The Top 20 Business Transformations of the Last Decade

https://hbr.org/2019/09/the-top-20-business-transformations-of-the-last-decade
The best companies are those that reinvent themselves. 

RECOMMENDED READING 2019

https://fs.blog/reading-2019/
Farnham street's eclectic as always reading list.

Image to Lithophane

http://3dp.rocks/lithophane/
upload an image, get a stl file. 

Snipt-IT open source IT management

https://snipeitapp.com/
Opensource IT asset management software based on laravel. 

How open-source software took over the world

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/14/how-open-source-software-became-the-new-industry-standard.html
Video from MSNBC

schneier on security

https://www.schneier.com/
one of the better security blogs

The Year in Math and Computer Science

https://www.quantamagazine.org/quantas-year-in-math-and-computer-science-2019-20191223
not in-depth, but with links

According to Warren Buffett, Honing This One Skill Can Improve Your Worth by 50 Percent

https://entrepreneurshandbook.co/according-to-warren-buffett-honing-this-one-skill-can-improve-your-worth-by-50-percent-9221cd79356
Wisdom from Warren

all things neutrino

https://neutrinos.fnal.gov/
all about the tiny particles

The Highest-Paid YouTube Stars of 2019: The Kids Are Killing It

https://www.forbes.com/sites/maddieberg/2019/12/18/the-highest-paid-youtube-stars-of-2019-the-kids-are-killing-it/#73f9c5eb38cd
away from comedy, toward kids

7 Tiny Homes You Can Buy on Amazon

https://www.dwell.com/article/tiny-homes-buy-on-amazon-200874c8
Some beautiful as well

SEO keyword tool

https://app.neilpatel.com/en/ubersuggest/
free to use

Top 10 Python libraries of 2019

https://tryolabs.com/blog/2019/12/10/top-10-python-libraries-of-2019
I need fastAPI

Let your car work while you finally take that vacay.

https://turo.com/en-us/list-your-car
another peer to peer car rental

Instantly rent cars near you

https://www.getaround.com/
peer to peer car rental

How to Make Money on YouTube – Be the Next Sensation

https://www.debtdiscipline.com/how-to-make-money-on-youtube/
harder than it used to be. 

crowdstreet

https://app.crowdstreet.com/properties/?
another crowdfunded reit

Welcome to Modern Real Estate Investing We're leveling the playing field for individual investors

https://www.equitymultiple.com/
crowdfunding real estate

My Perfect 2020 Stack: A New Stack for a New Generation

https://medium.com/better-programming/2020-002-my-perfect-2020-stack-43be78df37dd
Interesting piece, but several obscure tools I've never even heard of! Links would be useful. 

online review management Be found. Be chosen. Be the best business.

https://birdeye.com/
effective, but really pricey solution. $200-$300/month

1,000 True Fans

https://kk.org/thetechnium/1000-true-fans/
the manifesto of the long tail. 

Alexa Top Sites

https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B07QK2XWNV?qid=1576770508058&sr=0-1&ref_=srh_res_product_title
They used to give the top million sites list away for free. Now it's $2500. 

Google Local Guides

https://maps.google.com/localguides/home
Is this a back-door social network from google? I've said they should be doing this for a while now.

How tracking pixels work

https://jvns.ca/blog/how-tracking-pixels-work/
Good current survey

Only 15% of the Basecamp operations budget is spent on Ruby

https://m.signalvnoise.com/only-15-of-the-basecamp-operations-budget-is-spent-on-ruby/
in modern applications, compute may be the minority of cost

Building interactive SSH applications

https://drewdevault.com/2019/09/02/Interactive-SSH-programs.html
yes, but why?

Teaching a cheap ethernet switch new tricks

https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/dell-switch-hacking
Can you shell into an ethernet switch?

6 Lessons we learned when debugging a scaling problem on GitLab.com

https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2019/08/27/tyranny-of-the-clock/
Yes, wireshark has a wealth of info

13 social networks for 2020

https://www.practicalecommerce.com/13-new-social-networks-for-2020
will these get traction?

The Rise of the Rural Creative Class

https://www.citylab.com/life/2018/05/the-rise-of-the-rural-creative-class/559319/
Innovation and arts and better living

The Little Book of Python Anti-Patterns

https://docs.quantifiedcode.com/python-anti-patterns/index.html
yes, some of these are backwards to other languages

Introduction to Site Reliability Engineering and DevOps

https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-to-site-reliability-engineering-and-devops
free linux foundation course

Welcome to G Suite

https://support.google.com/a/users/answer/9389764
Gsuite learning center. 

Mastercard Bans Automatic Billing After Free Trials

https://www.pcmag.com/news/366051/mastercard-bans-automatic-billing-after-free-trials
About time!!

Why the Laws of Physics Are Inevitable

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-simple-rules-bootstrap-the-laws-of-physics-20191209/
the world of physics bootstrappers

How to Use New CSS “:is()” for Easy Element Targeting

https://webdesign.tutsplus.com/articles/new-css-is-for-easy-element-targeting--cms-34223
useful new css property is()

Introducing the world’s first 3D printed community.

https://newstorycharity.org/
3d printing houses

Content Marketing Hub

https://backlinko.com/hub/content
How-tos on content marketing from someone who's successful at it. 

Meet Avast Business

https://www.avast.com/en-us/business
do they sell data?

PHP frameworks test

https://pixelbot.co/php-frameworks-permormance-benchmark/
I'm not sure printing out "hello world" is a fair test, though. 

The Most Delicious All-You-Can-Eat Dining Experience In Georgia With Southern Family-Style Food

https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/georgia/southern-family-style-dining-ga/
need to eat there next time i'm south of the city

avast security

https://www.avast.com/en-us/business
could we use this data to replace the alexa million?

15 Amazing Laravel open-source Projects

https://www.dunebook.com/5-best-open-source-project-built-using-laravel/
CMSs and admin add-ons. 

How to Turn the Complex Mathematics of Vector Calculus Into Simple Pictures

https://medium.com/mit-technology-review/how-to-turn-the-complex-mathematics-of-vector-calculus-into-simple-pictures-f3ea8d8b3830
The origin of Feynman diagrams.

200 Researchers, 5 Hypotheses, No Consistent Answers

https://www.wired.com/story/200-researchers-5-hypotheses-no-consistent-answers
Many ways to ask the same question yields many different answers. Research reproducibility and social sciences. 

Metabase is the easy, open source way for everyone in your company to ask questions and learn from data.

https://www.metabase.com/
Is this an opensource competitor for Tableau?

The Retail Reckoning Has Only Just Begun

https://www.barrons.com/articles/investors-need-to-rethink-retail-amid-a-shakeout-in-stores-51564786976?mod=barpkt19
Malls collapsing. 

The Amazon Builders' Library

https://aws.amazon.com/builders-library/?cards-body.sort-by=item.additionalFields.customSort&cards-body.sort-order=asc
a bunch of how-tos, white paper things, but no coherent pathway

Here’s the typography of the next decade

https://theoutline.com/post/8385/didones-font-of-the-decade?zd=1&zi=ib35flxr
I've been tired of low-contrast sans-serif fonts for a looooong time now. 

This Christmas commercial is warming hearts across the internet -- and it only cost $130 to make

https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/04/uk/heartwarming-christmas-advert-intl-scli-gbr/index.html
wonderful hometown video

Where Amazon Returns Go to Be Resold by Hustlers

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/where-amazon-returns-go-to-be-resold-by-hustlers

Welcome to the abyss of the “reverse supply chain,” where hope springs eternal.

A 2-Year Study of More Than 5,000 People Shows This 1 Activity Destroys Your Emotional and Physical Health

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/a-2-year-study-of-more-than-5-000-people-shows-this-1-activity-destroys-your-emotional-and-physical
Yes, get off Facebook!

From LAMP to serverless: case study of externals.io

https://mnapoli.fr/serverless-case-study-externals/
Wish it had a bit more technical detail. 

Discover Exploding Topics We surface rapidly growing topics before they take off.

https://explodingtopics.com/
Or do they? Looks like a google trends aggregator. 

share audio on social media by turning it into custom video

https://wavve.co/
Interesting visualizations

Statistical Modeling with Python: How-to & Top Libraries

https://medium.com/kitepython/statistical-modeling-with-python-how-to-top-libraries-44f6c8cc7ece
The usual suspects and a couple of others. 

Hive Supercomputer Makes its Debut

https://www.cc.gatech.edu/news/629130/hive-supercomputer-makes-its-debut
New machine at Tech. 

Open-Sourcing Metaflow, a Human-Centric Framework for Data Science

https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/open-sourcing-metaflow-a-human-centric-framework-for-data-science-fa72e04a5d9
We'll see if they get an ecosystem around it.

10 great physics courses you can take online right now, for free

https://bigthink.com/surprising-science/10-great-physics-courses-you-can-take-online-right-now-for-free

A guide to distributed teams

https://increment.com/teams/a-guide-to-distributed-teams/
clustered around the usual axes. 

Big Pile of Vim-like

https://vim.reversed.top/
programs that remind one of VI

These Are the Skills to Learn for the Future of Work, According to the World Economic Forum

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/these-are-the-skills-to-learn-for-the-future-of-work-according-to-the-world-economic-forum
really odd bunch of what's hot vs not. 

