The Best Products Launched in 2017

https://medium.com/product-hunt/the-best-products-launched-in-2017-1498e7d02b41#.vat1pggdi
Best recent new products. Interesting how many have some machine learning element in them. 

How I Gained 103,886 Email Subscribers With Just One Article

https://medium.com/personal-growth/how-i-gained-104-000-subscribers-through-the-most-recommended-article-in-history-of-medium-2855e335e02d#.c9ai11c4n
Interesting piece on the complete cycle of gaining new email subscribers. 

Material Design and the Mystery Meat Navigation Problem

https://medium.freecodecamp.com/material-design-and-the-mystery-meat-navigation-problem-65425fb5b52e#.nu23uzy7u
How lunchroom Mystery Meat relates to modern interface design.

Russians Engineer a Brilliant Slot Machine Cheat—And Casinos Have No Fix

https://www.wired.com/2017/02/russians-engineer-brilliant-slot-machine-cheat-casinos-no-fix/
Computers are bad at picking random numbers, as some casinos have learned the hard way:

Enterprise Linux's Big Three

http://windowsitpro.com/cloud/enterprise-linuxs-big-three
Notes on the big 3 Linux distros used in the enterprise. SuSE's hanging in there, somehow. 

My 6 takeaways from Satoshi Roundtable

https://medium.com/@tuurdemeester/my-6-takeaways-from-satoshi-roundtable-2e46680f0cf2#.wnky2w212
Report from the latest BitCoin roundtable. Still some division, but things are looking better.

Website Launch Checklist

https://websitelaunchchecklist.com/
A good checklist to go through before launching any new website. 

Hot Pod: The three numbers that mark the state of podcasting in 2017

http://www.niemanlab.org/2017/01/hot-pod-the-three-numbers-that-mark-the-state-of-podcasting-in-2017/
The latest numbers on podcast listeners and revenue growth show strong gains. 

What Everyone is not Telling You about Artificial Intelligence

https://medium.com/@matelabs_ai/what-everyone-is-not-telling-you-about-artificial-intelligence-36c8552f3f53#.j6g3elrtz
Overview of what's unsaid in Machine Learning.

Using Postman Environment Variables & Auth Tokens

https://medium.com/@codebyjeff/using-postman-environment-variables-auth-tokens-ea9c4fe9d3d7#.40l51pq1j
Useful hints on using Postman. 

Self-hosted Google Drive alternative

http://www.filerun.com/
Self-hosted Cloud Drive software. The license terms are a bit hazy.

9 Tools That Will Help You Become a Better Writer

https://medium.com/product-hunt/9-tools-that-will-help-you-become-a-better-writer-2feff4affd3a#.mwfvg1tx2
I'm a bit skeptical that tools make for a better writer, for power tools don't make for a better woodworker. 

Lady Gaga’s Halftime Show Drones Have a Bright Future

https://www.wired.com/2017/02/lady-gaga-halftime-show-drones/
The lowdown on the drone fleet used at the SuperBowl halftime. More and less than met the eye.

AWS still owns the cloud

https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/02/aws-still-owns-the-cloud/
Analysis of the latest growth numbers on cloud computing. Others may be growing faster, but AWS is still the winner. 

“I didn’t know Sketch could do that!”

https://medium.com/ux-power-tools/i-didnt-know-sketch-could-do-that-182f2f2d811e#.3ixn7k3jj
Some fairly surprising things one can do with Sketch. I didn't know about its Slack integration. 

How To Get People To Like You In 5 Seconds or Less

https://medium.com/the-mission/how-to-get-people-to-like-you-in-5-seconds-or-less-67e64cb91155#.cd357dhu6
Kinda like the Dale Carnegie book on one page: how to get people to like you.

How to get free wifi on public networks

https://medium.freecodecamp.com/free-wifi-on-public-networks-daf716cebc80#.eo66hdrxa
Getting free wifi on busy public networks by MAC cloning. 

How To Bootstrap Your Startup By Selling Services

https://medium.com/hi-my-name-is-jon/3-steps-to-a-suck-free-killer-3000-venture-f986b2c77294#.l8csp1ftb
Bootstrapping a business by selling services for multiple revenue streams. 

Warning: You are entering the XSS game area

https://xss-game.appspot.com/
Great interactive tutorial teaching the basics of XSS vulnerabilities. 

A Hacker Just Pwned Over 150,000 Printers Left Exposed Online

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/a-hacker-just-pwned-over-150-000-printers-left-exposed-online/
Hacker just did a portscan and printed to over 150k online printers

How we’re using Component Based Design

https://medium.com/@lewisplushumphreys/how-were-using-component-based-design-5f9e3176babb#.d3eombi80
Good tutorial on designing websites from the smallest elements up through the largest. No good toolchains for it?

How Flexbox works — explained with big, colorful, animated gifs

https://medium.freecodecamp.com/an-animated-guide-to-flexbox-d280cf6afc35#.uwyqmyk26
Nice introduction to flexbox using animated Gifs.

A million requests per second with Python

https://medium.freecodecamp.com/million-requests-per-second-with-python-95c137af319#.wypz9sib7
Interesting new Python library that blows Angular out of the water for speed. Still needs polish.

15 Ways to Win at Writing Email

https://medium.com/mailchimp-for-agencies/15-ways-to-win-at-writing-email-af42903837c6#.7a7wrxk6x
Some more good hints at writing marketing emails from the CopyHackers folks via Mailchimp.

10 things I learned making the fastest site in the world

https://hackernoon.com/10-things-i-learned-making-the-fastest-site-in-the-world-18a0e1cdf4a7#.npi1vti6r
Case study in pulling out all the stops to try to make a website fast. Hint: static and small. 

How to easily trick $FILE_MANAGER users to execute arbitrary code

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/5r6va0/how_to_easily_trick_file_manager_users_to_execute/
Interesting way to trick Linux file managers into executing commands.

Level Up Your CSS Skills With These 20 Pro CSS Tips

http://webdesignerwall.com/tutorials/level-css-skills-20-pro-css-tips
20 CSS tips. Some generally applicable, some more interesting or tutorial.

The mesmerizing new robot barista at San Francisco’s Cafe X

https://businesshub.mts.ca/h/i/324981033-the-mesmerizing-new-robot-barista-at-san-francisco-s-cafe-x
At least this barista won't misspell your name on the cup. 

The ear training guide for audio producers

http://training.npr.org/audio/the-ear-training-guide-for-audio-producers/
Really nice stuff from NPR: ear-training for audio producers. Useful to podcasters as well.

Sell More by Using Data to Drive Your Marketing

https://www.klaviyo.com/
An email service provider (ESP) specifically for e-commerce site operators. Better be good for their price.