Thinking Preferences and Conspiracy Belief: Intuitive Thinking and the Jumping to Conclusions-Bias as a Basis for the Belief in Conspiracy Theories

 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2020.568942/full

Characteristics of those who believe conspiracy theories. 

Cloud object storage vendors that compete with Amazon S3

 https://blocksandfiles.com/2020/12/22/ten-amazon-s3-challengers-gigaom/

Short, but interesting post on cloud storage provides. Random bullet list at the end for differentiators. 

Centering in CSS

 https://web.dev/centering-in-css/

five centering techniques, and which works best across various constraints. 

The Epic 4,300-Word Guide to Separating Yourself as a Writer

 https://medium.com/better-marketing/the-epic-4-300-word-guide-to-separating-yourself-as-a-writer-46be08711bbb

Finding your voice

Deploy a Web server, DMZ, and NAT Gateway Using Terraform.

 https://medium.com/swlh/deploy-a-web-server-dmz-and-nat-gateway-using-terraform-188f4a3d4d29

Just about useful. 

LED lights found to kill coronavirus: Global first in fight against COVID-19

 https://aftau.org/news_item/led-lights-found-to-kill-coronavirus-global-first-in-fight-against-covid-19/

 Good news because LED > fluorescents

After Centuries, a Seemingly Simple Math Problem Gets an Exact Solution

 https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematician-solves-centuries-old-grazing-goat-problem-exactly-20201209/

Simple problem, hard solution. 

Meet Google Analytics 4

 https://towardsdatascience.com/meet-google-analytics-4-b7e27cdc5f0d

Yeah, there's a LOT that changed. 

 

A Comprehensive Guide to Creating Your First Terraform Configuration

 https://medium.com/swlh/a-comprehensive-guide-to-creating-your-first-terraform-configuration-8fcb97043058

A "hello world" of Terraform

Statistical modeling with “Pomegranate” —fast and intuitive

 https://towardsdatascience.com/statistical-modeling-with-pomegranate-fast-and-intuitive-4d605d9c33a9

Better stats than numpy. 

The Standard Model

 https://inference-review.com/article/the-standard-model

A brief intro

How to Use Facades in Laravel

https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-use-facades-in-laravel/amp/ 

Laravel uses their Facade class a lot. Here's a how-to. 

Testing Laravel Applications Like a Pro with PHPUnit

https://soshace.com/testing-laravel-applications-like-a-pro-with-phpunit/ 

Introduction to unit testing in Laravel

Room Escape Artist

 https://roomescapeartist.com/ 

Interesting. Trying to be a industry resource and meta-site for escape rooms. We'll see how the revenue model works out. 

IBM’s Red Hat Just Killed CentOS as we Know it: With CentOS Stream, Stability Goes out of the Door

 https://itsfoss.com/centos-stream-fiasco/

RIP CentOS

Gzip vs Bzip2 vs XZ Performance Comparison

 https://www.rootusers.com/gzip-vs-bzip2-vs-xz-performance-comparison/

Slightly older article, but probably still applies. Compression and decompression vs time tradeoffs. 

DARK PATTERNS

 https://darkpatterns.org/

A collection of UI used by websites into tricking you into doing their bidding. 

This Reddit Thread Of The Most Underrated Websites Might Change The Way You Browse The Internet

https://digg.com/2020/this-reddit-thread-of-the-most-underrated-websites-might-change-the-way-you-browse-the-internet

Some cool tools

33 Things I learned while being a Cloud Solution Architect

 https://medium.com/faun/33-things-i-learned-while-being-a-cloud-solution-architect-def544b11b4c

Have to look up some acronyms

Meet the new generation of puzzle-makers bringing mystery to your door

 https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/12/meet-the-new-generation-of-puzzle-makers-bringing-mystery-to-your-door/

Escape room in your own home?

What Is the Biggest Scientific Fraud of the Past 50 Years?

 https://gizmodo.com/what-is-the-biggest-scientific-fraud-of-the-past-50-yea-1845737669

Where science went wrong, or got led astray. 

How to Save the Middle Class

 https://thewalrus.ca/livingrooms-how-to-save-the-middle-class/

Our vision of the good life is stuck in the twentieth century. It’s time to reinvent it—starting with home ownership - from a Canadian

Colormind is a color scheme generator that uses deep learning

 http://colormind.io/

I have no taste in color, so I don't know how well it's doing. Interesting nonetheless. 

How close is too close?

 https://aeon.co/essays/where-is-the-dividing-line-between-you-and-the-world

The neuroscience of peripersonal space explores how you create, defend or relax the buffer zone between you and the world

 

Welcome to the Phrontistery! Since 1996, I have compiled word lists and language resources to spread the joy of the English language in all its variety through time and space.

 http://www.phrontistery.info/index.html

old-school looking website of English oddments. 

Company forced to change name that could be used to hack websites

 https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/nov/06/companies-house-forces-business-name-change-to-prevent-security-risk

Real-life version of XKCD's "Exploits of a Mom" cartoon. 

Use console.log() like a pro!

 https://denic.hashnode.dev/use-consolelog-like-a-pro

Well, maybe not quite "pro", but a good intro anyway. 

Supercharge your ‍Jupyter workflow An open source tool for creating data science pipelines. Get started

 https://www.orchest.io/

Still early, but shows promise. Visual pipeline building tool. 

7 Free APIs That Nobody Is Talking About

 https://medium.com/javascript-in-plain-english/7-free-apis-that-nobody-is-talking-about-cf974e15917

Some fun ones here

Let's make music with a free, cross-platform tool for your computer.

 https://lmms.io/

Open source, cross platform music platform

Game Mechanics Research: What Makes Candy Crush so Addicting?

 https://yukaichou.com/gamification-study/game-mechanics-research-candy-crush-addicting/

Case study of applying the eight principles of gamification. 

Master the art of creating & running a newsletter

 https://newsletteros.com/

Probably one of the simplest subscription models, often overlooked. 

Earn a living doing something you love.

 https://fizzle.co/

Startups: slow and steady wins the race

Crontab Guru

 https://crontab.guru/

easy way to learn the time fields in crontab. 

How to Install and Setup ELK on Ubuntu 20 with Login Page.

https://medium.com/faun/how-to-install-and-setup-elk-on-ubuntu-20-with-login-page-b9877a7ca9f6 

I can attest to the usefulness of this from having tried to do it without this guide. 

Ham Radio Needs To Embrace The Hacker Community Now More Than Ever

 https://www.kj7nzl.net/blog/ham-radio-needs-to-embrace-the-hacker-community-now-more-than-ever/

I've long thought that the Ham Radio community should be more like the hacker/opensource folks. 

Economist Report: Remote Workers on the Move

 https://www.upwork.com/press/releases/economist-report-remote-workers-on-the-move

Wouldn't you?

Train, evaluate, monitor, infer: End-to-end machine learning in Elastic

 https://www.elastic.co/blog/train-evaluate-monitor-infer-end-to-end-machine-learning-in-elastic?blade=kibanafeed

Nice tutorial

Vention Simplified Machine Design for Everyone

 https://vention.io/?home

HiTech tinker toys with aluminum rails and connectors, and a online CAD software. They ship you parts, you build it. 

Transistor Design For Newbies

 https://journal.lunar.sh/2020/11/03/transistor-design-for-newbies.html

Reminds me of a college course I took in this. 

Podcast Editing for Everyone

 https://vodited.com/

interesting speech->text->edit->speech podcast editing SaaS

Architecture Playbook

 https://nocomplexity.com/documents/arplaybook/index.html

resources for software architecture

How to Start a Subscription Business: A Brief Guide

 https://www.shopify.co.za/blog/how-to-start-a-subscription-business

Advice on subscription ecommerce

If not SPAs, What?

 https://macwright.com/2020/10/28/if-not-spas.html

Various shades in between static pages and native SPAs

Room Acoustics Software

 https://www.roomeqwizard.com/

opensource for mac, pc and linux

Transform your lessons into collaborative learning experiences

 https://www.sutori.com/

Beats PowerPoint, I guess. 

CONNECTING EMAIL NEWSLETTERS WITH ADVERTISERS

 https://audiencehunts.com/

MailChimp was going to do this at one time. 

Python For Feature Film

 https://www.gfx.dev/python-for-feature-film

python as the plumbing between steps

Fully Coded UI Tools to create web and mobile apps

 https://www.creative-tim.com/

Marketplace of pre-made UI components. 

Streak - CRM for Gmail

 https://www.streak.com/

Interesting play: chrome plugin and SaaS service to give CRM functionality inside Gmail

The Guinness Brewer Who Revolutionized Statistics

 https://priceonomics.com/the-guinness-brewer-who-revolutionized-statistics/

I'd never heard of Gosset

We Tested OpenPilot, the $1,199 Device That Adds Entry-Level Autonomy to Your Car

 https://www.thedrive.com/tech/36604/we-tested-openpilot-the-1199-device-that-adds-entry-level-autonomy-to-your-car

Level 2, and only some cars. Interesting nonetheless. 

Tailwind CSS tutorial: learn how to build websites using a utility-first CSS framework

 https://themesberg.com/blog/tailwind-css/tutorial

needs more tooling than Bootstrap, and has a different philosophy. 

Virtual singing has never sounded so sweet! A low latency solution for your ensemble.

 https://www.jacktrip.org/index.html

Low latency open source audio

Songs and Lyrics by Tom Lehrer

 https://tomlehrersongs.com/

Before Weird Al, there was Tom Lehrer. Perhaps even nerdier. Get 'em while you can. 

How to Repurpose Your Old Gadgets

 https://www.wired.com/story/what-to-do-with-old-gadgets/

upcycle old electronics

The #1 No Code Slack community and platform for non-technical founders and entrepreneurs.

 https://nocodefounders.com/

Interesting twist: not email newsletter or website, but slack channel

Cloud Security Tools

 https://cloudberry.engineering/tool/

Some for every major cloud platform. 

User.com is a single workspace providing you with easy-to-use, yet very robust tools for marketing, sales, management, and support teams.

 https://user.com/en/

Multi-channel customer communication tool

The 100 best fantasy books of all time

 https://time.com/collection/100-best-fantasy-books/

Some I need to check out. 

VULTURE LISTS OCT. 5, 2020 The 100 Sequences That Shaped Animation From Bugs Bunny to Spike Spiegel to Miles Morales, the history of an art form that continues to draw us in. Edited by Eric Vilas-Boas and John Maher

 https://www.vulture.com/article/most-influential-best-scenes-animation-history.html

GITS didn't make the cut somehow. 

SEO Copywriting: The Definitive Guide

 https://backlinko.com/seo-copywriting

from the backlinko folks

Newsletter crew

  https://newslettercrew.com/

a podcast about newsletter publishing

Only 27.9% of organizations able to maintain compliance with the PCI DSS

 https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2020/10/08/maintain-compliance-pci-dss/

PCI is hard. 

nvipe demo

 https://asciinema.org/a/Yvoh8dLSD30G18IYcJApIHzPN

nvipe looks pretty radical

Cloud Virtual Private Servers

 https://www.interserver.net/vps/

cheaper than AWS

GPT-3 Bot Posed as a Human on AskReddit for a Week

 https://www.kmeme.com/2020/10/gpt-3-bot-went-undetected-askreddit-for.html

State of the art AI and natural language processing. 

Why Printers Add Secret Tracking Dots

 https://getpocket.com/explore/item/why-printers-add-secret-tracking-dots

Things behind the scenes. 

On the most common Terraform pitfalls

 https://sysdogs.com/on-the-most-common-terraform-pitfalls/

Think we've done just about all of these. 

THE MARKETER'S #1 DAILY NEWSLETTER.

 https://www.stackedmarketer.com/

Curated internet marketing content

How we built a $1m ARR SaaS startup

 https://canny.io/blog/how-we-built-a-1m-arr-saas-startup/

Good case study of building an SaaS business. 

Swell is the most powerful headless ecommerce platform for modern brands, startups, and agencies.

 https://www.swell.is/

new headless ecommmerce platform. We'll see if they get traction. 

What are the biggest tracker networks and what can I do about them?

 https://spreadprivacy.com/biggest-tracker-networks/?s=1

Not just sites, but the networks behind them

How To Synchronize Files With Unison On Linux

 https://ostechnix.com/how-to-synchronize-files-with-unison-on-linux/

looks like a cross-platform rsync wannabe

Import Yeti

 https://www.importyeti.com/

Interesting: a database of bills of lading that show where companies get their merchandise: their suppliers. 

SOLID in PHP

 https://dev.to/evrtrabajo/solid-in-php-d8e

good overview of how SOLID principles work in PHP

no-code sota

 https://trends.vc/trends-0033-no-code/

quick overview of no-code tools

The M17 Project

 https://m17project.org/

“The goal here should be to kick the proprietary protocols off the airwaves, replace DMR, Fusion, D-Star, etc. To do that, it’s not just good enough to be open, it has to be legitimately competitive.”

Google Interview Questions Deconstructed: The Knight’s Dialer

 https://alexgolec.dev/google-interview-questions-deconstructed-the-knights-dialer/

interesting problem, good solution but not the best?

EOS webcam utility

 https://www.usa.canon.com/internet/portal/us/home/support/self-help-center/eos-webcam-utility

turn you dslr into a webcam

The Worst Theoretical Prediction in the History of Physics

 https://medium.com/cantors-paradise/the-worst-theoretical-prediction-in-the-history-of-physics-5be09b309043

Dark Energy and vacuum energy density. 

Business Model Navigator

 https://businessmodelnavigator.com/explore

Good list of business models with examples. 

RSS by Email

 https://rssby.email/

Just like it says. You can do an IFTTT trigger, but this is a one-trick pony

Great Resources For Newsletter Creators

  https://letterstack.co/

Good curated content. Let's see if they add original content as well. 

A collection of the best math and science stuff

 https://abakcus.com/

maybe heavier on the math

13 Beautiful Tools to Enhance Online Teaching and Learning Skills

 https://medium.com/however-mathematics/13-beautiful-tools-to-enhance-online-teaching-and-learning-skills-b7d6ab81be01

how to integrate drawing with presentations

Google’s Genius $49/mo Course Is About to Replace College Degrees

 https://entrepreneurshandbook.co/googles-genius-49-mo-course-is-about-to-replace-college-degrees-340f459aaa9b

Google's courses have blown hot and cold over the years. Hopefully they'll make a go of it this time. 

Using JavaScript with Laravel through Inertia and Livewire

 https://www.peterjthomson.com/2020/09/laravel-inertia-livewire/

pros and cons of each. 

Evaluating Electrolytic Capacitors Specified for Audio Use: A Comparative Analysis of Electrical Measure- ments and Capacitor Distortion Products in Line Level Interstage Coupling Applications

https://www.aes.org/e-lib/browse.cfm?elib=20891 

tl;dr: save your money

The Podcast Index is an open project to preserve podcasting as a platform for free speech.

https://podcastindex.org/ 

kinda minimalist website

AVIF has landed

 https://jakearchibald.com/2020/avif-has-landed/

Not quite landed, IMHO

Meniscus Audio

 https://meniscusaudio.com/

Speakers, mostly. Drivers, kits, etc. 

The Best Alternatives to WordPress

 https://www.cloudsavvyit.com/1248/the-best-alternatives-to-wordpress/amp/

Options by use-case. 