Avnet startup resources

https://www.avnet.com/wps/portal/us/resources/startup-resources/
mostly hardware related.

SSH to an AWS EC2 Instance with a Chromebook

https://medium.com/cloud-security/ssh-to-an-aws-ec2-instance-with-a-chromebook-61ab3baa299d
Just like it says. 

Her Amazon Purchases Are Real. The Reviews Are Fake.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/nicolenguyen/her-amazon-purchases-are-real-the-reviews-are-fake
People are always trying to game the system. Here on a large scale. 

You can now make tours in Google Earth to show your friends your favorite travel spots

https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/20/20972692/google-earth-make-tours-favorite-travel-spots
This has been on my "why don't they do this" list for a number of years. 

Centralise your SaaS business in one dashboard

https://everview.app/
sorta a meta-SaaS, a dashboard for SaaS services

How I Created A $60K/Month App That Collects In-Person Payments Through Stripe

https://www.starterstory.com/stripe-in-person-payments
leveraging stripe into a personal payment platform

How Georgia Tech’s Budget is Affected by the State Budget

https://www.news.gatech.edu/2019/11/05/how-georgia-techs-budget-affected-state-budget
No, it doesn't add up to 100%

The Munger Operating System: How to Live a Life That Really Works

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-munger-operating-system-how-to-live-a-life-that-really-works
The how-to of Charlie Munger's life. 

Take our 7-day Startup Crash Course.

https://www.buildupcamp.com/crash-course
Startup crash course

Software Tools for Hobby-Scale Projects

https://rickcarlino.com/2019/11/02/software-tools-for-hobby-sized-projects-html.html
Because sometimes you don't need a full devops stack. 

The Pasta Sauce Hailed as the World’s Best Is Surprisingly Easy to Make at Home

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-pasta-sauce-hailed-as-the-world-s-best-is-surprisingly-easy-to-make-at-home
Simplest is ofttimes the best

JavaScript Indexing Delays Are Still an Issue for Google

https://www.searchenginejournal.com/javascript-indexing-delays-google/335703/#close
Google does index content generated by JavaScript, when they get around to it. 

https://www.mailerlite.com/

https://www.mailerlite.com/
Another email marketing package that has free tier like mailchimp. They too look to be branching out.

Laravue A magical administrative interface for Laravel built by VueJS and Element UI

https://doc.laravue.dev/
laravel & vue.js control panel

Our World Is Made More Beautiful By Harmonics (and Python)

https://medium.com/asecuritysite-when-bob-met-alice/our-world-is-made-more-beautiful-by-harmonics-and-python-1d9f70143a57
python fft

14 Kibana Plugins to Spice Up Your Data Visualizations

https://m.habr.com/en/post/477070/
Even one for logfiles

Super Simplistic static web hosting

https://tiiny.host/
Interesting light-weight temporary web hosting

Software Alternatives And Reviews

https://www.saashub.com/
SaaS products listed and reviewed

ScrapingBee API handles headless browsers and rotates proxies for you

https://www.scrapingbee.com/
Another web-scraping SaaS service. 

The Definitive Guide To SEO In 2020

https://backlinko.com/seo-this-year
Backlinks and quality content are still key

Salary and Occupation

https://flowingdata.com/2019/11/18/salary-and-occupation
Good visualization about different occupation clusters and their salaries. 

The Maturing of QUIC

https://www.fastly.com/blog/maturing-of-quic
The origin and history of http/3 aka QUIC

Design your own beautiful brand

https://looka.com/
Automated Logo design that underwent a disasterous rebrand. 

Browse the top 10 most scenic, quiet routes

https://www.geotab.com/americas-quietest-routes/
I've been on at least one of these. 

To Be Well-Informed, Cut the News and Read These 7 Blogs Instead

https://medium.com/better-marketing/to-be-well-informed-cut-the-news-and-read-these-7-blogs-instead-354bde334340
Not information, but insight

IBM's 200,000 Macs have made a happier, more productive workforce

https://forums.appleinsider.com/discussion/213710/ibms-200-000-macs-have-made-a-happier-more-productive-workforce
My experience exactly

Simple automated testimonials

https://luego.app/
Not sure if it's got legs, but might be useful.

Solved by Flexbox

https://philipwalton.github.io/solved-by-flexbox/
How to solve actual page layout problems with flexbox, including the holy grail layout.

What Is Open PageRank?

https://www.domcop.com/openpagerank/what-is-openpagerank
is it really pagerank? no, but it's kinda, sorta close.

Top 10 million domains

https://www.domcop.com/top-10-million-domains
based on openpagerank

Guide to Linux jq Command for JSON processing

https://www.baeldung.com/linux/jq-command-json
much-needed hints, jq is a bit opaque.

Disable HTTP sessions in Laravel to speed up your API

https://ma.ttias.be/disable-http-sessions-in-laravel-to-speed-up-your-api/
It's a small gain, but it can add up.

‘Granny Pods’ now allow your aging parents to live in your backyard

https://www.3lstories.com/granny-pods-aging-parents
Not sure about the zoning of these things

landing page creator

https://unbounce.com/

Create custom landing pages with Unbounce that convert more visitors than any website—no coding required.

helicopter toy

https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/game/flying-helicopter-toy
3d printed helicopter toy

free science posters

https://landing.perimeterinstitute.ca/freeposters
free science posters, especially physics.

Postwoman API request builder

https://postwoman.io/
API request builder: online alternative to postman

audio test kitchen Compare 300 microphones. Right now.

https://www.audiotestkitchen.com/
compare 300 microphones online

Grid tutorial

http://grid.malven.co/
Grid tutorial

Self-hosted, Node.js based analytics tool for those who care about privacy

https://ackee.electerious.com/
self-hosted analytics platform that claims not to use cookies. This is either comforting or frightening.

Email inspiration, resources and discovery

https://emaillove.com/
A nice compendium of email designs.

Test your front-end against a real API

https://reqres.in/
Free API that allows you to learn to make requests

Universal sans

https://universalsans.com/#0.10.20.11111111111.450
make your own sans-serif font. just need a good serif version as well.

My company sold for $100 million and I got Zilch. How can that be?

https://medium.com/@thresholdvc/77790e5c2d4d
The darkside of startup funding... overhang

DNS Encryption Explained

https://blog.cloudflare.com/dns-encryption-explained/
The two ways to encrypt DNS

Finding Lena, the Patron Saint of JPEGs

https://www.wired.com/story/finding-lena-the-patron-saint-of-jpegs/
The latest on the legend

17 Innovative Mathematics Projects that Inspire Students

https://medium.com/however-mathematics/17-innovative-mathematics-projects-that-inspire-students-c652005cc627
Much more of what math is about than most classroom work. 

Ubersuggest

https://neilpatel.com/ubersuggest/
Generate keywords based on other sites

Less Annoying CRM

https://www.lessannoyingcrm.com/
Cheap, less annoying alternative to SalesForce

OpenSource CNC housing

https://www.wikihouse.cc/
Interesting opensource CNC house construction. 

A cross-platform open source website generator

https://www.nift.cc/
Not sure that the main selling point should be speed.

The $10m engineering problem

https://segment.com/blog/the-10m-engineering-problem/
tackling AWS costs with nsqd. 

Mathematical Model Reveals the Patterns of How Innovations Arise

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/mathematical-model-reveals-the-patterns-of-how-innovations-arise
Like nobody in this article's ever heard of Triz. 

Analytics Mania

https://www.analyticsmania.com/
Some of the most detailed info on GA and GTM I've seen. 

UltraTouch R-19 Recycled Denim Batt Insulation with Sound Barrier

https://www.lowes.com/pd/UltraTouch-R-19-Recycled-Denim-Batt-Insulation-with-Sound-Barrier-15-in-W-x-93-in-L/3731877
for use in home acoustic treatments

Laravel: The hidden Pipeline [Part 1]

https://medium.com/swlh/laravel-the-hidden-pipeline-part-1-a4ae91fc55a4
i was unfamiliar with laravel pipeline

Video Editing For Social.

https://www.veed.io/
interesting saas for social video

73 Mind-Blowing Implications of Driverless Cars and Trucks

https://medium.com/@DonotInnovate/73-mind-blowing-implications-of-a-driverless-future-58d23d1f338d
thought provoking

Welcome to the No-Code Software Revolution

https://medium.com/inc./welcome-to-the-no-code-software-revolution-6b75ee967df7
I don't know, from what I've seen of one of the most sophisticated CRM solutions out there, I rather doubt this. 

The Untold Story of the 2018 Olympics Cyberattack, the Most Deceptive Hack in History

https://www.wired.com/story/untold-story-2018-olympics-destroyer-cyberattack/
Good breakdown. 

Pack Your Bags – Systemd Is Taking You To A New Home

https://hackaday.com/2019/10/16/pack-your-bags-systemd-is-taking-you-to-a-new-home/
I still don't think this is a good idea

Build real-time editing into your site.

https://tinacms.org/
Interesting way to add editability to a site

10 top Programming Languages in 2019 for Businesses

https://codeburst.io/10-top-programming-languages-in-2019-for-developers-a2921798d652
Clojure, really?

