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.

• More trouble for Healthcare.gov contractor CGI | GigaOm
• The NoSQL conundrum: Lagged veracity and the double-edged promise of eventual consistency | myNoSQL
• Now Commerce: Trying to Solve Demand for Instant Gratification | Louis Gray
• JSON’s Eight Year Convergence With XML | Programmable Web
• Why Entrepreneurs Are Bad at Finding Their Competition (and how you can do better) | Brian Sirkia
• Working With IndexedDB – Part 3 | Nettuts+
• Infinite Scrolling | xkcd
• Playing with futures | Java Code Geeks
• Gradle Command-Line Conveniences | Inspired by Actual Events
• Operation Vula | Schneier on Security
• Reducing the cost of writing to disk – Ayende @ Rahien
• Double Shot #1265 | A Fresh Cup
• Dew Drop – December 27, 2013 (#1691) | Morning Dew
• On interviewing front-end engineers | NCZOnline
• Learn to think big | Gabriel Weinberg
• “No one at Google is Returning Our Calls” – DIGITS to DOLLARS
• How to be a hacker | Guardian
• Regularizing neural networks with dropout and with DropConnect – FastML
• A glimpse into a new general purpose programming language under development at Microsoft | Lambda the Ultimate
• Rust is surprisingly expressive | Steve Klabnik
• PubSubHubbub is webhooks with benefits | Superfeedr
• RxJava: From Future to Observable at Mark Needham
• What sucks about front-end development | Chris Northwood
• Do I really need a programming language? | Ayuda Media Systems

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