• Node Digital Multitool
  Neat and unique way to take data with you.
• “This is truly incredible.#nature #SundayMorning #October1st ”
  Nature is incredible.
• WOODWORKING BASICS Playlist
  A wealth of tips on using different things in a workshop.
• Fixer’s Manifesto ⇒ +1 to this. Maybe you’ve noticed how much I’m enjoying fixing/making and I’m learning so much.
• How Heber Cannon Became the Ultimate CrossFit Storyteller ⇒
  The feature films Heber puts out are inspiring and tell some awesome stories.
• Take a look inside Alibaba’s smart warehouse where robots do 70% of the work
  I’d like to see their battery chargers.
• Kellogg to Buy Protein-Bar Maker RXBAR for $600 Million ⇒
  I don’t like their bars at all, but a lot of CrossFitters do.
• Gutenberg, or the Ship of Theseus ⇒
  I really need to get my hands on Gutenberg or hopefully we have it available on WordPress.com at least for internal testing soon.

• ZeroView
  Would be neat to run a dash cam in the car.
• 11 Year Old Boy Gets Wish to Mow White House Lawn. Then the President Walked Outside
  $8 an hour? This kid is leaving a low of money on the table or else he does a shitty job and can’t get people to pay more than that. When I mowed lawns 20 years ago I charged $15/hour.
• How Apps Can Make Your Vacation Better ⇒
  Simple tips, but I love the playlist suggestion. I’m going to try that next time I’m in a foreign country.
• The iPhones 8
  I’ll be getting the iPhone X.
• Table Maker ⇒
  Might use this design when I get my workshop up and running.
• If you blow air through sand, it behaves like a liquid ⇒
  One of the coolest videos I’ve ever seen.
• iOS 11 Is Here… Try These Hidden Tricks for Your iPhone ⇒
  I learned several awesome tricks from this short vid.
• Cheatsheet for the JavaScript knowledge you will frequently encounter in modern projects. [⇒]
  Always be learning, especially JavaScript.

I’m going to start linking to the source of each link whenever I can in these Link Dump posts. I’ll use this double arrow icon ⇒. Should have done this from the beginning.

• Find Wi-Fi ⇒
  Input the MAC address of your router to see if your location is in the public databases. Extremely accurate for mine.
• Imperfect: Ugly produce delivery for 30-50% less! ⇒
  It never occurred to me that there is a big selection process before fruit and produce hits the shelves.
• Facebook Figured Out My Family Secrets, And It Won’t Tell Me How ⇒
  Facebook knows way too much about us. Last year I eliminated most use of FB Messenger and told everyone to text me instead.
• We Called it Gutenberg for a Reason
  Exciting changes and opportunities are on the horizon for WordPress.
• 100 days of exercise, journaling, and habit-forming or: How I spent my 3-month vacation from work
  Doing something to improve is always better than nothing. Start. Today.
• The amazing Tia-Claire Toomey just broke a world record LIVE on air, doing 31 chin-ups in a minute! ⇒
  This is for all of the CrossFit haters who complain about our kipping pull-ups. We also do strict reps.
• USB Charging Keychain (v4)
  Good idea to be safe when using random USB ports to charge devices.

• Counting Down the 10 Biggest Stories of the College Basketball Offseason
  Grayson Allen is back! GO DUKE!
• CNC Cut This Open Source Hexagonal Board Game
  Looks like a fun game to try.
• Text is Keeping Kids from Coding
  I wish all of these opportunities were around when I was growing up. Electronics and programming were intimidating and scary.
• Why Periodization Doesn’t Work in CrossFit (And How You Should Prepare Instead)
  I’d never heard of vertical integration or tactical periodization before. Need to look into these more.
• Napkin ring problem
  Hard to wrap your mind around.
• Ever wonder how Bitcoin (and other cryptocurrencies) actually work?
  Will we see any other cryptocurrencies get to Bitcoin’s level?
• Hello there. May I show you the greatest real estate listing in human history?
  Part of me wants to believe this isn’t a staged house and the owners actually lived like this.
• A Tesla Model X P100D beat a $530,000 Lamborghini Aventador SV in a drag race, and may have set an SUV speed record in the process
  It’ll never get old watching Tesla win these races.

• Rolling home
  There is no way I could move my entire home by bicycle. I wouldn’t want to try either.
• See How Only Ten Companies Own All the World’s Food Brands In This Telling Infographic
  So much yum. Scary to see how much control these companies have though.
• 111 N.F.L. Brains. All But One Had C.T.E.
  In 5-10 years will football exist as we know it? If I had kids there is no way I would let them play football.
• The History and Future of Locks and Keys
  Today’s common door lock was invented in 1861.
• Shining Light on National Security Letters
  Proud to be an Automattician!
• A New Era For Arduino Begins Today
  Big news after so many questions about their commitment to Open Source.
• Tesla’s Model 3 Is Here, and It’s Much More Than an Electric Car
  Should be less than a year until I get mine.
• Outfitting the 640 Fittest on Earth
  I’m always jealous of all the sweet gear the athletes get.
• Apple has proven me wrong about HomeKit
  I need to revisit my home automation stuff and actually get a lot more automations configured.
• Lightning striking this moving car
  I would shit my pants. I’ve never seen anything like this.
• The fastest 100m times ever. Those caught doping struck out in red.
  Has Bolt just not been caught yet or is he the exception?
• Masters 60+ Athlete Saves Drowning Competitor
  Once again, CrossFit athletes shine.
• WordPress.com Business Now Supports Plugins and Third-Party Themes
  This is really exciting for us as well as our users. Awesome work by the teams involved in this project.
• Say hello to the new Swarm 5.0
  

  For many people, creating a lifelog isn’t a social-first experience…

  With over 11,000 check-ins this in definitely me.

• Disney will pull its movies from Netflix and start its own streaming services
  That didn’t last long. Will Netflix lower their price back down after Disney is gone?

• Obsidian 3D Printer: High Quality, Sleek, and Affordable.
  I don’t like backing crowdfunded projects, but Kodama already had one successful 3D printer project, delivering to all of their backers. I really want a 3D printer and the price is right, so I’ve backed Obsidian. When I jumped in, the project was 1,100% funded!
• All the X-Men Drawn as Xs.
• Drone Racing League sets Guinness record for fastest flight
  I’ve watched some races on ESPN. It’s entertaining to see how fast they go through the courses.
• Tülry: The World’s First Glamour Utility Necklace
  16 tools in 1 necklace.
• Papier Machine
  Beautiful way to play with electronics.
• Sotto: A Silent One-Handed Modular Keyset
  Neat alternative to typing on a keyboard.

  …adults and children alike mastered the keyset in less than two hours no matter what method of training was used. (In comparison, learning to type on a keyboard takes about 10 hours.)

  The keyset emulator site needs a Dvorak setting.

• Yo, I could watch professional tag all day.
  I would have never imagined this sport existed. Is there professional hide-and-seek?
• Build a clock for your entertainment center with a Raspberry Pi
  Using a browser tab to build a clock is something I haven’t seen before. One of the projects I want to do at some point is build my own alarm clock, maybe even using a relay that can turn on a light when the alarm goes off.
• The Ultimate Guide to Soldering
  Tons of great info if you’re new to soldering.
• The company isn’t a family
  Have balance in your life.
• NFL helmets in their rival team’s colors is painful to see
  I want to puke.