Laravel — Cleaner Code

https://medium.com/swlh/laravel-cleaner-code-46203ca3ee4d
Instead of the heavy-model theory, try services. 

‘Weight Doesn’t Measure Health in Any Way, Shape or Form’

https://elemental.medium.com/weight-doesnt-measure-health-in-any-way-shape-or-form-47d47b6a278
kinda over-the-top title

Laravel beyond CRUD

https://stitcher.io/blog/laravel-beyond-crud
good start, hope he finishes the series. 

Georgia lawmakers hearing about affordable housing shortfall statewide

https://saportareport.com/georgia-lawmakers-hearing-about-affordable-housing-shortfall-statewide/
Not nearly enough

sidehustle school: It’s a daily podcast, an online community, and an action-packed book — all designed to help you create a new source of income with-out quitting your job.

https://sidehustleschool.com/
so is it his full-time job or a side-hustle?

Walking as Creative Fuel

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/walking-as-creative-fuel-a-splendid-1913-celebration-of-how-solitary-walks-enliven-the-country-of
I do this a lot.

Malware That Spits Cash Out of ATMs Has Spread Across the World

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/7x5ddg/malware-that-spits-cash-out-of-atms-has-spread-across-the-world
make sure there's no cameras around

Legendary Cellist Pablo Casals, at Age 93, on Creative Vitality and How Working with Love Prolongs Your Life

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/legendary-cellist-pablo-casals-at-age-93-on-creative-vitality-and-how-working-with-love-prolongs
stay amazed

As record number of boomers hit retirement age, inequality rampant in senior housing

https://www.curbed.com/2019/10/16/20917025/retirement-seniors-senior-housing-harvard-report-2019
we need better options for starter and ender homes. 

How remote work is quietly remaking our lives

https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/10/9/20885699/remote-work-from-anywhere-change-coworking-office-real-estate
There may be too much of a good thing. 

The Obesity Era

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-obesity-era
There's something in the air

Deep Learning with PyTorch: A 60 Minute Blitz

https://pytorch.org/tutorials/beginner/deep_learning_60min_blitz.html
Pytorch videos from the source

Asynchronous Communication: The Real Reason Remote Workers Are More Productive

https://doist.com/blog/asynchronous-communication/
Go async!

satellite images

https://www.planet.com/
interesting private company providing satellite imagery

The State of Machine Learning Frameworks in 2019

https://thegradient.pub/state-of-ml-frameworks-2019-pytorch-dominates-research-tensorflow-dominates-industry/
Pytorch is gaining

Books from Stripe

https://press.stripe.com/
Short list they publish

How to Fall Asleep in 120 Seconds

https://medium.com/s/story/combat-tested-training-unwind-and-sleep-anywhere-in-120-seconds-27d5307b7606
how to fall asleep

Dayton Audio DATS V3 Computer Based Audio Component Test System

https://www.parts-express.com/dayton-audio-dats-v3-computer-based-audio-component-test-system--390-807
wish it didn't rely on windows

Clockwork: Distributed, Scalable Job Scheduler

https://cynic.dev/posts/clockwork-scalable-job-scheduler/
so does it have a UI?

Scribe: Transporting petabytes per hour via a distributed, buffered queueing system

https://engineering.fb.com/data-infrastructure/scribe/
that's a LOT of logs

Why the ‘Daily Aspirin’ Hype Is Over

https://elemental.medium.com/why-the-daily-aspirin-hype-is-over-7b1da77e12ca
i'm sure this isn't the final word

How To Learn a New Programming Language Fast

https://medium.com/better-programming/how-to-learn-a-new-programming-language-fast-5fe269370210
I like that step one is to identify one's learning style

microsimulation of traffic flow on-ramp

https://traffic-simulation.de/
great hands-on traffic simulation

The Beatles’ revolutionary use of recording technology in ‘Abbey Road’

https://ponderwall.com/index.php/2019/10/07/beatles-revolutionary-recording-abbey/
it was a game-changer for sure

There Was No Big Bang Singularity

https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/there-was-no-big-bang-singularity-ae438985fcca
the show's cancelled, anyway

The Case for a Low-Carb Diet Is Stronger Than Ever

https://elemental.medium.com/major-study-supports-carbohydrate-insulin-model-of-obesity-cb7d47a571d9
no carbs!

What I Learned From Losing $100,000 on Two Failed Startups

https://marker.medium.com/what-i-learned-from-losing-100-000-on-two-failed-startups-b3cb73fc99ab
these were hard-fought lessons, for sure

To Do Big Things, Take on Microprojects

https://forge.medium.com/to-do-big-things-take-on-microprojects-9db36767c488
from tiny acorns...

The 2-Word Trick That Makes Small Talk Interesting

https://forge.medium.com/the-2-word-trick-that-makes-small-talk-interesting-fdd4d5aa693
great opening

We Analyzed 5.2 Million Desktop and Mobile Pages Here’s What We Learned About Page Speed

https://backlinko.com/page-speed-stats
results vary greatly

Why You Should Work Less and Spend More Time on Hobbies

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/why-you-should-work-less-and-spend-more-time-on-hobbies
breathe. 

How Much Money do Podcasters Make?

https://lime.link/blog/how-much-money-do-podcasters-make/
for 99%.... $0

We’re Entering the Era of Big Podcasting

https://www.vulture.com/2019/09/podcasting-history-three-eras.html
hopefully the small guys won't get pushed out.

I created the exact same app in React and Vue. Here are the differences. [2019 Edition]

https://medium.com/javascript-in-plain-english/i-created-the-exact-same-app-in-react-and-vue-here-are-the-differences-2019-edition-42ba2cab9e56
Interesting side-by-side react vs vue comparison. Wish he'd drawn some conclusions, though.

20 great uses for an old Android device

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2487680/20-great-uses-for-an-old-android-device.html
though they're not as cheap as I'd hoped. 

The Founder Dating Playbook – Here’s the Process I Used to Find My Co-Founder

https://firstround.com/review/the-founder-dating-playbook-heres-the-process-i-used-to-find-my-co-founder/
Hint: don't look for someone exactly like you

10 Great Articles On Data Science And Programming!

https://dev.to/seattledataguy/10-great-articles-on-data-science-and-programming-1d95
some off-the-beaten-path articles

The World’s Happiest People Have a Beautifully Simple Way to Tackle Loneliness

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-world-s-happiest-people-have-a-beautifully-simple-way-to-tackle-loneliness
Time to franchise or syndicate this

An HTML attribute potentially worth $4.4M to Chipotle

https://cloudfour.com/thinks/an-html-attribute-potentially-worth-4-4m-to-chipotle
good post-mortem on a defective web form

Psilocybin Is Headed for the Mainstream — It’s Bringing the Problems of Big Pharma With It

https://elemental.medium.com/psilocybin-is-headed-for-the-mainstream-its-bringing-the-problems-of-big-pharma-with-it-45354b4836fc
Time for new pharma

SDR DX-Patrol MK4

http://www.dxpatrol.pt/index.php/products
looks like a good sdr

How to Scrape Web using Python, Selenium and Beautiful Soup

https://swethatanamala.github.io/2018/09/01/web-scraping-using-python-selenium-and-beautiful-soup/
good howto

az quotes

https://www.azquotes.com/
good source of quotes

Cloudflare, Google and Firefox to add support for HTTP/3, shifting away from TCP

https://www.techspot.com/news/82111-cloudflare-google-firefox-add-support-http3-shifting-away.html
UDP, anyone?

GitLab is Overtaking GitHub

https://towardsdatascience.com/gitlab-is-overtaking-github-a0bbb0a8d926
GitLab vs GitHub

63 Fun 3D Printer Designs To Try

https://www.format.com/magazine/resources/design/3d-printer-designs
I've tried a couple

The Untold Story of NotPetya, the Most Devastating Cyberattack in History

https://www.wired.com/story/notpetya-cyberattack-ukraine-russia-code-crashed-the-world/
one fifth of all shipping worldwide was stopped

Laravel 6 From Scratch

https://laracasts.com/series/laravel-6-from-scratch?ref=devawesome.io
intro from the best

How One Year of Microdosing Helped My Career, Relationships, and Happiness

https://medium.com/better-humans/how-one-year-of-microdosing-helped-my-career-relationships-and-happiness-715dbccdfae4
part 1 of 2. howtos in the next. 

You’ll Need to Learn These Harsh Lessons Multiple Times Before You Will Experience a Breakthrough

https://psiloveyou.xyz/youll-need-to-learn-these-harsh-lessons-multiple-times-before-you-will-experience-a-breakthrough-4dccfe56c79
Citations needed.

