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.

• Open source DBMS’s are gaining in popularity at the expense of commercial systems | DB-Engines
• UnitTest | Martin Fowler
• Minimum Viable Block Chain | Ilya Grigorik
• Python recursion visualization with rcviz | Daemon Counting
• Merge more frequently | The Lean Coder
• First Principles – Thinking About How Elon Musk Approaches Problems | Percolate Blog
• Leaked Google Stars Video and Screenshots Show New Features | The Next Web
• Fat JSON | ongoing by Tim Bray
• Scala for-comprehension with concurrently running futures | Java Code Geeks
• The Skip | Music Machinery
• Pitfalls of the Hibernate Second-Level / Query Caches | Javalobby
• PaaS: Buildpacks | Javalobby
• Double Shot #1349 | A Fresh Cup
• Dew Drop – May 6, 2014 (#1770) | Morning Dew
• URLs are already dead | NCZOnline
• 17th-century Hand-Painted Art Book Reminds Us of Pantone | The Next Web
• Create a barebones R package from scratch | Flowing Data
• Spark for Data Science: A Case Study | myNoSQL
• Announcing Google Cloud Storage JSON API General Availability | Google Cloud Platform Blog
• Previewing a new Classroom | Official Google Blog
• The Quest for Database Scale: Three Design Points and Five common Bottlenecks to avoid | High Scalability
• GitHub Open Sources Its Atom Text Editor | TechCrunch
• When a bad day gets worse, getting hacked twice in one day | Chris Hates Writing

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