7 sweet Python IDEs you might have missed

http://www.infoworld.com/article/3170898/application-development/7-sweet-python-ides-you-might-have-missed.html
Overview of various Python IDEs. Some only marginally so, like ATOM. 

Open Source Guides Open source software is made by people just like you. Learn how to launch and grow your project.

https://opensource.guide/
The good folks at GitHub have launched a guide to contributing to and growing open source. Good deal!

Lifetimes of cryptographic hash functions

https://valerieaurora.org/hash.html
How long do hash functions last until one can generate collisions? A handy table:

5 open source dashboard tools for visualizing data

https://opensource.com/business/16/11/open-source-dashboard-tools-visualizing-data
These open source data visualization tools are all new to me. Anybody have any experience with them?

Cloudbleed: Big web brands leaked crypto keys, personal secrets thanks to Cloudflare bug

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/02/24/cloudbleed_buffer_overflow_bug_spaffs_personal_data
Cloudflare CDN bug leaks LOTS of security info onto the web

Making Mapping More Human

https://medium.com/@blprnt/making-mapping-more-human-77a96e92ed49#.sx1vohrld
Fascinating look at the fusion of technology and humanity of map creation. 

Blockchain Demo

https://anders.com/blockchain/hash.html
Really excellent interactive demo of how a blockchain works.

I Did 200 Podcasts With My Heroes. This is What I Learned…

https://medium.com/the-mission/i-did-200-podcasts-with-my-heroes-this-is-what-i-learned-bcc1936de7a1#.76tfaw5an
Lessons learned from interviewing standouts

The three reasons YouTubers keep imploding, from a YouTuber

http://www.polygon.com/2017/2/21/14683942/pewdiepie-controversy-youtube-drama
Why it's almost guaranteed that YouTubers will implode: 

PHP Becomes First Programming Language to Add Modern Cryptography Library in Its Core

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/php-becomes-first-programming-language-to-add-modern-cryptography-library-in-its-core/
Yea!!!! LibSodium coming as a default part of PHP 7.2!! Good Crypto for Everyone!

Raspberry Pi Print Server: Setup a Network Printer

https://pimylifeup.com/raspberry-pi-print-server/
I have an old USB printer I need to do this to: Using a Raspberry PI as print server

$5 Showdown: Linode vs. DigitalOcean vs. Amazon Lightsail vs. Vultr

https://joshtronic.com/2017/02/14/five-dollar-showdown-linode-vs-digitalocean-vs-lightsaild-vs-vultr/
Benchmarks of $5 VPS offerings. Linode was late to the party, but shows up well.

No CEO: The Swedish company where nobody is in charge

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-38928528
Company without a CEO. Would work for consultants like this one, but maybe not other industries.

Five tips for CI-friendly Git repos

https://www.atlassian.com/git/articles/ci-friendly-git-repos
Helpful hints for making CI-friendly git repos. 

7 Tips to Improve Joomla Website Performance

http://blog.templatetoaster.com/7-tips-improve-joomla-website-performance/
Mostly basic, in-app ways to speed up Joomla sites. 

The Art of Storytelling

https://www.khanacademy.org/partner-content/pixar/storytelling
Pixar teams with Khan to give lessons on storytelling. 

Whipping File Inputs Into Shape with Bootstrap 3

https://www.abeautifulsite.net/whipping-file-inputs-into-shape-with-bootstrap-3
how to make bootstrap-styled file upload buttons.

Develop more, Code less. Propeller is a front-end responsive framework based on Google's Material Design Standards & Bootstrap.

http://propeller.in/index.html#home
Propeller adds Google-style material design to Bootstrap.

What if the purpose of love is to get us out of relationships, not into them?

https://qz.com/176136/what-if-the-purpose-of-love-is-to-get-us-out-of-relationships-not-into-them/
Is being broken-hearted the point? What if love is to get us out of relationships, not into them? 

HTML & CSS Is Hard

https://internetingishard.com/html-and-css/
Well-laid out course on modern HTML and CSS.

A hackable text editor for the 21st Century

https://atom.io/
Interesting opensource cross-platform text editor. Notable for its plug-ins. 

The Birth of Enterprise Ethereum in 2017

https://media.consensys.net/the-birth-of-enterprise-ethereum-in-2017-ebe7f7abed92#.klbkzahfz
The Ethereum folks say they're seeing large enterprise adoption. Addresses things like private vs public. 

The top weekend programming languages — based on GitHub’s activity

https://medium.com/@hoffa/the-top-weekend-languages-according-to-githubs-code-6022ea2e33e8#.ckknavzh9
Which are the top weekend programming languages on GitHub? Rust?

A (Relatively Easy To Understand) Primer on Elliptic Curve Cryptography

https://blog.cloudflare.com/a-relatively-easy-to-understand-primer-on-elliptic-curve-cryptography/
As gentle an introduction to public key and elliptic curve encryption as you're likely to find. 

The Meaning of Decentralization

https://medium.com/@VitalikButerin/the-meaning-of-decentralization-a0c92b76a274#.mx3yzrtip
Thoughtful piece about decentralization vs distributed as it applies to blockchains. 

13 Laravel Admin Panel Generators

https://laravel-news.com/13-laravel-admin-panel-generators
Comparison of various graphical and CLI Laravel admin panel generators. Some look good. 

Scaling Laravel Using AWS Elastic Beanstalk Part 3: Setting up Elastic Beanstalk

https://deliciousbrains.com/scaling-laravel-using-aws-elastic-beanstalk-part-3-setting-elastic-beanstalk/
Scaling Laravel on AWS: using beanstalk. 

Attacks on WordPress Sites Intensify as Hackers Deface Over 1.5 Million Pages

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/attacks-on-wordpress-sites-intensify-as-hackers-deface-over-1-5-million-pages/
Big-time WordPress hack due to API flaw: 

How 1970s Chassidic Hackers Created a Worldwide Broadcast Network

http://www.chabad.org/news/article_cdo/aid/3422879/jewish/How-1970s-Chassidic-Hackers-Created-a-Worldwide-Broadcast-Network.htm
What old-school phone hacking looked like. With bonus rabbis. 

The Best Products Launched in 2017

https://medium.com/product-hunt/the-best-products-launched-in-2017-1498e7d02b41#.vat1pggdi
Best recent new products. Interesting how many have some machine learning element in them. 

How I Gained 103,886 Email Subscribers With Just One Article

https://medium.com/personal-growth/how-i-gained-104-000-subscribers-through-the-most-recommended-article-in-history-of-medium-2855e335e02d#.c9ai11c4n
Interesting piece on the complete cycle of gaining new email subscribers. 

Material Design and the Mystery Meat Navigation Problem

https://medium.freecodecamp.com/material-design-and-the-mystery-meat-navigation-problem-65425fb5b52e#.nu23uzy7u
How lunchroom Mystery Meat relates to modern interface design.

Russians Engineer a Brilliant Slot Machine Cheat—And Casinos Have No Fix

https://www.wired.com/2017/02/russians-engineer-brilliant-slot-machine-cheat-casinos-no-fix/
Computers are bad at picking random numbers, as some casinos have learned the hard way:

Enterprise Linux's Big Three

http://windowsitpro.com/cloud/enterprise-linuxs-big-three
Notes on the big 3 Linux distros used in the enterprise. SuSE's hanging in there, somehow. 

My 6 takeaways from Satoshi Roundtable

https://medium.com/@tuurdemeester/my-6-takeaways-from-satoshi-roundtable-2e46680f0cf2#.wnky2w212
Report from the latest BitCoin roundtable. Still some division, but things are looking better.

Website Launch Checklist

https://websitelaunchchecklist.com/
A good checklist to go through before launching any new website. 

Hot Pod: The three numbers that mark the state of podcasting in 2017

http://www.niemanlab.org/2017/01/hot-pod-the-three-numbers-that-mark-the-state-of-podcasting-in-2017/
The latest numbers on podcast listeners and revenue growth show strong gains. 

What Everyone is not Telling You about Artificial Intelligence

https://medium.com/@matelabs_ai/what-everyone-is-not-telling-you-about-artificial-intelligence-36c8552f3f53#.j6g3elrtz
Overview of what's unsaid in Machine Learning.

Using Postman Environment Variables & Auth Tokens

https://medium.com/@codebyjeff/using-postman-environment-variables-auth-tokens-ea9c4fe9d3d7#.40l51pq1j
Useful hints on using Postman. 

Self-hosted Google Drive alternative

http://www.filerun.com/
Self-hosted Cloud Drive software. The license terms are a bit hazy.

