18 web design trends for 2017

https://webflow.com/blog/18-web-design-trends-for-2017
Web design trends for the new year. Though I'm not sure "fake news" qualifies. 

6 Tools To Turbocharge Your Content Marketing in 2017

https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/287309
Top social media automation tools around. Some I've used, some I don't. 

What I learned from analyzing the top 252 Medium stories of 2016

https://medium.freecodecamp.com/what-i-learned-from-analyzing-the-top-253-medium-stories-of-2016-9f5f1d0a2d1c#.7by473knh
Brief analysis of the top Medium posts of the year. 

Bitcoin Will Never Be a Currency—It’s Something Way Weirder

https://www.wired.com/2017/01/bitcoin-will-never-currency-something-way-weirder
Bitcoin leads to new business models and ways of thinking. 

The Best Linux Distros for 2017

https://www.linux.com/news/learn/sysadmin/best-linux-distributions-2017
The rising stars of Linux distros for the new year. 

Welcome to Uberville

http://www.theverge.com/2016/9/1/12735666/uber-altamonte-springs-fl-public-transportation-taxi-system
Interesting case studies of Uber partnering with public mass transit. 

DevOps explained

https://www.niceideas.ch/roller2/badtrash/entry/devops-explained
One of the best explanations of DevOps I've seen recently.

Firebug lives on in Firefox DevTools

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2016/12/firebug-lives-on-in-firefox-devtools/
One of my favorite web tools, Firebug is no more, but will be resurrected in DevTools

The road not taken How we found (and lost) the dream of Personal Rapid Transit

http://www.theverge.com/2016/2/24/11094524/prt-transit-history-self-driving-cars-alden-starrcar-tomorrowland-1960s
History of autonomous personal mass transit. One system from 1978 is still running.

Significant Software Development Developments of 2016

https://marxsoftware.blogspot.fr/2016/12/big-news-2016.html
Reasonable assessment of the state of software as of the end of 2016

My Most Impactful Analytics Technologies in 2016

http://www.webanalyticsworld.net/2017/01/my-most-impactful-analytics-technologies-in-2016.html
Beyond Google Tag Manager, to other new Analytics tools:

googleAnalyticsR: A new R package for the Analytics Reporting API V4

https://analytics.googleblog.com/2016/12/googleanalyticsr-new-r-package-for.html
Looks like with GA's v4 API with R and shiny you can build your own Google Analytics

Top 10 PHP Security Tips for Linux Admins

http://www.developer.com/open/top-10-php-security-tips-for-linux-admins.html
PHP security tips for Linux SysAdmins

How to Use Google UTMs to Analyze Your Social Traffic

http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/how-to-use-google-utms-to-analyze-your-social-traffic/
Using UTMs to analyze traffic in Google Analytics

Ontraport Build a better business Publish. Market. Sell. Organize.

https://ontraport.com/
marketing automation that can do email, sms and postcards

Scaling Laravel Using AWS Elastic Beanstalk Part 2: Setting up VPC, RDS and ElastiCache

https://deliciousbrains.com/scaling-laravel-using-aws-elastic-beanstalk-part-2-setting-up-vpc-rds-elasticache/
Solid advice on scaling Laravel on AWS

Setting up Xdebug with Laravel Valet

https://murze.be/2017/01/xdebug-with-laravel-valet/
setting up xdebug on a local laravel install is not too difficult

There's a Massive Restaurant Industry Bubble, and It's About to Burst

https://www.thrillist.com/eat/nation/american-restaurant-industry-bubble-burst
That trendy restaurant you just went to may not be there much longer.

Japanese white-collar workers are already being replaced by artificial intelligence

http://qz.com/875491/japanese-white-collar-workers-are-already-being-replaced-by-artificial-intelligence/
Japanese insurance company is replacing 34 claims workers with Watson. 2-year payback. 

The Case Against Dark Matter

https://www.quantamagazine.org/20161129-verlinde-gravity-dark-matter/
A framework where dark matter isn't needed, but it makes the universe an even stranger place. 

To Understand Facebook, Study Capgras Syndrome

http://nautil.us/issue/42/fakes/to-understand-facebook-study-capgras-syndrome
Why we feel connected to strangers on the internet. 

Metaknowledge

https://aeon.co/essays/a-mathematical-bs-detector-can-boost-the-wisdom-of-crowds
The wisdom of crowds is good in large numbers, metaknowledge can improve smaller samples.

5 scientific myths you probably believe about the Universe

https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/5-scientific-myths-you-probably-believe-about-the-universe-9a34597d7435#.aunmlgdv6
Five scientific (actually physics) myths that are common

The first fatal nuclear meltdown in the U.S. happened in 4 milliseconds

https://timeline.com/arco-first-nuclear-accident-f16ec1105b9c#.mx80tg4u8
Interesting account of the first nuclear energy fatalities in the US. I'd never heard of this. 

https://www.cloudways.com/blog/php-trends-2017/
The state of PHP at the start of 2017 and what the new year holds. Hint: PHP 7.1 is it.

2017 Trendy google Fonts Combinations

http://fonts.greatsimple.io/
Trendy combinations of Google Fonts. Now if he only knew about color combinations.

HGTV Will Never Upset You: How the Network Beat CNN in 2016

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-28/hgtv-will-never-upset-you-how-the-network-beat-cnn-in-2016
When HGTV beats CNN in the ratings, you gotta wonder. Here's the details: 

10 Principles I Want to Live By

https://medium.freecodecamp.com/10-principles-i-want-to-live-by-fae94ded9c84#.8vwicys4k
Some ideas from reflecting on life after a silent retreat: 

All of 2016’s top mobile apps are owned by either Google or Facebook

https://medium.freecodecamp.com/all-of-2016s-top-mobile-apps-are-owned-by-either-google-or-facebook-a9c56d77a74b#.xlydy52pg
Are the days waning for making money via a mobile app? You decide: 

Isaac Asimov: How to Never Run Out of Ideas Again

https://medium.com/personal-growth/isaac-asimov-how-to-never-run-out-of-ideas-again-b7bf8e09cc91#.sidpupmjh
Some of Asimov's method of staying so productive and prolific: