Friday, June 8, 2018

Build, deploy, and manage modern web projects

https://www.netlify.com/
Free/low-cost website deployer.

Python for Data Science: 8 Concepts You May Have Forgotten

https://towardsdatascience.com/python-for-data-science-8-concepts-you-may-have-forgotten-i-did-825966908393
From simple comprehensions to the dreaded pivot table.

Serverless and PHP: Bref

http://mnapoli.fr/serverless-php/
A new framework to make serverless PHP less painful.

Why Do People Sign Yearbooks?

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/06/why-do-people-sign-yearbooks/561851/
A history of signing yearbooks.

What’s the best way to avoid regrets?

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/jun/01/best-way-avoid-regrets-oliver-burkeman
We regret what we don't do, but are these the "should" or the "want" tos?

Pirates Are Valuable Customers, Not The Enemy

https://torrentfreak.com/pirates-are-valuable-customers-not-the-enemy-180606/
More confirmation on what we've known all along: those that pirate media are actually the best customers.

Microsoft acquiring GitHub is a good thing. Here’s why.

https://medium.com/@ow/microsoft-acquiring-github-is-a-good-thing-heres-why-6a6a57eb83ac
Why Microsoft buying GitHub is a Good Thing. 

How to price your side-project

https://medium.freecodecamp.org/how-to-price-your-side-project-f4e0f86dbfde
how much to charge for your sideproject.

Books that changed my life

https://medium.com/the-polymath-project/books-that-changed-my-life-f78aa1cfe3fc
Reading Advice, mostly on how to think. 

Become a More Productive Learner

https://hbr.org/2018/06/become-a-more-productive-learner
long on the what, short of the how

Sunday, June 3, 2018

Microsoft’s most vulnerable monopoly

https://medium.com/swlh/microsofts-most-vulnerable-monopoly-55eaefd8ba34
Microsoft's cash cow is no longer Windows but Office. But How and Why is this so?

An iOS Developer on React Native

https://medium.com/ios-os-x-development/an-ios-developer-on-react-native-1f24786c29f0
It was hard to switch from Swift, but this developer has learned to embrace React Native. 

A Bitter Guide To Open Source

https://medium.com/@ken_wheeler/a-bitter-guide-to-open-source-a8e3b6a3c1c4
Yes, to participate in open source communities you have to develop a bit of thick skin. 

Custom mechanical keyboards.

http://www.wasdkeyboards.com/index.php/
Custom mechanical keyboards. And they DO mean CUSTOM!!

11 Best Programming Fonts

https://itnext.io/11-best-programming-fonts-724283a9ed57
Good terminal fonts. I'm giving Hack a try.

Ten Years of Vim

https://matthias-endler.de/2018/ten-years-of-Vim/
Very similar to my own journey.

Daily knowledge devs and designers need to get ahead of the game

https://versioning.substack.com/
I've just put this in my browser bookmark bar. It's that good.

Bye, Chrome: Why I’m switching to Firefox and you should too

https://www.fastcodesign.com/90174010/bye-chrome-why-im-switching-to-firefox-and-you-should-too
A cogent argument for dumping Chrome in favor of Firefox. 

The Problem With Buying Cheap Stuff Online

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/05/wish-china-cheap-stuff/560861/
Ever hear of wish.com? Bigger than Macy's, JCP and Sears combined.

FCC asks Amazon and eBay to stop selling fake pay TV boxes

https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/29/fcc-asks-amazon-and-ebay-to-stop-selling-fake-pay-tv-boxes/
Should be interesting since one of the best IPTV devices is the Amazon FireStick.

Prometheus vs. Grafana vs. Graphite - A Feature Comparison

https://www.loomsystems.com/blog/single-post/2017/06/07/prometheus-vs-grafana-vs-graphite-a-feature-comparison
What's a time series, and what are good tools to generate them?

What is Fluentd?

https://www.fluentd.org/architecture
People are doing some pretty amazing stuff with fluentd. ETL, beyond logging.

The first cyberattack took place nearly 200 years ago in France

https://boingboing.net/2018/05/28/paleohackers.html
I love this kind of history that shows there's nothing new under the sun.

Saturday, June 2, 2018

How raising a $2+M Seed Round really, actually went

https://medium.com/@emilybest/how-raising-a-2-m-seed-round-really-actually-went-b1c53ff9096a
The harrowing tale of how fundraising actually goes.

The Books I read in 2017 to Master The Best of What Other People Have Figured Out

https://medium.com/the-mission/the-books-i-read-in-2017-to-master-the-best-of-what-other-people-have-figured-out-77bfe6605fda
Wish I had time to read a bunch of these.

The Science of High Performance

https://medium.com/the-mission/the-science-of-high-performance-642f3fbbd93e
part of the equation: eliminate the needless.

Why you should never have a data room — the most counter-intuitive fund-raising advice you’ll ever get

https://bothsidesofthetable.com/why-you-should-never-have-a-data-room-the-most-counter-intuitive-fund-raising-advice-youll-ever-9380172366ea
In dealing with VCs, sometimes common sense doesn't work.

Dependency injection for beginners

https://www.stitcher.io/blog/dependency-injection-for-beginners
Really good explanation of dependency injection.

Yoko Kanno: The Greatest Composer You’ve Never Heard Of

https://medium.com/lapsed-historian/yoko-kanno-the-greatest-composer-youve-never-heard-of-b452f64acc72
Truly beautiful music.

ArchDaily the worlds most visited architecture website

https://www.archdaily.com/
beautiful architecture. Not computer architecture