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