Compute Module 3+ on sale now from $25

https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/compute-module-3-on-sale-now-from-25
interesting form factor for raspberry pi

Design, Train & Share AI Models from your browser

https://beta.aifiddle.io/
browser-based AI sandbox, like jsfiddle.

Logging Activity With The Web Beacon API

https://medium.com/@smashingmag/logging-activity-with-the-web-beacon-api-409e0596c669
lightweightjavascript logging library

The Rise of “No Code”

https://medium.com/@rrhoover/the-rise-of-no-code-e733d7c0944d
point and click, drag and drop, no code

Note Taking Apps Showdown: Google Keep vs. Evernote

https://zapier.com/blog/google-keep-vs-evernote/
Sure with google keep had an API.

How to Stay Fit Forever: 25 Tips When Life Gets in the Way

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-to-stay-fit-forever-25-tips-when-life-gets-in-the-way
Staying fit

Your Ability to Focus Has Probably Peaked: Here’s How to Stay Sharp

https://betterhumans.coach.me/your-ability-to-focus-has-probably-peaked-heres-how-to-stay-sharp-c0cba04fac40
How to stay sharp: unclutter and keep active.

The Top 10 Skills People Want to Learn in 2019 and How to Learn Them

https://medium.com/swlh/the-top-10-skills-people-want-to-learn-in-2019-and-how-to-learn-them-a37ce262bcd2
What folks want to learn and how to learn it online.

Where Amazon Returns Go to Be Resold by Hustlers

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/01/where-amazon-returns-go-to-be-resold-by-hustlers/580363/
Just what I need: a pallet of random power tools.

The 6 most useful Machine Learning projects of the past year (2018)

https://towardsdatascience.com/the-10-most-useful-machine-learning-projects-of-the-past-year-2018-5378bbd4919f
The latest in machine learning.

The 100 Best Pens, As Tested by Strategist Editors Gels, ballpoints, rollerballs, felt-tips, and fountain pens — we tried them all.

http://nymag.com/strategist/article/best-pens-gel-ballpoint-rollerball-felt-fountain.html
I think I know what I want for my birthday now.

Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2018

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-stats-for-2018/
The Backblaze folks are back with their periodic hard disk reports.

Build tagging with vue-multiselect and Laravel Tags

https://medium.com/employbl/build-tagging-with-vue-multiselect-and-laravel-tags-960c260df438
Using vue.js multitags with laravel, and a little magic.

Pixel Mob - Free photos

https://pixelmob.co/
A royalty-free stock image site. Licensing isn't immediately apparent.

The Five Hottest New Apps For Freelancers

https://www.entrepreneur.com/slideshow/323029
Some I've seen before, some are new.

Monorepo: please do!

https://medium.com/@adamhjk/monorepo-please-do-3657e08a4b70
I dunno. Deploying microservices via monorepo seems wrong.

Did a Publisher Just Build the Future of Retail?

https://medium.com/s/story/did-a-publisher-just-build-the-future-of-retail-b8da87d2c1fb
or is this just a niche?

The Next Level of Data Visualization in Python

https://towardsdatascience.com/the-next-level-of-data-visualization-in-python-dd6e99039d5e
Plotly > matplotlib

The ‘Stuff You Should Know’ podcast has been downloaded 1 billion times

https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/18/stuff-you-should-know-billion-downloads/
Love these guys

Inside the Strange Yet Profitable World of Retail Arbitrage

https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/inside-the-strange-yet-profitable-world-of-retail-arbitrage
Buy low, sell high. Local vs. online.

How To Find Hidden Cameras & Spy Gear Like a Professional: The Definitive Guide

https://www.senteltechsecurity.com/blog/post/how-to-find-hidden-cameras/
Surprisingly good piece about scanning for hidden surveillance devices.

Most Personality Quizzes Are Junk Science. Take One That Isn’t.

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/personality-quiz/
Yes, the Big 5 are generally agreed upon.

14 Timeless Pieces of Advice for Living Your Best Life No Matter What Happens

https://medium.com/swlh/14-timeless-pieces-of-advice-for-living-your-best-life-no-matter-what-happens-96698d4d8e9e
From the great stoic Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

Goodbye (Mostly) to Moodle: Hello Open, And Goodbye to Closed

https://medium.com/asecuritysite-when-bob-met-alice/goodbye-mostly-to-moodle-hello-open-and-goodbye-to-closed-45e41dcbffe8
Interesting flip/flop on open/closed. But I do get it. Blackboard/Moodle/Canvas are all stuck in the past, and are clumsy, clunky products.

The Benefits of Optimism Are Real

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-benefits-of-optimism-are-real
Always look on the bright side of life.

8 Productivity Tips for GitHub

https://dev.to/_darrenburns/8-productivity-tips-for-github-44kn
Not Git, GitHub.

In the Shadow of the CMS

https://www.thenation.com/article/content-management-system-essay-wordpress-drupal-internet-feature/
So is the pendulum swinging back to proprietary CMSs?

The Most In-Demand JavaScript Frameworks for Developers in 2019

https://blog.bitsrc.io/the-most-in-demand-javascript-frameworks-for-developers-in-2019-39bba192d8dc
Good to see vue.js getting noticed.

Lies You’ve Been Told About Podcasting

https://medium.com/s/story/all-the-lies-youve-been-told-about-podcasting-eb5271746677
An attempt at making sense of the current podcasting landscape.

