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.

• Balancing Act: Building for Both Future and Current Users
• Taking Off the Gloves with Reference Counting Immix
• Optimizing Recommendation Systems: Exploration and Exploitation
• Big data made easy
• Opening up Course Builder data
• New Acquisitions Reporting & Channels Shows A More Complete Picture Of Your Users & Marketing
• Flashcache at Facebook: From 2010 to 2013 and beyond
• Self-healing metal could lead to longer-lasting airplanes
• Christopher Columbus was awful (but this other guy was not) | The Oatmeal
• Building a faceted search application
• The Daily Six Pack: October 10, 2013
• Poor Structure and the Growing Burden of Tech Debt
• Double Shot #1219
• A strange lonely planet found without a star
• Dew Drop – October 10, 2013 (#1,642)
• My Experience As A Fourth Grade Hacker
• Tutorial: How to Create a Responsive Website with AngularJS
• Improving Unit Testing with FluentAssertions
• RUM vs. Synthetic Data Analysis
• Monte Carlo NPV Walkthrough
• New features and tutorials for Compute Engine Load Balancing
• AWS Activate – Get Your Startup Off the Ground with AWS
• How to create a web app that looks like a iOS 7 native app (Part 2: Behavior)
• Extend Drake (“Make for data”) with a Simple Clojure Project
• No Code Required: Auto-Event Tracking with Google Tag Manager
• Don’t You Know that Support is the Most Important Part of a Developer’s Job?

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