General

1. Do All People React To The Same Persuasion Strategies?
2. Apps with millions of Google Play downloads covertly mine cryptocurrency
3. Before the Internet | XKCD

Software development

1. Signs you might be in survival mode
2. Announcing Google Cloud DNS
3. Gold Plating
4. How times have changed for PostgreSQL

Java

1. Project Sagan: open-sourcing spring.io
2. How to run a standalone OSGi server
3. The Illuminating Javadoc of JDK 8
4. JDK 8 Javadoc Tweaked For Methods Listings
5. The Builder pattern and the Spring framework
6. Java 8 Default Methods: What Can and Can Not Do?
7. The Dark Side Of Lambda Expressions in Java 8

Scala

1. Preview of upcoming sbt 1.0 features: Read about the new plugins
2. Will Java 8 Kill Scala?