How to quickly improve website performance

https://medium.com/@lderendorp/how-to-quickly-improve-your-website-performance-98bf3843708
The usual suspects, but PWA manifests are new.

Introducing Flextype Modern Open Source Flat-File Content Management System

http://flextype.org/
Yet another opensource flatfile CMS.

Scikit-Learn: A silver bullet for basic machine learning

https://medium.com/analytics-vidhya/scikit-learn-a-silver-bullet-for-basic-machine-learning-13c7d8b248ee
Gentle intro to what scikit-learn is and isn't

How computers got shockingly good at recognizing images

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/12/how-computers-got-shockingly-good-at-recognizing-images
The turning point of machine vision: the AlexNet paper in retrospective. 

Writing copy for landing pages

https://stripe.com/atlas/guides/landing-page-copy
I'm not sure I buy all the hype of landing pages, but here's a pretty good guide.

Yep, Bitcoin Was a Bubble. And It Popped.

https://www.bloomberg.com/crypto
The bubble has burst.

Making podcast production super quick and easy

https://alitu.com/
Can you really have a podcast auto-producer?

18 striking findings from 2018

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/12/13/18-striking-findings-from-2018/
The state of the US and some European nations.

8 Reasons Python Sucks

https://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/825-8-Reasons-Python-Sucks.html
yeah, pretty much

The best web hosting service for your website in 2019

https://www.techradar.com/best/best-website-hosting-service
Familiar names, new pricepoints. 

Bertrand Russell’s Advice For How (Not) to Grow Old: “Make Your Interests Gradually Wider and More Impersonal”

http://www.openculture.com/2018/12/bertrand-russells-advice-for-how-not-to-grow-old.html
May you stay forever young.

10 Small Habits That Have A Huge Return On Life

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/10-small-habits-that-have-a-huge-return-on-life-2314204563
There are few big things in life. Mostly it's small things.

2018’s tech trends and tribulations in 14 charts

https://www.recode.net/2018/12/13/18106455/best-of-2018-data-charts-tech-end-year-list-amazon-facebook-juul-moviepass-elon-musk
How 2018 went in graphs.

4 More Quick and Easy Data Visualizations in Python with Code

https://towardsdatascience.com/4-more-quick-and-easy-data-visualizations-in-python-with-code-da9030ab3429
I do like spider plots, sometimes called bullseye graphs.

Your Infrastructure as Code CloudFormation Vs Terraform?

https://hackernoon.com/your-infrastructure-as-code-cloudformation-vs-terraform-34ec5fb5f044
We use terraform, but there's cloud formation as well. Pros and cons of each.

The Fine Art of Weekend Puttering

https://medium.com/s/story/the-fine-art-of-weekend-puttering-bab63977b49a
I look forward to doing more of this.

How to Become a Powerful Good Luck Magnet

https://theascent.pub/how-to-become-a-powerful-good-luck-magnet-d8d04dc93fec
Is there such thing as luck? Maybe but there is chance and chance does favor a prepared mind.

The quest for sustainable free/libre non-linear video editors

http://libregraphicsworld.org/blog/entry/the-quest-for-sustainable-free-libre-non-linear-video-editors
Survey of the major open source non-linear video editors, their state of development and economic models.

5 Things That Set Apart Expert Freelancers From Beginners

https://medium.com/forbes/5-things-that-set-apart-expert-freelancers-from-beginners-90e425b90031
How to be a more professional freelancer.

10 Top Tips for Recording & Mixing Better-Sounding Podcasts

https://www.waves.com/top-tips-for-recording-mixing-better-sounding-podcasts
Hints for recording and processing voice for podcasts.

Kubernetes on AWS: Setup and Lessons Learned

https://medium.com/@bouwe.ceunen/kubernetes-on-aws-setup-and-lessons-learned-93f8322bc13a
Kubernetes on AWS: some routes are better than others.

BUILDING A ZERO COST WEBSITE WITH APACHE SLING CMS

https://blogs.perficientdigital.com/2018/12/11/building-a-zero-cost-website-with-apache-sling-cms/
And people wonder why Java hasn't taken over the world. Deploying this CMS isn't straightforward to me.

5 ways to deploy PHP applications

https://buddy.works/guides/5-ways-to-deploy-php-applications
Deploying PHP applications. Git? Docker?

Breaking Through Amazon’s Hype Machine

https://medium.com/s/story/breaking-through-amazons-hype-machine-5cbad0e90ee5
What's coming next for Amazon? Advertising?

Serverless plays Rock-n-Roll at Fender

https://read.acloud.guru/serverless-plays-rock-n-roll-at-fender-61544cd7f1cc
Fender goes serverless

ESET discovers 21 new Linux malware families

https://www.zdnet.com/article/eset-discovers-21-new-linux-malware-families/
Malware that replaces your OpenSSH client or server.

11 Material Design UI Component Libraries for 2019

https://blog.bitsrc.io/11-material-design-ui-component-libraries-for-2018-b3d2c9962a2f
Libraries to add material design to the popular JavaScript frameworks.

The Song Remains The Same: A Story of Unencrypted Data, A 50-year-old Web infrastructure, A Lack of Patching And Certificate Time-outs

https://medium.com/asecuritysite-when-bob-met-alice/the-song-remains-the-same-a-story-of-unencrypted-data-a-50-year-old-web-infrastructure-a-lack-2ff8ceae3891
A post-mortum of the Equifax data breach. Lots of unlearned lessons.

How I found my dream job by contributing to open source projects

https://medium.freecodecamp.org/how-i-found-my-dream-job-by-contributing-to-open-source-projects-ca98cbe60009
Earn your stripes by contributing to opensource.

How I built an app with Vulcan.js in four days

https://medium.freecodecamp.org/how-i-built-an-app-with-vulcan-js-in-four-days-6368814077b1
Interesting new mobile development mashup.