Meet The Father Of The Auto 'Skateboard' Chassis Used By Tesla: Chris Borroni-Bird

https://www.forbes.com/sites/samabuelsamid/2016/05/23/the-father-of-the-skateboard-chassis-dr-chris-borroni-bird/4/#4b12d43c6d00

GM's electric skateboard was a great idea, but fuel cells weren't the right powersource. 

openmotors

https://www.openmotors.co/
rebranding from OSVehicle to OpenMotors.

Welcome to the era of open source cars

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2015/09/open-source-design-is-changing-the-way-we-make-cars/
open source cars aren't as far along as I'd like.

350 Animated Videos That Will Teach You Philosophy, from Ancient to Post-Modern

http://www.openculture.com/2017/12/learn-philosophy-from-the-ancients-to-the-moderns-with-350-animated-videos.html
I took too much philosophy in college, here's some more in bite-sized chunks.

Vim plugins for a complete and powerful PHP IDE

http://web-techno.net/vim-php-ide/
plugins to turn Vim into a PHP IDE

Decentralize your application with Google Cloud Platform

https://medium.freecodecamp.org/decentralize-your-application-with-google-cloud-platform-7149ec6d0255
Creating microservices in Google Cloud

A Javascript quirk that will catch you out

https://medium.freecodecamp.org/a-javascript-quirk-that-will-catch-you-out-7895dfbae657
In JavaScript object copy by Reference, not Value

A Response to REST is the new SOAP

https://philsturgeon.uk/api/2017/12/18/rest-confusion-explained/
Is REST the new SOAP? a critical look

How to Find a Niche in the WordPress Ecosystem

https://www.sitepoint.com/how-to-find-niche-in-wordpress-ecosystem/
Similar to finding a niche in any digital ecosystem.

10 “Best of the Best” Growth Stocks to Buy for 2018

http://dailytradealert.com/2017/12/12/10-best-best-growth-stocks-buy-2018/
10 stocks for 2017

These 3 Funds Yield Over 7% and The Fed Just Made Them a “Buy”

http://dailytradealert.com/2017/11/25/3-funds-yield-7-fed-just-made-buy/
three short-term debt funds

A Real-World Comparison of Front-End Frameworks with Benchmarks

https://medium.freecodecamp.org/a-real-world-comparison-of-front-end-frameworks-with-benchmarks-e1cb62fd526c
Unfortunately, didn't include Vue.js. tl;dr: Angular is fast but big. 

Why side projects are so damn important

https://medium.freecodecamp.org/why-side-projects-are-so-damn-important-239ba37209e
Why side projects are important to developers. 

Online resources for geometrical acoustics based room acoustics modeling

https://euracoustics.org/technical-committees/tc-on-room-and-building-acoustics-rba/online-resources-for-geometry-based-room-acoustics-modeling
Opensource software for geometric acoustics and room modeling

The Best JavaScript and CSS Libraries for 2017

https://tutorialzine.com/2017/12/the-best-javascript-and-css-libraries-for-2017
Somewhat opinionated list of the best JavaScript and CSS libraries for 2017

Decryptionary

https://decryptionary.com/
dictionary of cryptocurrency terms.

Top 5 open source tools for MySQL administrators

https://www.infoworld.com/article/3241730/database/top-5-open-source-tools-for-mysql-administrators.html
The standard phpmyadmin and 4 others.

Podcast-focused media company HowStuffWorks spins out with $15M in new funding

https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/31/howstuffworks-spins-out/
The latest on HowStuffWorks.com, refocused on podcasting

Let’s evolve a neural network with a genetic algorithm—code included

https://blog.coast.ai/lets-evolve-a-neural-network-with-a-genetic-algorithm-code-included-8809bece164
Example of training neural net with genetic algorithm with code in Python. 

Atomic commits: Telling stories with Git

https://frederickvanbrabant.com/2017/12/07/atomic-commits.html
Atomic commits = Making LOTS of little commits in git.

Creating Your Own PHP Helpers in a Laravel Project

https://laravel-news.com/creating-helpers
Tutorial on creating helpers in Laravel.

SOLID Principles made easy

https://dev.to/dhurimkelmendi/solid-principles-made-easy-1pg
the classic SOLID principles explained. 

This Game Teaches You How to Build a Quantum Computer

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/a3jkya/quantum-game-physics-computer-puzzle
Educational, probably. Fun?

6 Decision-Making Techniques all Product Managers Should Know

https://builttoadapt.io/6-decision-making-techniques-all-product-managers-should-know-429fe4d13654
How to move things along.

