/3-social-media-tactics-for-businesses-that-struggle-with-social/
3 low-cost, easy #socialmedia campaigns for those who struggle with bigger strategies: 

Material Design Awards 2016

https://design.google.com/articles/material-design-awards-2016/
Google introduced #materialdesign a couple of years back. Here's some of the best such designs: 

Study Finds “Lurking Malice” in Cloud Hosting Services

http://www.news.gatech.edu/2016/10/19/study-finds-lurking-malice-cloud-hosting-services
Survey of files hosted on #cloudservices finds a scary amount of #malware. 

Full(er) House: Exposing high-end poker cheating devices

https://www.elie.net/blog/security/fuller-house-exposing-high-end-poker-cheating-devices
Reasonably amazing high-end cheating devices for poker and other card games. 

World’s first open source hack-proof Wi-Fi router launched

http://www.techworm.net/2016/10/worlds-first-hack-proof-wi-fi-router-open-source-firmware.html
I intensely dislike the term "hack-proof", but still this is an interesting #opensource router. 

Roon Labs

https://roonlabs.com/index.html
Seth Godin says Roon Labs is a great music app. Anybody else have opinions?

4 Google data sets to kickstart machine learning

http://infoworld.com/article/3131515/artificial-intelligence/4-google-data-sets-to-kickstart-machine-learning.html
Google releases 4 diverse datasets for #machinelearning practice

CSS Flexbox Explained by Road Tripping Across the Country

https://medium.freecodecamp.com/css-flexbox-explained-by-road-tripping-across-the-country-1217b69c390e#.t18et4vnu
An intro to #flexbox CSS via a roadtrip analogy:

simple, sharable typographic posters

http://typeslab.com/
fun, simple way to create word posters. Now, if only I could think of something worth sharing.

Is Model-View-Controller dead on the front end?

https://medium.freecodecamp.com/is-mvc-dead-for-the-frontend-35b4d1fe39ec#.bbqvldler
The MVC pattern is still great for server development, not so much for client-side: 

Where do ideas come from?

https://medium.com/@cnfonseca/where-do-ideas-come-from-c564b4ae71a3#.89kiz6mql
Where do ideas come from? I remember how Dr. Seuss answered this, but here's a different take:

Blockchain platform developed by banks to be open-source

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-banks-blockchain-r3-exclusive-idUSKCN12K17E
Blockchains (nee DLTs) are all the rage. Bank consortium claims theirs will be #opensource: 

Building a Tracking Pixel in 3 Steps (featuring AWS Kinesis Firehose!)

http://engineering.curalate.com/2016/10/19/building-a-tracking-pixel.html
Pretty techie article about how to implement a tracking pixel in JS and store the info in AWS

How The Top 500 Internet Retailers Collect Email Sign-ups (2016)

https://www.sparkpost.com/blog/internet-retailers-email-sign-ups/#.WAjYjNxrLww
How top e-commerce sites collect email addresses:

The scientists who make apps addictive

https://www.1843magazine.com/features/the-scientists-who-make-apps-addictive
Are we just rats pulling levers? According to app makers, maybe: 

33 Personal Blogs of Startup Marketers We Love

https://blog.bufferapp.com/personal-blogs
Collection of blogs from startup marketers:

What’s the Most Popular Time of Year to Get Married?

https://priceonomics.com/whats-the-most-popular-time-of-year-to-get-married/
A century ago, July 4th was a popular time to get married. Now... 

Timbrefone Strata Wood Phone Speaker

http://scoutmob.com/p/Timbrefone-Strata-Wood-Phone-Speaker-artificer
Very cook wooden passive horn for smartphones. How do they machine this thing?

Social Ad Spend Surpasses Television: New Research

http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/social-ad-spend-surpasses-television-new-research
Slightly misleading article title: but digital ad spends are now greater than TV ads.

Dark matter faces its biggest challenge of all

https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/dark-matter-faces-its-biggest-challenge-of-all-4663887d5a5#.8l5h0sumh
so is Dark Matter REALLY necessary for the equations to work? 

8 Powerful Features to Help You Use Buffer to the Fullest

https://blog.bufferapp.com/use-buffer-to-the-fullest
Ways to use Buffer smarter. 

Mostly luck, not an accident

https://library.gv.com/mostly-luck-not-an-accident-a1f50d1e2b57#.jq2bnvp68
Is a better mousetrap enough to guarantee success? Nope, you've got to have process too:

How YouTube, Instagram, Pixar, And Others Found Major Success After A Big Pivot

https://www.fastcompany.com/3064069/most-innovative-companies/how-youtube-instagram-pixar-and-others-found-major-success-after-a
brief history of successful business pivots. Who knew?

