I have talked about human filters and my plan for digital curation. These items are the fruits of those ideas, the items I deemed worthy from my daily reading. These items are a combination of tech business news, development news and programming tools and techniques. You will note that some of the formatting has changed, and that is due to the change in my process. Formatting, and the information presented, is likely to change a bit as I develop my new process.

• The shrinking RSS pie
• New Relic’s diversity scholarships honor devs who ‘build software that matters’
• How To Validate Product Ideas Before (And After) Building Them
• Livelocks from wait/notify
• Clojure: Converting an array/set into a hash map
• BlackBerry cutting 4,500 jobs as its Q2 2014 revenues became 50 percent less than analysts expected
• How the cancelled Star Wars 1313’s legacy might change the way Hollywood makes films
• REST 101 For Developers
• Why Are There So Many Pythons?
• Dinosaur Feathers Found in Ancient Amber
• Big buttons are great, but they’d better make sense
• The Ph.D.-Industry Gap
• How Would An Entrepreneur Attack Your Business?
• The Importance of Whimsy in Learning to Program
• Solving a Combination Lock Puzzle with JuMP and Julia
• We Built It, And They Didn’t Come
• Optical Bernoulli Forces Could Steer Objects Bathed in Light, Say Theorists
• How APIs Are Changing Application Development
• A better way to defer JS
• Dynamic Terrain Rendering with SlimDX and Direct3D 11
• Easy Messaging with STOMP over WebSockets using ActiveMQ and HornetQ
• JVM-based interpreter for the R language for statistical computing
• Alternate Universe | XKCD
• The Daily Six Pack: September 23, 2013
• Graphics acceleration can bring 10X speedup to Java
• Double Shot #1207
• Tracking criminal movements and predicting hot spots
• Shiny: Easy web applications in R
• PayPal nears deal for Braintree Payments
• Focusing on Commitment over Deadlines
• Easy API Scaffolding with Simple-API and Node.js
• Building a Message Queue using Redis in Go
• Dew Drop – September 23, 2013 (#1,629)
• Salesforce Architecture – How they Handle 1.3 Billion Transactions a Day
• Formalizing Concurrency, Distribution, and Mobility
• Shell Scripts vs Ansible: Fight

I hope you enjoy today’s items, and please participate in the discussions on those sites.