LineageOS Android Distribution

https://www.lineageos.org/
LineageOS: new life for old android devices. I'd try it if I had any.  Got good reviews on the ALE mailing list.

The 5 Clustering Algorithms Data Scientists Need to Know

https://towardsdatascience.com/the-5-clustering-algorithms-data-scientists-need-to-know-a36d136ef68
Data clustering algorithms. I used k-means about 3 decades ago. 

Don’t quit your job yet: how to lay the foundation for a successful startup

https://medium.com/swlh/dont-quit-your-job-yet-how-to-lay-the-foundation-for-a-successful-startup-f8354f76bfa1
How to do a side-hustle to startup right.

A Beginner’s Guide to Data Engineering — Part I

https://medium.com/@rchang/a-beginners-guide-to-data-engineering-part-i-4227c5c457d7
One foundation of data science is data engineering: getting it to the right place in the right format. 

Vue CLI 3: A Game Changer For Frontend Development

https://vuejsdevelopers.com/2018/03/26/vue-cli-3/
A somewhat radical notion in JavaScript front-ends: a powerful CLI.

Open Source is Tech’s Explosive Organic Movement

http://www.thedailybell.com/news-analysis/open-source-is-techs-explosive-organic-movement/
Interesting comparison of open source to the organic foods movement.

Connecting free and independent communities acro

https://project.hubzilla.org/page/hubzilla/hubzilla-project#top
Interesting project for what some are calling web 3.0 the decentralized web.

git-notes - Add or inspect object notes

https://git-scm.com/docs/git-notes
A git feature I'd never encountered: git notes.

8 Things I Learned Reading 50 Books A Year For 7 Years

https://medium.com/@krisgage/8-things-i-learned-reading-50-books-a-year-for-7-years-cb11c4acffb1
Good advice about reading: a lot of books have little meat.

A Beginner’s Guide to Data Engineering — Part II

https://towardsdatascience.com/a-beginners-guide-to-data-engineering-part-ii-47c4e7cbda71
In-Depth survey of data design.

Modern CSS Explained For Dinosaurs

https://medium.com/actualize-network/modern-css-explained-for-dinosaurs-5226febe3525
From the basics of CSS to today's dizzing array of preprocessors

LiteCart is a free e-commerce platform developed in PHP.

https://www.litecart.net/
Another ecommerce platform. We'll see if it gains any traction.

Frequently Asked Questions About Laravel based APIs

https://pineco.de/frequently-asked-questions-about-laravel-based-apis/
FAQ about Laravel and its API interface, which is different from the Web interface. 

Deploy PHP Web Applications Using Laravel Forge

https://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/deploy-php-web-application-using-laravel-forge--cms-30329
How to use Laravel Forge to deploy onto your favorite hosting platform. 

Testing Vue components with Laravel Dusk

https://laravel-news.com/testing-vue-components-with-laravel-dusk
How to test Laravel apps with its preferred front-end: Vue.js 

How I Shipped My First SaaS Side Project While Working Full Time

https://www.indiehackers.com/@tigran/how-i-shipped-my-first-saas-side-project-while-working-full-time-42862e847b
Another case study on launching a SaaS product. 

Year in Review: Lessons Learned from Bootstrapping Our SaaS Startup

https://www.indiehackers.com/@a13n/year-in-review-lessons-learned-from-bootstrapping-our-saas-startup-6e0f9f3133
Startup notes from an SaaS startup. 

Machine Learning is Fun!

https://medium.com/@ageitgey/machine-learning-is-fun-80ea3ec3c471
Intro to machine learning, though I'm not sure 3 variate curve fitting counts. 

A Flash of Insights on Lightning Network

https://medium.com/@menirosenfeld/a-flash-of-insights-on-lightning-network-338aea52e2bc
Can things like the Lightening Network save cryptocurrencies?

Introducing Time Series Analysis with dplyr

https://blog.exploratory.io/introducing-time-series-analysis-with-dplyr-60683587cf8a
One of THE basic graphs is a time series. Here's how to work with them. 

Fundamental Tools for Math in 2018

https://medium.com/q-e-d/fundamental-tools-for-math-in-2018-78739b86d15
Love the quote "The world needs lots of mediocre mathematicians"

An Overview of Cryptocurrency Consensus Algorithms

https://hackernoon.com/an-overview-of-cryptocurrency-consensus-algorithms-9d744289378f
All in favor, say 'aye', all opposed? Crypto consensus algorithms. 

Insights from Stack Overflow’s 2018 survey of 100,000 developers

https://medium.freecodecamp.org/stack-overflow-2018-developer-survey-faac8d3eb357
Ruminations on the latest survey of developers from Stack Overflow.

The Work of Stephen Hawking in Physical Review

https://journals.aps.org/collections/stephen-hawking
Stephen Hawking's papers as published in Physical Review D

Two magical ways to turn your spare time into crypto.

https://hackernoon.com/two-magical-ways-to-turn-your-spare-time-into-crypto-af03b78c81bb
proof of stake comes of age as does the gig economy. 