How To Tell If An Industry Is Ripe For Disruption

https://medium.com/swlh/4-ways-to-tell-if-an-industry-is-ripe-for-disruption-b599f657c788
There are a couple of industries that hit all of these criteria. 

1.4 Billion Clear Text Credentials Discovered in a Single Database

https://medium.com/4iqdelvedeep/1-4-billion-clear-text-credentials-discovered-in-a-single-database-3131d0a1ae14
First of all, any systems should never store passwords in cleartext. Those that do, this happens.

Robots Will Transform Fast Food

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/01/iron-chefs/546581
All 3 of my sons worked in fast food. Automating these tasks would be a good thing. 

A recap of front-end development in 2017

https://levelup.gitconnected.com/a-recap-of-front-end-development-in-2017-7072ce99e727
Current SOTA of front-end development as of the end of 2017

How we do Vue: one year later

https://about.gitlab.com/2017/11/09/gitlab-vue-one-year-later/
Recap of GitLab's first year of using Vue.js on the front end.

Blazing-fast static site generator for React

https://www.gatsbyjs.org/
Really odd: javascript to generate static websites from dynamic sources.

Comparative Audio Analysis With Wavenet, MFCCs, UMAP, t-SNE and PCA

https://medium.com/@LeonFedden/comparative-audio-analysis-with-wavenet-mfccs-umap-t-sne-and-pca-cb8237bfce2f
Is this article about audio? Encoding? Python? How about all of them. 

Google Academy for Ads

https://landing.google.com/academyforads/#?modal_active=none
Yet another iteration of Google Ad education. Hope it works and they stick with it.

There are 170,000 fewer retail jobs in 2017—and 75,000 more Amazon robots

https://qz.com/1107112/there-are-170000-fewer-retail-jobs-in-2017-and-75000-more-amazon-robots/
Is Amazon a destroyer of jobs? Not exactly. 

The secret to being a top developer is building things! Here’s a list of fun apps to build!

https://medium.freecodecamp.org/the-secret-to-being-a-top-developer-is-building-things-heres-a-list-of-fun-apps-to-build-aac61ac0736c
Good projects to hone your development skills.

React Native: Is It Worth It?

http://andydyer.org/blog/2017/11/27/react-native-is-it-worth-it/
React Native. Is it just a really fast way to develop really ugly apps?

Why CSS Grid is better than Bootstrap for creating layouts

https://hackernoon.com/how-css-grid-beats-bootstrap-85d5881cf163
Good take on why CSS Grids beat Bootstrap. The only problem is that Bootstrap's more than just a grid.

How Teams Get Microservices Wrong From the Start

https://medium.freecodecamp.org/how-teams-get-microservices-wrong-from-the-start-51777c99c059
Some common-sense approaches to microservices. No, it's not SOA.

Laravel 5.5 Facades Tutorial

https://appdividend.com/2017/12/02/laravel-5-5-facades-tutorial/
gentle introduction to facades in laravel.

x​Solver is a solver for engineering and scientific equations.

https://www.fxsolver.com/
common science and engineering equation solver

Interview with Luis Pabón: Creator of PHPDocker.io

https://www.shiphp.com/blog/2017/luis-pabon-phpdockerio
Interesting project to create a customized docker file for php projects. 

Debugging the dreaded "Class log does not exist" error in Laravel

https://sebastiandedeyne.com/posts/2017/debugging-the-dreaded-class-log-does-not-exist-error-in-laravel
How to debug Laravel if it dies before creating the log class. 

Happier HTML5 Form Validation

https://daverupert.com/2017/11/happier-html5-forms/
Technique for lightweight, simple client-side HTML5 form validation.

How to Refactor Your Legacy Code: A Decision Matrix

https://qafoo.com/blog/112_refactoring_matrix.html
When and If and How to refactor legacy code. 

23 Development Tools for Boosting Website Performance

https://www.sitepoint.com/23-development-tools-boosting-website-performance/
Not so much boosting as instrumenting so you know how to boost it. 

Why I love Vim: It’s the lesser-known features that make it so amazing

https://medium.freecodecamp.org/learn-linux-vim-basic-features-19134461ab85
Some lesser-known features of VIM. I've honestly never come across the tabs interface. 

Using Laravel and WordPress to build a fast and flexible API

https://www.adampatterson.ca/2017/building-an-api-using-laravel-and-wordpress-part-1/
Mixing Laravel for a REST API with a WordPress admin backend. First question: WHY?!?!

Podcast Guides: 26 of The Best Podcasting Resources

https://www.buzzsprout.com/blog/podcast-guides
Pretty good listicle on podcasting resources.