How To Store Your AWS Lambda Secrets

https://medium.com/better-programming/how-to-store-your-aws-lambda-secrets-cheaply-without-compromising-scalability-or-security-d3e8a250f12c
at deploy time? run-time? how and when

Every Country’s Biggest Export, Mapped

https://digg.com/2019/biggest-export-every-country-world-map
Some surprising exports

A New Theory of Obesity

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-new-theory-of-obesity/
tl;dr: eat raw food

How Tiny Satellites Are Changing The Way We Do Business

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-tiny-satellites-are-changing-the-way-we-do-business?utm_source=pocket-newtab
microsats come of age

listen notes the best podcast search engine

https://www.listennotes.com/#numbers
a solopreneur podcast search engine

The boring technology behind a one-person Internet company

https://broadcast.listennotes.com/the-boring-technology-behind-listen-notes-56697c2e347b
a solopreneur stack

Sometimes we can’t even get the basics of Cybersecurity correct

https://medium.com/asecuritysite-when-bob-met-alice/sometimes-we-cant-even-get-the-basics-of-cybersecurity-correct-2e8c065d9455
A truly appalling case study of getting password storage wrong. 

From Pandas-wan to Pandas-master

https://medium.com/unit8-machine-learning-publication/from-pandas-wan-to-pandas-master-4860cf0ce442
The pandas way

Moving beyond console.log() — 8 Console Methods You Should Use When Debugging JavaScript and Node

https://levelup.gitconnected.com/moving-beyond-console-log-8-console-methods-you-should-use-when-debugging-javascript-and-node-25f6ac840ada
actually 5 points, 8 function calls. 

30 Helpful Python Snippets That You Can Learn in 30 Seconds or Less

https://towardsdatascience.com/30-helpful-python-snippets-that-you-can-learn-in-30-seconds-or-less-69bb49204172
nice, small snippets that help you "think in python"

10 Life-Changing Habits You Can Form in 66 Days

https://forge.medium.com/10-life-changing-habits-you-can-form-within-66-days-cde61237577
It's never too late to start

The 5 Classification Evaluation metrics every Data Scientist must know

https://towardsdatascience.com/the-5-classification-evaluation-metrics-you-must-know-aa97784ff226
Good introduction to classification metrics

Designing speaker crossovers and filters without SigmaStudio

https://www.hifiberry.com/blog/designing-speaker-crossovers-and-filters-without-sigmastudio/
So with modern, cheap class D amps, is biamping better than traditional passive crossovers?

Cascadia Code

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/cascadia-code/
If I used Visual Studio Code, I'd give this a shot.

The Internet Relies on People Working for Free

https://onezero.medium.com/the-internet-relies-on-people-working-for-free-a79104a68bcc
Yes, open source is that vital to the modern world.

The Top Programming Languages 2019

https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/the-top-programming-languages-2019
Python by a length. 

Meet the Man at the Controls of the World’s Largest Steam Locomotive

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/who-drives-the-biggest-train
so how do I get a gig like this?

The truth about RVs

https://www.curbed.com/2019/9/18/20870828/rv-camper-repairs-poor-quality
These words are true. 

4 Awesome Tips for Enhancing Jupyter Notebooks

https://towardsdatascience.com/4-awesome-tips-for-enhancing-jupyter-notebooks-4d8905f926c5
Dark themes!

Supervisord Introduction

http://supervisord.org/introduction.html
a way to centrally manage linux process execution. 

another hosted forms provider

https://admin.typeform.com/
another hosted forms provide like wufoo or google forms. 

Ask HN: Where can I find remote or quality oriented freelancing work?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20971098
from the HackerNews folks. 

If you’re not using SSH certificates you’re doing SSH wrong

https://smallstep.com/blog/use-ssh-certificates/
Interesting howto setup ssh certs

45 Important PHP Interview Questions That May Land You a Job

https://dev.to/aershov24/45-important-php-interview-questions-that-may-land-you-a-job-1794
Some standard ones here, and some good ones. 

These Are the Best Books for Learning Modern Statistics—and They’re All Free

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/these-are-the-best-books-for-learning-modern-statistics-and-they-re-all-free
 Got some heavy books here.

Whatever happened to Six Sigma?

https://qz.com/work/1635960/whatever-happened-to-six-sigma/
We still teach six-sigma at Emory, but looks like most folks have moved on to agile. 

Digital TV Antenna Selector

http://www.dennysantennaservice.com/digital_tv_antenna.html
looks solid, but the website could use a new skin. 

Settings to declutter, emojify and prettify your terminal (iTerm2 & ZSH)

https://www.stefanjudis.com/blog/declutter-emojify-and-prettify-your-iterm2-terminal/
Some iTerm2 hacks

Light and Fluffy Buttermilk Pancakes Recipe

https://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2010/06/light-and-fluffy-pancakes-recipe.html
takes a bit more work

Curl Cookbook

https://catonmat.net/cookbooks/curl
how to do most anything in cURL

Minimal Pandas Subset for Data Scientists

https://towardsdatascience.com/minimal-pandas-subset-for-data-scientists-6355059629ae
the parts of pandas you really need

Top 10 Chrome Extensions Every Developer Likes

https://dev.to/shijiezhou/top-10-chrome-extensions-every-developer-likes-3ehk
I like the idea of showing tracking pixels. 

AWS Lambda Cold Start Language Comparisons, 2019 edition

https://levelup.gitconnected.com/aws-lambda-cold-start-language-comparisons-2019-edition-%EF%B8%8F-1946d32a0244
No surprise that node's pretty fast. 

IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle

https://medium.com/incerto/iq-is-largely-a-pseudoscientific-swindle-f131c101ba39
Kinda inflamatory, but there's some meat there.

Using the DOM like a Pro

https://itnext.io/using-the-dom-like-a-pro-163a6c552eba
Do we really need JQuery? Not with new native JavaScript calls.

Terraform vs CloudFormation

https://medium.com/@endofcake/terraform-vs-cloudformation-1d9716122623
Terraform keeps state

The Black-Scholes formula, explained

https://medium.com/cantors-paradise/the-black-scholes-formula-explained-9e05b7865d8a
The formula that makes all options possible. 

The Gambler Who Cracked the Horse-Racing Code

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-05-03/the-gambler-who-cracked-the-horse-racing-code
$1B from horseracing?

Deploy your projects to Github Pages with GitHub Actions

https://dev.to/pierresaid/deploy-node-projects-to-github-pages-with-github-actions-4jco
More on the new GitHub Actions workflows.

Designing 3D Printable Mechanisms in OpenSCAD

https://medium.com/@urish/designing-3d-printable-mechanisms-in-openscad-5838dcb65b39
I need to download OpenSCAD.

Why Smart People Should Read Fewer Books And listen to more podcasts.

https://medium.com/personal-growth/smart-people-should-read-fewer-books-and-listen-to-more-podcasts-87c4fa2bfaf0
I know my favorite podcasts are interviews.

The Easy Way to Do Advanced Data Visualisation for Data Scientists

https://towardsdatascience.com/the-easy-way-to-do-advanced-data-visualisation-for-data-scientists-bbc852e26fb6
A python library that hopefully takes the pain out of D3.js

AI Search Algorithms Every Data Scientist Should Know

https://towardsdatascience.com/ai-search-algorithms-every-data-scientist-should-know-ed0968a43a7a
I see trees.. Trees everywhere!

Uncomputable Numbers

https://medium.com/cantors-paradise/uncomputable-numbers-ee528830d295
not turing-complete stuff

Regex Cross­word

https://regexcrossword.com/
For the truly sadistic

The Things That Mathematics Cannot Explain

https://medium.com/however-mathematics/the-things-that-mathematics-cannot-explain-a9e5ab3ae96a
Article centering on the golden ratio, and phi

15 Signs Your Life is More on Track Than You Think it is

https://psiloveyou.xyz/15-signs-your-life-is-more-on-track-than-you-think-it-is-c41bcf521d6
Be your own person

A 2-Year Study of More Than 5,000 People Shows This 1 Activity Destroys Your Emotional and Physical Health

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/a-2-year-study-of-more-than-5-000-people-shows-this-1-activity-destroys-your-emotional-and-physical
run away! run away!

The Riemann Hypothesis, explained

https://medium.com/cantors-paradise/the-riemann-hypothesis-explained-fa01c1f75d3f
Dr. Nash couldn't have done better. 

25 Interesting Books for Math People and Designers

https://medium.com/however-mathematics/25-interesting-books-for-math-people-and-designers-1c7ffcebb66a
interesting double-headed list

How JavaScript Works

https://medium.com/better-programming/how-javascript-works-1706b9b66c4d
down and ditry

Say bye to downtime with real time on-call incident management

https://bellme.io/
alternative to pagerduty

The Complete Guide to Time Series Analysis and Forecasting

https://towardsdatascience.com/the-complete-guide-to-time-series-analysis-and-forecasting-70d476bfe775
correlation and seasonality, etc. 

2018 College Return on Investment

https://public.tableau.com/profile/dallin8725#!/vizhome/CollegeReturnonInvestment_0/CollegeReturnonInvestment
gaTech is #12

Beyond Agile: the Studio Model

https://www.forbes.com/sites/cognitiveworld/2019/08/28/agile-and-the-studio-model/#d9d6fa78de95
Sounds more like Brooks' surgeon model. 

10 Intriguing Public REST APIs For Your Next Project

https://dev.to/camerenisonfire/10-intriguing-public-rest-apis-for-your-next-project-2gbd
interesting easy APIs

An easy introduction to Pytorch for Neural Networks

https://towardsdatascience.com/an-easy-introduction-to-pytorch-for-neural-networks-3ea08516bff2
getting started with pytorch

Terraform Modules to stay DRY

https://medium.com/@fellowshipofone/terraform-modules-to-stay-dry-677b899a4152
modularize your terraform builds

13 Classic Mathematics Books for Lifelong Learners

https://medium.com/however-mathematics/13-classic-mathematics-books-for-lifelong-learners-7ec2759142da
so many books, so little time

Data Scientists, The 5 Graph Algorithms that you should know

https://towardsdatascience.com/data-scientists-the-five-graph-algorithms-that-you-should-know-30f454fa5513
Connect the dots

You should not run your mail server because mail is hard.

https://poolp.org/posts/2019-08-30/you-should-not-run-your-mail-server-because-mail-is-hard/
I've run email servers before, and yes, it's hard.

21 Behaviors That Will Make You Brilliant at Creativity & Relationships

https://medium.com/better-marketing/21-behaviors-that-will-make-you-brilliant-at-creativity-relationships-c5bdb3d58a28
encourage lateral thinking

Are publix chicken tender subs on sale?

http://arepublixchickentendersubsonsale.com/
the url says it all

The Riemann Hypothesis, explained

https://medium.com/cantors-paradise/the-riemann-hypothesis-explained-fa01c1f75d3f
starting with primes

The Angel Philosopher a compilation of Naval's wisdom, knowledge and thoughts.

https://theangelphilosopher.com/
Thoughts from Naval Ravikant of angel investing

2019 Hugo Award Winners Include a Fan Fiction Site and 'Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse'

https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/19/08/24/0348225/2019-hugo-award-winners-include-a-fan-fiction-site-and-spider-man-into-the-spider-verse
and we can read some online

How Microservices Architecture Impacted the Culture of Software Development

https://medium.com/better-programming/how-microservices-architecture-impacted-the-culture-of-software-development-6bba363ecdf1
Interesting take on microservices and shop culture

Hacking articles

https://www.hackingarticles.in/
interesting pentesting articles

The birth of Inter: How the new open-source typeface used by GitHub and Mozilla came to be

https://www.figma.com/blog/the-birth-of-inter/
Interesting. I had no idea python was used for typography

Vue.js Gotchas. Common Fixes for Major Headaches

https://medium.com/swlh/vue-js-gotchas-common-fixes-for-major-headaches-ef22a903b8bc
I've not used vue enough to encounter these headaches, but ok.

Crowd Supply - for the greater goods

 https://www.crowdsupply.com/
like kickstarter, but for open hardware

10 Life Quotes That (If Applied) Will Change the Way You See The World Forever

https://psiloveyou.xyz/10-life-quotes-that-if-applied-will-change-the-way-you-see-the-world-forever-d05338ae489b
Old and new here.

We analyzed 5 million Google Search Results Here's What We Learned About Organic Click Through Rate

https://backlinko.com/google-ctr-stats
Yes, it's still best to be top of google search results. Here's how much better

A deep dive into smart contracts

https://medium.com/coinmonks/a-deep-dive-into-smart-contracts-6a8f5bacdb2b
as advertised, not for the faint of heart

4 Awesome things you can do with Keras and the code you need to make it happen

https://towardsdatascience.com/4-awesome-things-you-can-do-with-keras-and-the-code-you-need-to-make-it-happen-858f022eec85
not exactly beginner level stuff here

How to integrate Elasticsearch in your Laravel App – 2019 edition

https://madewithlove.be/how-to-integrate-elasticsearch-in-your-laravel-app-2019-edition/
Using elastisearch with laravel.

Automate your workflow from idea to production

https://github.com/features/actions
github finally catches up to gitlab on CI/CD integration.

SEO training to 10x your traffic from Google.

https://www.clickminded.com/
Kinda pricy, but solid information.

7 Expert-Approved Ways to Write a Better To-Do List

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/7-expert-approved-ways-to-write-a-better-to-do-list
interesting wrinkles on an old theme. Is there an app for that?

Walking the wire: Mastering the Four Decisions in Microservices Architecture

https://medium.com/systems-architectures/walking-the-microservices-path-towards-loose-coupling-few-pitfalls-4067bf5e497a
Flows, dependencies, databases, oh, my!

Guide to using sockets in your Laravel application

https://medium.com/swlh/guide-to-using-sockets-in-your-laravel-application-596d42367f0e
Sockets, like for chatting in Laravel

Introducing nushell

http://www.jonathanturner.org/2019/08/introducing-nushell.html
Adding more structure to unix shell programming. Will it catch on?

Digital Sundial

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1068443/comments
a digital sundial

The Dark Side of AWS Lambda

https://medium.com/fluidity/the-dark-side-of-aws-lambda-5c9f620b7dd2
Lambdas and CI/CD may not mix too well.

How Operating Systems Work: 10 Concepts you Should Know as a Developer

https://medium.com/cracking-the-data-science-interview/how-operating-systems-work-10-concepts-you-should-know-as-a-developer-8d63bb38331f
Basics of what an Operating System does.

Why Hot Water Freezes Faster Than Cold—Physicists Solve the Mpemba Effect

https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog/why-hot-water-freezes-faster-than-cold-physicists-solve-the-mpemba-effect-d8a2f611e853
Why hot water freezes quicker than cold. Sorta.

The Flaws a Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Wants You to Know About Yourself

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-flaws-a-nobel-prize-winning-economist-wants-you-to-know-about-yourself
Classic cognitive biases that trip us all.

How Battlehouse saved $60,000 a year on AWS

https://medium.com/@dmaas/how-battlehouse-saved-60-000-a-year-on-aws-2206829a68f8
Do reserved EC2, CloudFlare rather than Cloudfront, stage storage.

2019 Hugo Award Winners Include a Fan Fiction Site and 'Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse'

https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/19/08/24/0348225/2019-hugo-award-winners-include-a-fan-fiction-site-and-spider-man-into-the-spider-verse
So what exactly is the difference between a Novella and a Novelette?

Chrome and Firefox Changes Spark the End of EV Certificates

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/chrome-and-firefox-changes-spark-the-end-of-ev-certificates/
Looks like those overprices EV certificates are about to go away.

next-generation image formats for the internet

https://www.slideshare.net/cloudinarymarketing/imagecon-2019-jon-sneyer
is jpeg-xl the next big thing?

Modern Infrastructure as Code

https://www.pulumi.com/
Kinda like terraform, but commercial with language bindings

Don’t retire early, buy a home, or be a lawyer if you want to be happy, researchers say — here’s why

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/16/dont-retire-early-buy-a-home-or-be-a-lawyer-if-you-want-to-be-happy-says-happiness-expert.html
Correlation or causation? Dunno, but these are interesting. 

5 Lessons Learned From Writing Over 300,000 Lines of Infrastructure Code

https://blog.gruntwork.io/5-lessons-learned-from-writing-over-300-000-lines-of-infrastructure-code-36ba7fadeac1
Hint: It's about tools and process. 

Retool - the fast way to build internal tools.

https://retool.com/
Another api-glue-gui tool. This one focused on internal tools and dashboards. 

Tips and tricks for AWS SSM Parameter Store with confd

https://geeks.uniplaces.com/tips-and-tricks-for-aws-ssm-parameter-store-with-confd-f0bf066005fd
Handling credentials and environment configs is always hard. Here's the AWS way of doing this.

An easy introduction to unsupervised learning with 4 basic techniques

https://towardsdatascience.com/an-easy-introduction-to-unsupervised-learning-with-4-basic-techniques-da7fbf0c3adf
Machine learning gets easier and easier to implement. 

cloud-nuke: how we reduced our AWS bill by ~85%

https://blog.gruntwork.io/cloud-nuke-how-we-reduced-our-aws-bill-by-85-f3aced4e5876
interesting, if heavy-handed tool that nukes ec2 instances you aren't using. 

The Wizardry of Elliptic Curve Cryptography

https://medium.com/asecuritysite-when-bob-met-alice/the-wizardry-of-elliptic-curve-cryptography-70fe4396aec2
Some code to illustrate how elliptic curve crypto works. 

5 Languages That Could Change the Way You See the World

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/5-languages-that-could-change-the-way-you-see-the-world
I particularly like the language of extreme honesty and accuracy. 

JS8Call

http://js8call.com/
the official js8call site

Getting Started with JS8Call – One of best things going in Digital HF!

https://miscdotgeek.com/js8call-getting-started/
getting started with js8call

3D Printing Tutorials, Contests & Downloads

https://pinshape.com/blog/
3d printing blog. interesting stuff

Serverless Pitfalls: Issues With Running a Startup on AWS Lambda

https://medium.com/@emaildelivery/serverless-pitfalls-issues-you-may-encounter-running-a-start-up-on-aws-lambda-f242b404f41c
Serverless is great unless... and unless...

How We Reduced Lambda Functions Costs by Thousands of Dollars

https://medium.com/foxintelligence-inside/how-we-reduced-lambda-functions-costs-by-thousands-of-dollars-8279b0a69931
Serverless can create runaway costs, how to pull back.

An Open Source CMS built on top of Shopify's GraphQL API

https://www.openship.org/
Interesting. open-source CMS for shopify

6 Subtle Habits That Are Sabotaging Your Happiness

https://medium.com/personal-growth/6-subtle-habits-that-are-sabotaging-your-happiness-e25055902e34
get out of your head!

Why our team cancelled our move to microservices

https://medium.com/@steven.lemon182/why-our-team-cancelled-our-move-to-microservices-8fd87898d952
A not-so-success story

Monolith to Microservices to Serverless — Our journey

https://medium.com/responsetap-engineering/monolith-to-microservices-to-serverless-our-journey-745a2b9620ec
A success story

11 Simple Ways to Improve Your Memory

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/11-simple-ways-to-improve-your-memory
what was that again?

He tried to prank the DMV. Then his vanity license plate backfired big time.

https://mashable.com/article/dmv-vanity-license-plate-def-con-backfire/
I've often thought of doing this. Glad now I didn't.

Pushing Laravel further — best tips & good practices for Laravel 5.7

https://medium.com/@alexrenoki/pushing-laravel-further-best-tips-good-practices-for-laravel-5-7-ac97305b8cac
Local scopes and response files.

Laravel: The Fantastic 4 Interfaces — Responsable

https://blog.usejournal.com/laravel-the-fantastic-4-interfaces-responsable-c9d0e18f05fd
Way down in the weeds with laravel: the Responsible interface.

How We Built A Logging Stack at Grab

https://engineering.grab.com/how-built-logging-stack
Another take on elastisearch

The Most Important Ingredient for True Happiness

https://medium.com/personal-growth/the-most-important-ingredient-for-true-happiness-1f3ad332dea6
Aristotle and Bowie agree.

A Guide On Laravel Relationships

https://medium.com/swlh/a-guide-on-laravel-relationships-1febfac430f6
Basic guide on laravel relationships.

We Need To Dump Our Role-based Security World!

https://medium.com/asecuritysite-when-bob-met-alice/we-need-to-dump-our-role-based-security-world-474eef9edebc
Interesting take on access control: make it part of the source data's encryption.

Spotify’s pitch to podcasters: valuable listener data

https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/13/20802018/spotify-for-podcasters-dashboard-live-beta-analytics
Spotify starts flexing its muscle in the podcast arena.

9 Web Components UI Libraries You Should Know in 2019

https://blog.bitsrc.io/9-web-component-ui-libraries-you-should-know-in-2019-9d4476c3f103
Some cool UI components that are JS library agnostic.

Last Week in AWS

https://www.lastweekinaws.com/
boiling down the news about AWS

The Top 10 Books on DevOps You Need to Read

https://dev.to/pluralsight/the-top-10-books-on-devops-you-need-to-read-45m2
best devops books

API Connector lets you access data from thousands of platforms directly within Google Sheets. No coding required!

https://mixedanalytics.com/api-connector/
Interesting, instead of making google sheets an API server, it makes Google Sheets and API client. 

We give you the foot traffic data you need to bring customers into your retail location.

https://mycountable.com/
Interesting technology for brick-and-mortar analytics.

Why You Should Try Micromastery The wellness case for learning new skills

https://elemental.medium.com/why-you-should-try-micromastery-90b080b3befa
A friend of mine reloads ammo, case in point.

Whatever tool you want to build, you can do it without code

https://www.makerpad.co/
Interesting concept, a glue-for-glues.

The Sea Was Never Blue

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-sea-was-never-blue
or maybe it was dark blue.

Sheet.Best Convert your Google SpreadSheets into APIs

https://sheet.best/#/
minimal spa

OverVue, a Vue Prototyping Tool

https://medium.com/better-programming/overvue-a-vue-prototyping-tool-f2b8a2f0c229
wireframe with Vue.js.

5 Common Mental Errors That Sway You From Making Good Decisions

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/5-common-mental-errors-that-sway-you-from-making-good-decisions
We're not as smart as we think we are. 

The Fundamental Link Between Body Weight and the Immune System

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/08/inflammations-immune-system-obesity-microbiome/595384/
Got it all, microbiome, inflammation, probiotics, etc. 

How to Be Creative

https://medium.com/the-new-york-times/how-to-be-creative-ecfca5ab7518
and 99% presperation

The Link Between Psychedelics, God Encounters, and Mental Health

https://elemental.medium.com/the-link-between-psychedelics-god-encounters-and-mental-health-87090d8a56b1
Take a step into a larger world.

The Science Behind Eureka Moments

https://elemental.medium.com/the-science-behind-eureka-moments-6729e3ce4de7
Yes, take a bath. 

Hardcore ‘sweepers’ win tons of free stuff by entering in hundreds of sweepstakes a day

https://www.dailydot.com/irl/sweepers-sweepstakes-2-girls-1-podcast/
Hardcore content entries.

How to easily convert your existing Laravel application into a Progressive Web App by using WorkBox

https://shareurcodes.com/blog/how-to-easily-convert-your-existing-laravel-application-into-a-progressive-web-app-by-using-workbox
If PWAs are the future, here's a way forward.

Livewire is a full-stack framework for Laravel that makes building dynamic front-ends as simple as writing vanilla PHP

https://livewire-framework.com/
easier than vue.js?

Kibana in the Headlights — Getting Familiar with the Elastic Stack’s Visualization Layer

https://medium.com/@llmaddox/kibana-in-the-headlights-getting-familiar-with-elks-visualization-layer-87a9af496678
Getting going with Kibana

APIs for Connected Experiences

https://www.pubnub.com/
last month they processed 1.3 trillion messages!

ICOM IC-7300

https://www.gigaparts.com/icom-ic-7300.html?gclid=Cj0KCQjwsvrpBRCsARIsAKBR_0JZV17cKaymqaUGS3e_B_sZxHORVVQVQab7BniBcNl14jTpfwPmUHoaAh3vEALw_wcB#reviews
SOTA transciever

iTerm2

https://www.iterm2.com/news.html
iterm2 for macos

The Diet That Might Cure Depression

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-diet-that-might-cure-depression
eat better, feel better. 

Essential Patterns of Vault — Part 2

https://medium.com/hashicorp-engineering/essential-patterns-of-vault-part-2-b4d34976f1dc
The mysteries of hashicorp's vault.

How To Host Your Personal Website for Free

https://medium.com/better-programming/how-to-host-your-personal-website-for-free-3101c4ab2e49
Do a website for $0 in hosting. A bit of an elaborate setup, though.

Understanding Random Forest

https://towardsdatascience.com/understanding-random-forest-58381e0602d2
interesting machine learning algorithm, but very compute-intensive.

Email marketing for less, via Amazon SES

https://emailoctopus.com/
Interesting email platform, leveraging your SES account to do the sending

Marketing Examples

https://marketingexamples.com/
Collection of marketing case studies.

15 Awesome Laravel collection methods

https://tutsforweb.com/15-laravel-collection-methods/
One of the more powerful ideas inside laravel is the collection. Here's some methods.

The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet

https://onezero.medium.com/the-dark-forest-theory-of-the-internet-7dc3e68a7cb1
The dark forest of the internet. We must be very quiet.

Beware of Facebook Groups. Long Live Communities!

https://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/beware-facebook-groups-long-live-communities
One of the main social media evangelists is backing away from some aspects of facebook. 

How the sound in your office affects your mood

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190729-how-the-sound-in-your-office-affects-your-mood
Some of the latest thinking in office psychoacoustics.

17 Ways to Improve Your SEO in 2019

https://backlinko.com/improve-your-seo
More ideas from the backlinko guys. 

Why Most People Never Get What They Want

https://medium.com/better-marketing/why-most-people-dont-get-or-keep-what-they-truly-want-5eb53303af2c
Live deliberately

Want a Happier, More Fulfilling Life? 75-Year Harvard Study Says Focus on This 1 Thing

https://medium.com/better-humans/want-a-happier-more-fulfilling-life-75-year-harvard-study-says-focus-on-this-1-thing-88cbde105983
It's not what you know, it's who you have relationships with.

Your Brain Is Secretly Wired To Resist What You Want Most

https://medium.com/@briaeliza/your-brain-is-secretly-wired-to-resist-what-you-want-most-af6ed450727e
More... always wanting more...

Can You Hack Into Your Creativity?

https://elemental.medium.com/can-you-hack-into-your-creativity-9027b9787089
Creativity - with drugs or without.

Containerize your whole Data Science Environment (or anything you want) with Docker-Compose

https://towardsdatascience.com/containerize-your-whole-data-science-environment-or-anything-you-want-with-docker-compose-e962b8ce8ce5
containers... containers everywhere...

ROAD-TRIPPING WITH THE AMAZON NOMADS

https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/10/20687434/amazon-sellers-nomad-merchants-products-malls-walmart
arbitrage on Amazon

The Simple Business Model Used to Build a $2.4 Million Business

https://www.shopify.com/blog/sheets-and-giggles-business-model
Walkthrough by an actual ecommerce startup.

Everything You Need to Know About PWAs

https://medium.com/better-programming/everything-you-need-to-know-about-pwas-8e41a7e745aa
Well maybe not EVERYTHING, but it's a good intro.

Goodbye Docker: Purging is Such Sweet Sorrow

https://zwischenzugs.com/2019/07/27/goodbye-docker-purging-is-such-sweet-sorrow/amp/
So is Podman > Docker?