Remember the $86 million license plate scanner I replicated? I caught someone with it.

https://medium.freecodecamp.org/remember-that-86-million-license-plate-scanner-i-replicated-heres-what-happened-next-9f3c64e8f22b
Followup on writing a license plate scanner

These 6 Types of Music Are Known to Dramatically Improve Productivity

https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/325492
I suppose Smooth Jazz falls under category #6

50 Ways To Live On Your Own Terms

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/50-ways-to-live-on-your-own-terms
Most of these I agree with, but Cold Showers?!?

Inside the Raspberry Pi: The story of the $35 computer that changed the world

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/inside-the-raspberry-pi-the-story-of-the-35-computer-that-changed-the-world/
Cool look at the guys who made the RPI and the business/technical process.

We already know blockchain’s killer apps

https://hackernoon.com/we-already-know-blockchains-killer-apps-f2d443eba35
I've long thought that the blockchain's killer app is micropayments.

Data Mining Reveals Fundamental Pattern of Human Thinking

https://medium.com/mit-technology-review/data-mining-reveals-fundamental-pattern-of-human-thinking-7fc1d5e1d8b
Interesting... Frequency vs rank of words isn't a strict hyperbola as we'd been taught. Think: fast and slow

The Power of Purpose and Meaning in Life

https://www.psychologytoday.com/au/blog/brain-waves/201901/the-power-purpose-and-meaning-in-life
The purpose and meaning in life.

How Etsy Sellers and Big Business Make Money on Public Domain Art

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/a3mmxg/how-etsy-sellers-and-big-business-make-money-on-public-domain-art
Is curating and printing public domain art a viable business?

These Are The Five Lessons That Changed My Life This Year

https://medium.com/swlh/these-are-the-five-lessons-that-changed-my-life-this-year-491112bc8c37
There is no wagon.

How to Easily Build Desktop Apps with HTML, CSS and Javascript

https://medium.freecodecamp.org/how-to-easily-build-desktop-apps-with-html-css-and-javascript-d3e3f03f95a5
Interesting intro to Electron: turning web pages into desktop apps.

The Architecture and History of Git: A Distributed Version Control System

https://medium.com/@willhayjr/the-architecture-and-history-of-git-a-distributed-version-control-system-62b17dd37742
The background and structure of Git.

Stop Calling Your APIs Microservices

https://blog.stoplight.io/stop-calling-your-apis-microservices-e165a80eba9d
Not quite sure I agree with his interpretations.

Age against the machine: the secret to enjoying a long life

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/jan/03/age-against-the-machine-secret-enjoying-long-life-carl-honore
stay active, healthy and curious.

Don’t have 10,000 hours to learn something new? That’s fine — all you need is 20 hours

https://ideas.ted.com/dont-have-10000-hours-to-learn-something-new-thats-fine-all-you-need-is-20-hours/
How to make a dent in a new skill in ~20 hours.

How to Download the Books That Just Entered the Public Domain

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/qvq99b/how-to-download-the-books-that-just-entered-the-public-domain
A lot of works just went into the public domain. Here's where to get them.

WonderCMS transfer websites easily

https://www.wondercms.com/
A cms in 5 files?

Open Source Business Models Considered Harmful

https://medium.com/@johnmark/open-source-business-models-considered-harmful-2e697256b1e3
Good point here: focus on delivering value, not squeezing money out of the user base.

6 Popular CSS Frameworks to Use in 2019

https://scotch.io/bar-talk/6-popular-css-frameworks-to-use-in-2019/amp
Some of the usual suspects: Bootstrap, Foundation, but some new ones as well.

How Netflix works: the (hugely simplified) complex stuff that happens every time you hit Play

https://medium.com/refraction-tech-everything/how-netflix-works-the-hugely-simplified-complex-stuff-that-happens-every-time-you-hit-play-3a40c9be254b
Behind-the-scenes of Netflix.

Why the Guardian is using encrypted EC2 root volumes on AWS

https://amp.theguardian.com/info/2018/mar/12/why-the-guardian-is-using-encrypted-ec2-root-volumes-on-aws
Using encrypted EC2 root volumes: harder than you'd think it would be.

The 10 Best Journaling Apps for 2019

https://zapier.com/blog/best-journaling-apps/
Not exactly sure the difference between journaling and blogging.

Jerry Hargrove - Cloud Diagrams & Notes

https://www.awsgeek.com/
Drawings of AWS services, with varying degrees of success.

RECONSIDER

https://m.signalvnoise.com/reconsider-41adf356857f
The founder of Basecamp encouraging us to re-think our assumptions.

How to Lose Tens of Thousands of Dollars on Amazon

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/01/men-peddling-secrets-getting-rich-amazon/578443/
Selling Chinese stuff on Amazon, not as easy as you'd think.

Getting Started With Machine Learning

https://medium.com/@smashingmag/getting-started-with-machine-learning-8de782b84c18
Yet another intro to machine learning

Here’s why telephones and calculators use different numeric keypads

https://thenextweb.com/syndication/2018/12/31/heres-why-telephones-and-calculators-use-different-numeric-keypads/
Good historical UI study

basic probability

https://seeing-theory.brown.edu/basic-probability/index.html#section1
Really stunning visualizations about basic probability theory

Serverless PHP on AWS Lambda

https://akrabat.com/serverless-php-on-aws-lambda/
At last! language-neutral lambdas, so PHP isn't a 2nd-class citizen any more.

DIY RC 132 subscribers moodlite.co.uk 3D printed LED nanoleaf clone

https://moodlite.co.uk/
interesting opensource hardware/software/3d-printing project