How to photograph the stars, moon, and Milky Way: a beginner’s guide to night landscape & astrophotography

http://sympathink.com/night-photography-tips-stars-moon-milky-way-astrophotography-guide/
intro to astrophotography

How to Analyze Your YouTube Marketing With Google Analytics

http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/how-to-analyze-your-youtube-marketing-with-google-analytics/
Making YouTube and Google Analytics play well with each other.

How to Create Content for Your Social Media Sales Funnel

http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/how-to-create-content-for-your-social-media-sales-funnel
Creating social media content from personas to editorial calendar through repurposing.

CertBot

https://certbot.eff.org/
CertBot: an automated method of deploying free SSL certificates to may *inx distros: 

The Greatest Graphic Novels of All Time

https://www.thrillist.com/entertainment/nation/best-graphic-novels-list
List of the 33 greatest #graphicnovels of all time. I've only heard of a couple of these. 

Beef Cuts

https://imgur.com/a/e5vCW#bJ0ocwq
Where all those cuts of #beef come from and hints on how to #cook

Lob: Programmatically send physical mail at scale

https://lob.com/
Interesting web/physical hybrid. Use #APIs to send snail mail like postcards:

dynotag

http://dynotag.com/
Interesting use for #QRcodes. Wish there was an API or #opensource alternative:

Podcasting Has Growing Up to Do

https://bellocollective.com/podcasting-has-growing-up-to-do-3095b4a34f37#.ashr6agat
Good critique of the current state of #podcasting, but omits the elephant in the room: the name. 

Free Programming Ebooks

http://www.oreilly.com/programming/free/
Very cool! O'Reilly releases a bunch of #free #programming books! Check 'em out:

Google releases open source font Noto to eliminate the tofu problem

http://betanews.com/2016/10/10/google-noto-font/
A free font with ALL #unicode characters? #googlefonts releases Noto font. Still claims fast load time:

4 Ways to Broadcast on Facebook Live That Fit Any Budget

http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/4-ways-to-broadcast-on-facebook-live-that-fit-any-budget/
A nice crawl-walk-run piece on the steps to get going on #facebooklive #video streaming: 

Twitter’s multi-billion dollar mistake happened five years ago

https://medium.com/@mathewi/twitter-s-multi-billion-dollar-mistake-happened-five-years-ago-8f354e07881e#.niin67mp3
#twitter's big mistake came 5 years back when they shut out 3rd party developers claims this article:

How to Automatically Reshare Your Social Media Updates Using Free Tools

http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/how-to-automatically-reshare-your-social-media-updates-using-free-tools
I use #blogger and tweetpost, but here's a clever way to schedule #socialmedia posts using #googlecalendar:

RFCs of the Future: Tick Talk

https://nomadphp.com/rfcs-future-tick-talk/
Yea!!! In 7.1 #php finally gets real signal handling! 

Buster Keaton Was The Greatest Of All Time At Doing Dumb Stuff On Film

http://digg.com/2016/buster-keaton-crazy-stunts-stuntman
I've always preferred Buster Keaton to Charlie Chaplain. Here's some examples of why: #movies

Dimensions of Openness

https://sites.google.com/a/laminack.com/why-open-source-is-good-for-business/home/dimensions-of-openness
There's more kinds of #opensource openness than just "free-as-in-speech" or "free-as-in-beer"

Projects made with code and Arduino

https://www.codemade.io/pin/category/arduino/
This is the largest #arduino collection I've seen.

8 Blogger Tools to Help Promote Your Content

http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/8-blogger-tools-to-help-promote-your-content/
Ok, all these #blogging promotion tools but one were new to me.

How it feels to learn JavaScript in 2016

https://hackernoon.com/how-it-feels-to-learn-javascript-in-2016-d3a717dd577f#.xnkj64kym
A friend calls modern #JavaScript development "hipster software". This is why:

Why Deep Learning Is Suddenly Changing Your Life

http://fortune.com/ai-artificial-intelligence-deep-machine-learning/
Good read on the history and players in the current #machinelearning boom: 

TINE TAGS ARE PEEL & STICK SMART STICKERS FOR ADDING VIDEO MESSAGES TO THE THINGS YOU SHARE

http://www.tinetag.com/
About the coolest application of QRcodes I've seen recently. Why didn't I think of this?

Chart of the year: ‘Incredible’ price drops jumpstart clean energy revolution

https://thinkprogress.org/clean-energy-revolution-now-81a8e61134c7#.1qm200885
Chart showing the dramatic drops in various #greenenergy technologies over the past decade.