Friday, February 28, 2020

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?

Tuesday, February 18, 2020

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!

Sunday, February 16, 2020

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

Wednesday, February 12, 2020

‘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

Sunday, February 9, 2020

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. 

Tuesday, February 4, 2020

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

Monday, February 3, 2020

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