How I Taught My Computer to Write Its Own Music

https://medium.com/nautilus-magazine/how-i-taught-my-computer-to-write-its-own-music-6d5804ffb7b5
AI helps music composition.

The 101 people, ideas and things changing how we work today

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20190718-the-101-people-ideas-and-things-changing-how-we-work-today
Somewhat eclectic, but thought-provoking list.

Can You Hack Into Your Creativity?

https://elemental.medium.com/can-you-hack-into-your-creativity-9027b9787089
Via psychedelics or mindfulness.

We Help Entrepreneurs Sell More, Increase Revenue and Automate Their Entire Online Business

https://paykickstart.com/
Interesting ecommerce platform designed for people doing affiliates.

Welcome to Hive. The productivity platform.

https://hive.com/
Yet another PM-productivity kind of platform.

Consciousness Began When the Gods Stopped Speaking - Nautilus - Pocket

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/consciousness-began-when-the-gods-stopped-speaking
Good review of the old bicameral mind hypothesis.

Setting up your first distributed private storage network on IPFS: Part 1

https://medium.com/towardsblockchain/setting-up-your-first-distributed-private-storage-network-on-ipfs-part-1-a6ff15222b90
Not exactly plug-and-play

This Emotional Intelligence Test Was So Accurate It Was Creepy - Fast Company - Pocket

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/this-emotional-intelligence-test-was-so-accurate-it-was-creepy
Looked it up. It's about $40.

This Chatbot has Over 660 Million Users—and It Wants to Be Their Best Friend

https://singularityhub.com/2019/07/14/this-chatbot-has-over-660-million-users-and-it-wants-to-be-their-best-friend/
Are we lonely?

Too Unique to hide

https://cpg.doc.ic.ac.uk/individual-risk/
How successfully can you be de-anonmized by your web footprint?

HTTP Security Headers - A Complete Guide

https://nullsweep.com/http-security-headers-a-complete-guide/
Good overview of HTTP security headers.

11 years ago Jon Watts was making short films on YouTube...and now he's directed the first billion dollar Spider-Man movie. What a story.

https://www.reddit.com/r/marvelstudios/comments/chtq1a/11_years_ago_jon_watts_was_making_short_films_on/
Great YouTube success story. 

Startup Aims to Tackle Grid Storage Problem With New Porous Silicon Battery

https://spectrum.ieee.org/energywise/energy/the-smarter-grid/startup-aims-to-tackle-grid-storage-problem-with-serverracksized-battery
This one popped up out of left field: a silicon storage battery. 

Tracking and analytics for phone calls and web forms

https://www.callrail.com/
Tanner's favored call center.

All-in-one Marketing Toolkit for digital marketing professionals

https://www.semrush.com/
Tanner's recommended SEO tool.

The Benefits of Playing Music Help Your Brain More Than Any Other Activity

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-benefits-of-playing-music-help-your-brain-more-than-any-other-activity
Sorry, Lumosity, this actually works. 

Where software teams do their best work.

https://clubhouse.io/
Tanner's favored project management suite.

Welcome to Open Source Aerogel

http://www.aerogel.org/
If someone could make this stuff for less than the current $1/cc, there's a bunch of applications

Object-Oriented Programming — The Trillion Dollar Disaster

https://medium.com/better-programming/object-oriented-programming-the-trillion-dollar-disaster-%EF%B8%8F-92a4b666c7c7
File this one under "unpopular opinions"

Web Application Software Stack: 2019 Edition

https://dev.to/cybermischa/web-application-software-stack-2019-edition-3c30
One outsourcer's preferred web stack. 

AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) Is Generally Available, Enhancing Coding Cloud Infrastructure

https://www.infoq.com/news/2019/07/amazon-aws-cdk-ga/
Is this AWS's answer to terraform?

How to Launch and Scale Your Tech Product on a Shoestring Budget

https://medium.com/free-code-camp/how-to-launch-and-scale-your-tech-product-on-a-shoestring-budget-3ae0247551f1
Solid advice: market first.

When It Come Down To It, Cybersecurity Is All About Understanding Risk

https://medium.com/asecuritysite-when-bob-met-alice/when-it-come-down-to-it-cybersecurity-is-all-about-understanding-risk-b24df75a22b2
Cybersecurity tends to speak of risk differently than other disciplines. 

Build Your own Data Dashboard

https://towardsdatascience.com/build-your-own-data-dashboard-93e4848a0dcf
Using python dash. Looks pretty good. 

Comprehending the ‘Comprehensions’ in Python

https://towardsdatascience.com/comprehending-the-concept-of-comprehensions-in-python-c9dafce5111
a definite python idiom I need to use more.

Scandinavian Life Philosophies For a Long, Happy, And Meaningful life

https://medium.com/personal-growth/scandinavian-life-philosophies-for-a-long-happy-and-meaningful-life-b324c2014c4b
Solid, common-sense life lessons.

Music For Everyone – powered by composers around the world

https://openmusicrevolution.com/
Royalty-free music for media

Own less, but better

https://www.lessbutbetter.app/#/products
an outgrowth of the buyItForLife subreddit.

11 Uses for Your Old Smartphone

https://www.pcmag.com/feature/351781/11-uses-for-your-old-smartphone
I've got a few of these laying around.

To Reach an Audience of Millions, Create for an Audience of One

https://medium.com/s/story/to-reach-an-audience-of-million-create-for-an-audience-of-one-4e873b4ac998
Age-old question: who is art for? the artist or the audience. Bowie's perspective.

Music Studio DIY, home studio info

https://musicstudiodiy.com/
Looks like a pretty good blog on starting and running a home studio.

22 Books That Expand Your Mind and Change The Way You Live

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/22-books-that-expand-your-mind-and-change-the-way-you-live
I've read a few of these. So many books, so little time. 

10 Blade directives that you should know

https://medium.com/@daaaan/10-blade-directives-that-you-should-know-ddac0e12756e
The blade templating system in laravel has always been a weak spot for me. Here's some help.

A Brief Peek Into the Fascinating World of Side Channel Attacks

https://medium.com/swlh/a-brief-peek-into-the-fascinating-world-of-side-channel-attacks-809f96eabea1
Historical examples of side-channel attacks, some more fleshed out than others.

Vendor-neutral APIs and instrumentation for distributed tracing

https://opentracing.io/
Interesting project for open, distributed tracing.

How Uber, Facebook, and Netflix Do SSH

https://gravitational.com/blog/how_uber_netflix_facebook_do_ssh/
It seems that larger organizations are moving from ssh keys to user certificates.

Email Marketing: The Definitive Guide

https://backlinko.com/email-marketing-guide
graphically-rich guide to email marketing and marketing automation. Take with a grain of salt, as it may not work for all industries.

Doing these five things could decrease your risk of Alzheimer's by 60 percent, new study shows

https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Doing-these-five-things-could-decrease-your-risk-14094544.php
be active physically and mentally.

The cloud skills shortage and the unemployed army of the certified

https://itnext.io/the-cloud-skills-shortage-and-the-unemployed-army-of-the-certified-bd405784cef1
too many of the wrong kind

Craft beautiful forms in seconds

https://ohmyform.com/
opensource form software

step-by-step FBA

https://garlicpressseller.com/
great blog by a guy who sells stuff on amazon.

How much money can you make on Amazon Mechanical Turk?

https://thehustle.co/making-money-on-amazon-mechanical-turk/
not much, but then again...

Charts, simple as a URL

https://www.image-charts.com/
great idea for a business: picking up an abandoned google project. 

Life Lessons From a Psychiatrist Who’s Been Listening to People’s Problems For Decades

https://medium.com/swlh/life-lessons-from-a-psychiatrist-whos-been-listening-to-people-s-problems-for-decades-18fb9f5736c1
Happiness: you get to choose

ElGamal and Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC)

https://medium.com/asecuritysite-when-bob-met-alice/elgamal-and-elliptic-curve-cryptography-ecc-8b72c3c3555e
the basics of elGamal and ecc

Top 5 Linux Distros That Are Worth Your Attention

https://www.igyaan.in/192435/top-5-linux-distros-worth-attention/amp/
most of these I've tried, though not lately.

8 secrets Vue Developers must know

https://dev.to/rolanddoda/8-secrets-vue-developers-must-know-5la
Interesting collection. Will these still work in vue 3?

Build a Responsive, Modern Dashboard Layout With CSS Grid and Flexbox

https://medium.com/better-programming/build-a-responsive-modern-dashboard-layout-with-css-grid-and-flexbox-bd343776a97e
Who needs a framework?

What is the N+1 Problem in GraphQL?

https://itnext.io/what-is-the-n-1-problem-in-graphql-dd4921cb3c1a
The inefficiencies that are possible on the SQL implementations of GraphQL

Design patterns for modern web APIs

https://blog.feathersjs.com/design-patterns-for-modern-web-apis-1f046635215
Not sure they're exactly design pattern, more like best practices.

I never understood JavaScript closures

https://medium.com/dailyjs/i-never-understood-javascript-closures-9663703368e8
One of the better explanations of closures I've seen.

Amazon EventBridge: The biggest thing since AWS Lambda itself

https://www.trek10.com/blog/amazon-eventbridge/
Looks like eventbridge fixes most of the problems of their other pub/sub offerings.