• Perfect Ten
  Great piece at Daring Fireball about the impact of the iPhone.
• Inky pHAT a Tri-Colour EPD Display for Raspberry Pi
  Gorgeous little display. They have 2 or 3 other sizes coming soon. Due to the 3 colors and how it works, it does take about 15 seconds to refresh the screen, but would be cool to use for things that don’t refresh often.
• Do You Raise the Average?
  Different way of looking at your social circle. Do you help balance out the group of people you hang out with?
• Whole-body Aerial Manipulation by Transformable Multirotor with Two-dimensional Multilinks
  Drone that can change shape while flying.
• Who Has Your Back? Government Data Requests 2017
  Perfect score for WordPress.com!
• GE Appliances develops an ultra-fast pizza oven: 2 minute rapid bake
  Two minutes?!?!
• Real-Time Elasticsearch Indexing on WordPress.com
  Our users perform actions which trigger the indexing of 75 million documents per day!
• A riptide swept away a Florida family. Then dozens of beachgoers formed a human chain.
  People can be amazing when they work together.
• 20 Examples Of The Mandela Effect That’ll Make You Believe You’re In A Parallel Universe
  No way! We definitely never said Berenstain.

• 0.47: Python Scripts, Sesame Smart Lock, Gitter, Onvif cameras
  Home Assistant now allows writing Python scripts that are exposed as services. Should be fun.
• Redditors design worst volume sliders possible
  These are gold.
• CJ Cummings Defends Junior World Title in Tokyo
  The future of American weightlifting is looking better than it has in a long time.
• Paul Ford: What Is Code?
  I had this on my reading list when it came out, but it was so long (over 30,000 words) I never got around to it. Finally made the time. A wealth of info, but throughout the entire thing I couldn’t help but wonder how confused someone who doesn’t understand code would be.

  As a class, programmers are easily bored, love novelty, and are obsessed with various forms of productivity enhancement. God help you if you’re ever caught in the middle of a conversation about nutrition; standing desks; the best keyboards; the optimal screen position and distance; whether to use a plain text editor or a large, complex development environment; chair placement; the best music to code to; the best headphones; whether headphone amplifiers actually enhance listening; whether open-plan offices are better than individual or shared offices; the best bug-tracking software; the best programming methodology; the right way to indent code and the proper placement of semicolons; or, of course, which language is better. And whatever you do, never, ever ask a developer about productivity software.

• You Know You’re a Maker When…
  I can definitely relate to a lot of these.
• The Arduino Foundation: What’s Up?
  There were questions when the WordPress Foundation was being created too and everything turned out fine.
• Big Brother Cast: Christmas Abbott
  I used to watch BB but cut it from my watch list because 3 episodes of a show every week was too much.
• NBA Draft Positions
  High draft picks matter.
• The incredibly intricate badges of Def Con
  They really do have the “world’s coolest conference badges.”
• DED: Donut Email Dongle (part 1)
  This is an awesome idea for a prank device. Sounds like something I’d do if I worked in an office. Maybe I’ll create a version that sends Slack messages to the announcements channel and use it at our company’s grand meetup.
• Girl Scouts to offer badge in cyber security skills
  Awesome! We need to keep getting girls interested in tech, keep them interested, and hire them.
• Who Americans spend their time with
  I guess I’m at that point in live where time spent alone will start to increase. Best news I’ve had in a long time. 🙂
• Arduino POV Fidget Spinner
  This works off the same concepts as the multiplexing stuff I showed with 7 segment displays.
• IRS Phone Scammers Mess With the Wrong Guy and Regret It Immediately
  This is brilliant. A programmer wrote a script to flood the phone lines of scammers.

• Why Remote Work Can’t Be Stopped
  We’ve been saying it’s the future of work for years. We can hire from anywhere around the world. If people are productive it shouldn’t matter when and where they work.

  To understand the issues, it’s helpful to look at a company that has always been almost entirely remote. Automattic, maker of WordPress, the content-management system that powers 28% of all websites, has 558 employees spread across more than 50 countries, up from 302 in December 2014.

  Despite its growth, the company is getting rid of its custom-designed, light-filled, 14,250-square-foot office in a hip San Francisco neighborhood. On an average day, maybe five workers will show up, dwarfed by the cavernous space and nearly outnumbered by the ping-pong and foosball tables that mostly sit idle.

• How Donald Trump Shifted Kids-Cancer Charity Money Into His Business
  

  …this maneuver would appear to have more in common with a drug cartel’s money-laundering operation than a charity’s best-practices textbook. That $100,000 in outside donations to the Donald J. Trump Foundation (remember: Trump himself didn’t give to his own foundation at this time) passed through the Eric Trump Foundation–and wound up in the coffers of Donald Trump’s private businesses.

