The Satisfaction of Mathematically Efficient Christmas Cookies

 https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/best-christmas-cookie-cutter

Not too many Escher-cookies yet. 

The quiet disappearance of the safe deposit box

 https://thehustle.co/the-quiet-disappearance-of-the-safe-deposit-box/

Sounds like time for an alternative

BirdNET-Pi: Using AI to identify Birds from their Songs

 https://reefwing.medium.com/birdnet-pi-using-ai-to-identify-birds-from-their-songs-9770e39aced1

As soon as raspberry pis are available again, this would be fun. 

The Zwicky box: a powerful method for problem solving and creativity

 https://nesslabs.com/zwicky-box

Create virtual tables, and create a cartesian cross-product. 

Need to Learn Faster? Neuroscience Says These 7 Memory Retention and Skill Acquisition Strategies Work Best

 https://www.inc.com/jeff-haden/need-to-learn-faster-neuroscience-says-these-7-memory-retention-skill-acquisition-strategies-work-best.html

good evidence-based summary

How Kindle novelists are using ChatGPT

 https://www.theverge.com/23520625/chatgpt-openai-amazon-kindle-novel

From ideas, to cover art. 

Side Project Guide

 https://sideproject.guide/en

A well-done git repo with lots of resources

An open platform for building developer portals

 https://backstage.io/

from the good people at Spotify

The three top-paying tech roles in 2022 and the skills you need to land them

https://stackoverflow.blog/?p=19588

Cloud, security, data. Strangely, I have all 3 and almost couldn't get hired. 

Ten Minute Physics

 https://matthias-research.github.io/pages/tenMinutePhysics/index.html

python-based physics simulations

AI enabled, real people's voices

 https://murf.ai/

One of the better-sounding text-to-speech products I've seen. 

Fallacies of Distributed Systems

 https://architecturenotes.co/fallacies-of-distributed-systems/

I kept trying to convince my boss about #1

How to Enable Creator Mode on LinkedIn

 https://www.makeuseof.com/enable-creator-mode-linkedin

I didn't know that LinkedIn had a newsletter feature!

Hashgraph: The sustainable alternative to blockchain

 https://stackoverflow.blog/2022/11/09/hashgraph-the-sustainable-alternative-to-blockchain/

A new generation of DLT that's not blockchain. 

enterprise features for your SaaS app

 https://workos.com

Wraps your app in enterprise features like SSO, SAML, etc. 

A Visual Guide to SSH Tunnels (with labs)

 https://iximiuz.com/en/posts/ssh-tunnels/

good explanation of ssh tunnels

From TRIZ to ASIT,

 http://www.triz40.com/aff_TRIZ_to_ASIT.php

the next step of triz evolution? 

How To Turn Yourself Into Pixar Character Using Stable Diffusion AI

 https://medium.com/mlearning-ai/how-to-turn-yourself-into-pixar-character-using-stable-diffusion-ai-e0c010c2a631

More graphic fun with AI

The SaaS Starter tolaunch ideas in minutes

 https://makerkit.dev/

Stack with Node, Firebase, Tailwind, 

Turns just about anythig into an SQL database.

 https://steampipe.io/

run SQL over about 200 data sources. 

10 music background websites that help you focus on work

 https://www.morningbrew.com/daily/stories/2022/10/31/10-music-websites-to-help-you-focus-on-work

So where's the Lo-Fi Hip-Hop girl reference?

AI Music Generator

https://soundraw.io/ 

Make your own royalty-free music

Learn the PHP Framework for Web Artisans

 https://bootcamp.laravel.com/

Two official Laravel tutorials

Tutorials Videos are the best way to teach and explain things in action. So, here you will find all tutorials as Videos.

 https://nocodeapi.com/tutorials/

Tutorials for the NoCode API product

Intro to automation 101 course

 https://busytoleveraged.com/automation-101

blog posts about nocode automation

Power any project with a modern, open source data platform

 https://directus.io/

SaaS layer to take a relational database and present it as an API

Sync customer data from your warehouse to any SaaS tool

 https://hightouch.com/

sometimes called a reverse-etl tool. It takes data from the data lake and fans-out to other SaaS products. 

