Why Playfulness Is the Key to Success in the 21st-Century

https://medium.com/personal-growth/why-playfulness-is-the-key-to-success-in-the-21st-century-201a626fe18
One of the keys to creativity is downtime and letting the subconscious connect the dots.

Harvard Study: Gender Wage Gap Explained Entirely by Work Choices of Men and Women

https://fee.org/articles/harvard-study-gender-pay-gap-explained-entirely-by-work-choices-of-men-and-women/
And the pay gap is caused by.... individual choices!

A practical guide to testing the security of Amazon Web Services (Part 1: AWS S3)

https://blog.mindedsecurity.com/2018/09/a-practical-guide-to-testing-security.html
AWS S3 security

Jupyter Notebook Extensions

https://towardsdatascience.com/jupyter-notebook-extensions-517fa69d2231
Jupyter notebook extensions. Some look useful

An Introduction to Flutter: The Basics

https://medium.freecodecamp.org/an-introduction-to-flutter-the-basics-9fe541fd39e2
Interesting new mobile development platform

Froala Design Blocks

https://www.froala.com/design-blocks
ready-made design blocks for bootstrap.

Naked, Drunk, and Very Tired What I learned from trying to live like a genius

https://medium.com/s/story/i-tried-10-extreme-creativity-hacks-cc17665702b7
Yeah, these aren't for everyone.

How to Write Your Way Through the Middle

https://medium.com/s/an-outsiders-guide-to-publishing/how-to-write-your-way-through-the-middle-39908b80ba0
I'm stuck in the middle on a story. I need this.

How Melissa & Doug captured the toy market, one wooden block at a time

https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2018/12/7/18130781/melissa-and-doug-wooden-toys-holiday-toys
I love toys and businesses like this.

Textpattern: The small content management system that can handle big ideas

https://textpattern.com/
Yet another open-source PHP CMS, actually has about a thousand plugins and extensions.

Generate Random Alphanumeric Strings in PHP

https://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/generate-random-alphanumeric-strings-in-php--cms-32132
Some of the simpler ways to generate pseudo-random strings in PHP

Pipenv: Python Dev Workflow for Humans

https://pipenv.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
A hopefully better way to install and manage packages in Python.

Building Mobile Apps With Capacitor And Vue.js

https://medium.com/@smashingmag/building-mobile-apps-with-capacitor-and-vue-js-944b22ec4780
Developing a mobile page, progressive app, in Vue.

I created the exact same app in React and Vue. Here are the differences.

https://medium.com/javascript-in-plain-english/i-created-the-exact-same-app-in-react-and-vue-here-are-the-differences-e9a1ae8077fd
Informative side-by-side development of the same page in both react and vue.

The united states of wonder

https://vannizhang.github.io/wonder/
very slick visualization of what's google's top autocomplete in each state.

Why Did the FBI Raid the Home of the Biggest Alien Truther?

https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-did-the-fbi-raid-the-home-of-the-biggest-alien-truther
looking for element 115?

Top 14 Joomla extensions

https://opensource.com/article/18/12/top-joomla-extensions
Good ones here.

You're all calculating churn rates wrong

https://catchjs.com/Blog/Churn
Yeah, but selling the C-suite on esoteric stats and long tail is a hard row to hoe.

YouTube top earners: The seven-year-old making $22m

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-46427910
This is nuts! a 7-year old?

Blockchain for International Development: Using a Learning Agenda to Address Knowledge Gaps

http://merltech.org/blockchain-for-international-development-using-a-learning-agenda-to-address-knowledge-gaps/
The success rate for blockchains in the non-crypto world is.... ZERO

Becoming Virtually Untraceable

https://medium.com/@IanBarwise/becoming-virtually-untraceable-part-3-advanced-techniques-5d437eddf3e4
Covering one's digital footprints.

A List of Content Management Systems for JAMstack Sites

https://headlesscms.org/
A list of open source and closed source headless CMSs

Evasion & Obfuscation Techniques

https://medium.com/@IanBarwise/evasion-obfuscation-techniques-87c33429cee2
Evasion & Obfuscation techniques for pen testing

Review: Battle of Schiit Audio DACs

https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/review-battle-of-schiit-audio-dacs.5487/
Looks like the Schiit Modi 3 is still the best deal.

6 Open Source SIEM Tools

https://logz.io/blog/open-source-siem-tools/
opensource security tools

Visualizing the Meaning of Life: The Drip Coffee Model

https://medium.com/the-polymath-project/visualizing-the-meaning-of-life-the-drip-coffee-model-87a37e3d4040
It's what you put in

Block-Element-Modifier

https://en.bem.info/methodology/quick-start/
Block-Element-Modifier web design

high fidelity music streaming

https://tidal.com/us
hi fidelity music streaming

Discover and share podcasting setups

https://setup.fm/
Recommended podcasting setups by price range.

Exclusive: Airbnb will start designing houses in 2019

https://www.fastcompany.com/90271599/exclusive-airbnb-will-start-designing-houses-in-2019
I've long argued that affordable housing is critical to economic well-being