Tools I wish I had known about when I started coding: Revisited

https://medium.freecodecamp.org/tools-i-wish-i-had-known-about-when-i-started-coding-revisited-ffb715ffd23f
Good PC/Mac/Agnostic tools for development

How to make responsiveness super simple with CSS Variables

https://medium.freecodecamp.org/how-to-make-responsiveness-super-simple-with-css-variables-8c90ebf80d7f
CSS variables and grid layout combine to make responsive grids much easier.

Hard Work is Not Enough

https://journal.thriveglobal.com/if-all-you-do-in-life-is-work-really-hard-you-are-never-going-to-be-successful-1550f58bf127
Don't just work hard, work smart.

Why is sitting by a fire so relaxing? Evolution may hold the key.

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/seriouslyscience/2014/11/13/evolutionary-explanation-sitting-fire-relaxing/#.WpBrmIIiFQO
What I'd long suspected about fire.

How to Create and Publish a Chrome Extension in 20 minutes

https://medium.freecodecamp.org/how-to-create-and-publish-a-chrome-extension-in-20-minutes-6dc8395d7153
Not sure about how realistic the "20 minutes" part is, but a place to get started with writing Chrome extensions.

What I learnt from building 3 high traffic web applications on an embedded key value store.

https://medium.com/@tonyalaribe/what-i-learnt-from-building-3-high-traffic-web-applications-on-an-embedded-key-value-store-68d47249774f
NoSQL or Key-Value stores are good as long as you can search them.

The Official Guide To Tokenized Securities

https://medium.com/@apompliano/the-official-guide-to-tokenized-securities-44e8342bb24f
A bit of a boosterism piece, but worthwhile. 

New Report on Emerging AI Risks Paints a Grim Future

https://gizmodo.com/new-report-on-ai-risks-paints-a-grim-future-1823191087
AI is neither good nor evil, just depends on the people using it. Herein is the scary part. 

Learn CSS Variables in 5 minutes

https://medium.freecodecamp.org/learn-css-variables-in-5-minutes-80cf63b4025d
The latest CSS goodness is: variables!! at long last. One less reason to use SASS.

Comparing the Performance between Native iOS (Swift) and React-Native

https://medium.com/the-react-native-log/comparing-the-performance-between-native-ios-swift-and-react-native-7b5490d363e2
For mobile development, looks like the performance of ReactNative and Swift are very comparable.

How we produce our podcast on Linux at Decipher SciFi

https://chrispeterson.info/how-we-podcast-on-linux-at-decipher-scifi/
Great synopsis of producing a podcast on Linux: hardware, software, services, etc.

Why OpenStreetMap is in Serious Trouble

https://blog.emacsen.net/blog/2018/02/16/osm-is-in-trouble/
I've been a promoter for OpenStreetMap, but there are serious problems afoot.

Luya Fast, secure and well structured MVC code base for professionals, developers and agencies made by them.

https://luya.io/
an interesting web CMS project. 

Slim PHP when you don’t need the kitchen sink

https://www.joeferguson.me/slim-php-when-you-dont-need-the-kitchen-sink/
Laravel's all the rage, but if you want something lighter, Slim looks pretty good.

Spark 6.0 Is Now Available

https://laravel-news.com/spark-6
Rolling out with Laravel 5.6 is Spark 6. Here's new features. 

How we replaced RabbitMQ by Redis

https://blog.tuleap.org/how-we-replaced-rabbitmq-redis
Interesting way of using Redis as message queue

My top 3 Laravel 5.6 features

https://christoph-rumpel.com/2018/02/my-top-3-laravel-56-features
Some nifty new features in Laravel 5.6

Building a Vue SPA with Laravel Part 2

https://laravel-news.com/building-vue-spa-laravel-part-2
Building a single page application with Laravel and Vue

30 Day Vanilla JS Coding Challenge

https://javascript30.com/
Interesting JavaScript projects, the pedagogy looks a bit dodgy to me.