Python CLI Tricks That Don't Require Any Code Whatsoever

https://martinheinz.dev/blog/83 

like starting a webserver, etc. 

Airbyte open source ELT tool

 https://airbyte.com/

 Plus SaaS version with free tier

How to Build Software like an SRE

 https://www.willett.io/posts/precepts/

Good advice on software architecture from a reliability viewpoint. 

Little Rules About Big Things

 https://collabfund.com/blog/little-rules-about-big-things

Some unique and solid advice on investing, and in the larger sense, life. 

A Five-Minute Guide to Better Typography

 https://www.pierrickcalvez.com/journal/a-five-minutes-guide-to-better-typography

Good, solid advice on effective typography

StabilityAI announced AI Music Generator Harmonai based on Dance Diffusion Model

 https://mpost.io/stabilityai-announced-ai-music-generator-harmonai-based-on-dance-diffusion-model

Yes, AI image generation is all the rage these days, but here's AI generated music. 

Symphony-based SaaS boilerplate

 https://www.getparthenon.com/

fairly complete SaaS opensource framework. 

 

Most Dynamic Micropolitans: 2022

 https://heartlandforward.org/case-study/most-dynamic-micropolitans-2022

Don't know how Jefferson got on this list, but ok. 

THE REALITY OF CELEBRATORY GUNFIRE

 https://www.1point21interactive.com/celebratory-gunfire/

What goes up must come down, sometimes with deadly consequences

Common Python Anti-Patterns to watch out for

 https://tvkoushik.medium.com/common-python-anti-patterns-to-watch-out-for-9271d13a3f8e

I've never exec'd python code, but I've committed most of the other missteps listed herein. 

The state of CSS in 2022

 https://web.dev/state-of-css-2022/

Lots of new features, not sure when they'll be widely available. 

With Mapzy, you can add a beautiful store locator to your website without touching a line of code.

 https://mapzy.io/

Could this be a serious alternative to Google Maps?

Roboto … But Make It Flex

 https://material.io/blog/roboto-flex

Tweak just about all the aspects of Roboto in its latest release. 

There's a Reliable Way to Trigger Lucid Dreams, Scientists Have Found

 https://www.sciencealert.com/there-s-a-reliable-way-to-trigger-lucid-dreams-scientists-have-found

Might like to try this, but it's prescription. 

A list of new(ish) command line tools

 https://jvns.ca/blog/2022/04/12/a-list-of-new-ish--command-line-tools

not sure if all these are "the UNIX way" of doing things. 

ASIAIR: The Little Box That's Changed Astrophotography Big-Time

 https://fstoppers.com/astrophotography/asiair-little-box-thats-changed-astrophotography-big-time-601551

looks like a pi that controls all your astrophotograpy stuff. 

Botnet that hid for 18 months boasted some of the coolest tradecraft ever

 https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/05/how-hackers-used-smarts-and-a-novel-iot-botnet-to-plunder-email-for-months/

scary under-the-radar botnet on network applicances

Picture perfect images with the modern element

 https://stackoverflow.blog/2022/03/28/picture-perfect-images-with-the-modern-element

There's been a lot of additions to the lowly img element over the last few years. 

The Dunning-Kruger Effect is Autocorrelation

 https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2022/04/08/the-dunning-kruger-effect-is-autocorrelation

The Dunning-Kruger Effect shows up in all data sets, even when it shouldn't. Because it's deeply flawed statistics. 

Social Media APIs

 https://www.ayrshare.com/

New commercial offering of unified APIs for social media. 

How to design better APIs

 https://r.bluethl.net/how-to-design-better-apis

Good, basic information I wish more people followed. 

The Mystery of How Agatha Christie Could Afford a Maid and a Nanny but Not a Car

 https://slate.com/business/2022/01/inflation-services-cost-agatha-christie-baumol.html

Baumol’s cost disease

GitHub Actions by Example

 https://www.actionsbyexample.com/

How to set up and use GitHub actions for CI/CD

Systemd by example

 https://systemd-by-example.com/

container-based playground to learn about systemd