Poor Man's Tools that are actually awesome!

 https://dev.to/keyboardinterrupt/poor-man-s-tools-that-are-actually-awesome-22fh

Not quite the functionality of the higher-priced options, but.. 

Machine Learning from Scratch

 https://dafriedman97.github.io/mlbook/content/introduction.html

Free e-book

Words from some people

 https://imgur.com/gallery/YK9DfAn

Configure Fedora to practice and compose music

 https://fedoramagazine.org/configure-fedora-to-practise-and-compose-music/

music composition

No More postman just use cURL + vim = ❤

 https://dev.to/22mahmoud/no-more-postman-just-use-curl-vim-2mha

Some serious vim-fu

Welcome to DeepSpeech’s documentation!

 https://mozilla-voice-stt.readthedocs.io/en/latest/?badge=latest

an open source speech-to-text suite. 

A simple telephony honeypot received 1.5 million robocalls across 11 months

 https://www.zdnet.com/article/a-simple-telephony-honeypot-received-1-5-million-robocalls-across-11-months/

I know the feeling. 

The harrowing story of the Nagasaki bombing mission

 https://thebulletin.org/2015/08/the-harrowing-story-of-the-nagasaki-bombing-mission/#

Not the smoothest. 

Dear Google Cloud: Your Deprecation Policy is Killing You

 https://medium.com/@steve.yegge/dear-google-cloud-your-deprecation-policy-is-killing-you-ee7525dc05dc

Yeah, glad I use AWS. 

17 Advanced SEO Strategies for 2020

 https://backlinko.com/advanced-seo#rank-for-journalist-keywords

some niche, like if you do a podcast, but outside-the-box thinking. 

100+ no-code resources

 https://trello.com/b/A4OmiAWb/100-no-code-resources

nice little trello board

ScrapingBee API handles headless browsers and rotates proxies for you.

 https://www.scrapingbee.com/

Looks like they're running headless Chrome

Hand-picked, validated SaaS ideas delivered straight to your inbox

https://www.softwareideas.io/ 

wonder what their idea-generator is?

On demand manufacturing for busy teams. Get high quality parts in record time and ease.

 https://www.jiga3d.com/

network of makers

Improve Donation Flow to Raise More Money

https://splash.newstorycharity.org/fund/#
We'll see their pricing model later

Demand for ginseng is creating a ‘wild west’ in Appalachia

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2020/01/ginseng-root-appalachia/#close
I've met people who dig ginseng

tools-and-blogs-for-entrepreneurs

https://steveblank.com/tools-and-blogs-for-entrepreneurs/
A Loooong list!

TinyPilot: Build a KVM Over IP for Under $100

https://mtlynch.io/tinypilot/#how-to-build-your-own-tinypilot
I could've used this for my RedHat booting video

Science Discussion Series: We are researchers who study the effects of policing and police brutality on Black people in America. Let’s discuss! Police Discussion

https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/huk5kh/science_discussion_series_we_are_researchers_who/
I learned a lot

Bad apples come from rotten trees in policing

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/how-we-rise/2020/05/30/bad-apples-come-from-rotten-trees-in-policing/
Interesting way to get rid of bad cops. 

To Live Remarkably, Repeat This One Affirmation Every Single Day for the Rest of Your Life

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/to-live-remarkably-repeat-this-1-affirmation-every-single-day-for-the-rest-of-your-life
do it. 

How I Rewired My Brain to Become Fluent in Math

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-i-rewired-my-brain-to-become-fluent-in-math?utm_source=pocket-newtab
and russian?

23 Alternative Career Paths that Software Developers Can Grow Into

https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/alternative-career-paths/
There's more jobs than just coding

Dark Web Price Index 2020

https://www.privacyaffairs.com/dark-web-price-index-2020/
Human life is cheap

The 2020 SEO Jobs Report

https://backlinko.com/seo-jobs-report
lots of good data

Anti-vaxxers How to Challenge a Misinformed Movement

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/anti-vaxxers
apparently using logic and science is ineffective against them. 

The Messier Catalog

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50097739281_037eb033d9_o.png
I need to get one of these printed large. 

Understanding and Decoding a JPEG Image using Python

https://yasoob.me/posts/understanding-and-writing-jpeg-decoder-in-python/
Wow! This is the most detailed dissection of JPEG I've ever seen!

Introducing Teleport 4.3 - Modern Replacement for OpenSSH

https://gravitational.com/blog/introducing-teleport-4-point-3-modern-replacement-for-openssh/
Drop in replacement for ssh? We'll see. 

A Mathematician Has Created a Teaching Method That’s Proving There’s No Such Thing as a Bad Math Student

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/a-mathematician-has-created-a-teaching-method-that-s-proving-there-s-no-such-thing-as-a-bad-math
Move slower from concrete to abstract, slow down. 

Affiliate management platform

https://affilimate.com/
Learn exactly which affiliate links are earning you money

Job Interviews Don’t Work

https://fs.blog/2020/07/job-interviews/
They measure the wrong thing and need more structure. 

Present better.

https://sizle.io/
Sizle gives you all the tools you need to securely share presentations, track document delivery and opens, measure viewer engagement and convert more leads – in one platform PowerPoint on steroids?

CSS Criton 1TD Kit (Pair)

https://www.css-audio.com/online-store/CSS-Criton-1TD-Kit-Back-Order-p109862382
High-end DIY 2-way kit

How to be old in tech

https://zapier.com/blog/how-to-be-old-in-tech/
Keep moving

AES67 resources

https://hartung.io/2020/07/aes67-resources/
Some open source, some proprietary. 

It Might Be Time to Update the Old ‘Alfa-Bravo-Charlie’ Spelling Alphabet

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/it-might-be-time-to-update-the-old-alfa-bravo-charlie-spelling-alphabet
Or it might not

A Look Into The Wild Economy Of Tabletop Board Game Funding

https://www.npr.org/2020/07/05/887283058/a-look-into-the-wild-economy-of-tabletop-board-game-funding
Kickstarter and more

The Ultimate Vue UI Component Library

https://primefaces.org/primevue/
Components for Vue.js

Starting a Saas Business

https://twitter.com/PierreDeWulf/status/1280526150243098627
Thoughts on starting a SaaS business. 

VituixCAD

https://kimmosaunisto.net/Software/Software.html
VituixCAD is free engineering and simulation software for passive and active multi-way / multi-driver loudspeakers.  One of the more comprehensive I've seen.

SparkToro intro

https://sparktoro.com/blog/how-to-use-your-first-ten-sparktoro-searches
Rand Fishkin's latest 

Your own AI-powered Call Center on AWS in less than 1 hour

https://itnext.io/your-own-ai-powered-call-center-on-aws-in-less-than-1-hour-d0494049977c
pretty funky

Smart emails to double your trial conversion

https://encharge.io/
Glue-type email marketing application for SaaS products.

The Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) cheat-sheet

https://levelup.gitconnected.com/the-regular-expression-denial-of-service-redos-cheat-sheet-a78d0ed7d865
Beware the wild RegEx.

HonKit Toolchain Documentation

https://honkit.netlify.app/
honkit is a command line tool (and Node.js library) for building beautiful books using GitHub/Git and Markdown (or AsciiDoc).

Share one mouse and keyboard between multiple computers

https://symless.com/synergy
Not quite a software KVM, more like a software K_M. 

Automate Your Designs

https://www.bannerbear.com/
Bannerbear is a simple REST API that auto-generates social media visuals, ecommerce banners and more, but seems a bit pricy.

Quantum computing for the very curious

https://quantum.country/qcvc
in-depth intro to quantum computing

Vented Box Calculator according to W.J.J. Hoge

http://www.mh-audio.nl/Calculators/ReflexBoxCalculator.html
a variation of Thiele-Small

The Voigt Pipe: The world's most easy-to-build High End Loudspeaker

https://www.parow.no/Lowther/voigtpip.html
Interesting hybrid of transmission line and horn.

