The easy way to work with CSV, JSON, and XML in Python

https://towardsdatascience.com/the-easy-way-to-work-with-csv-json-and-xml-in-python-5056f9325ca9
No, not with the same library.

A Crash Course in Everything Cryptographic

https://medium.com/@lduck11007/a-crash-course-in-everything-cryptographic-50daa0fda482
A bit of crypto with actual math.

8 Signs of a Successful Life That Have Nothing to Do With Money or Fame

https://theascent.pub/8-signs-of-a-successful-life-that-have-nothing-to-do-with-money-or-fame-4e55b35b22dc
It's not about money. 

Statistics and monitoring of PHP scripts in real time. ClickHouse and Grafana go to Pinba for help

https://habr.com/en/post/449818/
a real-time window into php programs.

After 41 years, Bob and Alice are still going strong

https://medium.com/asecuritysite-when-bob-met-alice/after-41-years-bob-and-alice-are-still-going-strong-9f70a70c156f
What started it all: the RSA algorithm.

Why GraphQL is the future of APIs

https://medium.freecodecamp.org/why-graphql-is-the-future-of-apis-6a900fb0bc81
gentle intro to GraphQL

headlight-on reminder NOT working

https://dodgeforum.com/forum/1st-gen-dakota-tech/207942-headlight-on-reminder-not-working.html
warning buzzer switch

Meet Feren OS, a modern Operating System built for the user

https://ferenos.weebly.com/
Interesting spinoff of Mint

HOW THIS ONE FONT TOOK OVER THE WORLD

https://theoutline.com/post/7356/gotham-font-is-everywhere?zd=1&zi=zum5likv
Not a big fan of Gotham, but it's everywhere.

Take 10 minutes to get started with Handlebars

https://medium.freecodecamp.org/take-10-minutes-to-get-started-with-handlebars-298632ed82ab
Good intro to the lightweight Handlebars JavaScript library

Principles and Techniques of Data Science

https://www.textbook.ds100.org/
Actual datascience text from UC Berkeley

5 Advanced Features of Python and How to Use Them

https://towardsdatascience.com/5-advanced-features-of-python-and-how-to-use-them-73bffa373c84
more python

Gentle Dive into Math Behind Convolutional Neural Networks

https://towardsdatascience.com/gentle-dive-into-math-behind-convolutional-neural-networks-79a07dd44cf9
More linear math than most people would like, I'm afraid.

How to set up an easy and secure reverse proxy with Docker, Nginx & Letsencrypt

https://medium.freecodecamp.org/docker-nginx-letsencrypt-easy-secure-reverse-proxy-40165ba3aee2
Wish they'd used a standard webserver, rather than a plex server.

An inside look at how credential stuffing operations work

https://www.zdnet.com/article/an-inside-look-at-how-credential-stuffing-operations-work
How a credential stuffing attack works.

MuseNet

https://openai.com/blog/musenet/?fbclid=IwAR3QfthZkM12VwPoAklawFrCb-K6nN_qAkbA3AU0PpFzX4MwzIF0B69sfSI
Latest Music AI does a pretty convincing job.

Luminary has launched. Is the latest “Netflix for podcasts” worth it?

https://www.fastcompany.com/90338534/luminary-has-launched-is-the-latest-netflix-for-podcasts-worth-it
Hmmmm. A "netflix for podcasts"? will it work?

Helvetica, The Iconic Font Both Loved And Loathed, Gets Its 1st Redesign In 36 Years

https://www.npr.org/2019/04/20/715499199/helvetica-the-iconic-font-both-loved-and-scorned-gets-its-1st-redesign-in-36-yea
Helvetica Now! now it's actually a body font as well.

SMOBOT is a patented robotic damper system

https://www.smobot.com/
automatic temperature control for ceramic grills

How to Be Productive, According to Ancient Philosophy

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-to-be-productive-according-to-ancient-philosophy
Hint: do more by doing less.

Why Should We Use NumPy?

https://medium.com/fintechexplained/why-should-we-use-numpy-c14a4fb03ee9
Gentle introduction to some of what numpy can do. 

Jump Out of the Jupyter Notebook with nbconvert

https://towardsdatascience.com/jump-out-of-the-jupyter-notebook-with-nbconvert-7d4748960702

A good start at productionizing stuff in your Jupyter notebook.

5 Easy Steps to Understanding JSON Web Tokens (JWT)

https://medium.com/vandium-software/5-easy-steps-to-understanding-json-web-tokens-jwt-1164c0adfcec
as good an intro to JWT as I've ever seen. Well done!

CNC Carving – 5 Great CNC Machines to Carve Wood

https://m.all3dp.com/2/cnc-carving-great-cnc-machines-to-carve-wood/
cnc carving machines.

The Ultimate Guide for Creating Laravel Ajax CRUD Applications

https://www.reddit.com/r/laravel/comments/bfcnfy/the_ultimate_guide_for_creating_laravel_ajax_crud/
demo, tutorial and github

Inside The World Of Stay-At-Home Moms Who Blog For Profit

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kathrynjezermorton/stay-at-home-mom-blogs-mommy-blogging-printables-shopify
old-school mommyblogging

JEOPARDY! LEGEND KEN JENNINGS ON JAMES HOLZHAUER: 'IT'S ABSOLUTELY INSANE'

https://www.wired.com/story/ken-jennings-james-holzhauer-jeopardy/
Why is the complete article showing up?

For Devs … “Go” Seal and Open The Box

https://medium.com/asecuritysite-when-bob-met-alice/for-devs-go-seal-and-open-the-box-f6f13c20cccc
Illustration of basic crypto functions using Go and the Box library.

Bear CMS

https://bearcms.com/
The latest no-software CMS for static sites.

Statisticians want to abandon science’s standard measure of ‘significance’

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/statisticians-standard-measure-significance-p-values
Is this just a reaction against "p hacking"? What should the new standard be?

Here’s How Amazon’s Alexa Hooks You

https://medium.com/@nireyal/heres-how-amazon-s-alexa-hooks-you-79fe3bc8b2f4
Good piece about the 4 steps of getting hooked, with Alexa as an example.

Jupyter Superpower — Interactive Visualization Combo with Python

https://towardsdatascience.com/jupyter-superpower-interactive-visualization-combo-with-python-ffc0adb37b7b
Who know Jupyter notebooks could be mouseable?

5 Essential Cybersecurity Best Practices to Follow as a Remote Employee

https://medium.com/forbes/5-essential-cybersecurity-best-practices-to-follow-as-a-remote-employee-8cbc03e8cd7f
Good, basic info.

Which Deep Learning Framework is Growing Fastest?

https://towardsdatascience.com/which-deep-learning-framework-is-growing-fastest-3f77f14aa318
Seems like Tensorflow is edging out PySpark these days.

The Minimum Viable Product, explained.

https://medium.freecodecamp.org/the-minimum-viable-product-explained-8f1187ca7cec
Yeah, a lot of people really don't get the MVP.

Space Cloud β : Instant Realtime APIs on Any Database

https://spaceuptech.com/
Interesting opensource project to give access to databases via APIs

How to Setup a Python Environment for Machine Learning

https://towardsdatascience.com/how-to-setup-a-python-environment-for-machine-learning-354d6c29a264
Good howto from python install, to virtual environment, libraries, etc.

Essential Math for Data Science

https://medium.com/s/story/essential-math-for-data-science-why-and-how-e88271367fbd
Doesn't actually teach you math, just teaches you the math you need to learn.

Neglected side projects for less than $1000.

https://1kprojects.com/
Another "why didn't I think of this" site.

The Unsung Heroes of Modern Software Development

https://towardsdatascience.com/the-unsung-heroes-of-modern-software-development-561fc4cb6850
I know the projects, just didn't know all the organizations behind them.

Laravel Greatest Trick Revealed: Magic Methods

https://dev.to/stvnyung/laravel-greatest-trick-revealed-magic-methods-31om
Never seen a comprehensive article about Laravel Magic Methods till now. 

A doc as powerful as an app.

https://coda.io/welcome
A strange online web form/app builder we'll see. At least they have an API.

Developer Survey Results 2019

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019
It's that time of year again, the stackoverflow developer survey results.

Which AWS Technology Should You Use for Your Open Source Database?

https://thenewstack.io/which-aws-technology-should-you-use-for-your-open-source-database/
pros and cons of various AWS database services

Orchestrating backend services with AWS Step Functions

https://medium.com/engineering-zemoso/orchestrating-backend-services-with-aws-step-functions-8648c90e5a57
State machines, anyone? or relay ladder logic?

A RealWorld Comparison of Front-End Frameworks with Benchmarks (2019 update)

https://medium.freecodecamp.org/a-realworld-comparison-of-front-end-frameworks-with-benchmarks-2019-update-4be0d3c78075
Lots of benchmarks of front-end javascript frameworks.

JSON API, OpenAPI and JSON Schema Working in Harmony

https://blog.apisyouwonthate.com/json-api-openapi-and-json-schema-working-in-harmony-ad4175f4ff84

Various shades of JSON API standards

Email and Internet Marketing Blog

https://sendpulse.com/blog
One of the better blogs about email marketing.

9 Things You Should Know About TensorFlow

https://hackernoon.com/9-things-you-should-know-about-tensorflow-9cf0a05e4995
Mixed bag of Tensorflow info.

The Mathematics of (Hacking) Passwords

https://medium.com/scientific-american/the-mathematics-of-hacking-passwords-82a45d7e9d0f
Not quite up to the latest algorithms like Argon2, but a good start.

The 5 Basic Statistics Concepts Data Scientists Need to Know

https://towardsdatascience.com/the-5-basic-statistics-concepts-data-scientists-need-to-know-2c96740377ae
Not quite the Statistics 101 we grew up with, but for modern times.

