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.