The Voigt Pipe: The world's most easy-to-build High End Loudspeaker

https://www.parow.no/Lowther/voigtpip.html
the driver for this is ridiculous expensive

I Just Hit $100k/yr On GitHub Sponsors! 🎉❤️ (How I Did It)

https://calebporzio.com/i-just-hit-dollar-100000yr-on-github-sponsors-heres-how-i-did-it
How the author of livewire for laravel makes a living

How to pay your rent with your open source project

https://plausible.io/blog/open-source-funding
Some business models and examples

The Impending Doom of Expiring Root CAs and Legacy Clients

https://scotthelme.co.uk/impending-doom-root-ca-expiring-legacy-clients/
We experienced the first wave

Where ecommerce businesses grow

https://www.klaviyo.com/
Email marketing specifically for ecommerce, especially shopify.

Linux Logging Tutorial: What Are Linux Logs, How to View, Search and Centralize Them

https://sematext.com/blog/linux-logs/
from start to fairly advanced

Cryptography Pioneer Seeks Secure Elections the Low-Tech Way

https://www.quantamagazine.org/rsa-cryptographer-ronald-rivest-seeks-secure-elections-20200312/
Ron Rivest on better elections through Crypto.

The social platform for collaborative product development - WikiFactory

https://wikifactory.com/
Some nice projects here. 

Kendo UI for Jquery Grid

https://demos.telerik.com/kendo-ui/grid/index
One of the slicker grids I've seen

Stanford Acuity Test (StAT)

https://myeyes.ai/
Better vision test at home?

A deeper introduction in Unix dc

https://ben165.github.io/unix_dc/index.html
I thought I was hot stuff when I did a list of factorials in dc, but this guy's gone all Mandelbrot on us!

How to Build a Successful Amazon Affiliate Site (Step by Step)

https://ahrefs.com/blog/amazon-affiliate-marketing/
Looks solid to me

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

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/your-ability-to-focus-has-probably-peaked-here-s-how-to-stay-sharp
become distraction-free

Top 16+ Vue Open Source Projects

https://flatlogic.com/blog/top-16-vue-open-source-projects/
Some stand-alone, some as more of libraries. 

What Great Listeners Actually Do

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/what-great-listeners-actually-do
Same techniques for interviewing

How Startup Funding Works – Infographic

https://blog.adioma.com/how-funding-works-splitting-equity-infographic/
Good infographic on the various stages of a VC-backed IPO. 

JSON Web Tokens are an open, industry standard RFC 7519 method for representing claims securely between two parties.

https://jwt.io/
JWT.IO allows you to decode, verify and generate JWT.

The best scenes from 35 years of Studio Ghibli movies

https://www.polygon.com/animation-cartoons/2020/5/29/21273972/best-studio-ghibli-movies-scenes
Best Ghibli scenes

Backup storage for thousands of virtual machines using free tools

https://itnext.io/backup-storage-for-thousands-of-virtual-machines-using-free-tools-b3909004bef2
container backup... but why don't they just regen them?

backup

https://www.bareos.com/en/
what backula was

Bacula leads all other vendors on TrustRadius

https://www.baculasystems.com/
was open, now closed backup

The Tragedy of the Commons: How Elinor Ostrom Solved One of Life’s Greatest Dilemmas

https://evonomics.com/tragedy-of-the-commons-elinor-ostrom/
Compete?

PLA 3D Prints Smoothing Research Project

https://www.instructables.com/id/PLA-3D-Prints-Smoothing-Research-Project/
Nail polish & paint?

Create Full-Fledged Web Apps Visually

https://uibakery.io/
Well, the front-end, anyway. 

A 3-Minute Hack for Focus You’ve Probably Never Heard Of

https://medium.com/mind-cafe/a-3-minute-hack-for-focus-youve-probably-never-heard-of-40708b788a0f
Binaural beats and noise-canceling headphones, anyone?

Blush, Illustrations for Everyone

https://blush.design/
Opensource, remixable illustrations. Styles so far aren't to my taste, but we'll see. 

Collection of document templates

https://almanac.io/home
kind of an eclectic assortment of document templates. Not sure about business mode. 

TIME TO SAY BYE BYE DOCKER !!! Era of Docker is over...

https://dev.to/manishfoodtechs/time-to-say-bye-bye-docker-era-of-docker-is-over-2n06
Makes the case that podman is better than docker

k9s Kubernetes CLI To Manage Your Clusters In Style!

https://k9scli.io/
cli tool to manager Kubernetes

Record and share your terminal sessions, the right way.

https://asciinema.org/
Interesting niche: video of terminal sessions.

Off-Page SEO: The Definitive Guide

https://backlinko.com/off-page-seo-guide
In-depth and current. 

How to Write Anything

https://forge.medium.com/how-to-write-anything-ad2a62c122f6
Meta-post with links to advice articles on different types of writing.

Meet the new Digital Photo Frame App

https://www.digitalphotoframeapp.com/
Instead of dedicated photo frames, upcycle an older device. 

30 Movies That Are Unlike Anything You’ve Seen Before

https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2020/05/30-singular-films-watch-quarantine/611956/
The edgy side of cinema

Post your startup Curated list of places to post your startup

https://postyourstartup.com/
Pretty straightforward

Breathtaking Animations In 3 Clicks With The World’s Easiest Full-Auto Video Animation Software!

https://offers.viddyoze.com/
Another easy video creator. Effects look pretty good. 

Privacy-focused analytics

https://www.privalytics.io/
Hosted or self-hosted opensource analytics

FAST, SECURE, AND RELIABLE VIRTUAL SERVERS

https://buyvm.net/
Really cheap virtual servers. 

The Moment I Finally Got Public Key Encryption: The Inverse Mod

https://medium.com/asecuritysite-when-bob-met-alice/the-moment-i-finally-got-public-key-encryption-the-inverse-mod-e1d82caa151b
The key to PKI

How To Build a Professional Livestreaming Setup at Home For $500 — $2,000.

https://medium.com/@ischafer/how-to-build-a-professional-livestreaming-setup-at-home-for-500-2-000-924133175e86
More praise for the Sony mirrorless cameras. Canon should wake up. 

30 Lessons After 30 Million SEO Visitors

https://neilpatel.com/blog/seo-visitors/
stuff to sweat and stuff not to

4 Steps to Communicate Anything Clearly, According to a Scientist Who Teaches Quantum Physics to Kids

https://medium.com/inc./4-steps-to-communicate-anything-clearly-according-to-a-scientist-who-teaches-quantum-physics-to-a60fafcbd0e7
understand your audience, stick to the topics, be clear, be passionate. 

How to Skyrocket Your Creative Growth

https://medium.com/personal-growth/how-to-skyrocket-your-creative-growth-d14e2a05a7c7
make it and get it out there

NASA's Citizen Science

https://science.nasa.gov/citizenscience
NASA's citizen science projects. Wish there were more. 

Puzzlemaster

https://www.puzzlemaster.ca/
fun puzzles from easy to mindbending

Raspberry Pi HAT offers up to 40W class D amp

https://linuxgizmos.com/raspberry-pi-hat-offers-up-to-40w-class-d-amp/
beyond the DAC

Graduate Student Solves Decades-Old Conway Knot Problem

https://www.quantamagazine.org/graduate-student-solves-decades-old-conway-knot-problem-20200519/
Pretty deep intro to knot theory

The Five Levels of Remote Work — and why you’re probably at Level 2

https://medium.com/swlh/the-five-levels-of-remote-work-and-why-youre-probably-at-level-2-ccaf05a25b9c
Yeah, it's more than slack & zoom. 

rdiff-backup Reverse differential backup tool, over a network or locally.

https://rdiff-backup.net/
uses rsync under the hood?