The Psychology of Writing and the Cognitive Science of the Perfect Daily Routine

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-psychology-of-writing-and-the-cognitive-science-of-the-perfect-daily-routine
Evidence for routine and environment.

Why You Don’t Need to Make an App: A Guide for Startups Who Want to Make an App

https://medium.com/forbes/why-you-dont-need-to-make-an-app-a-guide-for-startups-who-want-to-make-an-app-595d0ecb3672
Been trying to tell clients this for years.

https://medium.com/@barmstrong/ideas-on-how-to-improve-scientific-research-9e2e56474132

https://medium.com/@barmstrong/ideas-on-how-to-improve-scientific-research-9e2e56474132
It's high time for the wikificaiton of basic research.

5 Ways to Detect Outliers/Anomalies That Every Data Scientist Should Know (Python Code)

https://towardsdatascience.com/5-ways-to-detect-outliers-that-every-data-scientist-should-know-python-code-70a54335a623
Some visuals of outliers and how to spot them. 

China wants to ban bitcoin mining

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-cryptocurrency/china-says-it-wants-to-eliminate-bitcoin-mining-idUSKCN1RL0C4
Sustainable business model?

StaticGen A List of Static Site Generators for JAMstack Sites

https://www.staticgen.com/
How many static site generators are there?!?

Automate Schedule Enterprise Job Scheduler Powerful workload automation for centralized job scheduling

https://www.helpsystems.com/products/automate-schedule
high-priced cron replacement.

Easy Proxy Rotation for Large Scale Web Scraping Scraper API handles proxies, browsers, and CAPTCHAs for you, so you can get the HTML from any web page with an API call. Instantly turn any website into an API!

https://www.scraperapi.com/
Looks to be a very sophisticated screen-scraping outfit.

5 Quick and Easy Data Visualizations in Python with Code

https://morioh.com/p/3a7049d767f0/5-quick-and-easy-data-visualizations-in-python-with-code
Good walkthrough of how to pick a visualization.

top-paying cloud certifications for 2019

https://info.acloud.guru/resources/what-are-top-paying-cloud-certifications-for-2019
Interesting survey, Silicon Valley probably skews the results.

Machine Learning with Big Data

https://towardsdatascience.com/machine-learning-with-big-data-86bcb39f2f0b
Kind of mis-named article. Mostly about containers and Kubernetes.

Tastemaking: 2019 Design Trends

https://medium.com/ux-power-tools/tastemaking-2019-design-trends-4ef4ea06d00d
The trend for 2019 is warm, personal. 

We found a massive spam operation — and sunk its server

https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/02/inside-a-spam-operation
inside look at a spammer. pretty sophisticated stuff. 

Everything About Python — Beginner To Advanced

https://medium.com/fintechexplained/everything-about-python-from-beginner-to-advance-level-227d52ef32d2
Well, maybe not quite everything. Some examples could be better.

Learn to learn better: four ways to improve your retention

https://medium.com/swlh/learn-to-learn-better-four-ways-to-improve-your-retention-92c7788c9cd5
Steps of how to learn better.

Hands on with Publii, a Free Static CMS Generating HTML Sites

https://snipcart.com/blog/publii-static-cms-html
Great walk-through of building an ecommerce site from a static html site.

Did You Know Pandas Can Do So Much?

https://medium.com/fintechexplained/did-you-know-pandas-can-do-so-much-f65dc7db3051
Some of the highlights of Python Pandas.

9 Podcast Interview Questions to Use + 5 Steps to Come Up With Yours

https://designyourthinking.com/podcast-interview-questions/
Thought-provoking questions for podcast interviews.

Hidden Markov Model For Insider Threat Detection

https://medium.com/asecuritysite-when-bob-met-alice/hidden-markov-model-for-insider-threat-detection-97a9a187ae6f
Never encountered hidden Markov chains before.

How The Big Five Tech Companies Make Their Money, Visualized

http://digg.com/2019/tech-companies-main-revenue-stream-data-visualization
Surprisingly, Microsoft has one of the most diversified revenue streams.

15 Git Commands You May Not Know

https://dev.to/zaiste/15-git-commands-you-may-not-know-4a8j
Off the beaten path in git.

The Logic of Risk Taking

https://medium.com/incerto/the-logic-of-risk-taking-107bf41029d3
When the stochastic theorem doesn't apply. Rule #1: stay alive.

Hoping to Spur ‘Learning Engineering,’ Carnegie Mellon Will Open-Source Its Digital-Learning Software

https://www.edsurge.com/news/2019-03-27-hoping-to-spur-learning-engineering-carnegie-mellon-will-open-source-its-digital-learning-software
CMU will be open-sourcing its e-learning software. What's it written in?

Editor.js Next generation block styled editor. Free. Use for pleasure.

https://editorjs.io/
Interesting on-page javascript editor.