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.

• Simple Git-backed Microsites | Pete Keen
• Google Cloud Platform Blog: SaltStack for Google Compute Engine
• Announcing Zeno – Netflix’s In-Memory Data Distribution Framework | The Netflix Tech Blog
• Fun with Esprima and Static Analysis | Toby Ho
• Using Spark for fast in-memory computing | myNoSQL
• The real secret to unlocking big data? Math | VentureBeat
• Probabilistic Programming in Quantitative Finance | Quantopian Blog
• Someone’s Been Siphoning Data Through a Huge Security Hole in the Internet | Threat Level
• Why I hate virtualenv and pip | Rants of a platform-agnostic python developer
• Immutable collections performance, take II – Ayende @ Rahien
• Scrum: What’s in it for me, the Developer? | Javalobby
• Using Akka Remoting for Building a Distributed Application: Addendum | Architects Zone
• GitHub’s 10,000 Most Popular Java Projects: Here are the Top Libraries They Use | Javalobby
• Invoking Angular JS Filters from Controller | Web Builder Zone
• Python “lists” are not lists. A history | Meta Rabbit
• Dew Drop – December 6, 2013 (#1678) | Morning Dew
• Double Shot #1253 | A Fresh Cup
• TestingBot has moved to its own cloud! | TestingBot Blog
• Code Is Cheap, It’s Knowledge Discovery That Costs | The Holy Java
• This woman and her machine learning tech could make Box a whole lot smarter | GigaOm
• Soylent hits its 1.0 formula, nears release | Ars Technica
• What we learned open sourcing a major part of Mailgun | The Mailgun Blog
• 14 predictions about analytics in 2014 | myNoSQL
• MongoDB performance bottlenecks and optimization strategies for MongoDB | myNoSQL

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