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. 

Monday, December 21, 2020

Centering in CSS

 https://web.dev/centering-in-css/

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

Monday, December 14, 2020

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. 

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. 

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

 

Thursday, November 26, 2020

Master the art of creating & running a newsletter

 https://newsletteros.com/

Probably one of the simplest subscription models, often overlooked. 

Wednesday, November 25, 2020

Crontab Guru

 https://crontab.guru/

easy way to learn the time fields in crontab. 

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. 

Saturday, November 14, 2020

Podcast Editing for Everyone

 https://vodited.com/

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

Tuesday, October 27, 2020

Streak - CRM for Gmail

 https://www.streak.com/

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

Wednesday, October 21, 2020

Songs and Lyrics by Tom Lehrer

 https://tomlehrersongs.com/

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

Monday, October 19, 2020

Saturday, October 3, 2020

Import Yeti

 https://www.importyeti.com/

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

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.”

Thursday, September 17, 2020

Wednesday, September 16, 2020

RSS by Email

 https://rssby.email/

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

Tuesday, September 15, 2020

Great Resources For Newsletter Creators

  https://letterstack.co/

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

Thursday, September 3, 2020

Wednesday, August 12, 2020

Thursday, July 16, 2020

Affiliate management platform

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

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?

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.

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).

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.

Tuesday, June 23, 2020

Where ecommerce businesses grow

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

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!

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. 

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.

Monday, May 25, 2020

Sunday, May 17, 2020

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.

Wednesday, May 13, 2020

SSH Tips & Tricks

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

Wednesday, April 29, 2020

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.

Thursday, April 23, 2020

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?

Free Unlimited Podcast Hosting

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

Video editing made simple

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

Cloud & Desktop IDE Platform

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

Friday, April 3, 2020

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. 

Guide to successful remote teams

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

Friday, March 6, 2020

Online IDE, editor, compiler

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

Smithsonian Open Access

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

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. 

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.

Sunday, February 9, 2020

Monday, February 3, 2020

Saturday, January 18, 2020

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.

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. 

Monday, January 6, 2020