Brent's Bookmarks: October 2016

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:

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

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

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.

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:

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:

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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:

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:

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:

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

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

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

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...

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

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.

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:

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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:

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:

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:

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:

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

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

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"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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