We all got flu shots at the pediatrician's office, where they're doing it for the whole family. No lollipops.

How a job at Yale in the 1960s set Susan Eggers on a groundbreaking path in computer science | Lisa Qian/Yale Economic Growth Center https://egc.yale.edu/how-job-yale-1960s-set-susan-eggers-groundbreaking-path-computer-science

Google says it doesn't monopolize digital ad market. Senators don't buy it - Shannon Bond/NPR https://www.npr.org/2020/09/15/913328975/google-says-it-doesnt-monopolize-digital-ad-market-senators-don-t-buy-it

I've said a lot of things about @GetSpectrum, but right now the broadband service is ROCK solid, even with 3 work/school-from-homers hitting it simultaneously. Price has been stable and decent, too.

Keeping Time at NIST - Mark Esser/NIST https://www.nist.gov/blogs/taking-measure/keeping-time-nist

YouTube starts rolling out its TikTok competitor, YouTube Shorts - Julia Alexander/The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/14/21436158/youtube-starts-tiktok-competitor-short-form-video-instagram-reels-beta-test

Create a personal website using your LinkedIn account (this is a third-party service that appears to be "free") https://linkedcv.site/

Scientists find a possible sign of life on Venus - Marina Koren/The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/09/venus-life-phosphine-microbes/616342/

UK government under pressure to intervene in Arm sale to Nvidia - The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/sep/14/arm-co-founder-deals-like-nvidia-sale-may-undermine-uks-tech-vision

Why are two million people still getting Netflix DVDs by post? - Amit Katwala/WIRED UK https://www.wired.co.uk/article/netflix-dvds

Altair 8800 Clone https://altairclone.com/

How do computers generate random numbers? - Aryaman Sharda/Digital Bunker https://digitalbunker.dev/2020/09/08/how-do-computers-generate-random-numbers/

Microsoft's underwater data centre resurfaces after two years - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-54146718

Ask HN: What do you think about 'The Social Dilemma' on Netflix? - Hacker News https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24468533

The mastodon-api gem throws an error in Ruby 2.7, but it still works.

18 Free Hosting Providers for Your Static Website in 2020 · Dev & Gear https://devandgear.com/posts/18-free-hosting-providers-for-your-static-website-in-2020/

Now I'm having a Mastodon issue with Ruby 2.7. I'll have to run some tests.

How many ways and how many times can I misspell 'mastodon'? Many times, it turns out.

When something breaks in an app, paranoia sets in

I had one more URI.open change to make in blogPoster, this time in the "ping your blog" portion of the code. https://nokogiri.org/tutorials/parsing_an_html_xml_document.html

Testing URI.open changes in Ruby

I fixed the blogPoster code where Nokogiri uses URI.open to pull a web page's title. I only discovered the problem in Ruby 2.7, which is what Ubuntu 20.04 is running. I have Ruby 2.6 on my Windows laptop and 2.5 in Debian Stable. https://nokogiri.org/tutorials/parsing_an_html_xml_document.html

I am trying to untangle issues with Ruby 2.7 and the Nokogiri gem https://nokogiri.org/tutorials/parsing_an_html_xml_document.html

Zoom towns and the new housing market for the 2 Americas - Planet Money/NPR https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2020/09/08/909680016/zoom-towns-and-the-new-housing-market-for-the-2-americas

If you want to use Racketlang in the terminal to code in "Legacy" Scheme for SICP, this is how you get a REPL:

$ racket -I r5rs

Mike Tyson: 'Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth' https://indygrit.community/blog/2019/2/9/everybody-has-a-plan-until-they-get-punched-in-the-mouth

SICP Distilled: An idiosyncratic tour of SICP in Clojure http://www.sicpdistilled.com/

R U OK? A conversation could change a life https://www.ruok.org.au/

Time.gov from the National Institute of Standards and Technology is still a thing (and better — and less Java-y — than I remember. https://www.time.gov/

Antonio Lauro's "Valse Venezolano: Maria Luisa" played by Saro Babikian on a 2020 Stephen Hill - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNb9-kgQNuM

Starbucks is borrowing money from you — and you're paying them 10% interest to do it http://jpkoning.blogspot.com/2019/08/starbucks-monetary-superpower.html

I did a classical guitar string review on Augustine Gold and Red sets. Nothing too exciting. The strings are nice. https://github.com/passthejoe/classical-strings

I found a 701-page doctoral dissertation on classical guitar pioneer Emilio Pujol. From 2010. In Spanish. https://www.tesisenred.net/handle/10803/5202

I'm reading a "real" book, even though it's an ebook, and that book is "The Fellowship of the Ring," aka "The Lord of the Rings" Part 1.