Daryl Bem Proved ESP Is Real

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/daryl-bem-proved-esp-is-real
Is it real, or is the method messed up?

Introducing Facebook Shops: Helping Small Businesses Sell Online

https://about.fb.com/news/2020/05/introducing-facebook-shops/
How sophisticated will it become?

Artificial

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8723662/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
First interactive web video driven by... Twitch

Solar System and Beyond Poster Set

https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/925/solar-system-and-beyond-poster-set/
Hi-res NASA images

ZFS versus RAID: Eight Ironwolf disks, two filesystems, one winner

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/05/zfs-versus-raid-eight-ironwolf-disks-two-filesystems-one-winner/
Yeah, zfs comes out waaaay ahead in most cases

Solar’s Future is Insanely Cheap (2020)

https://rameznaam.com/2020/05/14/solars-future-is-insanely-cheap-2020/
Solar's way ahead of the curve.

DECK JOIST SIZING AND SPACING

https://www.decks.com/how-to/41/deck-joist-sizing-and-spacing
Deck joist spacing

The Best Content Marketing Managers Use These 10 Essential Marketing Tactics

https://medium.com/@jaysondemers/the-best-content-marketing-managers-use-these-10-essential-marketing-tactics-74dbab37c176
Research first, and it's more than just words

The Top 8 Weather APIs for 2020

https://www.climacell.co/blog/top-8-weather-apis-for-2020/
Just when I thought free weather APIs were dying out. 

The OpenFlexure Project

https://openflexure.org/
The OpenFlexure project makes high precision mechanical positioning available to anyone with a 3D printer - for use in microscopes, micromanipulators, and more.

This 3D printable “laboratory-grade” open-source microscope will set you back $18

https://3dprintingindustry.com/news/this-3d-printable-laboratory-grade-open-source-microscope-will-set-you-back-18-171749/
We'll see about the optics. 

Why So Many People Are Unhappy in Retirement

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2020/05/what-the-heros-journey-teaches-about-happy-retirement/611194/
Don't stumble at the finish line. Let go. 

Security Tools! Curated list of security tools for Hackers & Builders!

https://tools.tldr.run/
Nice card layout

Terraform Crash Course

https://www.thecloud.coach/terraform-crash-course
free, fast-pased

Two Book Startups Compete Where Amazon Won’t

https://onezero.medium.com/two-new-book-startups-compete-where-amazon-wont-a0aa23dd8fa9

Local bookstores are struggling. Here's a couple of side-hustles that can help. 

300 Unsolicited #SEO Tips

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/200-unsolicited-seo-tips-mark-williams-cook/?twittercache

Short and sweet tips. 

Awesome AWS Workshops

https://awesome-aws-workshops.com/
Just like it says

Hogwarts Digital Escape Room

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSflNxNM0jzbZJjUqOcXkwhGTfii4CM_CA3kCxImbY8c3AABEA/viewform?fbzx=9123655460349539105
Interesting twist on the escape room format

The Moment I Finally Got Public Key Encryption: The Inverse Mod

https://medium.com/asecuritysite-when-bob-met-alice/the-moment-i-finally-got-public-key-encryption-the-inverse-mod-e1d82caa151b
Walkthrough the math

AES67 wishlist

https://gist.github.com/njh/c9196c465ea33ae9f97db782870464ef
The discussion is a good jumping-off point for AES67

How to Love: Legendary Zen Buddhist Teacher Thich Nhat Hanh on Mastering the Art of “Interbeing”

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-to-love-legendary-zen-buddhist-teacher-thich-nhat-hanh-on-mastering-the-art-of-interbeing
It's not about you. 

SSH Tips & Tricks

https://smallstep.com/blog/ssh-tricks-and-tips/
Not the usual suspects. Here we do 2fa, stuck sessions, etc. 

The Cost of Javascript Frameworks

https://timkadlec.com/remembers/2020-04-21-the-cost-of-javascript-frameworks/?ref=devawesome.io
Another JavaScript framework benchmark. 

Why You Should Never Send Your CV via Gmail

https://medium.com/swlh/why-you-should-never-send-your-cv-via-gmail-b4fddd35fb3e
Gmail's being too smart for its users' good. 

ZFS 101—Understanding ZFS storage and performance

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/05/zfs-101-understanding-zfs-storage-and-performance/
Fairly in-depth article for a first foray into zfs.

What Is LUFS, and Why Should I Care?

https://www.sweetwater.com/insync/what-is-lufs-and-why-should-i-care/
Beyond peak or RMS vu.

Become Your Own Boss And Spend More Time With Your Loved Ones

https://mywifequitherjob.com/
Somewhat self-promoting ecommerce howto site

A new way for podcasters to understand and grow their audiences

https://blog.google/products/search/new-way-podcasters-understand-and-grow-their-audiences/amp/
Intro for Google Podcast Manager.

Some of The Very Best Advice, Boiled Down into One-Liners

https://psiloveyou.xyz/some-of-the-very-best-advice-boiled-down-into-one-liners-47b0c69c0db6
mostly good

‘It’s bullshit’: Inside the weird, get-rich-quick world of dropshipping

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/dropshipping-instagram-ads
Dropshipping is a fullfillment method, not a business mode. 

How Amazon Screws Third-Party Sellers

https://medium.com/blue-poles/how-amazon-screws-third-party-sellers-a-five-step-guide-8ed6f3c3c113
Yeah, Amazon plays dirty. 

Georgia’s Niagara Falls Is Too Beautiful For Words

https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/georgia/ga-niagara-falls/
Good day trip

Best Practices for Bash Scripts

https://medium.com/better-programming/best-practices-for-bash-scripts-17229889774d
Solid advice.

ZFS Best Practices and Caveats

https://bigstep.com/blog/zfs-best-practices-and-caveats
From someone who's been in the trenches with ZFS

ZFS Tutorials : Creating ZFS pools and file systems

https://www.thegeekdiary.com/zfs-tutorials-creating-zfs-pools-and-file-systems/
One of the better ZFS intro tutorials

BlockSCAD

https://www.blockscad3d.com/editor/
a scratch-like front-end UI for OpenSCAD

The Programmers Solid 3D CAD Modeller

https://www.openscad.org/index.html
Indeed, it's for programmers, but that's ok

Amazon Accidentally Sent Out Their Email Template

https://medium.com/better-marketing/amazon-accidentally-sent-out-their-email-template-33e6ecbc0875
Kinda basic but oft-forgotten lessons. 

Startup failure in Europe – Indepth Analysis

https://stryber.com/truth-about-startup-failure/
At least in Europe an incubator buys almost exactly nothing. 

Conway's lesser-known results

https://mathoverflow.net/questions/357197/conways-lesser-known-results
Some wonderful work by the late great Conway

3 Insane Secret Weapons for Python

https://towardsdatascience.com/the-3-secret-weapons-that-changed-my-python-editor-forever-c99f7b2e0084
Some real power tools here. 

Open Source Growth Marketing Platform

https://erxes.io/
Looks like they're trying to compete with Marketo or Pardot.  Looks like a lot of nickle and dime add-ons.

Why I use open source technology for web development

https://opensource.com/article/20/4/open-source-web-development
Tools & Techinques from the open stack foundation. 

The Good Guy/Bad Guy Myth

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-good-guy-bad-guy-myth
Old stories had neither

Listen to free audio atmospheres. Mix your own ambient sound online.

https://www.ambient-mixer.com/
Some interesting combos here with elaborate mixes.

Finally We May Have a Path to the Fundamental Theory of Physics… and It’s Beautiful

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2020/04/finally-we-may-have-a-path-to-the-fundamental-theory-of-physics-and-its-beautiful/
As always, Wolfram's kinda out there.

