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.

• WordPress 3.8 “Parker” | WordPress
• Toward A Database URI Standard | theory.so
• Seven Keys to Keeping the Startup Spirit Alive in a Growing Company | shutterbits
• Scaling Spring Batch – Step Partitioning | Java Code Geeks
• The best city to start a company | Kirill Zubovsky
• Scientists discover double meaning in genetic code | UW Today
• Why I wrote gocraft/web – UserVoice Developer
• Profile Info | xkcd
• The Daily Six Pack: December 13, 2013
• Sublime Simplicity of Scripting with Groovy | Inspired by Actual Events
• The 7 Habits of Highly Overrated People | DaedTech
• The key word in “Data Science” is not Data, it is Science | Simply Statistics
• I am selfish | Karen X. Cheng
• Should you code well or code fast? | Creative Bloq
• Design Patterns: Pattern or Anti-Pattern, That is the Question | Javalobby
• Double Shot #1258 | A Fresh Cup
• Dew Drop – December 13, 2013 (#1683) | Morning Dew
• Hibernate Facts: Always check Criteria API SQL queries | Java Code Geeks
• STAASH – STorage As A Service over Http – A multi-storage abstraction layer | The Netflix Tech Blog
• Go on App Engine: tools, tests, and concurrency | Google Cloud Platform Blog
• Amazon’s Pantry would bring bulk grocery orders to your doorstep | VentureBeat
• About PayPal’s Node vs Java “fight” | Cloudbees Development Blog
• Google buys Boston Dynamics, the world’s scariest robot developer – GigaOM
• The Route to Being a Good Software Engineer | Javalobby
• Things we learnt trying, and failing, to build an e-commerce platform for selling digital goods | Makeshift
• The shakeup of Kleiner Perkins exposes the short comings of venture capital – GigaOm

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