Fernando Sor on the Internet Archive https://archive.org/search.php?query=fernando%20sor&and[]=mediatype%3A%22texts%22

Francisco Tárrega on the Internet Archive https://archive.org/search.php?query=francisco%20tarrega

'24 Studies for the Guitar, Op. 100' by Mauro Giuliani - Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/imslp-studies-for-the-guitar-op100-giuliani-mauro

'How You Can Keep Fit' by Rudolph Valentino - Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/HowYouCanKeepFitByRudolphValentino/page/n1/mode/2up

You know what gets better all the time? Fedora Workstation. I'm getting the @fedora bug and might use it for my next build. @Debian has been great, but I miss the Fedora community. And the new bits. https://getfedora.org/en/workstation/

News pro tip: If your video isn't really a video but is instead still images and small clips with words from a poorly written story layered over them, accompanied by horrible music, that's not a video and should instead be a news story with words and pictures.

Pro tip for news sites: If your link doesn't say 'podcast' and it's for a podcast, I'm not happy. Also, podcasts are meant to be accessed via feeds. And I only listen in the car. And now I'm not driving.

Buttondown: a small, elegant tool for producing newsletters https://buttondown.email/

7 versatile Vim commands that are easy to memorize (I knew maybe half of these) https://initialcommit.com/blog/7-versatile-vim-commands

$75 a year for nine small publications? Brick House thinks you'll go for that. - Ben Smith/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/25/business/media/brick-house-journalism-cooperative.html

How a brand of chalk achieved cult status among mathematicians - CNN https://edition.cnn.com/2020/08/22/us/hagoromo-chalk-great-big-story-trnd/index.html

At the end of the day, @TutanotaTeam is $14 a year. That's significant AF when everybody else wants to for email that won't spy on you like @gmail. https://tutanota.com/pricing/

Solar panels are starting to die, leaving behind toxic trash - Maddie Stone/WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/solar-panels-are-starting-to-die-leaving-behind-toxic-trash/

How much is an album worth in 2020: $3.49? $77? $1,000? Maybe $0 - Jon Caramanica/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/19/arts/music/albums-price.html

I just started a shell account in the tildeverse - and you should, too https://tildeverse.org/

Mindfulness and meditation can worsen depression and anxiety - Clare Wilson/New Scientist https://www.newscientist.com/article/2251840-mindfulness-and-meditation-can-worsen-depression-and-anxiety/

The case of the top secret iPod - David Shayer/TidBITS https://tidbits.com/2020/08/17/the-case-of-the-top-secret-ipod/

Graphical Linear Algebra https://graphicallinearalgebra.net/

KubeSail | Build your own cloud https://kubesail.com/

8 ways to deploy a React app for free - Ashutosh Singh/LogRocket Blog https://blog.logrocket.com/8-ways-to-deploy-a-react-app-for-free/

We tested Instagram Reels, the TikTok clone. What a dud. - Brian X. Chen and Taylor Lorenz/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/12/technology/personaltech/tested-facebook-reels-tiktok-clone-dud.html

Forecasting the US 2020 elections | The Economist https://projects.economist.com/us-2020-forecast/president

We're at that point in the election cycle where it's looking pretty bad for President Trump, but it's not a sure thing that he will lose in November. My gut says he will lose in a landslide, but the whole COVID-USPS nexus of issues adds a degree of uncertainty that throws the election into "anything can happen" territory. A pronounced lack of enthusiasm for Biden, boiling down to "he's not Trump," makes things even harder to predict.

How the Go-Go's found their beat: An oral history | Keaton Bell/Vogue https://www.vogue.com/article/go-gos-40th-anniversary-beauty-and-the-beat-oral-history-belinda-carlisle

Uber may shut down temporarily in California https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/12/uber-may-shut-down-temporarily-in-california.html

Rob Pike's 5 rules of programming http://users.ece.utexas.edu/~adnan/pike.html