Top 10 Startup Failures of 2019

https://medium.com/swlh/top-10-startup-failures-of-2019-375b4605ee73
How did half of these get this far without knowing that there's no market for their product?

The 10 Most In-Demand Career and Business Skills for 2020

https://medium.com/mind-cafe/the-10-most-in-demand-career-and-business-skills-for-2020-2ce4a9ca5d2e
Soft skills like writing

This Is How Much YouTube Paid Me for My 1,000,000 Viewed Video

https://onezero.medium.com/this-is-how-much-youtube-paid-me-for-my-1-000-000-viewed-video-1453cad73847
a wide range

Seven Stages of Open Software

https://coiled.io/blog/stages-of-openness.html
work yourself out of a job

Free Unlimited Podcast Hosting

https://www.getpitch.io/
a bold plan, offer everything free, make it up on ads. Dunno.

The Ten Rules for Data Modeling with DynamoDB

https://www.trek10.com/blog/the-ten-rules-for-data-modeling-with-dynamodb
Yeah, not a relational database

Video editing made simple

https://www.veed.io/
browser-based video editor. What YouTube studio should've been. 

This is How to Actually Work Smarter, Not Harder

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/this-is-how-to-actually-work-smarter-not-harder
Simple lessons to save your sanity.

10 Extraordinary GitHub Repos for All Developers

https://medium.com/better-programming/10-extraordinary-github-repos-for-all-developers-939cdeb28ad0
A mixed bag of mostly interesting GitHub resources.

How We Grow Joomlashack's Sales and Mailing List

https://www.joomlashack.com/blog/joomlashack/marketing-automation-osdownloads
From my friend Steve who's lived the lessons here. 

how to batch video files

https://superuser.com/questions/983785/batch-merge-sets-of-video-files

lunibox howtos

https://www.google.com/search?q=lunibox%20how%20to
commercial lumiboxes, short on howtos. 

Cloud & Desktop IDE Platform

https://theia-ide.org/
A browser-based IDE kinda like Eclipse that runs VSCode plugins

Google Dataset Search

https://datasetsearch.research.google.com/

The Three Equations for a Happy Life, Even During a Pandemic

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2020/04/how-increase-happiness-according-research/609619/
be connected with modest expectations

Data-driven Astronomy

https://www.coursera.org/learn/data-driven-astronomy
would love to take this class. 

I Thought I Was Mastering Python Until I Discovered These Tricks

https://towardsdatascience.com/i-thought-i-was-mastering-python-until-i-discovered-these-tricks-e40d9c71f4e2
I don't use comprehensions when I should

Favorite low-coding tools

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22786853
Some I'd never heard of.

Top 3 Python Functions You Don’t Know About (Probably)

https://towardsdatascience.com/top-3-python-functions-you-dont-know-about-probably-978f4be1e6d
I'll admit I don't use these.

The Beauty of Single Action Controllers

https://driesvints.com/blog/the-beauty-of-single-action-controllers/
A contrarian view of controllers.

Create your own website without writing code using only Google Sheets

https://sheet2site.com/
I'm amazed that this is a thing. For people who only like spreadsheets, I guess. 

Inside the Secretly Lucrative World of Solo Piano Music

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/inside-the-secretly-lucrative-world-of-solo-piano-music
 They're not mega-millionaires, but they're doing well.

Embracing modern image formats

https://joshwcomeau.com/performance/embracing-modern-image-formats/
Better image formats, but not all browsers support all, how to make it work. 

5 Uncommon Habits That Will Make You Happier This Year

https://medium.com/personal-growth/5-uncommon-habits-that-will-make-you-happier-this-year-bb083f4e9bc0
Not the usual suspects

Email digests on things you love

https://mailbrew.com/
We'll see how smart it is. 

Links to all AWS cheat sheets

https://tutorialsdojo.com/links-to-all-aws-cheat-sheets/
links to fairly succinct AWS cheatsheets. 

Discover Incredible FREE Resources to Study Mathematics:

https://realnotcomplex.com/
Free math classes onlinle

The 25 best programming books of all-time. A data-backed answer

https://www.daolf.com/posts/best-programming-books/
Mostly familiar faces

How to SSH Properly

https://gravitational.com/blog/how-to-ssh-properly/
How to set up internal CAs and 2fa

Open Source Tools From the Warren for President Tech Team

https://medium.com/@teamwarren/open-source-tools-from-the-warren-for-president-tech-team-f1f27d2c7551
One of the most generous things I've seen come out of a presidential bid.

Guide to successful remote teams

https://www.startremote.net/
StartRemote is a collection of resources on how to create and maintain effective remote teams.

CS 253 web security

https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs253/
Stanford web security class

Inside the whimsical but surprisingly dark world of Rube Goldberg machines

https://www.theverge.com/2015/4/22/8381963/rube-goldberg-machine-contest-history-ideas
The oft-imitated Rube Goldberg machines

Finding a problem at the bottom of the Google stack

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/management-tools/sre-keeps-digging-to-prevent-problems

Building a more accurate time service at Facebook scale

 https://engineering.fb.com/production-engineering/ntp-service/
So maybe chrony is better than NTP?

How to Create a Magazine Site on Joomla (Detailed Guideline)

https://www.joomshaper.com/blog/how-to-create-a-magazine-site-on-joomla

Livewire is a full-stack framework for Laravel that makes building dynamic interfaces simple, without leaving the comfort of Laravel.

https://laravel-livewire.com/
AJAX with laravel without Vue

The best IPTV service provider according to Binge!

https://iptvtune.com/

Step-by-step guide to modern & secure CI setup

https://devforth.io/blog/step-by-step-guide-to-modern-secure-ci-setup
CI/CD using Drone

Laravel Migration Generator Online

https://laravelarticle.com/laravel-migration-generator-online
Laravel migration generator for those of us who are fluent in SQL

6 Quotes By Buddha That Will Change How You See The World And Yourself

https://medium.com/mind-cafe/6-quotes-by-buddha-that-will-change-how-you-see-the-world-and-yourself-32b237944edf
Wish all religions had this degree of humility and common sense. 

railroad simulator

https://store.trainzportal.com/
railroad simulator

Astronomy - Telescopes For Beginners

https://www.spaceracetoday.com/post/astronomy-telescopes-for-beginners
Good piece about basic telescopes. 

Design Models Interactively With Laravel Schematics

https://laravel-news.com/design-models-interactively-with-laravel-schematics
Drag and drop way to create Laravel Models and migrations. 

‘Light Is My New Drug’ The actually convincing science of light therapy.

https://www.thecut.com/2020/03/does-light-therapy-work.html
There's some evidence for this. 

The Spirit of Sauntering: Thoreau on the Art of Walking and the Perils of a Sedentary Lifestyle

https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/11/17/thoreau-walking/
Thoreau is right again. 

The Beer Drinker’s Guide to SAML

https://duo.com/blog/the-beer-drinkers-guide-to-saml
I don't drink beer, but this is a great illustration.

Discovering the useful Laravel pipelines

https://www.hackdoor.io/articles/lOQ9MvQB/discovering-the-useful-laravel-pipelines
One of the things that makes Laravel code so elegant

Why we can’t build small homes anymore

https://www.curbed.com/2020/3/10/21168519/homes-for-sale-american-home-suburbs
I've long said it's time for a change. 

