Zdog Round, flat, designer-friendly pseudo-3D engine for canvas & SVG

https://zzz.dog/
pretty nifty pseudo 3d modeling kit for javascript.

How to use Pandas the RIGHT way to speed up your code

https://towardsdatascience.com/how-to-use-pandas-the-right-way-to-speed-up-your-code-4a19bd89926d
let it loop and clean as it goes.

A People Map of the US, where city names are replaced by their most Wikipedia’ed resident: people born in, lived in, or connected to a place.

https://pudding.cool/2019/05/people-map/
Richard B. Russel Jr. where I live.

3 simple ways to handle large data with Pandas

https://towardsdatascience.com/3-simple-ways-to-handle-large-data-with-pandas-d9164a3c02c1
chunked, dropped and schemaed.

Parents are spending thousands on YouTube camps that teach kids how to be famous

https://www.dailydot.com/upstream/youtube-camps/
There's something seriously wrong here.

High Level Overview of Apache Spark

https://hackernoon.com/high-level-overview-of-apache-spark-c225a0a162e9
Block-diagram view of Spark.

I Have 15 ideas To Change Your Life. Do you Have 5 Minutes?

https://medium.com/swlh/i-have-15-ideas-to-change-your-life-do-you-have-5-minutes-4c29bc386239
Life lessons we learn too late.

tiptap – a renderless rich-text editor for Vue.js

https://tiptap.scrumpy.io/
Kinda like tinyMCE, but for vue.

The Klipsch Audio Community

https://community.klipsch.com/
Klipsch has community forums. Who knew?

Managing state in Vue.js with Vuex

https://medium.com/@daaaan/managing-state-in-vue-js-with-vuex-f036fd71f432
vuex for managing state

Top Programming Languages to Learn in 2019

https://levelup.gitconnected.com/top-programming-languages-to-learn-in-2019-e1cad7ced3fb
Some of the old-guard like Java are fading.

A Great Guide to Audio Interfaces

https://musicstudiodiy.com/best-audio-interfaces-guide-home-studios/
So how DO you connect a microphone to a computer?

A First Antenna For HF Use

https://stationproject.blog/2013/10/07/a-first-antenna-for-hf-use/
interesting setup of a commercial antenna

How Far Out is AWS Fargate?

https://read.iopipe.com/how-far-out-is-aws-fargate-a2409d2f9bc7
An argument that AWS fargate is closer to lambda than kubernetes.

Build a side project, build an empire Startup — without quitting your day job

https://medium.com/swlh/build-a-side-project-build-an-empire-d3ffa211589c
Advice on sidehustles from the founder of jotform.com

Online Form Builder Easily create online forms.

https://www.jotform.com/
Kinda similar to wufoo

Bring your Jupyter Notebook to life with interactive widgets

https://towardsdatascience.com/bring-your-jupyter-notebook-to-life-with-interactive-widgets-bc12e03f0916
Not many people use interactive widgets in jupyter notebooks, as there's not much documentation. Here's a start.

The Ultimate Guide to Becoming a Great Designer (Part 2 of 3)

https://modus.medium.com/the-ultimate-guide-to-becoming-a-great-designer-part-2-of-3-9d79f8f30703
After the basics, it's mostly about tools and workflows.

15 Simple Ways to Become Happier and More Successful

https://medium.com/mind-cafe/15-simple-ways-to-become-happier-and-more-successful-fb46d20b9982
Basic lessons

My Favorite Data Visualization and Dataset Resources

https://dev.to/aspittel/my-favorite-data-visualization-and-dataset-resources-35kp
Short and sweet list.

Launching Today: Free Wolfram Engine for Developers

https://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2019/05/launching-today-free-wolfram-engine-for-developers/
And a ML world all to itself: the wolfram language. Now with a free developer version.

peaclock A responsive and customizable clock, timer, and stopwatch for the terminal.

https://octobanana.com/software/peaclock
Unusual command-line graphical clock.

Tinc Peer to Peer Hello World

http://troubleshooters.com/linux/tinc/hello_peer.htm
Detailed intro to the tinc p2p vpm

Undesign Collection of free design tools and resources for makers, developers and designers

https://undesign.learn.uno/
curated list of tools for creation and development.