Want To Become A Multi-Millionaire? Do These 15 Things Immediately.

https://journal.thriveglobal.com/want-to-become-a-multi-millionaire-do-these-15-things-immediately-e1e779a6978f
tl;dr invest - in yourself and instruments that bear compound interest. 

How to make an ML Armada and run tens of billions of ML predictions on a budget

https://medium.freecodecamp.org/ml-armada-running-tens-of-billions-of-ml-predictions-on-a-budget-f9505c820203
Docker, AWS spot instances, cheap data sources. All combine to create a huge ML cluster. 

Ten Machine Learning Algorithms You Should Know to Become a Data Scientist

https://towardsdatascience.com/ten-machine-learning-algorithms-you-should-know-to-become-a-data-scientist-8dc93d8ca52e
Good overview of the major Machine Learning algorithms out in the wild. 

Free & Open Source content management system

https://subrion.org/
Yet another open source PHP/MySQL CMS.  Hard to tell what its distinctives are.

Free Accounting Software

https://akaunting.com/
Funky spelling, but laravel-based opensource accounting package. 

Automated Dependency Injection using Containers

http://andrewembler.com/2018/03/automated-dependency-injection-using-containers
Dependency Injection's all the rage in PHP these days. 

Getting Advanced with Variables

https://engagedphp.com/2018/03/getting-advanced-with-variables/
Passing variables into a function's scope is strange. 

7 little-known niches that could make you a boatload of money

https://medium.com/swlh/7-little-known-niches-that-could-make-you-a-boatload-of-money-ad910d3d0726
Well, maybe not a boatload, but these could be a side hustle. 

The 2018 Web Developer Roadmap

https://codeburst.io/the-2018-web-developer-roadmap-826b1b806e8d
The 2018Q1 version of what's what in webdev. 

An Introduction to NGINX for Developers

https://medium.freecodecamp.org/an-introduction-to-nginx-for-developers-62179b6a458f
I've always been an Apache guy, but nginx has a lot of traction. Here's an intro. 

A quick but complete guide to IndexedDB and storing data in browsers

https://medium.freecodecamp.org/a-quick-but-complete-guide-to-indexeddb-25f030425501
We've come a long way in storing data on the browser side. Here's a guide. 

Creating User-friendly forms

https://blog.prototypr.io/creating-user-friendly-forms-46e3f7f4eef2
Good advice on usable forms. 

IOTA: MAM Eloquently Explained

https://medium.com/@abmushi/iota-mam-eloquently-explained-d7505863b413
IOTA's MAM layer is explained. A bit of editing would've helped.

Tube CAD Journal

http://tubecad.com/index.htm
DIY Audiophile projects for Tubes with CAD drawings/PCB boards

The Inter UI font family

https://rsms.me/inter/
Another low-contrast sans-serif opensource web font. I do like this better than open sans, though.

Font (More) Awesome — an iconic invention

https://medium.freecodecamp.org/lets-use-font-more-awesome-to-make-an-iconic-invention-a95324d92ace
Interesting software to add local glyphs to FontAwesome.

Comparison of Smart Contract Platforms

https://hackernoon.com/comparison-of-smart-contract-platforms-2796e34673b7
Comparison of the current state of cryptocurrency smart contract platforms.

3 Cryptocurrencies To Earn Passive Income With — Part 2

https://hackernoon.com/3-cryptocurrencies-to-earn-passive-income-with-part-2-39c127cd5dd8?source=email-921613b143af-1520773992955-digest.reader------0-49&sectionName=topic
With cryptocurrencies moving to Proof of Stake here's some passive income plays

Armed and DangerousSex, software, politics, and firearms. Life's simple pleasures…

http://esr.ibiblio.org/
One of the founders of open source: Eric Raymond's blog.

upside Design and implementation of an open-hardware, open-software Uninterruptible Power Supply unit.

https://gitlab.com/esr/upside
ESR really touched a nerve with his well-deserved rant on UPSs. Here's the result: an open-source UPS.

The Flippening Is Coming — But Not The One You Think

https://medium.com/crypto-oracle/the-flippening-is-coming-but-not-the-one-you-think-9878b6af6696
Not etherium overtaking bitcoin, but actual securities being tokenized. 

What is Blockchain Technology? A Beginner’s Guide

https://www.investinblockchain.com/what-is-blockchain-technology/
Good intro to blockchain that actually talks about public key crypto.

Lessons from Spotify

https://stratechery.com/2018/lessons-from-spotify/
Good tutorial on the economics of startups using Spotify as an example. 

And this year’s Oscar goes to… BigML machine learning

https://medium.com/enrique-dans/and-this-years-oscar-goes-to-bigml-machine-learning-1823837ae3aa
Machine learning predicts the oscar winners.

The Tangle: an illustrated introduction

https://blog.iota.org/the-tangle-an-illustrated-introduction-79f537b0a455
Some of the nasty real-life cases the creators of cryptocurrencies have to consider.

GraphQL: Everything You Need to Know

https://medium.com/@weblab_tech/graphql-everything-you-need-to-know-58756ff253d8
Another intro to GraphQL it's still kinda strange.