10 Laravel Helpers That You Should Know

https://medium.com/swlh/10-laravel-helpers-that-you-should-know-9edbb78c2b0a
Good basics of Laravel Helpers

10 Eloquent Features That You Might Not Know About

https://medium.com/swlh/10-eloquent-features-that-you-might-not-know-about-75d8221d4adc
some very nice methods.

RIP Test Driven Development

https://medium.com/better-programming/rip-tdd-or-are-we-just-thinking-about-it-wrong-32ef36b9c5
Too much of a good thing?

A newbies guide to ELK – Part 3 – Logstash Structure & Conditionals

https://blog.mwpreston.net/2018/01/04/a-newbies-guide-to-elk-part-4-logstash-conditionals/
good 4 part series, wished for more though.

5 Logstash Alternatives

https://sematext.com/blog/logstash-alternatives/
Pros and cons of each.

Psalm 46 and Shakespeare

https://medium.com/asecuritysite-when-bob-met-alice/psalm-46-and-shakespeare-dd26e2e0fe4a
Hiding in plain sight.

Why I no longer use D3.js

https://medium.com/@PepsRyuu/why-i-no-longer-use-d3-js-b8288f306c9a
I've never been a big D3 fan, either.

Will It Sous-Vide

https://lifehacker.com/c/will-it-sous-vide
From lifehacker

21 Rhetorical Devices Explained

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/21-rhetorical-devices-explained
I didn't know any of these names!

The Return of Handwriting

https://medium.com/s/story/the-return-of-handwriting-8a6e388bd72d
As has been said before: the way to counter high-tech is high-touch.

How Peerspace doubled signups by personalizing landing pages with Segment and Mutiny

https://segment.com/blog/how-peerspace-doubled-signups-by-personalizing-landing-pages-with-segment-and-mutiny/
TL;DR: personalize.

Keeping Credentials Secure in PHP

https://dev.to/enygma/keeping-credentials-secure-in-php-1mgo
One word: Don't. Just access them.

qutebrowser is a keyboard-focused browser with a minimal GUI.

https://www.qutebrowser.org/
For the programmer.

3 Great Additions for your Jupyter Notebooks

https://towardsdatascience.com/three-great-additions-for-your-jupyter-notebooks-cd7373b00e96
From the trenches.

If You Thought Quantum Mechanics Was Weird, You Need to Check Out Entangled Time

https://www.sciencealert.com/if-you-thought-quantum-mechanics-was-weird-wait-til-you-check-out-entangled-time
This will bend your mind for sure.

7 things you need to know to get the most out of your Laravel Model

https://itnext.io/7-things-you-need-to-know-to-get-the-most-out-of-your-laravel-model-4f915acbb47c
Fairly basic stuff here. 

Zoom Zero Day: 4+ Million Webcams & maybe an RCE? Just get them to visit your website!

https://medium.com/@jonathan.leitschuh/zoom-zero-day-4-million-webcams-maybe-an-rce-just-get-them-to-visit-your-website-ac75c83f4ef5
Interesting case study in vulnerability finding and disclosure.

PINE64

https://www.pine64.org/
Because the raspberry PI isn't the only opensource SBC out there.

The Future of Websites: Headless CMSs

https://scotch.io/bar-talk/the-future-of-websites-headless-cmss/amp
Is headless the future of CMS? Probably.

7 SEO Analysis Tools You Need to Know About

https://www.business2community.com/seo/7-seo-analysis-tools-you-need-to-know-about-02216310/amp
It's a cutthroat world of SEO out there. Here's some knives.

Amazon sells a $19,000 do-it-yourself tiny-home kit that takes only 2 days to build — here's what it looks like inside

https://amp.businessinsider.com/amazon-tiny-home-kit-allwood-getaway-cabin-loft-2019-7
cabins or tiny houses from amazon?

Building a reporting service in Microservice architecture

https://medium.com/@muneeb.ahmed20/building-a-reporting-service-in-microservice-architecture-8d5bf3b90fb7
So how do you do cross-microservice reporting?

JupyterLab — A Next Gen Python Data Science IDE

https://towardsdatascience.com/jupyterlab-a-next-gen-python-data-science-ide-562d216b023d
You all know Jupyter notebooks, now comes Jyputer labs

The Micro Ambassador Program That Grew Revenue 6x in One Year

https://www.shopify.com/blog/euphoric-herbals-micro-ambassadors
Ambassador programs don't get enough buzz.

Vue Dashboard - Open-Source and Free

https://dev.to/sm0ke/vue-dashboard-open-source-apps-1gd1
3 good vue.js based data dashboard setups.

Audio Judgement is pretty much a blog about audio.

http://audiojudgement.com/
Good blog, just wish for more entries.

The best way to chat with everyone you know

https://groupme.com/en-US/
The younger generation's preferred chat over Slack.

Cold Email Outreach and Sales for Profit – The Definitive Guide To Growing Your Business

https://inspiremelabs.com/cold-email-outreach-guide/
wish I had this a while back. Getting the email addresses are the issue.

The Cognitive Biases Tricking Your Brain

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-cognitive-biases-tricking-your-brain
not an exhaustive list, but some good insights.

Python Pro Tip: Start using Python defaultdict and Counter in place of dictionary

https://towardsdatascience.com/python-pro-tip-start-using-python-defaultdict-and-counter-in-place-of-dictionary-d1922513f747
I've learned something new: counter.

14 of the Best LinkedIn Tools to Improve Your LinkedIn Marketing

https://artplusmarketing.com/14-of-the-best-linkedin-tools-to-improve-your-linkedin-marketing-8beb67a4100f
Yes, some people do well marketing on LinkedIn.

Endless AI-generated spam risks clogging up Google’s search results

https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/2/19063562/ai-text-generation-spam-marketing-seo-fractl-grover-google
You really think Google's not smart enough to figure out that this is junk? When people start bouncing off these pages it'll be obvious.

Inside the conflict at Walmart that’s threatening its high-stakes race with Amazon

https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/7/3/18716431/walmart-jet-marc-lore-modcloth-amazon-ecommerce-losses-online-sales
No, it's not that easy to compete with Amazon. Maybe paying hundreds of millions for online fashion brands wasn't smart.

A deeply customizable form and survey kit for your app

https://tripetto.com/
higher-end web form/survey tool: higher-end than surveymonkey? Wish they had pricing.

moz://a SSL Configuration Generator

https://ssl-config.mozilla.org/#server=nginx&server-version=1.17.0&config=intermediate
Interesting uber-geeky SSL/TLS config tool for various web servers

Slow Server? This is the Flow Chart You're Looking For

https://scoutapm.com/blog/slow_server_flow_chart
Old, but still solid flowchart on diagnosing a slow server.

AI-based writing assistant for any purpose

https://linguix.com/
Freemium AI-driven replacement for grammarly?

What’s So Funny? The Science of Why We Laugh

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/whats-so-funny-the-science-of-why-we-laugh/
We still don't know.

The Yale Happiness Class, Distilled

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2019/06/yale-happiness-class/592477/
first step: be grateful. 

GA Performance Reporting Dashboard

http://analyticalmarketer.io/ga-performance-reporting-dashbaord/
I'm not exactly sure what this has over Google Studio, but OK. 

Systeme.io is designed for entrepreneurs and small business owners looking to sell their product online with NO Technical Knowledge

https://systeme.io/
Interesting startup that caters to other startups, especially those with non-technical founders.

The Power of One Push-Up

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/06/push-ups-body-weight-bmi/592834
There may be lots of better and easier ways to evaluate health. 

Alpha Delta Parallel Dipole Antennas DX-EE

https://www.dxengineering.com/parts/alf-dx-ee
looks like a good starter dipole

Svelte is the most beautiful web framework I've ever seen jesseskinner profile image Jesse Skinner Jun 29 ・2 min read

https://dev.to/jesseskinner/svelte-is-the-most-beautiful-web-framework-i-ve-ever-seen-325f
Interesting new javascript framework: Svelte that's actually a build-time framework/compiler.

The 4 Best Full Range Speakers – Driver Reviews 2019

https://www.songsimian.com/best-full-range-speakers-driver-review/
interesting that the venerable fostex 126 isn't on the list.

Smoked Pork Belly

https://saltpepperskillet.com/recipes/smoked-pork-belly/
simple pork belly

How to Use User Behavior Analytics to Increase Your Conversions: 5 Tips

https://www.searchenginejournal.com/user-behavior-analytics-increase-conversions/304955/amp/
How to reduce bounce rate, improve user experience.

How to build a passive crossover network

http://audiojudgement.com/build-passive-crossover/
Hands-on for building a crossover. mostly mechanical.

We made $1,052,000 in 2018 selling UI Tools. Here is what we learned.

https://medium.com/free-code-camp/we-made-1-052-000-in-2018-selling-ui-tools-here-is-what-we-learned-38920d86a296
excellent first-hand case study of growth hacking a software component.

Gumroad helps creators do more of what they love.

https://gumroad.com/
Interesting e-commerce platform.

Microservices Architecture - problems you will have to solve

https://medium.com/@justinamiller_1857/microservices-architecture-problems-you-will-have-to-solve-4153cfbde713
yes, you need centralized logging.