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.

• We Need Viable Search Engine Competition, Now | peebs.org
• The Mathematics of Gamification | Foursquare Engineering Blog
• Web Standards Killed the HTML Star | Jeff Croft
• On Duck Typing | Glenn Block
• What “viable search engine competition” really looks like. | Alex Clemmer
• Backpack: Retrofitting Haskell with a Module System, at last | Lambda the Ultimate
• F12 Driven Development | Developer Heretic
• Go’s Type System Is An Embarrassment | Function What What
• Google unveils Open Automotive Alliance, featuring GM, Audi, Nvidia and others | GigaOm
• Tons of Small Classes | Schauderhaft
• Performance Testing with Voron OMG – Ayende @ Rahien
• How to write one of the fastest expression evaluators in Java | Java Code Geeks
• Bulk Fetching with Hibernate | Javalobby
• Automated Deployment with Mule Management Console and Maven | Javalobby
• Double Shot #1271 | A Fresh Cup
• Git: Keeping Your History Clean | Javalobby
• Dew Drop – January 6, 2014 (#1695) | Morning Dew
• Identifying Gradle Conventions | Inspired by Actual Events
• How HipChat Stores and Indexes Billions of Messages Using ElasticSearch and Redis | High Scalability
• Netgear wants to replace your cable box with a Chromecast-sized Android dongle | GigaOm
• Firefox OS: Looking Ahead | The Mozilla Blog
• Using Vagrant with AngularJS | OpenSource Connections
• The Four Stages of Disruption | Re/code
• The Daily Six Pack: January 7, 2014
• The time when we did Lean backwards | Marcus Hammarberg

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