The Podcasting Juggernaut Has (Finally) Arrived

https://www.wired.com/story/rise-of-daily-news-podcasts/
After years of steady growth, podcasting is finally getting on big media's radar. 

How to create an application on blockchain using Hyperledger

https://medium.freecodecamp.org/ultimate-end-to-end-tutorial-to-create-an-application-on-blockchain-using-hyperledger-3a83a80cbc71
hands-on coding tutorial on how to create a blockchain app.

Color our Collections

http://library.nyam.org/colorourcollections/university-of-missouri-special-collections-coloring-book/
for the coloring book crowd - coloring from museums

SEED Deploy, Manage, and Monitor Serverless Applications on AWS

https://seed.run/
Manage Lambdas for AWS

HF Band Conditions

http://bandconditions.com/
current conditions of HF bands

WordPress is now 30 per cent of the web, daylight second

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/03/05/wordpress_is_now_30_per_cent_of_the_web
Open source powers most of the web's content: WordPress and everyone else. Joomla's still #2. 

A Note to Badly Drawn Webcomics Everywhere

https://medium.com/s/bad-art/a-note-to-badly-drawn-webcomics-everywhere-533804510f67
Ranting about webcomics. 

How to Get Paid for Open Source

https://hackernoon.com/how-to-get-paid-for-open-source-6e13bb238a7f
Great idea: site to help dual-license open source software. 

Some reflections on my side project’s first anniversary

https://medium.freecodecamp.org/some-reflections-on-my-side-projects-first-anniversary-f1d78bdd2793
Everybody has a side hustle. Here's how one is going. 

10 Tips for Javascript Debugging Like a PRO with Console

https://medium.com/appsflyer/10-tips-for-javascript-debugging-like-a-pro-with-console-7140027eb5f6
Good articles of basics (and a few not-so-basics) of using the console with JavaScript. 

10 Principles to Live an Antifragile Life

https://www.fs.blog/2014/10/an-antifragile-way-of-life/
new term: anti-fragile. How to live and antifragile life.

Mental Models: The Best Way to Make Intelligent Decisions (113 Models Explained)

https://www.fs.blog/mental-models/
Good compendium of mental models.

We don't think the world is getting better. This is why we're wrong

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/02/the-short-history-of-global-living-conditions-and-why-it-matters-that-we-know-it
on the current state of world affairs.

The planet's largest Link Index database

https://majestic.com/
One of the bigger SEO link checking services.

Tools to grow your search traffic, research your competitors and monitor your niche

https://ahrefs.com/
One of the better SEO research companies these days.

Indie Hackers

https://www.indiehackers.com/
Independent Hackers that build businesses.

Amazon is complicit with counterfeiting

https://www.elevationlab.com/blogs/news/amazon-is-complicit-with-counterfeit-sellers
Case of a high-quality product being knocked off by Chinese firm on Amazon. 

5 Great PHP Frameworks for Building an API

https://www.programmableweb.com/news/5-great-php-frameworks-building-api/elsewhere-web/2018/02/26
Most of these I've seen, used a couple.

5 Laravel Helpers to Make Your Life Easier

https://laravel-news.com/5-laravel-helpers-make-life-easier
Some Laravel niceties. 

PHP.earth documentation

https://php.earth/docs
Good source of PHP info, geared toward the beginner. 

adminer database management in a single file

https://www.adminer.org/
I've thought for a long time that PhpMyAdmin was getting old. Here's an alternative.

Why I Quit Google to Work for Myself

https://mtlynch.io/why-i-quit-google/
More on the dysfunctional culture at Google. 

Create a Laravel Vue Single Page App in Under an Hour

https://www.cloudways.com/blog/laravel-vue-single-page-app/
An hour's probably pushing it. 

How the Blockchain Can Solve Social Media’s Biggest Problems

https://medium.com/forbes/how-the-blockchain-can-solve-social-medias-biggest-problems-e438f3132cd2
Says blockchains can solve social media's biggest problem. How does is combat stupidity?

Using ancient mathematics to enrich your design skills

https://medium.freecodecamp.org/using-ancient-mathematics-to-enrich-your-design-skills-ac360a83d297
The geometric basis of good visual design. 

A developer’s introduction to GitHub

https://medium.freecodecamp.org/a-developers-introduction-to-github-1034fa55c0db
Good intro to GitHub. Not Git. GitHub, as in actually running a public repo.

What I learned from an old GitHub project that won 3,000 Stars in a Week

https://medium.freecodecamp.org/what-i-learned-from-an-old-github-project-that-won-3-000-stars-in-a-week-628349a5ee14
Everything old is new again.

A Bit of Clarity on What Bitcoin Is (and Isn’t)

http://dailytradealert.com/2018/02/23/bit-clarity-bitcoin-isnt/
Good, basic piece on what cryptocurrencies are and aren't.

12 Books That Made Me Think

https://medium.com/the-mission/12-books-that-made-me-think-b322db3e151a
not enough time to read 'em all, but some good reads here.