IPFS is the Distributed Web A peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol to make the web faster, safer, and more open.

https://ipfs.io/
Interesting project doing a distributed, peer-to-peer filesystem.

Running a 400+ Node Elasticsearch Cluster

http://underthehood.meltwater.com/blog/2018/02/06/running-a-400+-node-es-cluster/
Elasticsearch is a wonderful thing. Here's how to do a lot of it.

Learn Enough Git to Be Dangerous

https://www.learnenough.com/git-tutorial
Good tutorial on Git

6 Blogger Tools for Sharing and Promoting New Content

https://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/6-blogger-tools-for-sharing-promoting-new-content
useful social media management tools. 

Vuetify Material Component Framework

https://vuetifyjs.com/en/
Material design via vue.js

5 Nuggets of Wisdom from Ray Dalio’s book, Principles

https://alifeofproductivity.com/5-nuggets-of-wisdom-from-ray-dalios-book-principles/
highlights from a billionaire's book.

12 of The Best Books on Psychology, Philosophy, and How to Live Meaningfully

https://medium.com/swlh/12-of-the-best-books-on-psychology-philosophy-and-how-to-live-meaningfully-486ec7ce78f9
Eclectic bunch of books on how to live well. 

12 Unique Subscription Boxes for Men (That Aren’t Dollar Shave Club)

https://www.cratejoy.com/box-insider/gift-guide-subscription-boxes-for-him/
the subscription box craze continues.

10 Free Programming Books You Should Read in 2018

https://tutorialzine.com/2018/01/10-free-programming-books-you-should-read-in-2018
free programming books, nothing about data science or big data, though.

Laravel Design Patterns

https://murze.be/laravel-design-patterns
Video of presentation on Laravel Design Patterns

ReactPHP with RecoilPHP: An introduction

https://blog.wyrihaximus.net/2018/02/reactphp-with-recoilphp/
RecoilPHP tries to make ReactPHP more accessible to us non-ansync programmers.

Exception Handling in Laravel

https://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/exception-handling-in-laravel--cms-30210
The base exception handler in Laravel and how to write your own.

Top PHP GitHub Projects of 2017

https://www.cloudways.com/blog/top-php-github-projects/
Retrospective of the top GitHub PHP projects at the end of 2017

Is Rails Still Popular in 2018?

https://medium.com/@yoelblum_45935/is-rails-still-popular-in-2018-d17f3b062b18
Laravel and Django overtake Rails in this measurement.

After 45 Birthdays, Here Are '12 Rules for Life'

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-01-30/megan-mcardle-s-12-rules-for-life
Some basic rules for life. 

How Much Money Do People Have?

https://priceonomics.com/how-much-money-do-people-have/
Wish they had better/wider age breakdown. 

Your Company is Screwing Itself by Not Supporting Open Source Software

https://medium.com/@codebyjeff/your-company-is-screwing-itself-by-not-supporting-open-source-software-c0e58ff04629
Why your outfit should contribute to open source.

Clash Between Top Laravel CMS: OctoberCMS VS AsgardCMS

https://www.cloudways.com/blog/asgardcms-vs-octobercms/
Comparing two Laravel-based CMSs. Is either ready for primetime?

Establishing a good workflow on a new PHP project

https://keith-mifsud.me/php-software-development-workflow
Establishing a good workflow on a new PHP project

PHP-DI 6: turning into a compiled container for maximum performances

http://php-di.org/news/21-php-di-6-compiled-container.html
dependency injection with compiled containers?!?

Rapid Web Deployment for Laravel With GitHub, Linode, and RunCloud.io

https://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/rapid-web-deployment-for-laravel-with-github-linode-and-runcloudio--cms-30337
Laravel devlopment with github/linode/runcloudio

Does Static Factory Violate Open/Closed Principle?

http://sergeyzhuk.me/2018/01/25/factory-method-and-open-closed/
Like EVERYBODY isn't already using the static factory method?