The 10 best Amasty articles of 2016

https://blog.amasty.com/the-10-best-amasty-articles-of-2016/
Top ecommerce (esp Magento) articles of the past year.

10 more podcasts that new coders should listen to in 2017

https://medium.freecodecamp.com/10-more-podcasts-that-new-coders-should-listen-to-in-2017-3c7db301dfb#.12c2bekio
Some good podcasts for new and even experienced coders. 

What I’ve learned from 18 weeks of vlogging my coding journey

https://medium.freecodecamp.com/what-ive-learned-from-18-weeks-of-vlogging-my-coding-journey-4005a1e71b7d#.4dqw9k5uq
lessons learned by a new video blogger 

Understanding Flexbox: Everything you need to know

https://medium.freecodecamp.com/understanding-flexbox-everything-you-need-to-know-b4013d4dc9af#.2gj82mxna
Most comprehensive single article about Flexbox I've seen yet. 

Worldwide Human Sex Ratio for Total Population

http://chartsbin.com/view/2337
male/female ratio by country. Reason for China and Russia to get together. 

Child’s play The authoritative statement of scientific method derives from a surprising place — early 20th-century child psychology

https://aeon.co/essays/how-the-scientific-method-came-from-watching-children-play
Are children scientists? Are scientists children? Child psychology and the scientific method.

Lessons Learned: Why Newton Swears by Plain-Text Emails

https://explore.reallygoodemails.com/stop-missing-user-feedback-use-plain-text-emails-to-boost-response-rates-6fccb4ad2157#.fgzvxvkh6
Slightly misleading article about plain-text emails. How are they including links in them? 

11 Examples of Facebook Ads That Actually Work (And Why)

https://blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/33319/10-examples-of-facebook-ads-that-actually-work-and-why.aspx
One of the best articles I've seen on Facebook ads with nuts-and-bolts of how to make them work. 

UC Tech Jobs go to India

https://www.pressreader.com/usa/los-angeles-times/20170108/281908772827206
Yet another blatant abuse of the H1-B visa program, this time by the stat of California! #h1bmustdie

The Simple Truth Behind Reading 200 Books a Year

https://betterhumans.coach.me/the-simple-truth-behind-reading-200-books-a-year-1767cb03af20#.cfplwpm64
Warren Buffet says read 200 books a year. Here's how that beaks down and a testimonial.

React’s Five Fingers of Death. Master these five concepts, then master React.

https://medium.freecodecamp.com/the-5-things-you-need-to-know-to-understand-react-a1dbd5d114a3#.7q71cfjrb
I'm not a big fan of React, but here's some pegs to hang your thinking about it on:

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.