9 Tools That Will Help You Become a Better Writer

https://medium.com/product-hunt/9-tools-that-will-help-you-become-a-better-writer-2feff4affd3a#.mwfvg1tx2
I'm a bit skeptical that tools make for a better writer, for power tools don't make for a better woodworker. 

Lady Gaga’s Halftime Show Drones Have a Bright Future

https://www.wired.com/2017/02/lady-gaga-halftime-show-drones/
The lowdown on the drone fleet used at the SuperBowl halftime. More and less than met the eye.

AWS still owns the cloud

https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/02/aws-still-owns-the-cloud/
Analysis of the latest growth numbers on cloud computing. Others may be growing faster, but AWS is still the winner. 

“I didn’t know Sketch could do that!”

https://medium.com/ux-power-tools/i-didnt-know-sketch-could-do-that-182f2f2d811e#.3ixn7k3jj
Some fairly surprising things one can do with Sketch. I didn't know about its Slack integration. 

How To Get People To Like You In 5 Seconds or Less

https://medium.com/the-mission/how-to-get-people-to-like-you-in-5-seconds-or-less-67e64cb91155#.cd357dhu6
Kinda like the Dale Carnegie book on one page: how to get people to like you.

How to get free wifi on public networks

https://medium.freecodecamp.com/free-wifi-on-public-networks-daf716cebc80#.eo66hdrxa
Getting free wifi on busy public networks by MAC cloning. 

How To Bootstrap Your Startup By Selling Services

https://medium.com/hi-my-name-is-jon/3-steps-to-a-suck-free-killer-3000-venture-f986b2c77294#.l8csp1ftb
Bootstrapping a business by selling services for multiple revenue streams. 

Warning: You are entering the XSS game area

https://xss-game.appspot.com/
Great interactive tutorial teaching the basics of XSS vulnerabilities. 

A Hacker Just Pwned Over 150,000 Printers Left Exposed Online

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/a-hacker-just-pwned-over-150-000-printers-left-exposed-online/
Hacker just did a portscan and printed to over 150k online printers

How we’re using Component Based Design

https://medium.com/@lewisplushumphreys/how-were-using-component-based-design-5f9e3176babb#.d3eombi80
Good tutorial on designing websites from the smallest elements up through the largest. No good toolchains for it?

How Flexbox works — explained with big, colorful, animated gifs

https://medium.freecodecamp.com/an-animated-guide-to-flexbox-d280cf6afc35#.uwyqmyk26
Nice introduction to flexbox using animated Gifs.

A million requests per second with Python

https://medium.freecodecamp.com/million-requests-per-second-with-python-95c137af319#.wypz9sib7
Interesting new Python library that blows Angular out of the water for speed. Still needs polish.

15 Ways to Win at Writing Email

https://medium.com/mailchimp-for-agencies/15-ways-to-win-at-writing-email-af42903837c6#.7a7wrxk6x
Some more good hints at writing marketing emails from the CopyHackers folks via Mailchimp.

10 things I learned making the fastest site in the world

https://hackernoon.com/10-things-i-learned-making-the-fastest-site-in-the-world-18a0e1cdf4a7#.npi1vti6r
Case study in pulling out all the stops to try to make a website fast. Hint: static and small. 

How to easily trick $FILE_MANAGER users to execute arbitrary code

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/5r6va0/how_to_easily_trick_file_manager_users_to_execute/
Interesting way to trick Linux file managers into executing commands.

Level Up Your CSS Skills With These 20 Pro CSS Tips

http://webdesignerwall.com/tutorials/level-css-skills-20-pro-css-tips
20 CSS tips. Some generally applicable, some more interesting or tutorial.

The mesmerizing new robot barista at San Francisco’s Cafe X

https://businesshub.mts.ca/h/i/324981033-the-mesmerizing-new-robot-barista-at-san-francisco-s-cafe-x
At least this barista won't misspell your name on the cup. 

The ear training guide for audio producers

http://training.npr.org/audio/the-ear-training-guide-for-audio-producers/
Really nice stuff from NPR: ear-training for audio producers. Useful to podcasters as well.

Sell More by Using Data to Drive Your Marketing

https://www.klaviyo.com/
An email service provider (ESP) specifically for e-commerce site operators. Better be good for their price.