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.

• Are You Winning The Attention Auction? | BlindFiveYearOld
• A Maturity Model for Build Automation | Javalobby
• A Beginner’s Guide to MongoDB Performance Turbocharging | Javalobby
• Apache Spark: The Next Big Data Thing? | Javalobby
• To the Girls of HackerNews: I am a Female Founder who Codes | Susie Ye
• Build GIT – Learn GIT (P1) – Kushagra Gour
• LESS vs Sass? It’s time to switch to Sass | Flippin’ Awesome
• Build your own Custom Lucene query and scorer | OpenSource Connections
• On Riemann | John Hackworth
• Battle of the Box | stratechery
• The decay and fall of guest blogging for SEO | Matt Cutts
• The Daily Six Pack: January 21, 2014
• Modeling Business Transactions – 1 (For SaaS Pricing) | Java Code Geeks
• Big Data Search: The index format is horrible – Ayende @ Rahien
• Double Shot #1282 | A Fresh Cup
• Product Customer Fit Only Requires Must-Have Features | Javalobby
• Testing Leader Election (in Raft) using Akka, without Thread.sleep() 😉 | Javalobby
• Done in 18 bananas | The Official Iterate Blog
• RSI Content Solutions Named to Philadelphia Future 50 For Third Year in a Row
• Dew Drop – January 21, 2014 (#1706) | Morning Dew
• Private instance members with weakmaps in JavaScript | NCZOnline
• Pile of Viruses | What If?
• The tools that define us. Building a tool culture | Crafting Cucumbertown
• Composable and streamable Play apps | LinkedIn Engineering

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