The Best Animated Films of the 21st Century Ranked, From ‘Anomalisa’ to ‘Spirited Away’

http://www.indiewire.com/2017/11/best-animated-movies-21st-century-pixar-studio-ghibli-1201895863/
Many of these I've seen, some I haven't. Got some catching up to do.

State of GraphQL PHP libraries and Symfony integrations in 2017

https://symfony.fi/entry/state-of-graphql-php-libraries-and-symfony-integrations-in-2017
There are currently two usable GraphQL libraries for PHP.

Gates and Policies in Laravel

https://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/gates-and-policies-in-laravel--cms-29780
How to handle user permissions in Laravel.

PHP Tutorials

https://www.cybrhome.com/topic/php-tutorials
Some of the better online PHP tutorials around. 

19 Things About Life You Should Know Before You Turn 29

https://medium.com/personal-growth/19-things-about-life-you-should-know-before-you-turn-29-40997347a6a1
Good life advice for those just starting out.

Alibaba’s AI Fashion Consultant Helps Achieve Record-Setting Sales

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/609452/alibabas-ai-fashion-consultant-helps-achieve-record-setting-sales/
Interesting application of AI to hybrid ecommerce and brick-and-mortar stores. 

50 best superhero movies of all time

http://superheroes.theringer.com/
pretty good list of superhero movies. 

How to Shape a Story, According to Famous Writers

https://lifehacker.com/how-to-shape-a-story-according-to-famous-writers-1820410250
how to form a story arc. 

Bank Admits Fiat Currencies Are Failing and Cryptocurrencies May Replace Them

http://theantimedia.org/bank-fiat-currency-cryptocurrencies/
The uneasy relationship of banks and cryptocurrencies.

Here’s What Happens When People Let Algorithms Design A Concert Hall

https://www.boredpanda.com/algorithms-design-concert-hall-elbphilharmonie-hamburg-germany/
Incredible new concert hall.

Start here to learn R!

https://www.r-exercises.com/start-here-to-learn-r/
whole website of R exercises. 

Tutorials for learning R

https://www.r-bloggers.com/how-to-learn-r-2/
Learning path for R

How to create reports with R Markdown in RStudio

https://www.r-bloggers.com/how-to-create-reports-with-r-markdown-in-rstudio/
Gentle intro to making reports in R markdown. 

React Native vs Real Native Apps

https://codeburst.io/react-native-vs-real-native-apps-ad890986f1f
Comparing Native Mobile apps to React. 

2017 Laravel Survey

https://laravel-news.com/2017-survey
All organizations should have this enthusiastic users. 

A beautiful webapp to fetch dns records

https://murze.be/2017/11/beautiful-webapp-fetch-dns-records/
Open source PHP webapp to display DNS records. Nothing nslookup can't do.

Getting Started with Machine Learning— Fall ‘17

https://techburst.io/getting-started-with-machine-learning-fall-17-af5a71204c8b
Starting points for digging into machine learning.

I’ve seen heaven. And it’s written in JavaScript.

https://medium.com/@mobitar/ive-seen-heaven-and-it-s-written-in-javascript-7476ba2f8c
Waxing rhapsodic about React Native.

How To Create Charts In PHP By Fetching Data From MongoDB

https://www.fusioncharts.com/blog/creating-charts-using-php-mongodb/
making PHP fusioncharts and MongoDB play together. 

How to Optimize MySQL: Indexes, Slow Queries, Configuration

https://www.sitepoint.com/optimize-mysql-indexes-slow-queries-configuration/
Another article on MySQL optimization from the percona folks. 

Continuous Performance Monitoring for PHP - The tale of Blackfire at trivago

http://tech.trivago.com/2017/10/27/continuous-performance-monitoring-for-php---the-tale-of-blackfire-at-trivago/
Interesting new stage in CI/CD from trivago: performing performance profiling on build.

Web Typography: Designing Tables to be Read, Not Looked At

https://alistapart.com/article/web-typography-tables
As with all alistapart stuff, this is really good. A couople of tricks on table typography I didn't know.