Click is a Python package for creating beautiful command line interfaces

https://palletsprojects.com/p/click/
for those who prefer cli to jupyter.

The Cheapskate’s Guide to Retirement

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-cheapskate-s-guide-to-retirement
look at every penny, of course. 

commit message generator

https://whatthecommit.com/
i'm told there's an API and a phpstorm plugin. 

Meet developers. Work together.

https://www.moonlightwork.com/
how to find freelance developers. 

Loudspeaker Designs and Articles for the DIY Enthusiast

http://speakerdesignworks.com/index.html
old-school speaker design site

Sell downloads and tangibles!

https://www.e-junkie.com/
another entry-level ecommerce solution

Guide: How To Build An Affiliate Marketing Website

https://crackmacs.ca/readthings/affiliate-website-guide/
a couple of years old, but still good.

Instantly turn any Google Sheet into RESTful API.

https://sheetson.com/
Turn Google Sheets into an API

The Content Management Framework for Laravel

https://sharp.code16.fr/docs/
A CMS framework for Laravel, kinda like Drupal, but with a clean codebase.

WordPress finally gets the security features a third of the Internet deserves

https://www.zdnet.com/article/wordpress-finally-gets-the-security-features-a-third-of-the-internet-deserves/
OMG, I thought everybody had signed updates by now!

Getting Started with Vue - An Overview and Walkthrough Tutorial

https://www.taniarascia.com/getting-started-with-vue/
more in-depth than average intro to vue

Log to Elasticsearch using curl

https://medium.com/@hendrikwallbaum/log-to-elasticsearch-using-curl-fb64d908c1a8
logging from the command line to elasticsearch

7 Keys to Successful Email Marketing

https://marketinginsidergroup.com/content-marketing/5-keys-to-successful-email-marketing/
Good, basic advice that not enough follow. 

Pluralsight building tech skills

https://www.pluralsight.com/
online video tech trainig

How a small minority can make a change

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190513-it-only-takes-35-of-people-to-change-the-world
So the tipping point on social movements is about 3.5%

The Humble Recepit gets a Brilliant Redesign

https://www.fastcompany.com/90347782/the-humble-receipt-gets-a-brilliant-redesign
Who says you have to print receipts a line-at-a-time?

Brain, heal thyself Neurofeedback can put thoughts in your head and help you conquer phobias

https://aeon.co/essays/neurofeedback-can-zap-your-fears-without-you-even-knowing
Neurofeedback is becoming legit. 

I charged $18,000 for a Static HTML Page

https://idiallo.com/blog/18000-dollars-static-web-page
Yes, getting content is always the hardest.

Build your own Robust Deep Learning Environment in Minutes

https://towardsdatascience.com/build-your-own-robust-deep-learning-environment-in-minutes-354cf140a5a6
Ready-baked vs. roll-your-own ML environments.

How I Passed the Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer Certification Exam

https://towardsdatascience.com/passing-the-google-cloud-professional-data-engineer-certification-87da9908b333
Two and a half good resources.

How a poker expert made his fortune — one cent at a time

https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/4/30/18518010/online-poker-microstakes-expert-blackrain79
the opposite of high-stakes

3 Machine Learning Books that Helped me Level Up as a Data Scientist

https://dev.to/strikingloo/3-machine-learning-books-that-helped-me-level-up-as-a-data-scientist-15lm
look like good reads

Every single Machine Learning course on the internet, ranked by your reviews

https://medium.freecodecamp.org/every-single-machine-learning-course-on-the-internet-ranked-by-your-reviews-3c4a7b8026c0
and the winner is.. Sanford...

Serverless Python Web Services - Powered by AWS Lambda and API Gateway

https://www.zappa.io/
a first-generation python serverless framework.

6 Lessons Learned Sending Mass Emails With AWS Lambda

https://read.iopipe.com/6-lessons-learned-sending-mass-emails-with-aws-lambda-3c5e56e19571
Yeah, there's more to serverless than first meets the eye. 

What Protects Your Privacy Like No Other Method? … AES

https://medium.com/asecuritysite-when-bob-met-alice/what-protects-your-privacy-like-no-other-method-aes-5b3502d7a054
Good overview of the AES encryption process. There are more modern, probably better algorithms, but this is still the standard, and an acceptable one at that.

The World’s First 3D-Printed Village Is Coming to Latin America This Summer

https://www.dwell.com/article/3d-printed-village-yves-behar-icon-new-story-c56ded54
hopefully this will be a success and spawn others.

Tools and Trainings for Digital Marketers

https://www.digitalmarketer.com/
Good resource for digital marketers.

DaVinci Resolve 16

https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/
Folks on reddit say this was a good video editing suite.

Buckeye: Espionage Outfit Used Equation Group Tools Prior to Shadow Brokers Leak

https://www.symantec.com/blogs/threat-intelligence/buckeye-windows-zero-day-exploit
Yeah, there's a problem with creating hi-powered cyberweapons to use against your enemy.

5 quick SSH hardening tips

https://www.techrepublic.com/google-amp/article/5-quick-ssh-hardening-tips/
Yes, they're both good and quick.

The Unbelievable Demand for Cybersecurity Workers

https://onezero.medium.com/the-insane-demand-for-cybersecurity-workers-cb98abf964bc
Need more warm bodies or more automation or both?

Taboola, Outbrain and the Chum Supply Chain

https://themargins.substack.com/p/taboola-outbrain-and-the-chum-supply
Case study of how clickbait advertising works.

5 email marketing tools for startups

https://yourstory.com/2019/05/email-marketing-tools-digital-solutions-startups/amp
The usual suspects, plus a few I've never used before.

This video game can detect early stages of Alzheimer's better than medical tests, researchers say

https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/27/health/video-game-alzheimers-scn-trnd/index.html
I'm not much of a gamer but I may have to try this one.

How Apache Nifi works — surf on your dataflow, don’t drown in it

https://medium.freecodecamp.org/nifi-surf-on-your-dataflow-4f3343c50aa2
new drag-and-drop data transformer

She was the “queen of the mommy bloggers.” Then her life fell apart.

https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/4/25/18512620/dooce-heather-armstrong-depression-valedictorian-of-being-dead
The fall of a mommy blogger

The making of Amazon Prime, the internet’s most successful and devastating membership program

https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/5/3/18511544/amazon-prime-oral-history-jeff-bezos-one-day-shipping
How Amazon Prime came to be.

Well Done, British Columbia … Where Innovation Thrives

https://medium.com/asecuritysite-when-bob-met-alice/well-done-british-columbia-where-innovation-thrives-1002d1826e29
BC is catching up with estonia on the e-government front.

Some Amazon Sellers Are Paying $10,000 A Month To Trick Their Way To The Top

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/leticiamiranda/amazon-marketplace-sellers-black-hat-scams-search-rankings
how much for a black hat for amazon?

Surely No-one Uses SSL v2.0 on their Web site? Yes … millions still do!

https://medium.com/asecuritysite-when-bob-met-alice/surely-no-one-uses-ssl-v2-0-on-their-web-site-yes-millions-still-do-8bc21a400f14
update your software, my dudes!

So You Want To Be a Pentester?

https://jhalon.github.io/becoming-a-pentester/
good read from a practitioner

McDonald’s deploys 700 AI-powered menu boards

https://www.nrn.com/quick-service/mcdonald-s-deploys-700-ai-powered-menu-boards
I'd like donut sticks and side of AI

Answer with intelligence Easy-to-use phone technology for small businesses

https://www.calljoy.com/
google product that uses AI to answer the phone

Machine learning — Is the emperor wearing clothes?

https://hackernoon.com/machine-learning-is-the-emperor-wearing-clothes-59933d12a3cc
The labeling part of machine learning explained, sort of.

How to build your first Neural Network to predict house prices with Keras

https://medium.freecodecamp.org/how-to-build-your-first-neural-network-to-predict-house-prices-with-keras-f8db83049159
Long tutorial on neural networks.

A Data Science Public Service Announcement

https://towardsdatascience.com/a-data-science-public-service-announcement-fe81fbe6dc3f
opensource datascience needs YOU!