How to implement the perfect failover strategy using Amazon Route53

https://medium.com/dazn-tech/how-to-implement-the-perfect-failover-strategy-using-amazon-route53-1cc4b19fa9c7
Not as obvious as one would think

Online IDE, editor, compiler

https://repl.it/
cloud-based development platform. needs a case study or something compelling

CertGraph: visualizing the distribution of trusted CA’s

https://michaelhendrickx.com/201911-certgraph-visualizing-the-distribution-of-trusted-cas.html
a family tree of CAs

online regex tester and debugger

https://regex101.com/
for PHP, JavaScript, Go, Python

FizzBuzz 2.0: Pragmatic Programming Questions for Software Engineers

https://triplebyte.com/blog/fizzbuzz-2-0-pragmatic-programming-questions-for-software-engineers
five simple multiple-choice questions to separate wheat from chaff

Find SaaS apps with great affiliate schemes A curated a list of SaaS companies with the most generous affiliate programs.

https://saasmoney.me/
just like the title says, SaaS platforms with affiliate programs

In depth guide to running Elasticsearch in production

https://facinating.tech/2020/02/22/in-depth-guide-to-running-elasticsearch-in-production/
more like intro

Colors & Fonts. A curated library of colors, fonts and resources for web developers & digital designers.

https://www.colorsandfonts.com/index.html
A lot more color than font at the moment

FizzBuzz 2.0: Pragmatic Programming Questions for Software Engineers

https://triplebyte.com/blog/fizzbuzz-2-0-pragmatic-programming-questions-for-software-engineers
are you a software engineer? 5 easy questions

Smithsonian Open Access

https://www.si.edu/openaccess
lots of material from the Smithsonian. Coloring book stuff?

Parenting Doesn’t Matter

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/parenting-doesn-t-matter
Comforting, I guess

First class emails at the least cost

https://mailbluster.com/
This is probably the lowest-cost email marketing platform I've seen. Not very full-featured, but you get what you pay for. 

31 Ways to Improve Your Life in Just a Month

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/31-ways-to-improve-your-life-in-just-a-month
slow down and be grateful

Georgia Tech’s entrepreneurship program CREATE-X reaches milestone of first exit

https://coe.gatech.edu/news/2020/02/georgia-techs-entrepreneurship-program-create-x-reaches-milestone-first-exit
Wonder when it'll be available?

Behind the scenes of Flare (or How to structure big Laravel applications)

https://freek.dev/1585-behind-the-scenes-of-flare-or-how-to-structure-big-laravel-applications
How to do a BIG laravel deploy

UTM Parameters: A Complete Guide for Traffic Attribution

https://www.business2community.com/online-marketing/utm-parameters-a-complete-guide-for-traffic-attribution-02288456
Everyone knows the mechanics of UTM tags, this shows the various ways of organizing them. 

Next.js react framework for mobile sites

https://nextjs.org/
jamstack react framework

Podcast Hosting and Analytics Platform

https://podzy.io/
new podcasting platform in beta

aimeos The PHP e-commerce & shop framework

https://aimeos.org/
not many extensions so far

Laravel eCommerce An Opensource eCommerce platform for all to build and scale your business.

https://bagisto.com/en/
We'll see if it gains an ecosystem

Vanilo is an E-commerce framework for Laravel

https://vanilo.io/
we'll see if it has legs

Shakespeare’s Genius Is Nonsense

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/shakespeare-s-genius-is-nonsense
Yes, some of the Bard is just playful nonsense. 

An Introduction to Simpson’s Paradox

https://towardsdatascience.com/simpsons-paradox-d2f4d8f08d42
Why averages can be deceiving.

Neutralinojs Portable and lightweight cross platform application development framework.

https://neutralino.js.org/
For Mac, Linux and Windows desktop apps. 

12 episodes and 15,000 downloads

https://www.indiehackers.com/product/software-engineering-unlocked-podcast/12-episodes-and-15-000-downloads--M10CC7uKt_qsgXUWN4_
Hints from a successful starting podcaster.

Understanding Terraform State

https://www.thecloud.coach/terraform/understanding-state/
What it is and where it lives. 

A utility-first CSS framework for rapidly building custom designs.

https://tailwindcss.com/
Is this the successor to Bootstrap?

STOP!! You don’t need Microservices.

https://medium.com/swlh/stop-you-dont-need-microservices-dc732d70b3e0
when microservices are appropriate and when they aren't

How to Setup an Awesome Python Environment for Data Science or Anything Else

https://towardsdatascience.com/how-to-setup-an-awesome-python-environment-for-data-science-or-anything-else-35d358cc95d5
a different way from pipl

Old CSS, new CSS

https://eev.ee/blog/2020/02/01/old-css-new-css/
good history of CSS

100+ Places to Launch/Share your Product

https://aflo.io/blog-post?id=27
places to launch a product

What’s next for serverless architecture?

https://www.infoworld.com/article/3526480/whats-next-for-serverless-architecture.html
Maybe something distributed, like Jamstack?

Bandwidth Hawk: Start Preparing for New TV Standard

https://www.bbcmag.com/law-and-policy/bandwidth-hawk-start-preparing-for-new-tv-standard
ATSC 3.0: connect your TV to the antenna and the internet. 

The Linux Foundation identifies most important open-source software components and their problems

https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-linux-foundation-identifies-the-most-important-open-source-software-components-and-their-problems/
Naming, account ownership and maintenance

10 Top VueJS Boilerplates for 2020

https://blog.bitsrc.io/10-top-vuejs-boilerplates-for-2020-c70192003d20
some specialized, others more broad

23 rules to run a software startup with minimum hassle

https://www.joisig.com/rules-software-startup-minimum-hassle
Solid advice that mostly jibes with IndieHackers

Costco Capitalism

https://www.bryanlehrer.com/entries/costco/
Some details of the Costco machine

Serverless Framework with Terraform: a firsthand experience

https://medium.com/@joel.tbarna/serverless-framework-with-terraform-a-firsthand-experience-ce127db3ac5b
A bit of an odd pair: terraform and aws lambdas. 

Curated list of awesome lists

https://project-awesome.org/shuaibiyy/awesome-terraform
List of terraform resources, because in days gone past these were very scarce.

The NSA's Python course

https://nsa.sfo2.digitaloceanspaces.com/comp3321.pdf
Learn Python the NSA way!

Supercharge your command line experience: GitHub CLI is now in beta

https://github.blog/2020-02-12-supercharge-your-command-line-experience-github-cli-is-now-in-beta/
GitHub CLI for PRs and such

Old Book Illustrations

https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/
Not sure if all these are suitable for coloring

Seamless pattern generator

https://beautifuldingbats.com/
and oddball tools for webdesign

How an 18th-Century Philosopher Helped Solve My Midlife Crisis

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-an-18th-century-philosopher-helped-solve-my-midlife-crisis
Hume and Buddha

The Servers Are Burning

https://medium.com/logic-magazine/the-servers-are-burning-ead14e5ad0e2
How small bugs can cascade. 

Discover tools and frameworks in the DevOps landscape.

https://www.devopsbookmarks.org/
devops toos and frameworks in lots of languages

‘The intelligence coup of the century’

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/national-security/cia-crypto-encryption-machines-espionage/
Another argument for open algorithms, secret keys. 

Curated Data for Remote, Digital Nomads & Travellers All the Remote power in your hands.

https://remoteplanet.io/
Resources for remote workers

One Hundred Museums Transformed Their Collections Into Free Coloring Pages

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/100-museums-transformed-their-collections-free-coloring-pages-just-you-180974116/
Need to make a "best-of" collection 

Karen: The anti-vaxxer soccer mom with speak-to-the-manager hair, explained

https://www.vox.com/2020/2/5/21079162/karen-name-insult-meme-manager
The origin of Karen

Your podcast's publishing platform

https://transistor.fm/
One of the better podcast hosting solutions

Instant feedback. Instantly better products.

https://www.upvoty.com/
Saas user feedback product

International living

https://internationalliving.com/
places for expats to retire

The Missing Semester of Your CS Education

https://missing.csail.mit.edu/
mostly command line

Understanding Modern Cloud Architecture on AWS: A Concepts Series

https://start.jcolemorrison.com/understanding-modern-cloud-architecture-on-aws-a-concepts-series/
aws fundamentals

Physicists determine the optimal soap recipe for blowing gigantic bubbles

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/02/physicists-determine-the-optimal-soap-recipe-for-blowing-gigantic-bubbles/
How to make great huge soap bubbles

The cinematographer of Knives Out wants to end the film-vs.-digital debate

https://www.polygon.com/2020/2/6/21125680/film-vs-digital-debate-movies-cinematography
A detailed deconstruction of what makes the "film" look. 

