Just as an anecdote regarding your statements of feeling inadequacy as a developer: When I was 16 it took me a year to complete the relatively simple w3schools tutorials, it was only once I started building things that my knowledge really started to grow. 5 years later and I work as a developer for a BAFTA award winning company building applications I really believe in. We learn differently under different conditions, try applying your knowledge on a project instead of just doing the tutorial.
I don't understand why you would include curl in your listing? There are plenty of legitimate uses for it, for example as part of my work I recently used it on a data processing server to trigger post creation of Wordpress posts via the xmlrpc server which is built in to Wordpress.
I don't think I've ever had the need for 30 tabs; the magic of the internet is that if I ever need to see a specific website, I can just type in a URL.
I play an MMORPG called Runescape which has millions of players, I've been playing it since I was 12 and now I'm 21. I stream on Twitch once every few days and frequently have 1,000+ people watching me, subscribing, following and most importably putting eyeballs on Twitch's adverts (which is one of the largest concurrent none-featured community.)
If this happens I lose my anonymity (because Google+) which protects my account details from being stolen. If this happens I lose the ability to stream while playing music in the background, my followers even have the ability to request songs during the stream using an automated service, where does this leave me with regards to copyright then?
Even worse than this though is that if this happens, Google will in some way fundamentally change a service which I and my followers love to use - a service which they don't understand.
I speak for myself as a well known member of this community: If Google buys Twitch, Twitch will die.
I currently work at Studio Skylab and it's a great place to be which is really looking to expand. Bonus points if you know how to work a fancy pants coffee machine!
We are using Node as a backend to multipart uploader interfacing with the Amazon S3 architecture. Our application is built in Symfony2, but we found that Node was much easier for writing parallel upload scripts in. Took less than 3 days and works perfectly every time, no regrets there.
I spun up my first unmanaged server this morning on digitalocean and found the experience difficult (having next to no sysadmin experience) but now I've got it all set up it's fast and powerful.
I love the work these guys are doing and can't wait to see more from them.
On an irrelevant note, this is an example of a perfect GitHub repo README. I'm bored silly of README's which only include a download link and nothing else, this is what people should be going for, code examples, what it does, etc.
This is a move to shame those who watch pornography, that you have to ring someone up and say "Yeah, I'm trying to jack off here but for some reason pornhub won't load... Yeah... Uh... I'd like you to remove the porn filter please?"