• Bullet Journal
  This looks fun, but I don’t think I’d be able to keep up with it. I use notes in the Bear app a lot. Having all of my notes sync between devices and always with me (on my iPhone) is invaluable.
• Peak Performance book: How rest, breaks help athletes
  The main point of the article isn’t even focussed on sports or exercising. Rest and balance is important in all aspects of life.
• Free Arduino
  

  Free as in Freedom.

• Amazon Is Killing My Sex Life
  Am I a “brogrammer?” Don’t answer that. Since I don’t date, I don’t care.
• IOC Cuts Weightlifting Spots For Tokyo By 25 Percent
  Rough news for the growing sport.
• Asking Girls and Boys, What Would Wonder Woman Do?
  It was such a great movie on so many levels.
• Taylor Swift embraces streaming, brings full catalog to Spotify and more
  Took her long enough to realize streaming isn’t going away.
• Why Apple’s HomeKit Announcement Is a Big Deal for Makers
  Looking forward to giving this a spin, though I’m guessing it’ll be integrated into Home Assistant to make things easier.
• Goodbye, Hello.
  I’ve been using a Sense for several years now and enjoy the device and data it provides. I hope they’re able to find a buyer to keep the it running or open source the software so we can keep using our devices.
• The Fighter Pull-up Program Revisited
  Looks neat. Can probably be applied to other movements, like handstand push-ups.
• When a company grows, but the office shrinks
  Good post by Toni about why we are getting rid of our office/lounge space in San Francisco. At Automattic, we are always iterating.
• Inside Adafruit, the Open-Source Manufacturing Maker Champions
  I’m more and more impressed with Adafruit every day. I’ve already learned so much from the guides in their learning system and it continues to be a valuable resource for my electronics hobby.Ladyada’s 10 Lessons for Building Open Culture Companies at the end of the article share many values with our culture and beliefs at Automattic.
• Boosted boards
  The price, at $1,299-1,499, seems a bit lot excessive.
• Developers who use spaces make more money than those who use tabs
  Whoa. I’m surprised there is a difference and I’m also hesitant to believe there isn’t something else in the data.
• Inductive Charging Is Not ‘Wireless’
  I’ve been saying this for years!

• This Man Has Programmed Every Event of the CrossFit Games … Ever
  

  Next year, I don’t know what I’m going to do, though, because I’m not sure the Regionals format will look the same.

  That’s all I’m going to say about that for now

• Posting a Score From an Unrated Set of Tees
  One of our older golfers plays from the women’s tees, which aren’t rated for men. Turns out the USGA has thought of this and provides some adjustment tables based on yardage differences.
• What’s in My Bag, 2017 edition
  I’ve never gone wrong trying something recommended by Matt. I often refer back to these posts when I’m looking to buy something.
• Wrangle Your Cables with These 2 Zip Tie Tricks
  I’m going to have to try the weave with some of the cables behind my TV.
• Thumbs Up Tape
  Looks like a worthy alternative to ABG Stretch Tape | Average Broz Store , the best tape you can buy for weightlifting and CrossFit. Traditional athletic tape isn’t flexible enough, especially when used over a finger joint.
• code: deck classic
  Learn some code while playing cards. I think I’d be too distracted from the game.
• Fondoodler
  At my recent team meetup, we discussed Easy Cheese. A week later I came across this. Should I buy one?
• Why exercise is the best medicine for your brain
  Glad my Dad exercises since his dad had Alzheimer’s. Get up and move people!
• Fuck Productivity
  I definitely worked too much (which is easy to do when you work from home) in my early years at Automattic. I’ve learned to step away, enjoy my hobbies, and make sure I have enough time for myself. Enjoy what you do and make sure to find balance.
• 2017 CrossFit Regionals Super Leaderboard
  It’s never fair to compare since the regionals are spread over three weeks, but still fun to look at.