Large Scale Study How Data From Popular Keyword Research Tools Compare

https://backlinko.com/keyword-research-tool-analysis
SEO research tools compared

Odd Job: This teen bought a bunch of vending machines. Now he makes six figures.

https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2020/1/31/21067944/vending-machine-youtube-job
He's making more from his YouTube channel than vending

How tracking pixels work

https://jvns.ca/blog/how-tracking-pixels-work/
a basic intro

The economics of all-you-can-eat buffets

https://thehustle.co/the-economics-of-all-you-can-eat-buffets/
lessons probably applicable to other businesses as well. 

Gimlet Academy

https://open.spotify.com/show/7hhEbl4DOMheWRunCUAla6?si=WFxEsdUZTrehOt3qg2OIWQ
how to produce podcasts

Welcome to nbdev Create delightful python projects using Jupyter Notebooks

https://nbdev.fast.ai/
nice add-on to jupyter notebooks

Python built-ins worth learning

https://treyhunner.com/2019/05/python-builtins-worth-learning/
Basic, but solid advice

CNC kit

https://www.v1engineering.com/
a 4x8' flat bed DIY CNC machine

The SaaS Marketing Bible [41+ Strategies & Case-Studies]

https://apollodigital.io/blog/saas-marketing
Some marketing techniques. Not sure all of them are universally applicable. 

Who Killed the Great American Cable-TV Bundle?

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/who-killed-the-great-american-cable-tv-bundle
and its death was overdue

How to Start a Paid Newsletter and Create a Successful Business

https://www.timstodz.com/start-a-paid-newsletter/
Various tools and techniques to start a paid newsletter

MALT: Services Alternatives Services and features replacement investigations.

https://malt.web.cern.ch/malt/global/malt-table/
CERN is trying to replace proprietary tools with opensource. A work in progress. 

Google’s search engine for scientists upgraded for better data scouring

https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/23/21078310/google-dataset-search-beta-over-filters-improved-open-source
Better search for open datasets

API Economy: Is It The Next Big Thing?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomtaulli/2020/01/18/api-economy--is-it-the-next-big-thing/amp/
another puff-piece about SaaS and API

Gumroad helps creators do more of what they love.

https://gumroad.com/
a way for makers to monitize

a Vue.js framework for the JAM stack

https://gridsome.org/
is it vue 3.0 ready?

UPC Lookup Database

https://www.upcitemdb.com/
wonder what % of UPCs are in their database?

Find and Connect to Thousands of APIs One SDK. One API key. One dashboard.

https://rapidapi.com/
API aggregator

On-Page SEO: The Definitive Guide

https://backlinko.com/on-page-seo#on-page-seo-basics
fine details of on-page SEO

The Most Underrated Python Packages

https://towardsdatascience.com/the-most-underrated-python-packages-e22bf6049b5e
ok, almost all of these were new to me

Towards A Tokenized Data World: A New World Is Being Created

https://medium.com/asecuritysite-when-bob-met-alice/towards-a-tokenized-data-world-a-new-world-is-being-created-68d2d03768c7
Credit card processors have been using tokenization for a while, time for everybody to?

Why it only costs $10k to ‘own’ a Chick-fil-A franchise

https://thehustle.co/why-it-only-costs-10k-to-own-a-chick-fil-a-franchise/
Hint: you don't really own it. You're just an operator. 

Welcome to Emory Startup Launch

https://emorystartup.com/
Emory ups their incubation game

The no-code delusion

https://www.alexhudson.com/2020/01/13/the-no-code-delusion/
"no-code" has a place, but not everywhere. 

How Two Companies Hooked Customers On Products They Rarely Use

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-two-companies-hooked-customers-on-products-they-rarely-use
Build loyalty via content and community, not product repurchase. 

Building Blocks for DC Energy Systems

https://libre.solar/

Modular open source hardware to make energy accessible to everyone.We'll see where it goes.

How to Start a Podcast in 2020: The Complete Podcasting Tutorial

https://www.smartpassiveincome.com/guide/start-podcast-pats-complete-step-step-podcasting-tutorial/
Not sure about "complete" but at least a starting point. Gives short shift to hosting

Releasing GraphQLite 4: GraphQL in PHP made easy

https://thecodingmachine.io/graphqlite4
If graphQL is the Next Big Thing, this is a good start

30 life lessons I learned before turning 30

https://nesslabs.com/30-life-lessons
Not sure I agree with all these at 60, but some are good. Produce more than you consume. 

How to etch a PCB

https://imgur.com/a/3p2PUkg
Nice walkthrough of home-making PCBs

Rankshaper – Onpage SEO Ranking tool

https://www.seotool.ee/
Does a part of SEO, the easy part

PHP-ML - Machine Learning library for PHP

https://php-ml.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
still behind python, but nice to see ML in PHP

This startup founder raised $1.25M. Here’s her advice for other fundraising first-timers

https://technical.ly/philly/2020/01/07/jenzy-startup-founder-raised-1-million-advice-fundraising-first-timers/
Advise for seed funding

Why Talk With Lead?

https://www.talkwithlead.com/Contents/Index.aspx
website lead generation form. looks expensive as hell to me.

How to Start (And Grow) a YouTube Channel in 2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_eRcdE8NKA
from the backlinko guy

Podcast Generator: podcasting has never been so easy!

http://www.podcastgenerator.net/
Open source PHP based podcast generator

I scraped the top 100 e-commerce stores using Shopify. Here are my boring findings.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/elckkv/i_scraped_the_top_100_ecommerce_stores_using/
It's a fashionable world, 

13 Life-Learnings from 13 Years of Brain Pickings

https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/10/23/13-learnings-13-years/
like the last one especially

LaTeX,Evolved The easy to use, online, collaborative LaTeX editor

https://www.overleaf.com/
LaTeX online

Let's make music with a free, cross-platform tool for your computer.

https://lmms.io/
Opensource DAW

The Healthiest People in the World Don’t Go to the Gym

https://elemental.medium.com/the-healthiest-people-in-the-world-dont-go-to-the-gym-d3eb6bb1e7d0
move every way, every day

The state of JavaScript in 2019

https://2019.stateofjs.com/overview/
React is the leader, Vue.js coming up, Angular lagging. 

PodcastGenerator 3.0 release

https://github.com/albertobeta/PodcastGenerator/releases/tag/v3.0
just the code

Content Marketing in 2020: The Definitive Guide

https://backlinko.com/content-marketing-this-year
Some of the same: re-purpose, fresh, hot topics, some new: linkedin.

The death of the web design agency Oliver Lindberg

https://medium.com/net-magazine/the-death-of-the-web-design-agency-a79dd531bee2
There's still room for niche agencies, I believe. 

Top 25 ecommerce articles in 2019

https://www.practicalecommerce.com/2019-top-25-our-most-popular-posts-of-the-year
A lot of social and seo

Quick-Start Guide to Creating Amazon A+ Content

https://www.channeladvisor.com/blog/marketplaces/a-guide-to-amazon-a-content/
Not just for big sellers anymore. Does better content = more sales?

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
Common lists, but great annotations. 

Price’s Law: Why Only A Few People Generate Half Of The Results

https://dariusforoux.com/prices-law/
Interesting twist on the 80/20 rule. 

Confessions of an Accidental Job Destroyer

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/confessions-of-an-accidental-job-destroyer
Hard lessons in staying relevant.