Conditional Operators in PHP

https://www.shiphp.com/blog/2017/php-conditional-operators
PHP conditionals, from the basics to the new Null Coalesce operator in PHP7. 

Injectables vs. Newables

https://qafoo.com/blog/111_injectables_newables.html
One of the more cogent explanations of Injectibles vs. Newables in PHP I've ever read.

How to connect ELK with Monolog

https://pehapkari.cz/blog/2017/10/22/connecting-monolog-with-ELK/
Interesting case study of sending logging events from Monolog to an ELK stack, using RabbitMQ in the middle so as not to lose anything. 

15 Interesting JavaScript and CSS Libraries for October 2017

https://tutorialzine.com/2017/10/15-interesting-javascript-and-css-libraries-for-october-2017
Draggable from the Shopify folks looks particularly interesting.

Getting Started With GraphQL

https://tutorialzine.com/2017/10/getting-started-with-graphql
Compendium of GraphQL tutorials from beginner through..

R tutorial: Learn to crunch big data with R

https://www.infoworld.com/article/3233263/application-development/r-tutorial-learn-to-crunch-big-data-with-r.html?nsdr=true
High-level, not step-by-step tutorial for R.

Managing from Afar: How to Run a Remote Team

https://zapier.com/blog/remote-team-management/
From the folks at zapier it boils down to team, tools, and process.

Introduction to web scraping with Python

https://datawhatnow.com/introduction-web-scraping-python/
letting lxml package do the heavy lifting.

Why Bitcoin Matters More Than Blockchain

https://www.forbes.com/sites/briankelly/2017/10/24/why-bitcoin-matters-more-than-blockchain/#687debaf37ac
Interesting thesis: what email did to the post office, and amazon did to retail, so bitcoin will do to banks.

Google search console optimizations made easy

https://pageoutil.com/
Turn Google Search console into actionable items. 

The Impressive Growth of R

https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/10/10/impressive-growth-r/
Story about the R programming language.

Consumer prices, household debt

http://lenkiefer.com/2017/05/21/consumer-prices-household-debt/
nice graphs of household income and debt, complete with R source code

How I Socially Engineer Myself Into High Security Facilities

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/qv34zb/how-i-socially-engineer-myself-into-high-security-facilities
Good walkthrough on getting into physical facilities.

8 New Google Calendar Features You Should Start Using Now

https://zapier.com/blog/google-calendar-schedule/
The folks at Zapier come through again with an in-depth review of new Google Calendar features.

Alt-texts: The Ultimate Guide

https://axesslab.com/alt-texts/
A comprehensive guide to the lowly alt attribute.

Free Open-Source Invoicing

https://www.invoiceninja.org/
opensource invoicing platform built on Laravel

Find The Perfect RV Rental

https://rvshare.com/
Rent an RV from indivituals.

Node.js tutorial: Get started with Node.js

https://www.infoworld.com/article/3233190/node-js/nodejs-tutorial-get-started-with-nodejs.html
Brief introduction to Node.js

Wi-Fi WPA2 security cracked: Android & Linux most vulnerable, but iOS and macOS too [U]

https://9to5mac.com/2017/10/16/wifi-wpa2-hacked/
The Linux and Android versions of this are particularly troubling. 

The beauty of Go

https://hackernoon.com/the-beauty-of-go-98057e3f0a7d
A good case made for the Go language

7 Critical Mistakes That Can Kill Your Business

https://medium.com/@IrrfanAk/7-critical-mistakes-that-can-kill-your-business-4aab4cce882e
Some interesting takes here, like not being a solopreneur. 

Play This Paperclip Manufacturing Game, It's Your Life Now

http://digg.com/2017/paperclip-game
I'm not much of a gamer, but this looks interesting

Eloquent Relationships Cheat Sheet

https://hackernoon.com/eloquent-relationships-cheat-sheet-5155498c209
Eloquent ORM relationships illustrated and implemented. 

Event-Driven Architecture

https://herbertograca.com/2017/10/05/event-driven-architecture/
When to use event-driven architecture. Just as important: when NOT to. 

Style Guide

https://vuejs.org/v2/style-guide/
Official, well, beta anyway, style guide for Vue.js

15 Essential Packages For Extending Laravel

https://tutorialzine.com/2017/10/15-essential-packages-for-extending-laravel
Don't know about essential, but they're good Laravel Packages.

Free MIT Course Teaches You to Watch Movies Like a Critic: Watch Lectures from The Film Experience

http://www.openculture.com/2016/04/free-mit-course-teaches-you-to-watch-movies-like-a-critic-watch-lectures-from-the-film-experience.html
pointer to free MIT course on film criticism. 

Free Open-Source Invoicing

https://www.invoiceninja.org/
Looks like a viable opensource alternative to freshbooks, et al.

Persisting state between AWS EC2 spot instances

https://peteris.rocks/blog/persisting-state-between-aws-ec2-spot-instances/
AWS spot instances are really cheap, but how to persist state when they get unceremoniously blown away?

Sorting Visualizations

https://imgur.com/gallery/RM3wl
Unusual sorting algorithm visualization using color spectrum pixels. The usual suspects for algorithms.

Free Accounting Software

https://akaunting.com/
Open Source accounting software based on Laravel. Could be interesting.

Stripe Payments in Laravel: The Ultimate Guide

https://quickadminpanel.com/blog/stripe-payments-in-laravel-the-ultimate-guide/
Don't know about the ultimate part, but certainly an adequate introduction to dropping stripe in laravel.

Awless tutorial: Try a smarter CLI for AWS

https://www.infoworld.com/article/3230547/cloud-computing/awless-tutorial-try-a-smarter-cli-for-aws.html
An alternative to the Amazon-supplied AWS CLI. Looks promising. How's it stack up to Terraform?