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.